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crusty_bint wrote:Too many hotels? can you imagine how many hotels and hostelries were in Glasgow say 100 years ago? A hotel, like a corner shop, or an ice cream van, won't open or operate somewhere if there isnt a business case for it. How is it possible to have too many hotels? I can't figure the logic here.
SomeRandomBint wrote:I have actually stayed in an Easyhotel, in London. It was in the basement, no carpet on the floor. One tiny window at ceiling height and you had to pay £5 extra to have a TV remote. It was basic, to say the least. But it was clean, had a working toilet and a shower, and I had a good night's sleep (which was all I wanted, I was out and about most of the time).
I've never thought about having too many hotels - I guess if we're driving to be a tourist destination, it pays to have enough rooms to cope with demand. We need to have a good range of prices as well - if I were going on a city break somewhere, I wouldn't want to book into the Hilton, because I don't like paying a premium for things that I'm not going to be around to use. We get a wide range of tourists coming here, so it makes sense to have a wide range of choice.
The Egg Man wrote:The challenge with hotels is that they try to provide sufficient beds to cope with maximum demand (eg Edinburgh during the Festival) and then try to find a use for them the rest of the year. Or they load the rate at busy times to soften the hit of quieter times.
My brother has booked 2/3 nights a week at c £95/ night in the same hotel at Euston station for a couple of years. This year, during Wimbledon, the rate became £225/ night.
Josef wrote:The Egg Man wrote:The challenge with hotels is that they try to provide sufficient beds to cope with maximum demand (eg Edinburgh during the Festival) and then try to find a use for them the rest of the year. Or they load the rate at busy times to soften the hit of quieter times.
My brother has booked 2/3 nights a week at c £95/ night in the same hotel at Euston station for a couple of years. This year, during Wimbledon, the rate became £225/ night.
A colleague from Down South had to book a hotel in Edinburgh to come up for a week. Even the downscale hotels were charging £500 per night.
Curiously, the normally expensive hotels were by far the cheapest, presumably on the basis that people go "Jesus, if that's what the Holiday Inn is charging, feck knows what Y is" and don't even bother looking.
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