Has anyone used Priceline before?

[folclor]

Good experiences? Bad experiences? Just curious.

[squiddie]

I've had a reasonably good experience with them. However, I like to pull up all the travel sites at once (priceline, expedia, travelocity, hotwire, etc) and see who'll give me the best deal. I don't have a preference for one over the other.

[will]

I generally find the best prices with Travelocity.com and Expedia.com. My SO and I are lucky in that she lives near Dallas/Fort Worth and that airport is the home of American Airlines. Might be useful to do a little research and figure out what airlines have the highest profile or traffic out of a given airport and check out prices that way.

[Dauntedpoet]

I have used them repeatedly for hotel reservations, but not for flights. I have only had one issue with a hotel room, as it had flooded, but I was upgraded to a nicer hotel by the hotel itself.

[Karringtyn]

I have used them repeatedly for hotel reservations, but not for flights. I have only had one issue with a hotel room, as it had flooded, but I was upgraded to a nicer hotel by the hotel itself.

Same thing..have used for hotel rooms...and had great experiences.

[Miramaid]

I have used priceline a lot. And I used their "name your own price" option and got tickets for very cheap (the only minus was that my flights were very early in the morning)

[PaperbackWriter]

I've used priceline once or twice before, with the "name your own price" option. Good price, but the downside was the timing. I was going to be gone over a long weekend planned to leave Friday night and come back Monday afternoon/evening). I ended up leaving Saturday afternoon and catching a 6am flight back Monday. So unless your schedule is flexible (or really, really a morning person), it may not be the best option to do the "name your own price" thing.

[Lady Ria]

I've used Priceline multiple times for various business and personal trips and found their prices to be very reasonable. I would also reiterate the suggestion made by Will to find out which airlines fly most often out of the airports you're interested in and search for flights that way.