Wednesday - June 15, 2005

Chinese Capitalist Pigs!

Who says the Red Chinese are communists? Those crazy fools are already putting into place a price-gouging scheme to gradually raise the hotel room rates over the next three years in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. By gradually raising the rates over this period, I think the greedy Communists hope no one will notice. You just can’t find an honest commie anywhere nowadays - they’re all capitalist pigs!

At any rate, by 2008 you’ll pay as much for a room in Beijing as you would in New York or London .... and I’m sure room service will provide special care for any cats or dogs you bring along ....

Guests at Beijing’s top hotels will soon pay more for their rooms as the city’s hotel prices catch up with their counterparts in New York, London and Tokyo.

Guest room prices in Beijing will continue to rise 6 percent each year until the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, reported the local newspaper Beijing Daily on Wednesday. According to the article, price guidelines will soon be announced by the municipal tourism bureau and the city’s Reform and Development Committee.

The growth rate is calculated based on the local government’s commitments to the International Olympic Committee that the overnight hotel room price will stand at 340 dollars (preferential treatment), or 370 dollars (special offer), or 420 dollars (common price).

“We of course hope that the hotel room prices in Beijing will continue to rise,” said Oliver Bunk, marketing vice president of the Asian and Pacific region of the Starwood Hotels & Resort worldwide Inc.

Currently, Beijing’s average hotel room price is only 50 US dollars a night, according to a report on Beijing hotels released by the Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/15/2005 at 12:35 PM   
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