If everything including price are the same, people always prefer to a regular hotel over a secret hotel because the latter has risks. Therefore, the default setting has $50 penalty for a Hotwire Hot Rate hotel and $25 penalty for a Priceline Express Deal. In another word, a Hotwire Hot Rate hotel has to be $50 cheaper to be ranked before a regular hotel with same conditions. The default penalty for Priceline Express Deal is lower because we can identify most of the Priceline Express Deal hotel. You can override all those default settings.
