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by snakeyjake 655 days ago
I assert that if the occupancy rate is 80%, they're charging exactly what they should be charging.

If you own a hotel in the US, you are over the moon if you achieve a >70% occupancy rate. You are a hotel god. You are a master of the hospitality domain, Cornell will give you an honorary degree in Hotel Management, and you have made both supply and demand your bitch.

"Oh my! Why is this four bedroom luxury lodge with hot tub and pool table, very obviously meant to be split amongst four couples eight ways, an entire fourteen hundred bucks ($175 ea.) per night?"

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Four couples eight ways?!

Nah, that four-bedroom lodge spends much more time occupied by two parents with three children.

Based on the three YouTube tours of four bedroom exclusive lodges in Woburn I skimmed through prior to making my comment to be sure I understood the context of the lodge, it appears to me to be configured for adult use.

Each of the four "bedrooms" is more like an attached suite, the dining room is configured for eight adults, and three children and their parents do not seem to require a sauna that large.

Children can't be ruled out, however, as one of the videos noted that a high chair is available in a storage closet.

Center Parcs is a place you take a family. It wouldn't even occur to me to go there with an all-adult group.

Also, you can tell it's aimed at children, because the price doubles in the school holidays!