Priceline has Caesars Palace at $20. I assume it was intended to be $200.

This is not their ‘name your own price’ product — when you go to Priceline.com and search for Las Vegas hotels the system first brings up a conventional booking engine. Look uder four star properties in the “Strip – Fremont Area” and you’ll see Caesars Palace at $20.

It’s prepaid, but you can cancel for a refund minus $25 fee.

If you don’t see the rate for the date(s) you’re looking for try different dates, the ‘priceline special rate’ may be sold out.

Being discussed on Flyertalk.

Flyertalk’s S.P.A.M. forum is home to discussion of off-beat or nontraditional loyalty programs, such as e-Rewards and other programs offering miles for surveys and clicking. Then there are also loyalty programs that have nothing to do with the travel industry. And sometimes freebies slip in. Some recent mentions there include restaurant offers –

Red Lobster has a Overboard Club loyalty program, sign up and get a coupon for a free appetizer or dessert with the purchase of 2 adult entrees.

McCormick and Schmick
has a loyalty program as well. It costs $25 to join but you get a $25 dining certificate plus program benefits —

• Priority seating (call ahead for the next available, non-reserved table)
  
• For your birthday, you’ll receive a certificate for a complimentary entree
  
• Complimentary dessert with dinner (150 points)
  
• McCormick & Schmick’s Cookbook (500 points)
  
• Lunch for two (500 points)
  
• Dinner for two (1,000 points)
  
• Dinner for six at Chef’s table (4,000 points)
  
• Private 2-hour cocktail and appetizer reception for 20 people (10,000 points)
  
• Oregon Wine Country 3-day trip for two (20,000 points)

You get 200 points for paying your $25 membership fee with a Mastercard.

Morton’s also has their $99 steak and seafood dinner for 2 through September 30th. You get steak, shrimp or crab, salad, vegetable, and dessert. Most locations are participating (the earlier similar offer for $89 had only a few locations).

It’s my birthday next week and I’ve been getting lots of free meal offers and discounts, my inbox is full from the likes of Red Robin, Hard Times Chili, and Silver Diner…

I’m betting this deal will not be honored — just my gut — but the Conrad in Bangkok is showing up at $16/night for a suite and $51/night for the Presidential Suite. Discussion over at Flyertalk.

You can book a prepaid reservation at Priceline (using their conventional booking tool, not their “Name Your Own Price” bidding system). This can also be found on Travelocity and American Express Travel without prepaying.

Prepaid bookings might have a better chance of being honored, but as with all these things there are no guarantees. I’m betting name changes and date changes certainly will not be allowed if the deal is honored at all. So choose a booking, get in on the offer if you wish, and then wait and see. Certainly don’t book other prepaid travel around this stay until it’s certain whether or not the deal is being honored.

According to this thread on Flyertalk and this thread and others at Biddingfortravel.com, La Quinta Resort & Club is coming up on Priceline for $40 when bidding for a resort in the “Rancho Mirage-Indian Wells-Palm Desert” zone… and $25 when bidding for a three-star hotel in this same zone.

Priceline has been known to set minimums for successful bids at a particular quality level. It looks like there’s a rate of as low as $25, but when bidding for a resort Priceline rejects bids under $40. There aren’t any three star properties willing to accept anything even close to $25, so Priceline ‘upgrades’ you to a resort when bidding on a three star property.

My hunch is that La Quinta loaded a Priceline rate of $250, err they meant to load a $250 rate, and loaded it as $25 instead. The mistake has been around since Saturday but still appears to be working.

This is a legendary property living off its past glory, but regularly commands room rates over $400 a night so at $25 or $40 it’s a steal.

As always one must be fairly savvy, read the relevant discussions, and know what you’re doing when bidding on Priceline. But this one is worth looking into. (And of course, bid via fatwallet.com for a 3% kickback.)

Not likely to last long…

According to this thread on Flyertalk and this thread and others at Biddingfortravel.com, La Quinta Resort & Club is coming up on Priceline for $40 when bidding for a resort in the “Rancho Mirage-Indian Wells-Palm Desert” zone… and $25 when bidding for a three-star hotel in this same zone.

