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Am trying to book hotel space in Melbourne for the weekend of Mar. 29-30th. I'm not saying that it's a Bethlehemic You Are Staying In A Stable situation, but availability is definitely...limited; more so than I would have anticipated this early out. Is there something significant about that weekend that I wot not of? Will we be dodging hordes of $FANGROUP on the streets?

Date: 2008-01-29 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/
School holidays, perhaps?
Some European and US booking agents, if you're using them, don't have very much hotel stock in Asia-Pac so it can look like availability is thin when it isn't, overall.

Date: 2008-01-29 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] syringavulgaris.livejournal.com
I'm looking at the hotels' own web sites, so I don't think it's an alt-hemisphere thing.

Maybe last weekend before back-to-school, or something. Hmm.

Date: 2008-01-29 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/
asiarooms.com was showing me a lot of availability, I didn't go too far into the exact quality of each.

Date: 2008-01-29 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crypticgirl.livejournal.com
It's the middle weekend of the two-week Easter school holiday break, unfortunately. The only other thing I've found at ye olde Victorian government tourist website (http://www.visitvictoria.com) is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival which runs for a month around that time. Perhaps the combination of the two is what's doing it?

Date: 2008-01-29 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] syringavulgaris.livejournal.com
Oh wow, you guys got two weeks off at Easter? /jealous

Date: 2008-01-29 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crypticgirl.livejournal.com
Yep, that's fairly standard over here. IIRC our autumn, winter and spring term holidays are all two weeks, with a 6 week break over summer. It works out to 40 weeks in the school year anyways...

Date: 2008-01-29 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rbarclay.livejournal.com
Hmm, hereabouts the youngsters (& their teachers) get 9 weeks off in summer, 2 around christmas, one in February and about one around Easter. Works out for about one more free week per year ;)

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