{"id":11059,"date":"2012-05-04T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11059"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:40:57","slug":"room-rates-skyrocket-for-wallenda-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/room-rates-skyrocket-for-wallenda-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Room rates skyrocket for Wallenda walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellandtribune.ca\/2012\/05\/02\/room-rates-skyrocket-for-wallenda-walk\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The average price of a Fallsview hotel room will double on June 15, the day Nik Wallenda walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, according to a survey of select hotel websites.<\/p>\n<p>The Review compared the price of a standard room, with two queen-sized beds, with a view of the falls on June 15, to the price of the same room the Friday before and after the event.<\/p>\n<p>The price jumps 100% from June 8 to 15 \u2014 $208 to $415 \u2014 then drops back down to an average of $248 the following Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s a spectacular event coming to the city, the demand for rooms is certainly going to increase,\u201d said Wayne Thomson, who works for the Fallsview Group, which operates some of the high-rise hotels in the Fallsview district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that shocking or unusual? No. In the summertime, rates go up substantially. It\u2019s supply and demand. Obviously people will shop around to try and find the best rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf two weeks before the event rooms are not filled, then you will see a decline (in price). Ultimately, they want to fill the rooms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The average price of a Fallsview hotel room will double on June 15, the day Nik Wallenda walks across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, according to a survey of select hotel websites. The Review compared the price of a standard room, with two queen-sized beds, with a view of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,74,26,2],"tags":[1346,7374,41,5673,7373,3101,346,845],"class_list":["post-11059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-hotels","category-niagara-falls-daredevils","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-fallsview-hotel","tag-hotel-websites","tag-niagara-falls","tag-nik-wallenda","tag-spectacular-event","tag-supply-and-demand","tag-tightrope","tag-wayne-thomson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}