I don't know much about Priceline: it definitely doesn't seem to do much for Canada at least. But I just wanted to "+1" this. Living where we live, the Hotwire

I don't know much about Priceline: it definitely doesn't seem to do much for Canada at least. But I just wanted to "+1" this. Living where we live, the Hotwire prices really aren't 'secrets' as we pretty much know exactly which hotels are which on that site. Anyway, as a lark we decided to compare Expedia, at least, against the website of the hotel that we always would stay at and we were really surprised to find that it was actually cheaper on their website than on Expedia. And like you say, you get the bonus of loyalty points. Hotwire may have been cheaper, but normally we found that booking through the hotel you would get Wifi and sometimes parking included, as opposed to paying for them separately and those things always evened everything out. The only time I found this not to be true was when we were booking the hotel on the day that we were planning on staying there... that kind of timeframe has always been cheaper to book through Expedia etc.