Hotel Rant

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I spend about 200 days a year traveling and staying in hotels. Most small towns will give me a hospital rate for traveling medical workers. Well the place i have been staying at in Rolla is usually $99 for the last 5 years. Well today since its Homecoming here, the hospital rate is no good and im at $256 a night. Sucks i have to pay more for a homecoming that has nothing to do with me.  And just in General Hotel rates have went up 30% in the last year all over the board.  

[nomolites]

3 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

I spend about 200 days a year traveling and staying in hotels. Most small towns will give me a hospital rate for traveling medical workers. Well the place i have been staying at in Rolla is usually $99 for the last 5 years. Well today since its Homecoming here, the hospital rate is no good and im at $256 a night. Sucks i have to pay more for a homecoming that has nothing to do with me.  And just in General Hotel rates have went up 30% in the last year all over the board.  

They will also hit you for a two or three night minimum in many college towns on a football weekend.  I try to avoid those intersections if at all possible, but that doesn’t always work.  At least my employer is the one taking the hit.

Mike

[MOPanfisher]

I stayed in Augusta GA once just before the Masters the rates for the next week that they posted were unbelievable. Supply and demand.

[oneshot 1]

If I know I will be somewhere in advance I go with Air Bnb. Most always have a nice place to sleep or House to stay in.

Only time had any problem was the Hoist was staying in the House and somehow we misread thinking we had the house to ourselves. 

One time we went to a house that had been trashed. The Hoist made it right with another house close by. 

But we have traveled and most part houses have been great anywhere in the U.S.

oneshot 

[Terrierman]

We drove to Macinac Island in October 4 years ago.  When we got into middle Michigan we thought it was time to stop for the night. It was homecoming weekend at Michigan State.  There was not an available room anywhere within a 100 mile radius.  And the upper part of mainland Michigan is not that densely populated.  Hotels were few and far between, we wound up being about an hour from our destination when we finally found a place to stay.  No reservations, which we just don't do on weekends at all anymore, no matter where we plan to stay.

[Dutch]

My daughter travels all over the U S and Canada for work.  She has been talking about the increased cost of hotels for several months.

[BLUEWATER]

How about when you make a reservation in a hotel for a car race 6 months in advance and the hotel call 3 months later and says the rate tripled so take it or leave it.

 

 

[Carl1969]

Happens with AirBnB, too. We booked a place several months in advance for the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in '20. Guess the owner must've forgotten about the festival & came back at us a month later wanting twice as much money. Yeah, no.

[fshndoug]

always pack a tent

 

[BilletHead]

8 hours ago, fshndoug said:

always pack a tent

 

                I heard through the grapevine that when Glen gets word you are coming to visit his rates quadruple and the kids have to move into the boat shop to open up the high dollar room!