Thursday, February 24, 2005

Any Port in a Storm

Just as soon as my partner and I have finished off paying for the rental on a camper van this news emerges:

Hotel discounts for bad weather

An Austrian website is offering up to 60 per cent off on hotels to holiday-makers willing to travel when the weather is bad.

The Weather Bonus website offers discounts of between 20 and 60 per cent on four and five star hotels following bad forecasts.

Wolfgang Krainer, director of the Arabella Sheraton Hotel in Fuschl, Salzburg, says he is thrilled by the new service.

He said: "People need that extra incentive when the weather is bad. And then there's the gambling element: Some people book at the bad weather price and hope that the weather will turn out better than expected."

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