January 20, 2009 is the big money day for the Metro Washington DC area because of the demand for hotel rooms for the inauguration. I heard it on WTOP Radio today. This is amazing to me, I understand but it still amazes me.
First of all every hotel room within about a hundred mile radius is booked solid for the historic inauguration and so they should be. The city is expecting 5 million people to be in the city for the inauguration. 5 MILLION people in DC. That is going to be a traffic nightmare. The Metro, our subway system, is going to start running trains at 4:00 that morning to start moving people through the city.
People have rented camping spaces all over the local area. Can you imagine DC in January and camping? I swear I am such a sissy.
Today, on WTOP radio, people were talking about renting out their basements, extra bedrooms, dividing up their houses to have make shift rooms for people to rent because they cannot find any where else to stay. Cheap, they are not. A woman in Chantilly Virginia said she was going to rent her extra bedrooms out for $300 a night and a gentleman on the radio said he would rent his rooms on Capital Hill out for $750 a night. His fee included breakfast and a tour of the city though. I thought that sounded like a bargain for sure though, do you know how much a cab is in the city? Not really, they are not so bad.
How do you screen these folks? What a strange thing to have strangers running through your home? Maybe if December is slow I might be singing a different tune? ;0)
Supply and demand? I guess some folks could make enough to pay off the holiday bills? For me, I will be happy to watch everything right smack on the big TV in our family room where I wont have to fight the traffic, and be toasty and warm while doing it. Maybe it will be the biggest real estate day of the year???
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