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Saw this article in The Washington Post, which I found pretty interesting. And it was about the price of hotels. We need E.B. back in the room because he stays at more hotels.

I love hotels than anybody. Hotel guy. I know. But Jason, when you were going to Virginia Tech, you were saying hotels and you complained a lot about the price for, you know, like games and sometimes you'd stay further away. No, not really. I would always stay. Excuse me. I would always stay in Blacksburg. I would suck it up. But see, that's the case for most hotels in small college towns.

That's how the hotels make their money.

During game weekends, they're going to jack it up.

So it could be at Clemson or it could be in Chapel Hill.

They're going to jack up the prices in these small college towns as opposed to big cities for all those big events. But yeah, I would suck it up. I mean, I'm talking for a big game, let's just say Clemson was playing in Blacksburg. Those hotels, Hilton Garden Inn, Homewood Suites, residents in, they're going to charge between $7 and $800 a night. And they're normally maybe $200. they're normally in the middle of the summer, they're probably $120.

Yeah.

Well, the article in the post is titled, what happened to the $150 hotel room?

And it talks about some being inflation.

They're fine.

They're there.

That five years ago, you would find a hotel room at a mid-level hotel, like a Marriott.

For a buck 50, and now it's over $200.

And that's not even pointing to certain cities, which cost more.

Like the average hotel stay in New York City, the average.

So this includes the bottom of the barrel.

Let me guess. I guess the number. I haven't seen. I'm going to say that's over 300.

$375. 333. 33. That tracks. We often stay actually in Fort Lee, New Jersey when we go up to

the city to see my kids. It's just right over over the bridge and they can get a hotel for maybe 150.

Well, that's much more palatable. Yeah, because... Where's the caller said plattable? Like, even in Chinatown, which is, you know, people don't think of it as an expensive place. It's not. Yeah. That's like 350 at a decent hotel. Yeah. so you stay in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and then it's a 10, 15, 20-minute drive spent upon where you're going. But you have to pay like 20 bucks just to get over the bridge, but it's still worth. And the services are less. We've talked about this before. You know, they point out in the article, the average daily rate to Vegas, which is notoriously cheap, right?

You can find hotel states.

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