Side-effects of the dollar’s decline
One of the peculiar effects of the decline in the value of the dollar in recent times is that we’ve been getting increasing numbers of Americans and Canadians staying with us.
When we first thought about it we figured that with the dollar dropping, we’d not get any more Americans but what has happened is that those that are coming (and their numbers are definitely down) are booking not through the hotel reservation systems that they would normally use but rather through hostel booking sites. They’re doing that on the basis that “obviously” the hostels will be cheaper although that’s not really the case these days: true hostels certainly should be cheaper but the hostel sites list even five star hotels these days.
Quite why that effect isn’t applying to the UK guests I don’t know.
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