What the f***...Phoenix in March?

[JoeyBryant]

hotels are crazy expensive...usually it's not like this. is there something going on? Every hotel is charging maximum rates. I was just stopping thru on the way to Calif., but I decided to take a detour. I think the basic motel 6 is going for $100 a night. I've asked w of my friends what's the deal and mentioned it to a client, no one seems to know.

 

Check this out, a hotel (a decent 'resort') I paid $33/night earlier this year is...get this, $599 a night! Are they friggin nuts?

[+ Gar1eth]

hotels are crazy expensive...usually it's not like this. is there something going on? Every hotel is charging maximum rates. I was just stopping thru on the way to Calif., but I decided to take a detour. I think the basic motel 6 is going for $100 a night. I've asked w of my friends what's the deal and mentioned it to a client, no one seems to know.

 

Check this out, a hotel (a decent 'resort') I paid $33/night earlier this year is...get this, $599 a night! Are they friggin nuts?

 

 

Is Phoenix by any chance hosting any of the college basketball tournaments--or is it by some chance a Spring Break destination?

 

Gman

[jasoncarter_dfw]

Is Phoenix by any chance hosting any of the college basketball tournaments--or is it by some chance a Spring Break destination?

 

Gman

 

That's easy...spring training is going on

[nate_sf]

Spring Training would probably have something to do with it. It's a really big deal.

 

Also I know this time of year is very popular for golfing weekends. A few years ago I flew into Phoenix on a Friday about this time of year and there were tons and tons of people with golf clubs, and I'd never seen the airport so crowded. When I got into town I asked some friends if there was a golf tournament and they said no, it was always like that this time of year.

 

There may be some other things going on too - it's high season!

[JoeyBryant]

Ok guys thanks for pointing that out. I'm out of touch when it comes to baseball. Football, that's different. But I googled it: It's that time of year again. Here in Arizona both the locals and the winter visitors are eagerly awaiting the beginning of Spring Training 2013 for Major League Baseball. The 2013 Spring Training exhibition schedule begins on February 22 and continues through March 30, 2013.

 

...More like the Super Bowl. I'm just not a big fan of the major sports events. Specifically for reasons such as hotel gouging. Not like they give a shit or plan to change it, but still.

[Diverdan]

Hey, Joey,

It is simply the law of supply and demand. That resort that charges $75.00 a day in the midst of the Phoenix summer is losing tons of money in those months, and they have to make it up somewhere. That is true in almost every city in the country... New York, Chicago, San Francisco, etc. Try getting a hotel room downtown Chicago when some of the huge city-wide conventions are in town... same situation and often there isn't even a room available... Sorry you had that rude awakening to the laws of supply and demand, but that is just the way it was, is and always will be.

[+ deej]

Spring training in Phoenix is a big thing. It even shoves around the real estate market. There are a shitload of snowbirds from Chicago and other cities that have teams in the Cactus League (Phoenix spring training centers) who buy condos based on proximity to their team's camp.

 

When you live in snow country, Phoenix in March is a wonderful place!

 

A friend of mine owns a condo there that he operates as a vacation rental. It's packed from the beginning of spring training through the end of baseball season, and then come the winter vacationers. The investment has worked well for him.

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

It was 30 degrees and snowing when I left Denver last night.

It's 75 degrees and sunny today in Scottsdale.