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November 20, 2007
Why I cry over CES Hotel Rates....
You'd think I would have learned by now to reserve my room early for January 5-8, when CES comes to Las Vegas. Nooo... so now I'm shelling out $187 a night for Sunday and Monday night in a, shall we say, less than 5 star hotel....*sigh*
But seriously, CES is one of the few shows where room rates in LostWages go UP during the week. During normal not-you-and-120,000-new-friends time, hotel room rates go down from Sunday-Thursday, go up on Friday and Saturday...
Instead, room rates get jacked across town during the week. This despite the fact that net-net at least 5,000 or so rooms per year get added onto the Vegas Strip alone (even after they blow one up...). In a normal supply-and-demand situation, there should be enough additional new hotel rooms ultimately added onto the strip to see prices go down. But (of course, duh) Vegas isn't normal.
Don't get me wrong. I love the Sahara hotel for what it gets me. It's cheap, it's got the most convenient monorail stop of any of the Strip Hotels (well, with the exception of the Hilton...), the morning buffet is adequate and no-frills.
The Sahara has one other thing going for it: Location, location, location. When (not if) the lines to the monorail backup, I can walk from the LVCC back to my hotel room.
Now, my next tough decision for CES: Do I rent a car, or not?
Posted by dmohney at November 20, 2007 01:34 PM