If you MUST stay at a certain hotel I do NOT recommend the use of Priceline. There are no strategies that will get you a "guaranteed hotel" For example some time ago everyone was getting the Dolphin for $71 so I bid the exact same thing and got the Marriott Orlando World Center which is a great hotel, but what I should have done was stick to my normal bidding plan and could probably have gotten the Hilton or Wyndam for the $60 range.