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PCLN News Priceline.com Releases Annual List of Top Party Spots for New Year's Eve
NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to a new priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) hotel survey, the Las
Vegas Strip is the most-preferred New Year’s
Eve destination for the second year in a row.
To compile its list of top New Year’s Eve
destinations, priceline.com looked at a sampling of more than 30,000
hotel room booking requests made by priceline.com customers for the
evening of December 31, 2006. Since the priceline.com study is based on
actual booking requests, and not on consumer preference polls or votes,
priceline.com believes the study is one of the more accurate predictors
of future travel trends.
Priceline.com said it still has plenty of hotel rooms, vacation
packages, cruises, airline tickets and rental cars available for those
wishing to celebrate the New Year in a special place. In addition to its
broad selection of published-price travel products, priceline.com
enables customers to save even more by using its Name Your Own Price
services for airline tickets, hotel rooms and rental cars. See www.priceline.com
for examples and full details.
In addition to Las Vegas, several other destinations showed strong
popularity for ringing in the New Year. Florida destinations took 15 of
the top 50 spots on the list, the most of any state. New York City took
four spots, all within the top 10.
Traditional parade and New Year’s Eve
celebration sites scored well on the list. New York’s
Midtown West, home to Times Square, was #5. Philadelphia, with its
Mummers Parade, ranked #28. New Orleans’
French Quarter continued its post-Katrina rebound, coming in at #31.
Priceline.com customers also showed a willingness to travel some
distances for their celebrations. Maui and Oahu appeared on the list
five times. Popular international destinations included London (which
made the list twice), Paris and Sydney, Australia.
Priceline.com's Top Destinations For New Year's Eve 2006RankCityNeighborhood
#1 Las Vegas Strip Vicinity
#2 New York SoHo/Financial District
#3 New York Upper Midtown/Central Park South
#4 Orlando Universal Studios/Sea World
#5 New York Midtown West
#6 Chicago Millennium Park/Loop/Grant Park
#7 New York Midtown East
#8 Orlando Disney World Vicinity
#9 San Francisco Union Square West
#10 Las Vegas Convention Center/UNLV Area
#11 Chicago N. Michigan Ave./River North Area
#12 Miami Miami Beach
#13 Orlando Sand Lake Corporate Park Area
#14 Key West Key West
#15 San Antonio Downtown/Riverwalk
#16 New Orleans French Quarter
#17 Miami South Beach
#18 San Francisco Union Square East/Embarcadero
#19 Maui Kihei
#20 Maui Wailea/Makena
#21 Atlanta Downtown
#22 Las Vegas West of Strip Area
#23 Orlando West Disney Area
#24 Orange County Disneyland Area
#25 Nashville Downtown/Vanderbilt U. Area
#26 Miami Coral Gables/Coconut Grove
#27 Maui Ka'anapali/Lahaina
#28 Philadelphia Downtown
#29 Oahu Waikiki South
#30 Cancun Downtown/Beaches
#31 New Orleans Downtown/Convention Center
#32 Los Angeles Hollywood
#33 Paris Eiffel Tower/Grenelle/Montparnasse
#34 Ft. Lauderdale Beach Area
#35 Fort Myers/Naples Sanibel & Captiva Islands
#36 Los Angeles Beverly Hills/West Hollywood
#37 Ft. Lauderdale Downtown
#38 London Mayfair/Soho
#39 Maui Kahului
#40 Ft. Lauderdale W. Ft. Lauderdale/Plantation
#41 Toronto Downtown
#42 London Bloomsbury/Marble Arch
#43 Newark Jersey City
#44 Puerto Rico San Juan
#45 Indianapolis Downtown
#46 Orlando Airport Area
#47 Sydney City Centre
#48 Fort Myers/Naples Marco Island
#49 Tampa Airport Area/Westshore
#50 San Diego Coastal Area
About Priceline.com® Incorporated
Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com, a
leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure
travelers, and Priceline Europe, a leading European online hotel
reservation service.
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 all the
best published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using
priceline.com’s TripFilter™
advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money, and
take advantage of priceline.com’s famous Name-Your-Own-Price®
service, which can deliver the lowest prices available.
Priceline Europe operates one of Europe’s
fastest growing hotel reservation services through its Booking.com
network of hotel reservation services, Activehotels.com and
priceline.co.uk. Priceline Europe operates in 40 countries in 12
languages and offers its customers in Europe and the U.S. access to
approximately 25,000 participating European hotels.
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.
