Ek continued, "As expected, traditional big shopping cities for the Black Friday weekend, like New York, Chicago and San Francisco, offer significant hotel savings, but room availability is going to be tight. The same holds true for getaway cities like Las Vegas and New Orleans. For these cities, I recommend being as flexible as possible in your star level selection to maximize your chances of getting a room at a bargain price."

Here's a roundup of the median Name Your Own Price(R) hotel savings for major cities around the country:

New York City (36%), Las Vegas (48%), Chicago (47%), New Orleans (47%), San Francisco (36%), San Diego (41%), Miami (40%), Fort Lauderdale (45%), Boston (40%), Washington, DC (40%), Minneapolis/St. Paul (41%).

Priceline.com's Name Your Own Price(R) hotel service www.priceline.com/hotels/ is easy to use. Travelers choose the city and neighborhood they want, the star level hotel, the dates and the price they want to pay. Priceline.com's Winning Bids map http://tickets.priceline.com/promo/nyop_hotels.asp displays successful bids made by other priceline.com customers in cities around the country. Once a bid is entered, priceline.com works to try to find a hotel willing to accept that price. Customers find out instantly whether their bid was successful and which hotel they'll be staying at.

Travelers with an iPhone or iPodTouch can bid for hotel rooms using a new free app called Hotel Negotiator, available at the App Store. Click here to see the demo video featuring William Shatner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhn5N7xcFOw.

About Priceline.com(R) Incorporated

Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) www.priceline.com provides online travel services in 29 languages in 78 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Included in the priceline.com family of companies is Booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service, priceline.com, a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Agoda.com, an Asian online hotel reservation service. Priceline.com believes that Booking.com is Europe's largest and fastest growing hotel reservation service, with a network of affiliated Web sites. Booking.com operates in over 70 countries in 24 languages and offers its customers access to over 73,000 participating hotels worldwide.

In the U.S., priceline.com gives customers more ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises than any other Internet travel service. In addition to getting great published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com's TripFilter advanced search technology, customize their search activity through priceline.com's Inside Track features, create packages to save even more money, and take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name Your Own Price(R) service, which can deliver the lowest prices available. Priceline.com operates the following travel websites: Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com also licenses its business model to independent licensees.

SOURCE: Priceline.com Incorporated

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The Hotel Negotiator App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at itunes.com/appstore.

Hotel listings can be sorted by star level, price, proximity and popularity. Hotel listings include address, star level, customer reviews and satisfaction scores, zoomable maps, pictures and descriptions. All of the hotels on the list can be booked either online or by automatically calling priceline.com's hotel booking specialists. Travelers who need help with other trip arrangements can select another option on the Hotel Negotiator app that takes them to a priceline.com website configured for iPhone and iPod touch. There, they can check flight status and browse and book airline tickets and rental cars on a published-price or Name Your Own Price basis.

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The Hotel Negotiator App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at itunes.com/appstore.

"Our Hotel Negotiator App is designed for travelers who are on the road or at an airport and decide at the last minute that they need a room for the night," said priceline.com CMO Brett Keller. "The app also works for travelers who prefer to make their hotel arrangements after they've arrived in a city and have become familiar with the geography. Hotel Negotiator lets them use their iPhone or iPod touch to quickly negotiate the price and book a room from priceline.com's assortment of quality hotel rooms up until 11 p.m. ET on the night they need the room."

Priceline.com's Hotel Negotiator App includes the following features:

-Winning Bids recommendations. Choose a city and the Hotel Negotiator App displays multiple recent winning bids made by other priceline.com customers for hotels in different parts of the city at different star levels.

-Shake-Down geo-locator-triggered hotel search. Shaking the device establishes the traveler's location using location-based features and then performs a Winning Bids search for hotels in the surrounding areas.

-One-Page checkout. A specially designed one-page checkout screen speeds users through the bidding process.

-Instant Bid Results. Users will know whether their bid is accepted. If it is, they'll receive all the details on their hotel and its location.

-Native iPhone navigation. Users will instantly recognize the slides and wheels that help them navigate through the Hotel Negotiator shopping and booking experience.

-Not in the mood to negotiate? The Hotel Negotiator App also contains an option for browsing priceline.com's broad assortment of published-price hotels for a particular city or town. Browsing can be initiated by choosing a city or by shaking the device which will bring up a selection of hotels within that specific area.

According to Priceline.com, hotel listings can be sorted by star level, price, proximity and popularity. Hotel listings include address, star level, customer reviews and satisfaction scores, zoomable maps, pictures and descriptions. All of the hotels on the list can be booked either online or by automatically calling priceline.com's hotel booking specialists.

Travelers who need help with other trip arrangements can select another option on the Hotel Negotiator app that takes them to a priceline.com website configured for iPhone and iPod touch. There, users can check flight status and browse and book airline tickets and rental cars on a published-price or Name Your Own Price basis, the company noted in a release.

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