Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
I don't know if this is just an Edinburgh problem or not but I haven't encountered this anywhere else in Scotland personally. Supply and demand forces in Edinburgh seem to work differently as I discovered when booking my accomodation for next week. The hotel I used in October wanted three times their normal room rate for the Saturday night what I paid before. Needless to say I found somewhere else!
It seems to work that way in the Hotel industry... not only in Edinburra or Scotland, but all over. The tip seems to be to go in the "off season" (i.e. October, like you did or January, like I did). The B & B I stayed at in Edinburra was 25 GBP per person per night in January. In Summer, it's 75 GBP per person per night.