Priceline has been known to set minimums for successful bids at a particular quality level. It looks like there’s a rate of as low as $25, but when bidding for a resort Priceline rejects bids under $40. There aren’t any three star properties willing to accept anything even close to $25, so Priceline ‘upgrades’ you to a resort when bidding on a three star property.

My hunch is that La Quinta loaded a Priceline rate of $250, err they meant to load a $250 rate, and loaded it as $25 instead. The mistake has been around since Saturday but still appears to be working.

This is a legendary property living off its past glory, but regularly commands room rates over $400 a night so at $25 or $40 it’s a steal.

As always one must be fairly savvy, read the relevant discussions, and know what you’re doing when bidding on Priceline. But this one is worth looking into. (And of course, bid via fatwallet.com for a 3% kickback.)

Not likely to last long…

According to this thread on Flyertalk and this thread and others at Biddingfortravel.com, La Quinta Resort & Club is coming up on Priceline for $40 when bidding for a resort in the “Rancho Mirage-Indian Wells-Palm Desert” zone… and $25 when bidding for a three-star hotel in this same zone.

Priceline has been known to set minimums for successful bids at a particular quality level. It looks like there’s a rate of as low as $25, but when bidding for a resort Priceline rejects bids under $40. There aren’t any three star properties willing to accept anything even close to $25, so Priceline ‘upgrades’ you to a resort when bidding on a three star property.

My hunch is that La Quinta loaded a Priceline rate of $250, err they meant to load a $250 rate, and loaded it as $25 instead. The mistake has been around since Saturday but still appears to be working.

This is a legendary property living off its past glory, but regularly commands room rates over $400 a night so at $25 or $40 it’s a steal.

As always one must be fairly savvy, read the relevant discussions, and know what you’re doing when bidding on Priceline. But this one is worth looking into. (And of course, bid via fatwallet.com for a 3% kickback.)

Not likely to last long…

SmarterTravel is featuring 20% off at Choice hotels (Quality Inn, Comfort Inn, Clarion Inn..).

At least you earn points.

I realize I’ve been well outside the real of frequent flying with the last few posts, but for folks who travel so much it seems like there’s never any time to go to the grocery store I just thought I’d note that Amazon.com now sells groceries, and through August 31 is offering $10 off a $49 order with coupon code GROCERY2 in addition to free super saver shipping on orders of $25 or more. Details here.

Update: If you’re hitting $25 for free shipping anyway, why not add a 79 cent PDA case?

Amazon is having a sale on ‘travel apparel’ although their idea of what people wear while traveling (as opposed to other times) is anachronistic at best.

Still, coupon code wetravel takes $20 off an $80 qualifying order, and I picked up a few pairs of pants at a nice discount.

• Lee Jeans Men’s Wrinkle Resistant Relaxed Double Pleat Pant $38 on sale for $21.99 before coupon
  
• Tommy Hilfiger Men’s Pleated Trousers $49.50 on sale for $17.89 before coupon

Also available are

• Tommy Hilfiger Men’s Flat Front Trousers $49.50 on sale for $17.89 before coupon
  
• Lee Jeans Men’s Wrinkle Resistant Relaxed Plain Front Pant $38-$41 on sale for $21.99-$24.99 before coupon

This SlickDeals.net thread also has a list of several shirts that qualify, though none appealed to me.

Randy McNally is offering $10 off with no minimum purchase, as part of a promotion with La Quinta.

This was posted on Flyertalk with a suggestion to buy a map of Cyprus to coincide with all the folks going on the Alitalia fare glitch. Alas, the Cyprus map is temporarily out of stock. But plenty of other possibilities abound.

Update: Link no longer appears to be working.

Orbitz is offering $50 Off hotel bookings of 3 or more nights. Discount code is 831750. It’s valid for stays through April 30th but the booking must be made by March 22.

This presumably applies only to OrbitzSaver prepaid hotel deals.

Meanwhile, Travelocity is offering $10 off “Good Buy” hotels with code HTL10. This can be used even on a single night stay, but can only be used once per Travelocity account (except for Travelocity VIPs who can use it an unlimited number of times).

Flyertalk member CalItalian reported these discounts and noted, regarding the $50 Orbitz coupon,

Best deals I found were weeknights in Reno or Laughlin, NV. 3*, 3 night stay with coupon for $25 to $28 plus tax.

Site59, the last minute travel package discounter, is offering $59 off on packages of $700 or more through April 30 with discount code SITE59GETAWAY.

