Cheep Airline Tickets with Priceline

Cheepairlinetickets are quite the topic of discusion these days.  My friend needed to make a last minute reservation the other day and asked me what I use for round trip airfare.  I’ve had good luck with Priceline.com but there are a few tricks!

One thing that was of great concern to me was knowing that I could talk to a real customer service rep for Priceline, and I was happy to find out that you can. There are two ways. On the Priceline.com – Home Page if you look at the upper right corner, you’ll see in small type the word “help”. Click on that link on the Priceline.com – Home Page and you’ll be brought to a screen that allows you to send an email, and they’ll answer your question quickly.

When you mouse over the word “help”, you’ll be given a drop down menu with several options – with the self service option for Priceline you can look up your booking information, and probably answer your own question. They have a nice tutorial on all their types of bookings. They try for non stop tickets for you first, and have all the disclaimers easily spelled out.

Lots of people love Priceline for their “Name Your Own Price ®” category. You can get cheep flights and fly any time of day, on any major airline. The Priceline Name Your Own Price also works for cheep hotel rooms where you can stay in any name-brand hotel. The Priceline Name Your Own Price even works when you need a rental car! You can rent a car from any of the top 5 U.S. rental car agencies. It’s for flexible visitors that enter their travel date(s) and offer amount for an airline ticket, hotel room, or rental car. You enter your credit card information with Priceline at the time you make a bid, and it tells you that your card will only be charged if your bid is accepted. It only takes a couple of minutes to find out if your bid has been accepted. If your Name Your Own Price bid is not accepted, Priceline will coach you on how to change your bid so you can try again. It’s fun! There are limitations to how many times you can make a bid in a set period of time, so it’s best to start the process several days to a week (or more) so that if your bid is not accepted you can still allow yourself time to try again.

One thing that’s important to me is having an actual telephone number for the booking agency for cheep airline tickets, Priceline.com Customer Service has a telephone number you can write down and use. If you have an accepted request you can contact Priceline Customer Service at 1-800-774-2354.  If you don’t have an accepted request yet, you can fill out the online form and contact them with your question.  I just tried that, and sent them an email message at 10:50 am on a Sunday, and asked if I could book one-way airfare.  I have not been able to find that anywhere on the site, and it appears to be set up for round trip, so that is the question I chose to ask Priceline about to test their customer service.  (Plus, I need to know because my cousin that travels a lot will need tickets back from the mainland to Hawaii soon and asked me to find out!)

So stay tuned for that answer for cheep airlines tickets!  And if you already know the answer please let us know!  What’s your experience been for using Priceline for cheep airline tickets?  Please leave a comment!  Thanks!

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