NORWALK, Conn. - (Business Wire) Internet travel service priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today released the results of its 6
th annual survey of the 50 most-popular destinations for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend (May 24-26). The survey is based on more than 30,000 hotel room booking requests made by priceline.com customers for the upcoming holiday weekend. Because the survey is based on actual booking activity, and not on consumer preference polls or votes, priceline.com believes the annual survey is one of the more accurate predictors of Memorial Day travel trends.
Priceline.com said it still has hotel rooms, airline tickets, vacation packages, rental cars and cruises available for the big weekend, often at significant discounts over other online travel reservation services. Bargain hunters will appreciate the fact that, in addition to its Name Your Own Price® services, priceline.com charges no booking fees on published-price airline tickets and, for a limited time, has chopped its booking fees on more than 23,000 hotels around the world.
For full details visit http://www.priceline.com
This year’s Top 50 list contained some surprises. New York City’s Times Square Theater District replaced Chicago’s Millennium Park as the most-requested Memorial Day destination. Another noteworthy change from last year is the re-emergence of beach destinations, which saw a drop-off in visitors a year ago due to a rainy, cold May. This year, 14 beach destinations made the list.
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the presence of a few high-ticket destinations on the list. Some consumers, apparently unfazed by the economy and exchange rates, helped London, Hawaii, Paris and Vienna make the Top 50 list. Hawaii made the list four times.
The Priceline Top 50 Destinations List for Memorial Day 2008
#1 New York City, Times Square/Theater District
#2 Las Vegas, Strip Vicinity South
#3 Chicago, Millennium Park, Loop & Grant Park Area
#4 Las Vegas, Strip Vicinity North
#5 Chicago, North Michigan Avenue/River North Area
#6 Washington, DC, White House/Downtown
#7 New York City, Upper Midtown/Central Park South
#8 San Antonio, Downtown/Riverwalk
#9 New York City, Midtown East
#10 Seattle, Downtown
#11 Oahu, Waikiki Beach Area
#12 Vienna, West Area
#13 San Francisco, Union Square West
#14 San Diego, Coastal Area
#15 Orlando, Universal Studios/Sea World
#16 San Francisco, Union Square East/Embarcadero
#17 Vancouver
#18 Oahu, Waikiki Marina Area
#19 San Diego, Point Loma/Shelter Island/Downtown
#20 Boston, Copley Square/Theater District
#21 San Diego, Downtown & Harbor Island
#22 New York City, Long Island City
#23 Miami, Miami Beach
#24 Jersey City
#25 New York City, Downtown/Soho/Financial District
#26 Key West
#27 Vienna, City Centre
#28 Boston, Quincy Market/ Faneuil Hall/Financial District
#29 Orange County, Disneyland Area
#30 Paris, Eiffel Tower/Grenelle/Montparnasse
#31 St. Catharines, Niagara Falls
#32 Orlando, Disney World Vicinity
#33 San Antonio, Medical Center Area
#34 Miami, South Beach
#35 Toronto, Downtown
#36 Cleveland, Downtown
#37 San Diego, East County
#38 Maui, Wailea/Makena
#39 Maui, Ka’anapali/Lahaina
#40 Ft. Lauderdale, Beach Area
#41 Montreal
#42 London, Bloomsbury/Marble Arch
#43 San Francisco, Lombard Street Area
#44 Savannah, Historic District
#45 San Diego, Mission Valley
#46 Los Angeles, Hollywood
#47 Long Beach
#48 New York City, Brooklyn
#49 New York City, Midtown West
#50 Chicago, North Shore
Priceline’s Memorial Day lists for previous years are all available on www.priceline.com in the press releases area of the investor relations section.
About Priceline.com
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) www.priceline.com provides online travel services in 21 languages in over 60 countries in Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Priceline.com operates 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 60 countries in 17 languages and offers its customers access to over 45,000 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 also operates the following travel websites: Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home mortgages, refinancing and home equity loans through an independent licensee. Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent licensees, including priceline mortgage and certain international licensees.
For more information about priceline.com:
To book flights http://www.priceline.com/flights/
To book hotels http://www.priceline.com/hotels/
To book a group hotel stay http://www.findgroupdeals.com/
To book rental cars http://www.priceline.com/rentalcars/
To book a vacation package http://www.priceline.com/vacationpackages/
To book a cruise http://www.pricelinecruiseoutlet.com
To see our PriceBreakers deals: http://www.priceline.com/pricebreakers
To check our travel guides: http://travela.priceline.com/travelguides/
Other priceline.com affiliated sites include:
General travel information and trip planning http://www.mytravelguide.com
Travel reservations http://www.lowestfare.com
http://www.travelweb.com
Rental cars http://www.RentalCars.com
http://www.BreezeNet.com
European hotels http://www.booking.com
http://www.priceline.co.uk
Asia Pacific hotels http://www.agoda.com
Priceline.com Incorporated
Press information:
Brian Ek, 203-299-8167
brian.ek@priceline.com
