Die Hotels in Vancouver und Toronto sind vor den Spielen der Weltmeisterschaft weniger als zur Hälfte ausgebucht
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/vancouver-toronto-hotels-less-than-half-full-ahead-of-world-cup-matches/
Die Hotels in Vancouver und Toronto sind vor den Spielen der Weltmeisterschaft weniger als zur Hälfte ausgebucht
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/vancouver-toronto-hotels-less-than-half-full-ahead-of-world-cup-matches/
31 Kommentare
Wonder how Airbnb and rentals are doing.
Would love to see a game but pardon me for not having like $10k for tix + hotels + travel to take my son
The prices on tickets were ridiculous and then the hotels got in on the grift. No thanks I’ll go to my local bar if anything.
Based on ticket prices things are slow for a reason.
Congratulations you made the „world’s game“ unaffordable for most of the world.
It’s a shame…
No shit. Soccer is more popular amongst people outside of the US and Canada. You need to be able to afford a ticket to a match before you can even think about booking a flight and hotel room.
Top 10% of households account for nearly 50% of consumer spending.
Ticket prices to events aren’t going go down as long as the wealthy will pay.
I think another big factor to a lot of people is you’ve got 16 cities to choose from to watch a fifa game.
When prices are so high (tickets, hotel, flights, etc) what makes Toronto and Vancouver appealing when I could go to Mexico City or Miami and at least make a little vacation out of it?
Likewise, given the weak CAD relative to USD – I’m sure many American fans opted to watch a game in Canada which is inflating prices. Could be someone from Seattle just on a day trip hence they won’t be renting a hotel (or maybe they’re just going for the game then moving on to Whistler or Banff – so many possibilities)
No shit, the pricing on tickets, not just for FIFA but for any major sporting event in this country is insane. World Cup tickets are definitely an all time high contender but it’s ridiculous that people have to shell out such an absurd amount of money to watch an event like this.
I remember during the Stanley Cup last year it was cheaper to fly down to Miami, rent a hotel for a night or two, buy some alright tickets and catch the game there vs buying nosebleed tickets for it in Edmonton.
You know they could have said half empty but they chose to keep it positive. I appreciate that
It’s incredible how much Toronto hotels jacked up prices this week and next. I’ve been doing some business travel and prices are absolutely nuts.
I have a training course in Vancouver at the start of July about an hour outside Vancouver. I’m staying in a basic ass hotel and they’re charging $700 a night!
I’m not surprised people aren’t booking hotels at that price!
Hotels in Vancouver are unaffordable at the best of times , let alone when they price gouge for events like this.
Tickets for any major concert/sporting event just went nuts, especially after 2019. And in the secondary market? Double nuts!!
I’m flying from Sask to the Germany Ivory coast world cup game (got lucky in the lottery ticket draw). When I was looking at hotels, literally any hotel even near downtown Toronto for the weekend would have been over $750 a night at the cheapest. Many were well above that into the thousands. We ended up booking close to the airport for $325 a night which is still inflated. No wonder half these hotels are empty!
Let’s stop hosting these kinds of things.
would love to see the Australia-Turkiye in Vancouver but flying from Toronto with my family of 5 plus hotel food etc would cost me min 7000k . instead i booked a 5 star AI resort for 1 week for all of us in Mexico for 6500$ . i will watch the game from the beach drinking my tequila… fuck FIFA …
The more I think of it the more I wonder if this World Cup was EVER going to fill hotels in both cities. Based on the fact that both cities aren’t hosting many games, most of the teams playing there are smaller, and of course overall prices. Even half full to me suggests a good level of support for what Toronto and Vancouver are getting.
Good! FIFA is corrupt
I wouldn’t want to subsidize the Trump-glazing fifa world prize distributors even if I enjoyed soccer
Ripoff prices.
FAFO with ticket prices and anti-consumer practices like the water bottles.
But reality too is most games in Toronto are so low on the ladder they seem meaningless.
Good. FIFA and hotels are greedy af. They don’t deserve to make money.
On one hand I hope the events are a total flop because screw FIFA. On the other hand I worry they will blame North America and say its not popular enough here.
Boo hoo, maybe the hotels shouldn’t have 3X’d their prices. Nightly rates are outrageous.
It used to be „bread and games“ that kept the population in check. Now people can’t afford either.
Hosting all over North America was supposed to draw people from all over who would visit several different cities, many people are avoiding the USA or flat out not allowed in. This means less people come to Canada as well as they would only have come to be a part of the larger scale event.
It’s also much easier to boycott something when it’s incredibly overpriced.
FIFA is so short sighted by greed they have wasted a massive opportunity to excite a generation of Americans and Canadians about the World Cup.
I have a big TV, snacks, and drinks at home. Cost of TSN is pretty cheap compared to travel, hotel, and tickets for one game.
I guess gouging on all fronts failed this time. Greed has become an epidemic worldwide but at some point the general population either can’t afford it or wants to finally send a message to the billionaires.
People who had planned to visit the city – and had no idea or care that the World Cup was happening during this (peak) time – were priced out and chose to go elsewhere. So, we lose out on the World Cup fans and lose out on the normal people who luv to travel and don’t care if soccer exists. Add to that the inconvenience to the locals and the cost to taxpayers, and you could make a good argument that whoever signed off on this sh!tshow (all levels of government) should be forced to walk naked through the streets of the city while people hurl insults and rotten vegetables at them before they are drawn and quartered.
I said this in another thread but FIFA went to about 12-14 Toronto hotels many months before and booked large blocks in all of them.
Then about 3 months ago they cancelled their blocks in all but 3-4 of the hotels. Just close enough to the events timing that most tourists would have already made their accommodation plans.
You can dislike hotels but still agree FIFA is the worst.