The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: marcmax on January 27, 2014, 01:58:53 PM
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My daughter graduates from college this May and every hotel within 100 miles of the school has raised their rates 200% for that weekend. The weekend before graduation and the week up until that Thursday room rates are $59 to $149 a night. Same thing starting the Monday after graduation.
The weekend of her graduation rooms are $249 to $499 a night and these are standard hotel rooms, nothing fancy.
G*& d@m greedy SOB's
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Sorry but I had to get that off my chest. [smiley=rifle.gif]
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Same thing happens in the Phoenix metro area, when the Super Bowl is here .
A few co-workers that live in the vicinity of the sports stadium in the far western surburb of Glendale, rent their houses out for $7000 for the week .
They have no problem getting someone to pay that much . :o
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NASCAR races I'm familiar with do the same jack-up on prices, plus they demand a two-night minimum.
These days, what with multiple cameras and replays, my couch is the best seat in the house.
Same goes for my one-time, three-day visit to Circuit of The Americas for Moto GP. Plus that $105.00 for the three days to park my ride on a gravel patch two miles from the gates.
That'll buy a lot of seven-dollar headlight relays! ;D
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We have the same thing here with kids holidays when schools are out. Prices, go through the roof.
You are no longer allowed to take your kid out of school for a holiday to avoid the higher costs. Captive market.
There will be a lot of kids who never get to go on a holiday at home or abroad.
Cheers
Steve H
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Yes, this is market capitalism at its "finest". But, I'd still prefer it over a "planned" economy dictated by the state.
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We have the same thing here with kids holidays when schools are out.Prices, go through the roof.
I spent 20 years raising my kids and being restricted to school holidays. Once thay had finished school I was looking forward to cheap holidays any time I liked, then what did I do, I got a job in a school !
I still have retirement to look forward to.
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This reminds me of student rentals. Not too long ago I was graduating from college. Not sure about the hotels around here, but the landlords and real estate agencies were just awful. They'd give you a "nine month" lease, but match your move in/out times to the campus dorms and wouldn't pro-rate anything Over three years I was probably bilked for about $1200 of rent that I wasn't allowed to use.
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I experienced not one, but two predatory student-rental and hotel markets regarding our daughter within the past few years: Philly (twice, in 2006-7, and 2009-11), and Boston (2008-9). The number of students in each is staggering, and nearly all of them graduate within the same two-week period each year. (Sorry, but I'm not up to speed regarding current estimates of the number of degree-granting institutions and the total number of students in each metropolitan area. When I was a graduate student in Boston in the 1970s, there were ~ 250,000 students attending 67 colleges and universities there.)
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A few co-workers that live in the vicinity of the sports stadium in the far western surburb of Glendale, rent their houses out for $7000 for the week .
They have no problem getting someone to pay that much . :o
Jezz some folks must love there footy, thats some serious $$$$