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Hotels Price Gouging During Masters Week

BagBoy
If you think that's price-gouging, wait'll you see what a round of golf in the CSRA costs in April. It's not until you get down here that you realize how small the Augusta area is and how badly it bursts at the seams during Masters week. Add in that Fort Eisenhower has grown considerably in the past several years, and how badly the area has dealt with that growth, and you start to see that a) Augusta hasn't been built to handle how big the Masters has gotten since the late-90s, b) the old money here doesn't really care because they're either at the golf course or on vacation during Masters week(s) and c) the towns outside of Augusta, like Grovetown, Harlem, Thompson, Edgefield, and Aiken, are residential and not really interested in changing just to make more room for a two-week event in April. I will say if someone didn't book their lodging back in the summer when the lottery results came out, yeah, they're the last dog at the bowl. Those hotels have been booked solid in April for months already.
blugold said:
Now imagine you're a resident of Augusta and try to go out to eat during that week?
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It's not a lot of fun! There's a reason I was on a cruise last spring. The upside, if you work anywhere besides Augusta proper it's basically like an extra Christmas break because the office is a ghosttown.
 
I’ve been 4 times and we always stayed 90+ minutes away where the hotels were more reasonable. One year we stayed over at Hilton Head, played golf for 4 days, and left early in the morning for the 2.5 hour drive over to AN on the day we had tickets.
 
Paladin said:
If you think that's price-gouging, wait'll you see what a round of golf in the CSRA costs in April. It's not until you get down here that you realize how small the Augusta area is and how badly it bursts at the seams during Masters week. Add in that Fort Eisenhower has grown considerably in the past several years, and how badly the area has dealt with that growth, and you start to see that a) Augusta hasn't been built to handle how big the Masters has gotten since the late-90s, b) the old money here doesn't really care because they're either at the golf course or on vacation during Masters week(s) and c) the towns outside of Augusta, like Grovetown, Harlem, Thompson, Edgefield, and Aiken, are residential and not really interested in changing just to make more room for a two-week event in April. I will say if someone didn't book their lodging back in the summer when the lottery results came out, yeah, they're the last dog at the bowl. Those hotels have been booked solid in April for months already.

It's not a lot of fun! There's a reason I was on a cruise last spring. The upside, if you work anywhere besides Augusta proper it's basically like an extra Christmas break because the office is a ghosttown.
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As an aside here, i had posted about Montreal during the presidents cup ---But similarly, Royal MTL is actually located on a small island that only has 1 small bridge, and that bridge is under construction. When the PC was in town the residents of the Island essentially had to leave their houses, or become prisoners on the island for a few days. There were waits of 3+ hours to cross the bridge. My sister lives there , and stayed at our house for the week.
 
My son just surprised me with a ticket for Sundays round! Now the hotel search begins. @Thrillbilly Jim are you going to be there?
 
Steve2100 said:
No never! My son knew it was a bucket list item for me.
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Oh man, I'm so happy for you, buddy!

What day?

Can't wait to hear about it.
 
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