Priceline.com® (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced
two changes to its popular hotel services that will enable groups of
customers to book up to 1,000 rooms at special discounts and prices.
Priceline.com announced today that its Name Your Own Price®
and Published-Price hotel services, which previously allowed customers
to book up to four hotel rooms, have both been expanded to accommodate
up to nine rooms at a time.
Priceline.com also announced today the launch of a group hotel booking
service on priceline.com, http://www.findgroupdeals.com/.
The group hotel service is ideal for weddings, reunions, traveling teams
and business meetings. To use the service, customers fill in the number
of rooms they want (between 10 and 1,000), the dates and the
destination. Participating hotels then respond with competing rate
quotes. FindGroupDeals.com guarantees that their rates will be the best
or the group coordinator's room is free.
Groups booking through the new priceline.com service can qualify for
rebates of up to $250 (see website for full details). Also, booking
groups can create their own event Web site, at no charge, to provide
information and registration forms for group members.
Priceline.com offers two different ways to book rooms in thousands of
hotels around the world. Customers who want to book a particular hotel
can use priceline.com's Published-Price hotel
service, which features an easy to search grid with descriptions,
ratings and rankings from previous hotel guests and from the Zagat
Survey, amenities, pictures, maps and prices for all the available
hotels in a given destination. More flexible customers can opt for
priceline.com's Name Your Own Price®
hotel service, where they pick the destination and neighborhood, desired
star level, dates and the price they want to pay. Priceline.com then
works to find a hotel willing to sell a room at the customer's
desired price. Customers using priceline.com's Name
Your Own Price® hotel service can save up
to 50% compared to the published prices found on other major online
hotel reservation services.*
?We believe that many of our customers have
been looking for a way to bring along more of their friends and enjoy
the savings that priceline.com's hotel
services offer,? said priceline.com Senior
Vice President, Hotels, Tim Gordon. ?Today,
we are pleased to launch these new features and services.?
* Priceline's Name Your Own Price®
reservation service is different from fixed-price travel sites. With
Priceline's Name Your Own Price®
reservation service, the exact hotel is shown only after purchase.
Percent savings claim above applies to Name Your Own Price®
hotel purchases only and are as compared to the published prices for the
same hotels and the same dates. There is no guarantee that hotels or
prices will be available. Actual prices and availability are always
subject to change. All prices and dates may not be available at time of
travel booking and savings are not guaranteed.
About Priceline.com® Incorporated
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com, a
leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure
travelers, and Booking.com, a leading international online hotel
reservation service.
In the U.S., priceline.com gives customers more ways to save on their
airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises
than any other Internet travel service. In addition to getting the best
published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using
priceline.com's TripFilter?
advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money, and
take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name
Your Own Price® service, which can
deliver the lowest prices available.
Booking.com operates one of Europe's fastest
growing hotel reservation services through a network of affiliated Web
sites. Booking.com operates in 53 countries in 15 languages and offers
its customers access to approximately 35,000 participating hotels
worldwide.
Priceline.com also operates the following travel websites:
Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com.
Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home
mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an independent
licensee. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent
licensees, including priceline mortgage and certain international
licensees.
For more information about priceline.com:
To book flights http://www.priceline.com/flights/
To book hotels http://www.priceline.com/hotels/
To book a group hotel stay http://www.findgroupdeals.com/
To book rental cars http://www.priceline.com/rentalcars/
To book a vacation package http://www.priceline.com/vacationpackages/
To book a cruise http://www.pricelinecruiseoutlet.com
To see our PriceBreakers deals: http://www.priceline.com/pricebreakers
To check our travel guides: http://travela.priceline.com/travelguides/
To watch our TV ads:
http://www.priceline.com/promo/shatner_pcln_negotiator.asp
Other priceline.com affiliated sites include:
General travel information and trip planning
http://www.mytravelguide.com
Travel reservations http://www.lowestfare.com
http://www.travelweb.com
Rental cars http://www.RentalCars.com
http://www.BreezeNet.com
European hotels http://www.booking.com
http://www.priceline.co.uk
Priceline.com
Brian Ek, 203-299-8167
brian.ek@priceline.com