Greedy sob's

[marcmax]

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

[marcmax]

Sorry but I had to get that off my chest.   [smiley=rifle.gif]

[Bob_Roller]

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 .

[montmil]

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!

[steve hawkins]

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

[nhmaf]

Yes, this is market capitalism at its "finest".   But, I'd still prefer it over a "planned" economy dictated by the state.

[Barry]

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.

[Luca]

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.

[Altritter]

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.)

[dav]

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 .

Jezz some folks must love there footy, thats some serious $$$$