Hotel prices in Spain soar 50% in a year, forum users report
A forum user reports 50% hotel price hikes in 2024. The debate explodes: is Airbnb regulation, inflation or mass tourism to blame? Data and strong opinions.
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Brutal hotel price hikes: forum users put numbers to the madness
A user on Burbuja.info claims hotel prices in his province have risen 50% in just one year. But the debate goes beyond the figure: behind it lies a discussion over whether the regulation of tourist apartments, runaway inflation or mass tourism are pricing Spaniards out of their own holidays.
The 50% increase nobody in the Government can explain
The thread was started by OxHxKx with a simple observation: he compared hotel prices in his province and found a 50% year-on-year increase. He adds that these prices are now only for "Anglo-Zionists, Nordics and gringos". The reaction is swift. Rodolfo Langostino asks for concrete figures but doesn't get them. Relisys, meanwhile, states that it is impossible to find an acceptable hotel night for under €100. The figure becomes the thread's mantra.
Behind the number, there is a shared diagnosis: the money printer, global demand and Spain's conversion into a premium destination. But there is no consensus on the root of the problem.
The end of Airbnb? The unintended effect nobody foresaw
The thesis gaining most traction comes from lonchafina_reloaded: by regulating and cutting the number of tourist apartments, cheap competition has been eliminated, leaving the market in the hands of hotels. "Less supply, higher prices", he declares. The law of supply and demand, he says, is enforced to the letter. Several users back this idea: hotels, now controlled by funds and multinationals after small hoteliers went bust during the pandemic, can set rates without pressure.
Others, like CUATERBAC, see it as the triumph of the free-market lunacy they so despise, while Triffin's dilemma points to immigration and tourism-driven nationalization as additional factors.
Spain, too expensive even for its own citizens?
The most controversial moment comes when IMPULSES says that this year he is going to the Riviera Maya for less than a similar-category hotel would cost him on Spain's coasts. Several forum users ask for details, and he offers to share them by private message. Common_Deletion delivers the finishing blow: "Spain is a pretty ugly country". The implicit conclusion is that the average Spaniard is starting to look for alternatives abroad, from campsites to far-flung destinations.
Relisys has already made up his mind: "I'm done being a customer". And lonchafina_reloaded sums it up: the average citizen will aspire to go to the village, the campsite or to share a tourist apartment with friends. All while hotels fill up with foreign tourists paying in strong euros.
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A user on Burbuja.info claims hotel prices in his province have risen 50% in just one year. But the debate goes beyond the figure: behind it lies a discussion over whether the regulation of tourist apartments, runaway inflation or mass tourism are pricing Spaniards out of their own holidays.
The 50% increase nobody in the Government can explain
The thread was started by OxHxKx with a simple observation: he compared hotel prices in his province and found a 50% year-on-year increase. He adds that these prices are now only for "Anglo-Zionists, Nordics and gringos". The reaction is swift. Rodolfo Langostino asks for concrete figures but doesn't get them. Relisys, meanwhile, states that it is impossible to find an acceptable hotel night for under €100. The figure becomes the thread's mantra.
Behind the number, there is a shared diagnosis: the money printer, global demand and Spain's conversion into a premium destination. But there is no consensus on the root of the problem.
The end of Airbnb? The unintended effect nobody foresaw
The thesis gaining most traction comes from lonchafina_reloaded: by regulating and cutting the number of tourist apartments, cheap competition has been eliminated, leaving the market in the hands of hotels. "Less supply, higher prices", he declares. The law of supply and demand, he says, is enforced to the letter. Several users back this idea: hotels, now controlled by funds and multinationals after small hoteliers went bust during the pandemic, can set rates without pressure.
Others, like CUATERBAC, see it as the triumph of the free-market lunacy they so despise, while Triffin's dilemma points to immigration and tourism-driven nationalization as additional factors.
Spain, too expensive even for its own citizens?
The most controversial moment comes when IMPULSES says that this year he is going to the Riviera Maya for less than a similar-category hotel would cost him on Spain's coasts. Several forum users ask for details, and he offers to share them by private message. Common_Deletion delivers the finishing blow: "Spain is a pretty ugly country". The implicit conclusion is that the average Spaniard is starting to look for alternatives abroad, from campsites to far-flung destinations.
Relisys has already made up his mind: "I'm done being a customer". And lonchafina_reloaded sums it up: the average citizen will aspire to go to the village, the campsite or to share a tourist apartment with friends. All while hotels fill up with foreign tourists paying in strong euros.
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