FAQs
What is the Priceline cancellation policy?
Because Priceline is a third-party booking platform, your cancellation rules depend entirely on the specific hotel, airline, or rental agency you chose. If you selected a standard refundable rate, you can typically log into your Priceline account and cancel penalty-free up to 24 or 48 hours before your trip.
However, if you booked a non-refundable rate, a bundled vacation package, or used the heavily discounted Express Deals or Pricebreakers features, your booking is final and cannot be modified, transferred, or cancelled for a refund.
Does Priceline price match?
Yes! Priceline offers a best-price guarantee; however, it is available only to Priceline VIP members, but luckily, VIP membership is free.
If you book a standard hotel, flight, or rental car and find a cheaper, identical rate within 24 hours, Priceline will refund you the difference.
And if you book an Express Deal and find a lower price anywhere else before midnight the day before you travel, Priceline will actually refund you 200% of the price difference!
Does Priceline offer a military discount?
Yes, but it's not listed directly on the main Priceline homepage. Priceline is an official partner of American Forces Travel, the US Department of Defence's official travel site.
Active-duty military, veterans, National Guard, and Coast Guard members can log in to the American Forces Travel portal to verify their military status. Once verified, you gain access to exclusive rates powered by Priceline, offering up to 50% off hotels, rental cars, and vacation packages.
Will I earn hotel loyalty points (like Marriott Bonvoy or Hilton Honors) if I book through Priceline?
Generally, no. Because Priceline is a third-party discount booking platform, major hotel chains consider it an Online Travel Agency booking. This means you will not earn hotel loyalty points or frequent flyer miles for the stay.
Also, if you have any member perks with a specific hotel brand (like free breakfast or room upgrade privileges), the hotel is not obligated to honor those perks because you didn't book directly with them.
Hints and Tips
VIP Family account: This is Priceline’s most under-the-radar feature. Instead of trying to earn elite status on your own, you can create a VIP Family account and invite up to five friends or family members to join. Priceline will then pool everyone's trips together. This means if you take one trip, your sister takes two, and your parents take two, you all instantly achieve VIP Gold status and unlock special pricing of up to 50% off hotel rates. It is the fastest way to get VIP perks without having to travel constantly.
Bundle your Vacation: If you need a flight, a hotel room, and a rental car, do not book them on three separate websites. Priceline wants you to use their platform as a one-stop shop, so by using their Vacation Packages tool to bundle your flight and hotel into a single order, you can unlock bundle-exclusive discounts that save you up to $500 compared to booking the individual components separately.
Newsletters & Texts: Signing up for the email newsletter is a great way to get a discount, with an instant 10% off welcome coupon, plus you get access to exclusive sales sent via your email. You should also sign up for Priceline's SMS text alerts, because Priceline regularly runs flash sales and sometimes text subscribers are always the first to receive these surprise codes right to their phones before they sell out.
App-Only deals: Before you checkout on your desktop, pull out your phone and download the free Priceline app. Priceline often adds special, discounted hotel and rental car rates that are exclusive to app users. Also, Booking via the app also gives you access to Penny (their AI-powered travel assistant) and makes it easier to manage your vacation.
How to use your Priceline coupon code
- Select a Priceline coupon code best for you.
- Click 'get code' and continue to the Priceline website.
- Browse Priceline for your preferred flight, hotel room, or rental car.
- Once you select your specific room or itinerary, click "Book" to move to the final checkout and billing page.
- Scroll down past the primary sections where you enter your information and credit card details. Below the total look for a box labeled Have a Promo Code?
- Paste your promo code into the box and click Apply.
How We Source Our Codes
At Marie Claire, we have a dedicated team of deal experts, commercial colleagues, and editors who find and negotiate the best promo codes and coupons, as well as produce content aiming to help you shop affordably.
We have a dedicated team of 3 deal experts that are constantly sourcing and testing coupons and promo codes for some of the biggest retailers in fashion, beauty, and beyond to list on our website. They also work with affiliate networks to get a heads-up on future deals and discounts. This means we can update our pages
Meanwhile, our commercial colleagues are key to keeping good relationships with retailers. Their experience with lifestyle vouchers helps them to negotiate the best promo codes and exclusives for you.
On the pages themselves, you’ll find carefully researched saving information for all your beauty, lifestyle, and fashion purchases. Our contributing editors have years of experience in the industry and consistently update the page to reflect new ways to save. You’ll find helpful discount FAQs and saving tips which are checked and verified regularly.
What if my promo code doesn’t work?
Our team always tries to make sure any out-of-date sales or incorrect codes are not included on our coupon pages. To do this, we check a few things, including:
- Trying the code and checking if they are valid ourselves.
- Check we don’t have any unique, one-use codes.
- Looking at the offer conditions to make sure you’ve got all the information.
However, there are occasions when details change or the codes may expire without us knowing. If this happens, be sure to contact us by emailing coupons.marieclaire@futurenet.com so we know. You can also go to our contact page.
How do we make money?
It’s completely free for customers to use the coupon codes we have above. We’ll get a small percentage of the money spent as a commission from the retailer you shop at. As with most businesses, we do need to make money however this will never impact the price you pay. The brand will give us a small share of the profit for connecting you to them. This helps us keep going whilst saving you more money.
Simply put, the retailer makes a sale, we get a commission, and you get a discount.
