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Priceline.com Releases Global List of Top Party Spots for New Year´s


    According to a new priceline.com(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN) global hotel
    survey of top New Year´s Eve party spots, London is the #1 destination
    for European revelers, while the Las Vegas Strip is the top
    destination among Americans and Bangkok is the favorite among Asian
    travelers.

    Priceline.com´s list of top U.S. destinations comes from a
    sampling of hotel room booking requests made by consumers on
    www.priceline.com. The European top destinations list was based on New
    Year´s Eve hotel bookings made by European consumers on
    www.booking.com, priceline.com´s European online hotel reservation
    service. And the Asia top destinations list was based on hotel booking
    requests made by Asian consumers on www.agoda.com, priceline.com´s
    Asia-Pacific online hotel reservation service.

    U.S. Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations

    Among U.S. residents, the top 10 New Year´s Eve destinations are:
    #1 Las Vegas Strip, #2 New York´s Soho/Financial District, #3 New
    York´s Upper Midtown/Central Park South area, #4 New York´s Midtown
    West, #5 New York´s Times Square/Theater District, #6 New York´s
    Midtown East, #7 New Orleans´ Downtown/Convention Center area, #8
    Orlando´s Universal Studios/Sea World area, #9 San Francisco´s Union
    Square West, and #10 New Orleans´ French Quarter.

    Europe´s Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations

    Among European residents, the top 10 New Year´s destinations are:
    #1 London, #2 Paris, #3 Berlin, #4 Amsterdam, #5 Barcelona, #6 Madrid,
    #7 Rome, #8 Brussels, #9 New York, and #10 Vienna.

    Asia´s Top 10 New Year´s Eve Destinations

    Among residents of the Asia-Pacific region, the top 10 New Year´s
    destinations are: #1 Bangkok, #2 Phuket (Thailand), #3 Hong Kong, #4
    Pattaya (Thailand), #5 Sydney, Australia, #6 Singapore, #7 Tokyo, #8
    Samui (Thailand), #9 Krabi (Thailand), and #10 Bali (Indonesia).

    About Priceline.com(R) Incorporated

    Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com,
    a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure
    travelers, and Booking.com, a leading international online hotel
    reservation service. Priceline.com also operates Agoda.com, an Asian
    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 great 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(R)
    service, which can deliver the lowest prices available.

    Priceline.com believes that Booking.com is Europe´s largest and
    fastest growing hotel reservation service, with a network of
    affiliated Web sites. Booking.com operates in over 60 countries in 16
    languages and offers its customers access to over 38,000 participating
    hotels worldwide. 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.