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Hotel Rooms For a Dolla Dolla Bill, Y'all?

January 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM | by | Comments (2)

Hey! Remember that one time Leading Hotels of the World tried to offer hotel rooms for $19.28 for a 90-minute period of time in the fall and the servers went down and nobody got a room and then they had to apologize and do the whole thing over?

Well, this gimmick is kind of like that gimmick, except less prone to major failure because nobody knows exactly when it's going to happen, thereby (in theory) decreasing the likelihood of a server-destroying traffic surge. The deal: LastMinuteTravel.com has launched a promotion called The World For A Dollar, which offers visitors to the website the chance to book pretty nice hotels rooms for up to seven consecutive nights for $1 per night, valid at any of the 15,000 hotels in the LastMinuteTravel's inventory.

It's not going to be easy, though; only dedicated bargain-seekers may want to take on this one. The Boston Globe explains the conditions:

The reservations can only be made during one 15-minute period each day, Monday - Friday, over 2 weeks. And they won't reveal in advance what day the promotion will begin or which 15-minute period in any given day. The only way to find out is to keep checking the site...You can only score a cheap room once during the campaign; the booking must be made online and must be completed within the 15-minute time frame.

If you're dedicated, you can enter your email addy to subscribe to a bulletin with "hints" that are supposed to help you out with the promo. Or you could obsessively check the site every five minutes all day long. Whatever floats your boat.

Check out all the details here. Don't wear out your refresh button and, um, let us know how it goes.

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oh man

This is getting too difficult. I see they are taking a cue from the Leading Hotels promo and this adding more restrictions, but when it gets to be like a rubik's cube, I'm out.
JetSetCD on January 13, 2009 at 12:04 PM #Permalink

Like in the Da Vinci Code

You will be required to unlock the cylinder to remove your room key.  If you fail, are are walked to an airport hotel.
Extended Checkout on January 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM #Permalink

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