Priceline car rental cancellation policy, and how to rebook for less
Car rental prices move after you book. Here is how to take the lower price on a Priceline booking, and what cancelling the original costs.
Or let Plot watch your Priceline rental and tell you the moment a lower price is worth rebooking.
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Your Priceline rental dropped $46
Here's exactly how to take the lower price.
The fine print
What Priceline charges to cancel
- Pay later
- Cancellation terms depend on the rate and the rental company. Check your booking's terms before you rebook.
- Prepaid (Pay Now)
- Check your booking's cancellation terms before you rebook, especially for an Express Deal. For an Express Deal, the Best Price Guarantee below is the better route.
- Price guarantee
- Priceline's Best Price Guarantee covers rental cars. The lower price has to be an exact match: the same rental company, car type, pickup location, dates and times, and a comparable cancellation policy. Claim within 24 hours of booking, or for an Express Deal until midnight the day before travel. Priceline's terms say it pays 100% of the difference, or 200% for an Express Deal.
Worth knowing
- The guarantee's match has to be exact, so note the company, car type and pickup times of the lower price before you call.
The short version
Book the lower rate first, confirm it, then cancel the original. Pay-later reservations usually cancel without a fee; on a prepaid rate, take the cancellation fee off the saving before you rebook.
How to take a lower price on Priceline
Book the new rate first, then cancel the original. Verified as of September 29, 2026.
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Book the lower rate on the site you found it on as a new reservation (pay later if you can), and wait for its confirmation
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Then cancel your original booking on Priceline, from the trip in your account or the link in your confirmation email, if its cancellation terms allow it
Check your booking's cancellation terms before you rebook. For an Express Deal, Priceline's Best Price Guarantee is the better route: it can be claimed until midnight the day before pickup.
All methods
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Book the lower rate on the site you found it on as a new reservation (pay later if you can), and wait for its confirmation
- 2
Then cancel your original booking on Priceline, from the trip in your account or the link in your confirmation email, if its cancellation terms allow it
Check your booking's cancellation terms before you rebook. For an Express Deal, Priceline's Best Price Guarantee is the better route: it can be claimed until midnight the day before pickup.
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Find the same rental for less: the same rental company, car type, pickup location, dates and times, with a comparable cancellation policy
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Contact Priceline at 1-800-774-2354 with your booking and the lower price, within 24 hours of booking, or for an Express Deal by midnight the day before travel
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Priceline's terms say an approved claim pays 100% of the difference, or 200% for an Express Deal
The guarantee does not require cancelling anything, so it suits a booking you cannot cancel. The match has to be exact.
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Stop checking Priceline prices yourself. Forward your confirmation once, and Plot watches your rental continuously and tells you when a lower price turns up.
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Forward your confirmation
Forward your Priceline rental confirmation to plans@plot.travel. That is the only thing you need to do.
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We watch your rental continuously
Plot keeps comparing your Priceline rental with the same car for the same dates, and reads your cancellation terms, so a lower price only counts when rebooking leaves you ahead.
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Your Priceline price dropped
How to take the lower price
- 1.Book the lower rate on the site you found it on as a new reservation (pay later if you can), and wait for its confirmation
- 2.Then cancel your original booking on Priceline, from the trip in your account or the link in your confirmation email, if its cancellation terms allow it
03Rebook and keep the difference
When the price drops, we tell you the saving and the exact Priceline steps: book the new rate, then cancel the original. Both bookings stay in your hands.
Plot sends the steps; you make the new booking and cancel the old one. Price Watch is part of Plot Pro.
Questions
Priceline rental price drop FAQ
Common questions about Priceline rental price drops and cancellations.
Not automatically, but Priceline's Best Price Guarantee can pay the difference when the lower price is an exact match and you claim in time: within 24 hours of booking, or for an Express Deal until midnight the day before travel. Otherwise, book the new rate first, then cancel the original if your booking's terms allow it.
It depends on how you paid. Cancellation terms depend on the rate and the rental company. Check your booking's terms before you rebook. Check your booking's cancellation terms before you rebook, especially for an Express Deal. For an Express Deal, the Best Price Guarantee below is the better route.
Priceline's Best Price Guarantee covers rental cars. The lower price has to be an exact match: the same rental company, car type, pickup location, dates and times, and a comparable cancellation policy. Claim within 24 hours of booking, or for an Express Deal until midnight the day before travel. Priceline's terms say it pays 100% of the difference, or 200% for an Express Deal.
Plot watches your Priceline rental continuously after you forward your confirmation email to plans@plot.travel. When a lower price turns up, we send you the saving and step-by-step instructions for Priceline's terms, so you can book the new rate and cancel the original yourself. Price Watch is part of Plot Pro.
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Sources
Read on Priceline's own pages on September 29, 2026. Terms change, and the ones on your confirmation are the ones that apply.
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