Priceline is a buying service, which allows you to "name your own price" for airline tickets, hotel room and car rentals. Priceline.com is the world's first buying service through which consumers name the price they're willing to pay.

Priceline offers a broad range of travel services including airline tickets, hotels, rental cars, vacation packages, cruises and more. Priceline.com works with all 8 major U.S. full-service airlines and over 20 top international carriers.

Priceline's primary competitors in the online discount travel business are Orbitz, Expedia, and Travelocity.

Priceline Discount Hotels – cheap airline tickets – discount car rental

Priceline can give you outstanding prices and discounts on cheap airfares, discount hotels, and car rentals.

Using Priceline.com is easy.

Discount Airline tickets: You tell them where you want to go, the number of tickets you need, and how much you want to pay. Priceline then searches for an airline willing to release seats at your price. Within a minute they will tell you if they found a match. Priceline will also email you of their findings. If priceline.com finds an airline that accepts your price, your tickets are automatically purchased and your credit card is charged.

Discount Hotels: You specify the city and you'll be presented with a class of hotels to select from (5 star, 4 star ....etc). Select the class and number of nights needed , and Priceline will tell you if they have found a match. Priceline will notify you online and via email.

Car Rental: The Priceline process is the same for rental cars. Specify the class of car, location and number od days needed and Priceline.com will do the rest for you.

Priceline has received very favorable reviews.

Yahoo Internet Life picked priceline.com as Best Bargain Booker. Forbes Magazine highlighted priceline in its "Best of the Web" issue, calling it "great" for cheap airline tickets, hotels, and rental cars.

An independent online customer satisfaction survey found that over 98% of responding users would use priceline again.

Priceline must be doing something right! During the first quarter of 2004, priceline's air bookings rose 28%, rental cars 83%, and hotel rooms 35% from the year before, in spite of a similar world travel environment.