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How do you find cheap hotels in hotels in Chattanooga?

If you are looking for Chattanooga cheap hotels, you’ve come to the right place. Although it’s going to take a little work on your part to utilize this information, you’ll get amazing deals on hotels. Is start off by discussing Priceline. If you would like to know the exact hotel you’ll be staying in, in Chattanooga, scroll down past the Priceline and Hotwire sections.

Priceline:

One of the best ways to find cheap hotels in Chattanooga is through Priceline, whose hallmark feature Name Your Own Price Service allows you to bid on hotels. Although you won’t know the exact hotel you’ll be staying in, you’ll know the
approximate location of it as well as the amount of stars it has. Once Priceline accepts your bid, your credit card is charged.

The key to getting the very best price on Priceline is utilizing Name Your Own Price’s bidding feature to the fullest. Although can get a great deal on Priceline even if you only bid once, if you know how to rebid many times you can have a lower starting bid and bid up a little, guaranteeing yourself the best price possible. You can rebid immediately if you change something about your bid, otherwise you can rebid again after 24 hours. I doubt that you want to wait that long. Priceline allows you to rebid again if you change something about your search criteria. This could be your dates, star level, or your zones. Because your dates are not flexible and you want a guaranteed star level, the only thing left to change is to change your zones. You might be thinking that changing your zones involves staying in a zone, which you really don’t feel like staying in. This is not the case. The key is to use “dummy zones” to rebid again…

But before I tell you how to rebid, you should get an idea of where to start your bid in the first place. Betterbidding.com and Biddingfortravel.com let users post their Priceline winning bids. These posted bids should give you a good idea of where you should start your bid as well as where you’ll be staying in (note that nothing is guaranteed in terms of where you’ll be staying, even if other users got a hotel you’re interested in). At the time this article there were many posted bids from both sites for the downtown zone for the 3-Star Upscale (winning bids were around $50) and 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus star levels (winning bids were around $65). Unfortunately, there were not many posted bids for the other 5 zones. Regardless, the winning bids for the 3-Star Upscale and 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus in the downtown zone give us an idea of what the prices will be in other zones for these star levels.

When you search for Chattanooga under Name Your Own Price you’ll see six zones:

Chattanooga Airport (CHA)
Chattanooga South
Downtown Chattanooga
Hixson
Lookout Mountain
Ringgold, GA

If you click and unclick on each zone you’ll find each zone’s maximum star level:

Chattanooga Airport (CHA): 3-Star Upscale
Chattanooga South: 2-Star Moderate
Downtown Chattanooga: 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus
Hixson: 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus
Lookout Mountain: 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus
Ringgold, GA: 2-Star Moderate

Why do you want to know the maximum star level available within each zone? It allows you to use “dummy zones”, which allow you to rebid.

Rebidding basics

Say you want to stay in a 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus hotel in the Downtown Chattanooga zone (31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus is your chosen star level). Based on the winning bids from betterbidding.com and biddingfortravel.com you decide to start your bid at $58. You get rejected. You can rebid immediately if you change your zone criteria. At the rejection screen add the Chattanooga Airport zone for a total of two zones (Downtown and Airport). Because the maximum star level for the Airport zone is 3-Star Upscale you know you won’t end up staying there because your chosen/minimum star level is 31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus! You’ve used the Airport zone as your dummy zone to rebid again! Now, Airport isn’t the only dummy zone you can use. If you look at the maximum star level for each zone, all the zones except Downtown are your dummy zones because their maximum star levels are lower than the star level which you are bidding on (31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus). But, in order to fully use all of these zones you have to bid in a particular order because the rejection screen does not allow you to change zones (you’ll see what I mean once you try bidding yourself). Here are all the possible bids, utilizing all of the possible dummy zones, not only for the downtown zone, but for all the zones…

Rebidding Guide for Each Zone

You’ll notice that the lower your chosen star level is, the less “dummy” zones there are. Why? Because the lower star rating you choose, the less zones there are with a maximum star rating below your chosen star level.

Under each zone and available star level I list how many bids you have and what zones you should have selected for each bid. For every odd numbered bid (except the first one), you’re going to have to start a new bid bid by clicking the Priceline logo at the top of the rejection screen in the top left hand corner.

