Yorkshire hotels accused of cashing in on Tour de France Grand Départ

I'll be watching it a few miles from where I live in Devon. If I can get the time off work!

Don't know if local hotels are hiking the price..

I once heard Yorkshire people are tight with their money...lol

To think this wouldn't happen anywhere in the country is, I'm afraid, delusional.

With road biking being the new golf, I'm sure there are more than enough high flyers to fill overpriced hotel rooms with underridden exotic bikes.

I lost out on olympics tickets / london prepares events / ride london entry in the past 12 months. I found le tour accommodation at unchanged prices nr Pateley Bridge. Both stages easily ridden to from there.

A lovely area, great people, loads to do, I for one am dead chuffed to see a major sporting event out of the clutches of the capital (at least for two days).

(I'm not from Yorkshire by the way)

The joys of the free market mean that individuals and establishments can do what they want and only market forces i.e. customers, are going to decide if that is going to work. There is no 'Yorkshire' you can blame for this, neither the county or town councils, residents or the tourist board can control pricing so suggesting there is some kind of collective responsibility for individual profiteering is misleading.

I think most people would recognise the 98% claim as a bit of marketing hype and not take it at face value. Travel to the course is going to be severely restricted so anyone with a bit of foresight is going to make plans around that, as you and I clearly have.

You're right about Peterborough though, I haven't stayed there for 20 years and am sure it's more considerably delightful than it was.

"98 percent of Yorkshire is less than an hour away from the route" I suspect that's by car and not when loads of roads are closed for the tour.

You're better off staying in Peterborough and using the train for all three England stages. Brompton bikes for hire at the station and the green wheel routes to ride. Sorry Yorkshire, you screwed it up.

That's nothing. A farmer with land on Holme Moss is allowing people to camp in his field, which has no tap let alone toilets etc for.... wait for it....£150 per tent per night, minimum 2 nights stay. This was confirmed to me on Sunday by the landlord at The Fleece in Holme on Sunday.

Look at hotel prices when the likes of the London Marathon is on. We have a knack in this country of not just upping the price a bit but ripping off big style. I know the rooms will be filled but deep down at these prices hope they are all empty.

AirBnB and Wimdu tend to have good prices near areas that are booked up for events. Since it is regular people setting prices they aren't really out to maximise profits.

not just b&b / hotels - a mate of mine was looking at camping near Harrogate for the TDF and the site was asking £60 per night per pitch, which seems a little on the steep side. A few friends and I booked into a site near Pateley Bridge a few months back and we paid the normal rate (£20 pppn) so not everyone is on the make.

interestingly campsite charges were the same when i followed TdF in EU, and probably for Yorkshire too, i find it strange that because its made of bricks and mortar they can change what they like per night whenever they feel like it....

And? That's revenue management. They'll be fully booked even with those prices.

I believe the effect is called "supply & demand".
Obviously a slow news day at road.cc towers.

As they say oop north "where there's muck there's brass" !

This is a non story really, because if you look in France, Italy, Spain or anywhere that is part of the Giro, TdF and Vuelta, you'll find exactly the same.

While it might seem like a rip off, I say, make the money while you can, there will always be someone with enough money to spend on a hotel room.