Popularity
Priceline.com has a Google PageRank of 9
and 5,690 links coming to their front page
alone. It is the 1,404th most visited
website on the internet according to
Alexa. What all of this means is that
Priceline.com is probably one of the top 5
travel booking sites on the net in relation
to its popularity.
Features
Priceline.com has all of the standard
features found on most travel booking
sites including flight scheduling, hotel
reservations, car rentals, vacation
packages, cruises and a tours (activities)
section. They also have a special
PriceBreakers feature that allows visitors
to look at their latest hand-picked deals
and offers. You can even sign up to have
these offers mailed to you regularly.
However, the most popular and original
feature that Priceline.com has in its
arsenal is the Name Your Own Price
booking option.
Prices
They give you the choice of naming your
own price and then waiting to see if your
offer was accepted. The trick to saving
money with this option is to first find the
lowest deal on the internet that you can
find for your flight and then trying
priceline.com to name a price slightly
lower. I suggest no more than a hundred
dollars or else you probably won't get your
offer accepted.
Overall Rating
Priceline.com receives an overall rating of
8.0 for its PriceBreaker and Name Your
Own Price features. The latter is highly
original and unique to this particular
website, which sets Priceline.com apart
from the others. Its layout is simple and
straight forward, which makes it easy to
work with but there is a tendency to force
you into booking flights with their Name
Your Own Price feature. It can be slightly
confusing as to how one books flights
using the normal method on Priceline.com.
I suggest you only use Priceline.com for
their Name Your Own Price option using
the strategy given above and not for the
standard method of booking as there are
many sites that do this better.