Priceline.com Launches iPhone And iPod touch App For Last-Minute Negotiating On Name-Your-Own-Price® Hotel Rooms

NORWALK, Conn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced the availability of the Hotel Negotiator App on the App Store. The 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. The Hotel Negotiator App is available for free from the App Store on iPhone and iPod to

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Priceline.com Launches iPhone And iPod touch App For Last-Minute Negotiating On Name-Your-Own-Price® Hotel Rooms

Priceline’s Trip Protection Adds Job Loss Coverage

Priceline.com announced today that it is offering its customers expanded optional travel insurance that now includes a full cancellation/refund if a customer books a trip and then loses his or her job. The expanded trip protection is available for priceline.com’s vacation packages, Name Your Own Price hotel rooms, published-price and Name Your Own Price airline tickets, and rental cars booked as an add-on to any priceline.com travel reservation.

“For some people who are thinking about booking trips, the possibility of job loss is as much, or even more of a concern than illness or accidents,” said Chris Soder, priceline.com’s President of North American Travel. “We believe our enhanced coverage will reassure those customers with the knowledge that they can cancel their trip and get a refund should a covered job loss occur.”

Priceline.com’s travel insurance also covers customers in the event of unforeseen sickness, illness, injury or death. The optional insurance provides up to $500 in baggage protection coverage, up to $1,500 for on-the-road covered medical expenses, up to $50,000 for medical evacuation expenses, up to $10,000 in travel accident protection and 24-hour worldwide assistance services. The trip protection costs as little as $16 for an airline ticket or $5 a night for a hotel reservation.

Priceline.com’s job loss protection covers insurance holders who are involuntarily terminated or laid off by an employer as long as the customer was employed by that employer for at least three continuous years and that notification of termination occurs after the date that the customer purchased the insurance.

Priceline to Now Offer Condos and Vacation Properties

Priceline.com and LeisureLink announced today that priceline.com’s published-price hotel service will offer its customers booking access to LeisureLink’s network of condos, timeshares, vacation properties and boutique resorts in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

“LeisureLink’s extensive inventories in the condominium and vacation property categories will enable priceline.com to offer our customers even more choice and value when it comes to making their vacation lodging reservations,” said Tim Gordon, priceline.com’s Senior Vice President, Hotels.

“Vacation rental management companies have taken a cue from hotels and the explosive growth in online lodging sales over the past decade. They are increasingly offloading legacy practices to adapt and compete in a more hotel-centric distribution landscape,” said Douglas Quinby, senior director of research and co-author of PhoCusWright’s Vacation Rental Marketplace: Poised for Change. “The step by priceline.com to incorporate vacation rentals in its lodging shopping path is a significant indicator of the transformation underway in the vacation rental industry marketplace.”

“We believe that LeisureLink’s broad array of vacation condo, timeshare and boutique resort properties will make a great addition to priceline.com’s lodging service,” said Erik Hovanec, president and CEO of LeisureLink. “LeisureLink’s properties also mesh well with priceline.com’s commitment to deliver quality and significant savings to the budget-conscious leisure travel market.”