A die-hard Taylor Swift fan from Metairie books practically an entire downtown New Orleans hotel for the Taylor Swift concerts, but not to make an easy profit. Rebecca Fox booked 191 rooms at the Holiday Inn New Orleans-Downtown Superdome hotel for about 500 dollars each for four nights this week. She says since she booked the rooms immediately after the Superdome shows were announced, she got a relative bargain.
“Not only were the other hotels charging eight and nine-hundred dollars a night, but they were also charging additional fees for quad occupancy,” Fox said.
Fox says she booked early to avoid what would almost certainly have been a huge price increase.
“Holiday Inn Downtown Superdome, which is the exact property we are staying at for $499.50 in our block, was selling a published nightly rate of $829.00 plus taxes and fees,” Fox explained.
Fox says she re-sold all the rooms that she booked at exactly the price she paid, so she’s not making any profit. She says she did so so that other Taylor Swift fans could meet and connect this weekend. Fox says she feels that Taylor Swift fans are being price-gouged, and that’s not right.
“She’s very, very good at generating wealth and people try and take advantage of that. And therefore, they try and take advantage of us, because Taylor’s not paying for the stuff. We’re paying for the stuff,” Fox said.
All hotels in New Orleans are completely booked for the three nights of Taylor Swift’s Superdome shows. Tickets to the shows are going for a minimum of one-thousand dollars on the resale market.
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