Kensington Close Hotel Prices
Jan 17th, 2005, 09:18 AM
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Kensington Close Hotel Prices
Below is an excerpt from a price quote I received from the Kensington Close Hotel.
Please notice the difference in prices for the various nights.
Can anyone offer an explanation of the wide spread for the same room?
I asked the hotel directly, but the answer I received really did not answer the question. The differences might as well be based on the phase of the moon, the angle of the sunrise on the morning of the 27th, and the mean square of the variations of the distance in miles between Titan and Ganymede. (One a Saturn moon; the other Jupiter.)
Here is the excerpt.
Including: VAT (17.5%) and service
Total cost: £274.
ROOM DETAILS:
Room 1
Room size: Twin
Arrival: 26 Jun 2005
Departure: 29 Jun 2005
Cost per night: £65.00 26 Jun
£120.00 27 Jun
£89.00 28 Jun
Please notice the difference in prices for the various nights.
Can anyone offer an explanation of the wide spread for the same room?
I asked the hotel directly, but the answer I received really did not answer the question. The differences might as well be based on the phase of the moon, the angle of the sunrise on the morning of the 27th, and the mean square of the variations of the distance in miles between Titan and Ganymede. (One a Saturn moon; the other Jupiter.)
Here is the excerpt.
Including: VAT (17.5%) and service
Total cost: £274.
ROOM DETAILS:
Room 1
Room size: Twin
Arrival: 26 Jun 2005
Departure: 29 Jun 2005
Cost per night: £65.00 26 Jun
£120.00 27 Jun
£89.00 28 Jun
Jan 17th, 2005, 09:30 AM
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Here's a wild guess. June 27 is a Monday, which might be the busiest day of the week for hotel nights in business travel, if people tend to arrive on Monday after traveling on Sunday or Monday morning.
Jan 17th, 2005, 10:34 AM
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Good guess as any. Makes more sense than the "official answer" I received.
I was amused at the official answer: "Something might be happening in London."
Could it be? Activity in London on a June Monday?
That has got to go down as the most amusing answer of the half century.
At least one cannot argue with the accuracy!! And there is zero percent chance that the responder is in error.
I was amused at the official answer: "Something might be happening in London."
Could it be? Activity in London on a June Monday?
That has got to go down as the most amusing answer of the half century.
At least one cannot argue with the accuracy!! And there is zero percent chance that the responder is in error.
Jan 17th, 2005, 10:48 AM
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I don't understand why you find this pricing odd. If you go to a last minute site like www.wotif. com, you will find lots of examples like this. For example, Royal Lancaster, £160 tonight, no availability at any price tomorrow, £87 on Thursday, then £188 each for the next three nights. It's called supply and demand. I don't know why you would expect someone at the hotel to analyze supply for you.
Jan 17th, 2005, 11:01 AM
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I guess I should have known better than to ask a question on Fodors and expect to receive polite responses. Thanks, Ron, for upholding the new tradition on Fodors:
snotty, rude, holier than thou, superiority complex laden, insulting answers. You win the second prize: that of being a cad, unmitigated and with no socially redeeming features.
snotty, rude, holier than thou, superiority complex laden, insulting answers. You win the second prize: that of being a cad, unmitigated and with no socially redeeming features.
Jan 17th, 2005, 12:49 PM
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>>"Thanks, Ron, for upholding the new tradition on Fodors: snotty, rude, holier than thou, superiority complex laden, insulting answers. You win the second prize: that of being a cad, unmitigated and with no socially redeeming features."
Fascinating answer, Brookwood. This appears to be a tradition which you began with your response to BTilke's comment to your question about Ibis hotels. Here is the quote, with typos corrected (from http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...me=brookwood):
"But I am curious. If you have not stayed at the hotel and cannot answer my question why say anything? But answering when you don't know what you are talking about baffles me. I guess ignorance of the subject is no barrier to babbling."
Fascinating answer, Brookwood. This appears to be a tradition which you began with your response to BTilke's comment to your question about Ibis hotels. Here is the quote, with typos corrected (from http://www.fodors.com/forums/pgMessa...me=brookwood):
"But I am curious. If you have not stayed at the hotel and cannot answer my question why say anything? But answering when you don't know what you are talking about baffles me. I guess ignorance of the subject is no barrier to babbling."
