The Grand Prix looms
Maxime Bergeron is grumpy as hell about how the city tidies up for tourists but not its own residents.
CP notices that hotels are much more expensive on GP weekend, as if it’s surprising bordering on unethical. Surge pricing, baby.
Police from all three services are greeting tourists at the airport with warnings about sex trafficking.
More GP stories to come, inevitably.
Nicholas 14:07 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
Surge pricing in hotels is common and expected. It’s also common at restaurants (lunch menus), and movie theatres (matinees, Tuesdays) and other places. But people hate it, think it unethical, for taxis (a service that, one could argue, is often used in an unethical way).
jeather 15:05 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
What people find unobjectionable is “discount for low period” which is much the same. Hotels are getting a bit scammier with surge pricing, and given how little of the cost of an Uber goes to a driver, I hardly think surge pricing is the issue.
DavidH 15:05 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
I would be grumpy too except we do the same with our house, so…
Kate 16:54 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
Surge price for the weekend, DavidH? Or tidy up for visitors?
DavidH 18:17 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
I wish I could charge more when I work week-ends! Our house doesn’t have open trenches and cones like the city does. But it is always at its best when we know we’re expecting guests.
jeather 20:39 on 2025-06-12 Permalink
Scurryfunge (verb). sku-ree-fun-j. Old English; to rush around cleaning when company is on their way over.