The Holiday Inn Resort Phuket has THB0.01 rates available for a standard room. That’s basically ‘free’. Rate appears to be available beginning May 1 through the end of October, 2006.

Property seems very well regarded for a Holiday Inn.

You can find the rate at the Holiday Inn website.

As always, your mileage may vary on whether the hotel honors this. So don’t book any non-refundable airfare until we learn for sure. Related Flyertalk.com thread is here.

Update 2:26pm Eastern: The rate is still available. It is also bookable at Travelocity. Some rates are prepaid, others are not, in either case there’s not a huge change of this being honored in my view but it might be.

One approach would be to make prepaid reservations at both sites.

Additionally, the online booking guarantee on the Holiday Inn website promises that the hotel will pay for your first night’s lodging at another comparable property if it cannot honor your booking. One suggestion on Flyertalk was to make several consecutive one-night reservations.

Courtesy of Free Traveling, the Regent Kuala Lumper — a very nice property — is available for $29 a night

$29/night – The Regent Kuala Lumpur
The Regent Kuala Lumpur, 160 Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. $29/night. Feb 13, 17, 20, 23, 25, 27, March 2, 7, 12, 15, 17, 22, Apr 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, May 1, 6, 11, and other dates. Book on travelocity.com.

Now, the hotel is usually available for just under $100 usually, so this one isn’t worth making a special trip for. Still, a great value!

Some 80,000 mile awards between Europe and Asia are on sale today for 25,000 miles.

We wish you all dear members a Merry Christmas and to celebrate we’ve got a super offer for you
today on bonus flights with SAS between Scandinavia and Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo.
The deal is out there and are going quickly, valid only if you book today!

…

Rules and conditions for our Christmas offer


• Only bookable today 00.00CET until 23.59CET, December 24, 2005.


• Travel between January 1 – 31, 2006


• Children receive the same discount 25 000 points


• Only available in Economy and the number of seats available is limited


• Only SAS operated flights and on new reservations only


• You can book this offer online and we will reward you with 500 Extra points per booking


• If you have a combined card with EuroBonus and MasterCard or Diners Club, you get a 500 points discount per adult and 250 points per child (2-17 years) when booking online


• EuroBonus general membership conditions apply

The W Hotel Store is offering 20% off everything through December 9 with code P4X8A.

Overstock.com is offering 12% off entire orders for first-time buyers through September 30th.

Ripped from Flyertalk, not yet on FareAlert:

Several nights can be booked at $9/night (double occupancy) at www.ramada.com at the following hotel:



Ramada Inn New Carrollton/DC Area

8500 Annapolis Road

New Carrollton, Maryland 20784



Not valid for all dates, but you will find the $9 rate mostly for weekdays. Seems to be valid from now until August 2006.

This hotel is a decent distance outside of DC but appears to offer a shuttle to the metro. It’s a Ramada but looks quite decent as a basic hotel room.

With the demise of the eBay Anything Points program, it looks like the best kickback deal on Priceline purchases is now Ebates which offers a 3% cash rebate.

They’ll give you $5 for signing up, too, though they won’t cash out the $5 until you’ve earned an additional $5.01 through purchases.

They also give $5 to you for each person you refer (so if you use my link above, we each get $5) but again you can’t cash this out until you’ve earned $5.01 in shopping rebates. Not hard at all, a single Priceline purchase of $167 gets you there for instance.

Ebates is not the only way to earn something for Priceline purchases, to be sure, it just looks to me to be the best remaining deal.

• AirMilesMart gives 1 point for every 2 dollars spent, equivalent in my mind to a 0.75% rebate.
  

• MyPoints gives 2 points per dollar spent, which can then be redeemed 2:1 into United miles — so you’re earning 1 United mile per dollar, but you can’t convert until you’ve earned 5000 MyPoints.
  

• Upromise offers a 2% rebate.

If you have thoughts on a return better than EBates 3%, please let me know and I’ll post about it here. But I’ve looked around and haven’t found anything better yet… Thanks!

Mandalay Bay hotel is available on Orbitz for $20 the night of August 29th. It’s a prepaid Summer of Fun rate which should include a $25 dining credit and 50% off passes to the spa.

No other night appears to have this same rate, and the deal won’t last long.