New York City Tops Priceline.com List Of Top 50 Destinations For Columbus Day 2006.NORWALK Norwalk (nôr`wôk'). 1 City (1990 pop. 94,279), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1957. With the arrival (1875) of the Southern Pacific RR, it became a center for the dairy and logging industries, but , Conn. -- In a priceline.com (priceline.com Incorporated, Norwalk, CT, www.priceline.com) A Web-based travel shopping site launched in 1998 where buyers submit the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and rental cars. [R] (Nasdaq:PCLN PCLN Priceline.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) survey of destinations receiving the most hotel room reservation requests for the upcoming Columbus Day Columbus Day, holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. It has been traditionally celebrated on Oct. 12 throughout most of the United States, parts of Canada, and in several of the Latin American republics. long weekend (October October: see month. 7-9), New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Upper Midtown/Central Park South neighborhood is the number-one place to be. To compile To translate a program written in a high-level programming language into machine language. See compiler. its list of the Top 50 Columbus Day travel destinations, priceline.com looked at a sampling of more than 30,000 hotel room booking requests made by priceline.com customers. Since the priceline.com study is based on actual booking requests, and not on consumer preference polls or votes, priceline.com believes the study is one of the more accurate predictors of future travel trends. Priceline.com said it still has plenty of last-minute last minute n. The period just before a significant or concluding moment such as a deadline, due date, or scheduled event: always waits until the last minute to do his holiday shopping. airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises available for Columbus Day getaways. Visit www.priceline.com for full details. In addition to the top spot, New York neighborhoods took four of the top 10 spots on the list. Several other major cities made a priceline.com Top 50 holiday travel list for the first time this year, including Houston, Dallas and Minneapolis. Also of particular interest is the strong showing among international destinations, which took nine spots on the list. Destinations making the Columbus Day list included London (#19), Paris (#22 and #46), Brighton in the UK (#48), Rome (#32), Madrid (#50), Vancouver (#38), Montreal (#34) and St. Catharines, Ontario St. Catharines (2006 population 131,989; metropolitan population 390,317) is the largest city in the Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in Ontario, Canada, with 97.11 square kilometres (37.5 sq mi) of land. (#44). The Priceline.com Top 50 Destinations List for Columbus Day 2006 Rank Neighborhood 1 New York City, Upper Midtown/Central Park South 2 Chicago, Millemmium Park, Loop & Grant Park Area 3 Las Vegas, Strip Vicinity 4 New York City, Midtown West 5 New York City, Downtown/SoHo/Financial District 6 New York City, Midtown East 7 San Francisco, Union Square West 8 Boston, Copley 9 Chicago, North Michigan Avenue/River North Area 10 San Francisco, Union Square East/Embarcadero 11 Boston, Downtown/Charlestown 12 Orange County, Disneyland Area 13 Las Vegas, Convention Center/UNLV Area 14 Washington, DC, White House/Downtown 15 Orlando, Disney World Vicinity 16 Orlando, Universal Studios/Sea World 17 San Diego, Coastal Area 18 Boston, Brighton/Brookline 19 London, Bloomsbury/Marble Arch 20 San Diego, Downtown & Harbor Island 21 San Antonio, Downtown/Riverwalk 22 Paris, Eiffel Tower/Grenelle/Montparnasse 23 San Francisco, Fisherman's Wharf 24 Philadelphia, Downtown 25 Orange County, Costa Mesa/Irvine 26 Seattle, Downtown 27 Minneapolis, Downtown 28 New York City, Midtown South 29 San Diego, Point Loma/Shelter Island/Old Town 30 Maui, Wailea/Makena 31 Houston, Galleria 32 Rome, Central Area 33 Orlando, West Disney Area 34 Montreal 35 Los Angeles, Beverly Hills/Hollywood 36 Las Vegas, West of Strip 37 San Diego, East County 38 Vancouver 39 Oahu, Waikiki South 40 Orlando, Sand Lake Corporate Park 41 Oahu, Waikiki North 42 Phoenix, Scottsdale 43 Oahu, Diamond Head Area 44 St. Catharines, Niagara Falls 45 San Diego, Coronado 46 Paris, St. Germain/Latin Quarter 47 Dallas, Downtown 48 Brighton, UK 49 Burlington, VT 50 Madrid, Old Madrid 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 Priceline Europe, a leading European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. 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