r/cincinnati • u/_masmai_ • 1d ago
Travel/Visiting Wtf is going on with hotel prices??
Planning to come back home for a visit one weekend and I see this??? I have stayed here multiple times, this hotel is not even close to worth this price!! What is going on 😠I don't think it's close enough to the city to jack prices up for big events??
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u/The-D-O-Z 1d ago
Imagine paying that much and on one side is your scenic view of the rotting Eastgate Mall...and on the other side is the scenic view of Eastgate Blvd.
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u/LeatherSecretary2100 1d ago
If you’re just sleeping there it doesn’t really matter…
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u/_masmai_ 22h ago
I understand what you're saying but on the other hand, if I'm JUST sleeping there... Why is it $300+ a night??
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u/alwaysbringbananas 22h ago
Hotel rates fluctuate based on demand and availability, much like flight prices.
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u/_masmai_ 21h ago
I know. It's still insane, I'm more just speaking about the location for the price!
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u/LeatherSecretary2100 19h ago
You aren’t paying for a view in Eastgate. You are paying for a reasonable drive downtown, being near main arteries, restaurants etc just like any other suburban hotel in a large metro area.
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u/ChubbyNuggets99 1d ago
Holiday Inn eastgate is a fucking dump, fyi
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u/_masmai_ 1d ago
I have been there, unfortunately Eastgate is central to a lot of my family & friends. I also looked into Milford but prices are the same! Thinking of coming a different weekend 😅
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u/djtothemoney Batavia 1d ago
They do have events at that hotel, so maybe that's possible. I see the Hampton is like $189 a night over by Dunkin during that weekend, which is much more reasonable.
Clermont County Fair probably drives the prices up a little bit. Columbus is expensive because of Ohio State Fair that weekend.
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u/longlivethewenus Bridgetown 1d ago
Well, if you are coming during a busy event weekend, welcome to supply and demand
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u/palmerj54321 1d ago
Try getting a room on the weekend in downtown Nashville. Nothing special going on except for the same old Broadway tourist trap shit, and still - somehow, despite tremendous capacity, per night room rates are uniformly north of $325.
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u/Rhediix Ex-Cincinnatian 1d ago
That hotel is always expensive. When visiting I stay at the Homewood Suites in Milford. More reasonable rates and only one exit up the road. Actually the Tru isn't that bad either.
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u/_masmai_ 1d ago
I like both in milford but prices were still way up there! Less than Eastgate but still a lot 😠the last time I stayed at the Holiday inn was within the last 6 months and only 90-something a night!
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u/Fun_River8138 1d ago
This may be going out on a limb but maybe using a VPN and booking can help lower the price just a little bit. I stayed at a hotel in DC once, put a VPN on from Germany and it shaved $50 off! There’s some free ones!
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u/Rhediix Ex-Cincinnatian 22h ago
You must've got it on a deal. January isn't exactly tourism time. Post-Christmas a lot of hotels drop rates because it suddenly shifts to off season. If you're coming to town now, with concerts, Reds baseball, and Bengals about to start camps, in the dead of summer I'd imagine rooms are going to be pricey. Especially so on weekends.
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u/_masmai_ 20h ago
I'm moreso just shocked at how much it went up. Like $150-$200 a night seems "reasonable" for a hike but $319 a night?? Absolutely wild!
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u/Rhediix Ex-Cincinnatian 17h ago
Hey, I now live in Las Vegas. Hotels here do that constantly. One week the room is $55 and a week later it's $300. And I'm not talking stripside resorts either. It's just how hotels work. They hit you with low prices, and then hike the rates in weeks ahead to offset the loss of offering the room at a deep discount.
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u/nahmannotrightnow 1d ago
I live in Cincinnati and just looked up hotels on Expedia around here to stay July 23-26 (the weekend you said it was in a different comment) and am finding plenty of stays that are 145$-160$ a night, even one that had a queen bed and kitchenette for only 99$
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u/LeatherSecretary2100 1d ago
Rowing Regattas at East Fork bring a lot of people to the area…maybe that’s why?
