Nov. 3, 2009 (Business Wire) -- After one week of availability, priceline.com’s (Nasdaq: PCLN) Hotel Negotiator App has climbed to the #3 free travel app on the App Store. The new priceline.com app, which features The Priceline Negotiator (William Shatner), lets travelers use iPhone or iPod touch to quickly find and book last-minute hotel rooms using priceline.com’s Name Your Own Price® hotel service and save up to 50% over published hotel rates.
Priceline.com also announced today that it has produced a free demo video of the app featuring William Shatner. The downloadable video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhn5N7xcFOw.
The Hotel Negotiator App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. For more information and high-resolution images of the Hotel Negotiator App, visit http://www.priceline.com/iphone/media.
Here’s what the media and travelers are saying about The Hotel Negotiator App:
“This app finally makes it practical to get that last-minute hotel room when you’re out and about” – 10/29, Black Book (which also named The Hotel Negotiator as its #1 travel app.
“This app finally makes it practical to bid on a room at the 11th-hour through Priceline’s famous blind-booking system” – 10/28, Budget Travel.
“For the first time, lets Name Your Own Price users bid for and book hotel rooms on the fly” – 10/27, USA Today.
“The Negotiator app is a different experience tailored for the iPhone and a fun one at that” – 10/27, Hudson Crossing.
“Amazing app! Best travel app out there” - 10/29, ShatnerWannabe.
“I love this app! Very easy to use and delivers great savings” - 10/ 27, Trav77777.
“I’m a frequent business traveler and I’m impressed. This is the best way to find deals with your iPhone. This is the first 5-star rating I’ve given an app and I’ve been an iPhonephyte since mid-2008 trying hundreds of apps” - 10/30, akp221.
Priceline.com’s Hotel Negotiator App includes the following unique features:
- The Priceline Negotiator. Activate the Hotel Negotiator App and The Priceline Negotiator (William Shatner) gets the whole phone vibrating as he punches his way through the screen.
- Winning Bids. 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.
