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Anyone ever book stuff on Priceline. My wife says me and the boy can fly to Atlanta , stay 2 nights(3 star hotel) , and fly home for $200 total . Sounds like a possible "Shanghai" to me. Anyone ?
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I dunno. Why can't Kirk just beam you to Atlanta.......
ok, seriously, I have colleagues who reularly use priceline. They say that if you keep to your planned program, it works great. IF, for some reason, you have to change any portion of your itinerary--be it time, hotel,, flight, place---
you will be screwed.
ok, seriously, I have colleagues who reularly use priceline. They say that if you keep to your planned program, it works great. IF, for some reason, you have to change any portion of your itinerary--be it time, hotel,, flight, place---
you will be screwed.
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I've done priceline before. It works. But, you have to take what you get.
If you get the flight that leaves Portland, Oregon at 2am, changes planes in Chicago, changes again in Denver, changes again in Altlanta, changes again in Newark, changes again in Dallas, and gets you into your desired destination, San Francisio, Californa at 11:55pm, than that's what you'll be taking 'cause you don't get to pick anything except where you depart from, where you arrive, and what day you go on.
You can get a great price, but what you give up is control and selection.
If you get the flight that leaves Portland, Oregon at 2am, changes planes in Chicago, changes again in Denver, changes again in Altlanta, changes again in Newark, changes again in Dallas, and gets you into your desired destination, San Francisio, Californa at 11:55pm, than that's what you'll be taking 'cause you don't get to pick anything except where you depart from, where you arrive, and what day you go on.
You can get a great price, but what you give up is control and selection.
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Thank you fellas. It seems to me if the son and I can do BLADE for $200 plus eats I don't care if it takes all day to get there. I can fall asleep anywhere.
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I just want to know why Priceline ad monkey Willam Shatner is on the back cover of my phone book in an ad for a ambulance chaser?
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Keep in mind that Bladeshow is not actually in Atlanta. The Cobb center is just north of Atlanta. If they put you in some hotel in south Atlanta, you could end up way away from where you want to be and eat up all your savings in ground transportation.
But, you can priceline just the airfare. There are lots of less expensive hotels within walking distance of the Cobb Center. And most of them actually have complimentary shuttle buses too.
But, you can priceline just the airfare. There are lots of less expensive hotels within walking distance of the Cobb Center. And most of them actually have complimentary shuttle buses too.
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The other big challenge you face going to Bladeshow by air is getting from the Airport just south of Atlanta to the Cobb Center just north of Atlanta. Cab far is very expensive.
One year, I got this great idea to take public transit. I researched it all out. You get the train at the airport, transfer to a bus at this place called "The Art Center," take the first to a bus transfer mall up North, transfer to a second bus, and it would let me off literally in front of my hotel. All that for a buck fifty. I was so pleased with myself. I got the train with no problem. I waited almost an hour at the Art Center, but I just kept thinking of all that money I was saving. Then, I got on my bus and was on my way... that is until the bus -- I kid you not -- ran out of gas. In the middle of downtown Atlanta, this transit bus literally ran out of gas. We stood around in the heat for about a half hour until a replacment bus arrived. We finally got to the transfer mall late... about five minutes late for the hourly transfer. So, I sat around for another hour until the next bus arrived. But, I was almost there now, right? Wrong. That bus stopped to pick up a person in a wheelchair. We took that disabled passenger about six blocks and let him off. Getting a wheelchair on and off the bus requires using the build-in lift that extends from under the bus at the press of a button. After lowering the wheelchair passenger off, the driver pressed the magic button and the lift started to retract, made a nasty grinding noise, and stopped. And there we were with this lift just sort of hanging off the side of the bus. Obviously, we couldn't drive in traffic that way. About a half-hour later, the mechanic arrived and spent about fifteen minutes wrenching on the thing but couldn't make it go. The driver announced that he'd called for a new bus and it would be along... in about 45 minutes. I saw the Cobb Center in the distance, so I Walked over to it, called my hotel, and asked them to please send their shuttle bus which they promptly did. It literally took longer to get from the Atlanta airport to my Atlanta hotel via Atlanta Public Transit than it took to get from Portland, Oregon to Atlanta via Delta Airlines.
One year, I got this great idea to take public transit. I researched it all out. You get the train at the airport, transfer to a bus at this place called "The Art Center," take the first to a bus transfer mall up North, transfer to a second bus, and it would let me off literally in front of my hotel. All that for a buck fifty. I was so pleased with myself. I got the train with no problem. I waited almost an hour at the Art Center, but I just kept thinking of all that money I was saving. Then, I got on my bus and was on my way... that is until the bus -- I kid you not -- ran out of gas. In the middle of downtown Atlanta, this transit bus literally ran out of gas. We stood around in the heat for about a half hour until a replacment bus arrived. We finally got to the transfer mall late... about five minutes late for the hourly transfer. So, I sat around for another hour until the next bus arrived. But, I was almost there now, right? Wrong. That bus stopped to pick up a person in a wheelchair. We took that disabled passenger about six blocks and let him off. Getting a wheelchair on and off the bus requires using the build-in lift that extends from under the bus at the press of a button. After lowering the wheelchair passenger off, the driver pressed the magic button and the lift started to retract, made a nasty grinding noise, and stopped. And there we were with this lift just sort of hanging off the side of the bus. Obviously, we couldn't drive in traffic that way. About a half-hour later, the mechanic arrived and spent about fifteen minutes wrenching on the thing but couldn't make it go. The driver announced that he'd called for a new bus and it would be along... in about 45 minutes. I saw the Cobb Center in the distance, so I Walked over to it, called my hotel, and asked them to please send their shuttle bus which they promptly did. It literally took longer to get from the Atlanta airport to my Atlanta hotel via Atlanta Public Transit than it took to get from Portland, Oregon to Atlanta via Delta Airlines.
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AHA! The wife went to buy said trip and it was not available, but they would sell me air fare and a hotel for $480 each. The ol' bait and switch. :jerkit: You sneaky Priceliners.