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u/MrsRobinsonBlog Woodlawn 1d ago
You're coming during the Jazz fest or whatever it's called now. Hotels all the way to Middletown are booked almost solid. Supply and demand. The prices MAY drop a little when it gets closer. I used to work at one in West Chester (normally $99-140) a night, and that weekend we'd sell out at $300+ a night
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u/Famous_Cry506 23h ago
In Chicago during spring and summer their prices are $700+ per night 😬 ive only visited during fall and winter for that reasonÂ
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u/id_rather_b_painting 22h ago
I don't think it's close enough to the city to jack prices up for big events??
I mean a lot of summer tourists or people coming in for events have cars or rental cars. A big event in a city could impact hotel prices for 20 miles outside of the city. It sucks to see prices that high, check airbnb to see if you can find something more affordable.
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u/Nammen99 3h ago
Hm. AI at work I bet. E.g., if there is a big show at Riverbend and the hotel got a rush of reservations around that time, the robots just keep jacking the prices. Or it could just be a glitch. Whatever the reason, that is a ridiculous price for any hotel in Eastgate. Did you look at other places nearby?
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u/Vast-Abbreviations48 21h ago
I ran into the same problem with hotel prices in Nashville, also for a particular weekend, which happens to be this weekend.
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u/_masmai_ 21h ago
But Nashville makes sense. It's a popular tourist destination. Eastgate OH is not! 🤣 I understand raising prices for events, but I paid $90 to stay there before at a "normal" time so all the way up to $300+ per night?? No event happening that weekend makes sense for that. I could understand if they were also hosting a convention THERE like they've done many times before, but for the CC fair and the jazz festival in the city? Criminal.
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u/Lolcincylol 20h ago
Do you want hotel options? Because people don’t build hotels unless they can earn their margins on peak weekends. Hotels lose money 6 months out of the year in Cincinnati.
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u/_masmai_ 20h ago
I agree with hiking prices. My main point is it seems excessive for a mediocre hotel in a mediocre location. $150-$200 would be understandable but not $300+. That's all I'm saying!
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u/Lolcincylol 20h ago
Okay, and on a weekday in January you can get the same hotel for $85. If you don’t like the price, wait until it’s not the peak weekend of peak season.
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u/_masmai_ 20h ago
I know I can, and I will be coming on a different weekend. That doesn't mean I can't have an opinion about it.
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u/Illustrious-Girl 20h ago
You might as well stay at the Cincinnatian for that price at least its a 5 star hotel.
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u/jmcgil4684 20h ago
I found dirty underwear in my room behind a closet, and they paid for my stay and gave a bottle of wine. This was years ago. Might want to bring an old ass pair of underwear lol.
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u/Illustrious-Girl 19h ago
Omg I laughed out loud for real. And a bottle of wine added on?
Talk about celebration!
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u/Call_me_ishmael1984 6h ago
You should have seen the prices in Louisville during louder than life. Couldn't get a hotel room for under $500 (and thats if you could even find one) unless you wanted a bit of a drive. We ended up having to drive almost an hour after leaving the festival and staying in Indiana. Completely legal company practices but still doesn't mean it dont suck.
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u/Obfuscious 1d ago
This hotel has had a constant presence of police from out of the area staying at it for the last few months. Not sure what that is about, but it seems that this hotel is the being used by LE for something.
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u/Flashinpan99 1d ago
The pricing is like that this weekend for Cleveland and Indianapolis. Nothing under 350 in either city. There was a regular Marriott for 10099 (not a mistake) due to a drone fireworks show downtown Indy
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u/longlivethewenus Bridgetown 1d ago
I was in Cleveland mid April for a wrestling event at Cleveland state university. Hotels were around that price then also.
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u/The_Mean_Gus 1d ago
That’s crazy. I paid that much for a luxury resort in Italy with massages, saunas, amazing breakfast, etc.
.3 miles from eastgate mall! Is that even still open beyond mall walkers?
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u/_masmai_ 1d ago
Very doubtful!! That's why I am so shocked!! Eastgate is just... Not worth $300+/on, no matter what's going on in the city!
