multi21

What kind of spread do you have in Texas? Enough for a RL tent city?

OCCUPY DAVE'S!!

Veloce Raptor

Hahaha! Well...there is plenty of room for dozens of tents. $100/day/tent!!

KaiB

Yer gonna have to get them hogs off of the back porch, and that damn rooster has got to go!

Veloce Raptor

Whaddaya think they're gonna eat? Tofu?

Nizer

Only if you want it to. Endless options in the Garden State.

Veloce Raptor

Yeah, here is one.

lopro

it's really good that they settled a contract and made something of it. Im happy they will have more F1 in NA. Good stuff, I love F1.

gums

Careful guys, I haven't said anything yet, but this could get ugly.....

Nizer

You should see the diving board....

Veloce Raptor

lopro

that hotels honeymoon meterial

Im going to ask my woman if thats where she wants to become an honest woman

DJF1

I work in the hotel business. You would be surprised about the demand.
Even if they dont need all the rooms at the end, I highly doubt they will discount too much ( if any) as most of the guests have paid top dollar and you really dont want to have to explain that. Besides, although it looks like Hotels are making all the money, its a FAR cry from that. Resellers and Wholesalers do get a huge chunk. The hotel will sell at an X price and guarantees the rooms. Which means even if they are empty the hotel will get paid and the rooms will NOT be rented as they do not belong to the hotel. So the hotel will actually get much less than what the actual customer pays per night.
Yes there is an amount ( which carries risk) that the hotel will keep and sell directly but as I said above dont hold your breath on any discounts for these rooms. Worse case scenario these rooms will be funnelled to a wholesaler and they will get their mark up.
Finally there are HUGE tour wholesalers which noone even knows their name outside of our industry. There are instances where your total inventory can be taken by them which in turn they turn and sell to retailers. No risk for the hotel, albeit at a much lower income than publicly shown.

I can go in great detail as you can tell, but I think you get my drift. Its not as simple as it seems or you make it to be...

By the way a bit of an FYI here... do you know that Expedia and the other names out there like Travelocity etc get about 25% commission? Have you ever wondered why when you book through these channels you never get any paperwork from the hotel?

Finally, 20 years ago a hotel room night cost you $100. It still does today. Have you ever considered the operating cost increase in these 20 years? Free market and competition is a great by-product for the consumer and have kept the prices low. So dont complain about hotels trying to make a buck on compression days. Some hotels are counting on these compression dates to get revenue and offset operating loses during slow months. Its a free market economy right? Supply and demand.

TurboCup87

^^ suspect that he knows what of he speaks^^ Had to stay a bit over 50 miles away for Thurs Fri, Sat nights for the first Indy USGP.