[gklitz]

> As an example, watch the price of a family-sized lodge miraculously double from one week to the next, thanks to school holidays.

This is just market mechanics. School holidays is when families with school aged kids are looking to get a place so the demand is higher. This happens to everything. It’s not some dark conspiracy to gouge out people. If some folks are willing to pay TWICE what you want to pay, just to get the same place then they are allowed to do so and you can’t complain that you don’t get it for half the cost, you could just book your stay outside the school holidays if you want it cheaper.