 Poster: A snowHead
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What is it with the Austrian pricing system?
A room costs x per person, so if you stay by yourself it's cheaper than with 2.
I can understand that they have to sort breakfast but a room costing 50 for 1 person should not cost 100 for 2.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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GordonFreeman, that's not really my experience; I have only seen rooms priced as singles or doubles, not per person. Where are you looking?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi Gordan
Had a quick look on Google and to me it just looks like a bit of marketing play.
It seems like it is mainly hotels that go down this root where as if you hired out a chalet they do it per week.
I completely agree with you it should be a price system per room that sleeps x people.
The main reason they probably do it is when they advertise the rooms pricing per person makes it look cheap, and it makes it easy for people to compare deals in a competitive market place.
But I still agree with you it should be cheaper for 2 people compared to 1 but I suppose they know most people will go in pairs so why should they discount
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KSNOWZ, I just checked booking.com for Flachau and Salzburg. All rooms were offered as singles or doubles, not per person. If I want a double to myself then I have to pay for a double. If I want a single it will be a shoebox with one bed in it (as experienced on several occasions). I'd be delighted if there was a room for 2 at £100 and they would let me have it for £50!
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Yea complete marketing ploy .... you know how these biz are
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| KSNOWZ wrote: |
| Yea complete marketing ploy .... you know how these biz are |
Thing was the resort booking site gave a total price for 2 adults. The hotel then came back and said a price per person.
Not really sure how that's a marketing ploy. If it's one person, it sounds like they'd give it it to you for half the price.
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Oh okay
So what was the price per room which I suppose sleeps 2., and what was the price if you just went on your own?
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You can pick single or double room, but if they have double rooms only, and you are alone, it's exactly like OP wrote. Prices are per person. Even with single and double rooms, there's very little difference with price per person in single room or in double room. But it's not just Austria... it's everywhere same. Austria, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia...
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Yea I get it it is coz hotels work out their cost per room not per bed . So what ever way you look at it it is always per room
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Single Supps... horrible things to have to charge people but I'd go bust without them 
My house has 5 rooms, some are doubles, triples and a 5 bed room.
When a room is sold to a single person with no supplement I will be 'paying' for the second invisible person to stay in that room with you... why?... because in the peak times we know we can sell the room as a double and our annual income depends on this.
You will also find all tour operators advertise prices FROM £***per person. This is normally as if the accommodation is shared from 2 people upwards you will slowly achieve the marketed price.
Nothing too shocking about all this really as it is the way the global industry has marketed for years.
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Indeedy
Maybe there is a market for single rooms but not sure how that will work suppose it would be like university dorms .... maybe I am onto something here 
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KSNOWZ
Hostels, surely there's a market for that already?
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Not sure to be honset
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You know it makes sense.
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flangesax, I'm not complaining about this... it is like it is, and if someone doesn't like, then stay at home  But on the other side, I agree with OP. In USA, you mostly pay per room, and maybe some additional charge for breakfast for extra people. Room costs Xeur and it doesn't matter if there's one person there on 5. And on one side it's logical. But on this side of ocean, things are same pretty much everywhere (except some places in Scandinavia). You pay per person, not per room. So I normally don't bother with this question. Like I wrote, it is like it is, and if I don't like it, I don't go 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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1. A lot of hotel web sites (Austrian and Italian) will actually state in the small print or conditions on their pricing pages that there is an extra supplement for a single person staying in a double room.
2. Also most of the hotel sites in Austria show their prices per person per night (half board or B&B) based on two persons sharing a double room for a minimum of x number of nights. The rates will be more if staying less than x nights. I have very rarely seen where a hotel shows the price per room per night. I suspect you have seen the total price for the room on a resort booking page or a site such as TISCOVER.AT. If they are showing the total price for one person being half of what it would be for two persons in a double room then they are not taking into account the hotels own supplement charges for this scenario.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Fair enough. Like you say it is as it is but most people sharing a double automatically know how to divide by 2
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On the back of this thread I pulled my thingy out of my whatsit and have bothered to update my homepage!... ta for the incentive/reminder!
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flangesax, bravo! 
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| GordonFreeman wrote: |
What is it with the Austrian pricing system?
A room costs x per person, so if you stay by yourself it's cheaper than with 2.
I can understand that they have to sort breakfast but a room costing 50 for 1 person should not cost 100 for 2. |
And it won't.
There will always be a single supplement for a single person staying in a double room, so if it is €50 per person with two staying, it would probably be €70 for one person.
Even most single room cost more than half the rate for a double in the same hotel.
And it is the same in almost all European countries, Austria is no different, except that they tend to have more rooms available with a low single supplement than most countries.
You will also find that in the winter, many hotels don't offer a B&B option, but only do half board.
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FAQ
's that requested single rooms... so next year we will certainly be including some singles weeks for you lot 