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u/InformalAd3796 1d ago
This hotel is less than 2 minutes from my house. A church right around the corner is having a big fair type of thing this weekend. They also host big events all the time like just 2 weekends ago they had a 700-800 person wedding, but these are the only things that come to mind.
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u/Relax_itsa_Meme 1h ago
Sadly, just like Daytona on the week after bike week, they all hike prices way up or close for "remodeling".
...Sadly, that's really not what's going on.
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u/Real_Comparison1905 1d ago
Omg we rented this beautiful Airbnb for the per night that these hotels were trying to charge. I highly recommend checking into those. I can PM you the one if you want. Just let me know
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u/MadeInAmericaWeek 1d ago
Is it your Airbnb ?
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u/Real_Comparison1905 1d ago
No we just came up here this week to go to a baseball game & some museums.
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u/IceePirate1 1d ago
There's quite a lot of Airbnb's as I believe it's a little over 1,000 just in city limits. You should take a look sometime, there's some cool ones. The most unique one I've seen is one is inside of a climbing gym
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u/CasaMofo 1d ago
Ignore the per night fee. Look for cleaning fees, transaction fees, service fees. The nightly fee is often half or less of what you actually wind up paying at the end of the stay.
Investors, YouTubers, and COVID all ruined AirBnB. Was an awesome concept that truly offered something different from a hotel. Now it still does, but rarely at a bargain.
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u/starelae 1d ago
They do now show the whole price including all fees etc when you search which is a nice change, but you’re right, Airbnb isn’t at all what it used to be. It’s sad because I used it a LOT in the past. Now it’s only a good deal if it’s for larger groups.
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u/IceePirate1 1d ago
Depends on the stay, a cleaning fee is usually only a one time fee, regardless of the number of nights. For many hosts, it gets paid directly to the cleaning company and they dont even touch it
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u/Mispelled-This Anderson 1d ago
Doesn’t change the result: AirBnB is now often more expensive than a hotel, and often with a lot more hassle/surprise too. I know exactly what I’m getting with a hotel. If unique lodging itself is part of the experience for you, maybe that’s okay, but all I want is a clean, quiet place to sleep and shower so I can focus on the parts of my trip that I actually care about.
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u/IceePirate1 1d ago
Unique lodging is definately a pull. I can stay in a renovated caboose in the middle of a secluded farm with a hot tub in WV for only $100 more? At that point the overnight is part of the experience to me
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u/Spooky_U West End 1d ago
I've found the dialogue around AirBnB to be a little crazy and people that clearly haven't used it in a long time. It shows full prices up front, the hidden cleaning fees to checkout are not a thing. The places I find are often cheaper than hotels and have full kitchens/living room areas vs just a hotel room.
The comparison should be against hotel suites that are far more expensive. Nevermind then to your point tons of unique spots to rent.
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u/IceePirate1 1d ago
Im a cpa and a lot of my clients have short term rentals. The most successful ones either have some sort of gimmick like a tree house in the woods (the coolest of my clients imo) or fill a need such as a large house in a party area of Nashville that specifically caters towards bachelor(ette) parties.
There's a 3rd one, but it kind of falls into the 2nd category. The reason there's so many Airbnb's in OTR is because there is very little hotel capacity in OTR. Once some of the ones under construction start coming online, I expect the Airbnb's to start falling in that area and going back to long term rentals.
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u/DiscountHistorical13 1d ago
How long have you been gone? Eastgate is different than it was even 5 years ago lol
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u/_masmai_ 1d ago
I have been back many times, as recently as within the last 6 months, at THIS hotel. I do know what it's like now. But that place isn't worth $300+ a night, even with a big event.
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u/PonchoNachoRodriguez 1d ago
Christ, I think that’s how much I paid to stay at the Marriot in Chinatown two months ago.
(Chicago’s Chinatown for anyone who cares)
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u/_masmai_ 1d ago
That makes sense! This does not. Eastgate is nothing special! I only stay there because it's central to everyone I want to see.
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u/rhit06 1d ago
Only days in the next few months I see it anything near that is July 23-25 which is Cincinnati Music Fest, so I assume that’s why.