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by danpalmer 339 days ago
The problem is that renting rooms is pretty low margin. Hotels typically need to pull up the average margin with addons like this to make the business worthwhile.
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Is it though? Just checked for hotels 3 star and up in my city, 1 month out, 1 bed, and it's $314 per night for the cheapest one. I have a hard time believing that if I stay here for 2 or 3 nights and pay them $1000 that they are barely scraping by on this.
Well why not just post higher prices with the assurance of "we will not try to screw you over at every step"?

I would be perfectly OK with that.