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Book our tickets through Priceline and "Name Our Own Price"? PROS and CONS?? Experience w/ Priceline? HELP!

We are about to "name our own price" for 2 round-trip tickets to Kauai on July 8-22 for our honeymoon... :) We are on a tight budget, so we need the cheapest tickets we can find. I'm a little nervous about Priceline's "naming your own price" deal because we won't know until our offer is accepted and our flight is confirmed which airline we will be flying, what time we will depart and return, or if we will even get to sit together on the plane. I don't know if I want someone else to decide all of that for us, but since that's the only way to get cheap tickets, I guess that's what we'll have to do. Do you have any experience with Priceline? If so, what was your experience? Is it worth it? Saving the money seems to be worth it, but I want to be confident going in that everything will be okay. Maybe I'm worrying for nothing?? Thank you!

Public Comments

1. It's a little freaky as they sometimes put you on late night flights and flights with two or more stopovers and the only time I bought tickets with Priceline I regretted it. but that was me, maybe your experience will be better. Try Hotwire or Expedia or Orbitz for cheap tickets and guaranteed tickets and airline timings. Good luck.
2. Priceline are a travel agent, just like any other. They have no special deals that you will not find anywhere else. It is just a very big (quite clever) gimmick. Look, if a plane has 200 seats and there are 199 humans booked on it, you can go to any agent or source you like, the last seat will cost. Do yourself a favour, go and see a travel agent or look on one of the main flights websites (eg travelocity). An agent (and Travelocity and all the others are just agents) either does or deosn't have an airline contract - if the agent has it, then if the cheap seats are there, they can sell them. The trick comes in finding an agent who can think about what you want, can find a cheap connecting flight via somewhere. Ask a few and try a few websites (does not really matter who else apart from Travelocity - all websites, repeat all websites, are powered by one of four booking "engines" once you have a price you will find that it may vary by a few dollars from agent to agent (or site to site) but not by hundreds.) So don't fall for a cheap trick and for Heaven's sake don't go looking on ebay or some other cuckoo source!