Clark and his wife are about to embark on a trip to Las Vegas thanks to some cheap airfare they managed to land. Though they'll be going on a holiday weekend, they had no trouble finding bookings at hotels.

The penny-pincher tried bid after bid, day after day on Priceline to get a deal that was suitable. But before he entered his first bid, his first stop was BiddingForTravel.com to get a feel for what other successful bids looked like. He noticed the general trend was around $110 for a night at a 5-star hotel and started his first bid at the ridiculously low $59 before going up incrementally.

He made 24 bids over 3 days in total. How is that possible? In general, Priceline only lets you bid once a day. But in Las Vegas, there are multiple neighborhoods you can bid in -- and only 2 had 5-star hotels. He simply added a new neighborhood and rebid each time as he got turned down.

Clark ended up paying $105/night, which is way more than he expected. He thought he would be at a Wynn property, but he actually got the new Trump property. The reviews on TripAdvisor.com suggest the staff has a real attitude toward customers, so we'll see what happens…

The bright spot of the trip is that his rental car is only $8 before junk fees. That's cheap, thanks to a new no-frills, automated Hertz discount subsidiary called Simply Wheelz by Hertz.