Chattanooga Airport or Downtown Chattanooga (3-Star Upscale as chosen/minimum star level)

Place either zone into the letter “A”. You have 16 rebids available for each zone if you have 3-Star Upscale as your chosen star level!

1. A
2. A+South
3. A+Hixson
4. A+Hixson+South
5. A+Mountain
6. A+Mountain +South
7. A+Hixson+Mountain
8. A+Hixson+Mountain+South
9. A+Ringgold
10. A+Ringgold+South
11. A+Hixson+Ringgold
12. A+Hixson+Ringgold+South
13. A+Mountain+Ringgold
14. A+Mountain+Ringgold+South
15. A+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold
16. A+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold+South

Chattanooga South and Ringgold

Because they are the lowest rated zones, there are no rebids available for each.

Downtown Chattanooga (31⁄2-Star Upscale-Plus as chosen star level)

1. Down.
2. Down.+Airport
3. Down.+South
4. Down.+South+Airport
5. Down.+Hixson
6. Down.+Hixson+Airport
7. Down.+South+Hixson
8. Down.+South+Hixson+Airport
9. Down.+Mountain
10. Down.+Mountain+Airport
11. Down.+South+Mountain
12. Down.+South+Mountain+Airport
13. Down.+Hixson+Mountain
14. Down.+Hixson+Mountain+Airport
15. Down.+South+Hixson+Mountain
16. Down.+South+Hixson+Mountain+Airport
17. Down.+Ringgold
18. Down.+Ringgold+Airport
19. Down.+South+Ringgold
20. Down.+South+Ringgold+Airport
21. Down.+Hixson+Ringgold
22. Down.+Hixson+Ringgold+Airport
23. Down.+South+Hixson+Ringgold
24. Down.+South+Hixson+Ringgold+Airport
25. Down.+Mountain+Ringgold
26. Down.+Mountain+Ringgold+Airport
27. Down.+South+Mountain+Ringgold
28. Down.+South+Mountain+Ringgold+Airport
29. Down.+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold
30. Down.+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold+Airport
31. Down.+South+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold
32. Down.+South+Hixson+Mountain+Ringgold+Airport

Any zone except Chattanooga South and Ringgold (21⁄2 Moderate-Plus as chosen/minimum star level)

Substitute any zone in to “A”.

1. A
2. A+South
3. A+Ringgold
4. A+Ringgold+South

Above I’ve given all the possible rebids that there are. For the Chattanooga area you should be bidding for at least a 3-Star Upscale hotel, even though I’ve told you how to rebid for the 21⁄2 Moderate-Plus star level. The lower your chosen star level is, the less of a “deal” you’ll get. Besides, you can already get a 3-Star Upscale hotel for around $50 without tax, that’s how much the cheapest hotels are on standard hotel booking sites such as hotels.com and cheaptickets.com.

Hotwire:

Although Priceline can get you a good deal, it has its drawbacks, which I explain fully in Priceline vs. Hotwire.

Browse the Standard Booking Sites:

Is there a booking site out there, which always gives the best prices? Unfortunately, no. Travelocity can have good prices for one particular search criteria and Hotels.com can have good prices for another search criteria. The websites from the hotels themselves often have good prices as well. You can, of course, use metasearch sites such as Kayak.com, which gather data from all the booking sites and allow you to search your criteria by lowest price.

But be weary that whenever you only sort by price, whether that is from one of the booking sites or one of the metasearch sites, price is not the only thing that matters. If find that many times, the lowest prices are for particular room options which are non-refundable. If you want to book a room with an admirable cancellation policy, gather prices from several of the major booking sites (Hotels.com, Cheaptickets.com, Priceline.com etc) and, just to make sure, get a price from the hotel’s website.

If you are set on having the lowest price, keep in mind that different sites have different price assurance policies. Hotel rates change all the time. If you’re looking for a low price you want to make sure that it will stay the low price. I explore this issue fully in Price Match Guarantees. So far, which site offers the best price assurance policy is inconclusive.

Whichever way you choose to book, there is no perfect way. Because hotel prices bottom out at some point, as long as you shop around for 5 minutes online, you should get a very competitive price.

Call the hotel:

Once you find a hotel price online, call the hotel to see if they can’t match it.

There are many, many sites out there from which you can get hotel deals. Just keep in mind that when you are looking for Chattanooga cheap hotels, there is no best way to get a hotel deal.

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