Insane motel room prices
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Understatement of the year!
Remember many or most hotels are franchise or similar arrangement. If a franchise owner can book a room for $200 the franchise owner is not going to be happy booking the room for $50 to an employee of the corporation.
And even if you try and get an employee discount six months prior to your planned arrival the employee discount may not be available. The hotel companies have computer programs that figure out if it's likely the room will be booked at full rate closer to your planned arrival.
It's a real bummer when you don't know a location has a specific event going on. Every July 4th week we'd have 2-3 teams of girls softball and IF we had an open room which was rare it was pricy.
GON
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I will stay in over 100 different hotels in 2024. All I can share is there is numerous erroneous information throughout this thread.
Hotels are priced on supply and demand, and in some cases simply that they are the only "game in town" of a certain loyalty brand. One example, the only Marriott brand hotel north of Laramie Wyoming to Park City, UT is a Fairfield Inn in Rawlins, WY. That Fairfield doesn't often discount rooms, and Marriott loyalty members often will only stay at Marriott brands, and there simply is no competition for over 250 miles.
Yes, booking a casino hotel early will almost certainly be at a good price. But the casino wants to lock you in for your gambling/ entertainment dollars and doesn't want you staying at the casino next door. The hotels in Northern Virginia are often great bargains on a Friday or Saturday night. But during the week, those same rooms can be double or triple priced, filled with businesspeople working in the greater WDC area.
Just like airlines, booking well in advance is not always the lowest price. Airlines have figured out if you are booking many months in advance, you have a need to travel on those dates, and the airlines often charge more, than they charge for the same seat six weeks out. I find the lowest cost hotel rooms are booked the day prior or the same day of the stay. One has to understand the availability of rooms and know how to find the hotels that have a high vacancy rate.
Hotels are priced on supply and demand, and in some cases simply that they are the only "game in town" of a certain loyalty brand. One example, the only Marriott brand hotel north of Laramie Wyoming to Park City, UT is a Fairfield Inn in Rawlins, WY. That Fairfield doesn't often discount rooms, and Marriott loyalty members often will only stay at Marriott brands, and there simply is no competition for over 250 miles.
Yes, booking a casino hotel early will almost certainly be at a good price. But the casino wants to lock you in for your gambling/ entertainment dollars and doesn't want you staying at the casino next door. The hotels in Northern Virginia are often great bargains on a Friday or Saturday night. But during the week, those same rooms can be double or triple priced, filled with businesspeople working in the greater WDC area.
Just like airlines, booking well in advance is not always the lowest price. Airlines have figured out if you are booking many months in advance, you have a need to travel on those dates, and the airlines often charge more, than they charge for the same seat six weeks out. I find the lowest cost hotel rooms are booked the day prior or the same day of the stay. One has to understand the availability of rooms and know how to find the hotels that have a high vacancy rate.
Look who's whining..
GON
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Yes, that is the general definition. Hotels have inside entrance doors, motels have outside entrance doors. But this is a generalization.
I’m a long distance traveler by car. Also a Motel-6 type guy or a Mom and Pop Motels. Normally phone them, sometimes from right in their parking lot. If price is too high, u tell them “I don’t want to buy the room. I only want to rent it for one night”. They usually drop price. Will not normally drop price if I am a walk in. Only unclean once at a Knights Inn.
If I’m alone, I’ve been known to sleep in car parked under a light in a Truck Stop or in Rest area, under a light. Only if I’m alone.
I don’t go to hotels or motels for events.
Stopped staying at big name motels since Choice Inns Or Sleep Inns since they screwed me out of a “free” night. (Stay two nights, get another night free). Never stay with them again. Now only motels with no gimmicks.
If I’m alone, I’ve been known to sleep in car parked under a light in a Truck Stop or in Rest area, under a light. Only if I’m alone.
I don’t go to hotels or motels for events.
Stopped staying at big name motels since Choice Inns Or Sleep Inns since they screwed me out of a “free” night. (Stay two nights, get another night free). Never stay with them again. Now only motels with no gimmicks.
At a chain hotel in Rock Hill CT. The going rate seems $170. I paid $75. It's not a secret rate. You could enter the code. But at check in they make sure you are an employee.
Hellyeah !!!!!!!
That’s the truth…
Though to be fair guys…. Sometimes the distance between really bad areas and seemingly very nice areas…. Is very, very short distance.
Like 2 blocks away… Or only a mile away…. People move and walk around a lot in those places,
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When we were in college we made incessant trips to Montreal. A lot of times we’d stay in Brossard to save money even though the exchange was 1.61.
Clerk: S’il vous plait?
Me: Room please.
Clerk: (glances at my buddy): Pendant une heure ou la nuit?
I hope you took it for the night!
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Checked into the Grand Hyatt at DFW earlier, it is a bit north of $200 but south of $300. We did get an upgraded room for being Globalist, but even the regular room would be very nice for a price tag in the $200's. Continue on to Seoul with American in the morning, the flight from PHX to DFW was very enjoyable as is my usual experience with AA. That shower with eight shower heads spraying on you is AMAZING!
High hotel prices and only basic WIFI unless you pay extra (or Elite status). And housekeeping every other day.
Pay more, get less.
Hospitality has learned from the 1lb coffee can that isn't 1lb anymore. Or carton of ice cream that is no longer 1/2 gallon. Even bleach is not increments of 32 oz but less.
Pay more, get less.
Hospitality has learned from the 1lb coffee can that isn't 1lb anymore. Or carton of ice cream that is no longer 1/2 gallon. Even bleach is not increments of 32 oz but less.
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Finally someone who gets that. A 52 Oz half gallon of orange juice. If that’s ok, then why do bureaus of weights and measures check gas pumps? Why not let them dispense 104 ounces for every gallon sold?! Why, that’d be like getting 17 lbs of propane at a 20 lb fill! Oh wait, that happened to me!
Hey look it's a car wash for people!!Checked into the Grand Hyatt at DFW earlier, it is a bit north of $200 but south of $300. We did get an upgraded room for being Globalist, but even the regular room would be very nice for a price tag in the $200's. Continue on to Seoul with American in the morning, the flight from PHX to DFW was very enjoyable as is my usual experience with AA. That shower with eight shower heads spraying on you is AMAZING!
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