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Live free or die hard
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Durango, CO
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Can Someone Explain the Hotel Business Model to Me?
I'm in Moab Utah driving back from meeting a client and just physically ran out of gas. Getting to the point where I'm going to fall asleep and kill myself on some back woods road where my body won't be found until the next generation of otters.
I pull into a Econo Lodge, not the Hilton, or Mandalay Bay but an Econo Lodge and ask for a room. Guy behind the counter says $150 dollars. I say 'dude, I just need a solid 4 hours of sleep and I'm not paying $40 an hour to lay in a bed. Can you cut me a deal'. Nope. No negotiations at all. There was one other SUV in the parking lot besides my Tacoma with easily 30 empty rooms I could see just from the front of the building let alone the back. As a business person wouldn't you rather have a room occupied for say $50 or $60 dollars instead of just nothing? I mean I'm going to use up maybe $5 in electricity and $5 in hot water (and that's being generous) so you just made a $40 profit on top of nothing at all. I wound up sleeping in my truck for 2 hours in their parking lot. This makes no sense to me. The whole motel industry seems antiquated and could be making more money if they adapted . Any insider info on why things are this way because I see an opportunity here unless I'm missing something. |
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