Allison Pohle
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908 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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She decided to switch her plans and take her son and her grandkids to Dollywood for one night.
She's paying for two hotel rooms in that case, but she says she's able to get a lot more for her money than she was with the Boston trip.
So there are options out there.
A lot more travelers are turning toward rewards and points for their stays, though of course they also say their points don't go as far as they used to.
There are deals out there if you bundle your hotel stay with flights, but you need to be careful and read the fine print of those deals just to make sure that you're able to cancel and you're getting a fair shake when it comes to the total price there.
In general, there are some sites that will let you search for last-minute hotel rooms where you can get Hotwire is an example where a lot of people will search for a last-minute stay that a hotel has discounted because they do want to fill the room.
So especially at this lower end, we see some change where hotel companies are lowering their rate a little bit.
Also, they're putting deals out there.
So you might see a buy several nights, get one night free or an automatic upgrade if you purchase a certain room or additional food and beverage credits where maybe not all hotels are able to lower the room rate, but they are able to entice travelers with other deals.
So analysts predict that room rates will increase slowly and steadily with the traditional rate of inflation, so about 2%, meaning they will go up matching what we think of as traditional inflation, but not in these double-digit increases that we saw in recent years.
There would have to be a dramatic shift in behavior where people stop booking rooms and they stop traveling because they protest the rates.
We have not seen that yet, especially because in the fall in particular, a lot of business meetings and conferences are going on.
So hotels are full, meaning they can stomach some leisure travelers deciding not to travel.
But there would have to be a pretty dramatic change in behavior for the rates to change.
WSJ Your Money Briefing · Junk Fees Are Easier to Spot… But Still Hard to Avoid · 18 Sep 2024
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After many years of feeling frustrated at that checkout screen, some consumers say even just seeing the total price from beginning to end feels like a win.
They don't feel duped.
But at the same time, there are some other people who wish that they had gone farther.
Junk fees are those ambiguous, vague charges that come at the end of your bill that you're not totally sure what they're for.
You might see it at the end of a hotel bill.
There will be a resort fee, but you don't really know what you're getting for that resort fee.
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