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Posted by Kent (65.130.179.63) on 11:05:14 05/10/14
In Reply to: Couldn't get a cabin at Canyon this year? posted by Granite Head
The cabins obviously need to be fixed up (Mission 66 trucked many of them in from the Everglades), BUT what has happened in the past and what is happening now is that they have removed the affordable low-end cabins and replaced them with stuffy rooms in new lodges at more than twice the price. Demand for lodging is so great and there are enough people willing to pay any price that neither the park or Xanterra has any incentive to keep "affordable" units. Perhaps the millions in donations and extra gate taxes that were spent on lavish and elaborate VCs would have been better spent maintaining a number of genuinely affordable cabins for Americans who work for wages. Affordable looks very different to a family of four earning $45K a year than it does to one earning $250K (182K Euros) and there are plenty of the latter to feed Phil Anschutz's maw. (Screw 'um, they can camp)
Liz Kearney had a good article on the cabin burnings in the Livingston Enterprise, but I cannot find the link. They were used to train local firefighters. Park says they are going to maintain the "rate structure" which I suspect is bureaucratic speak for rate doubling which is what it has meant in the past.
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