You are not the target market. Plenty of people will pay that price
Cytown Update
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I think most of the basketball teams stay at the Hilton Garden Inn by the practice facility.
I talked with a manager when we stayed at the Gateway a few weeks back and he said that a full remodel of the lobby and conference center was upcoming in the next couple of years.
Cy's Locker Room has to be moved to CyTown too, right?
Agreed. The target market is not concerned how far away the bars are from the hotel. The target market are the same people that pull into the spot with their name painted on the ground 30 minutes prior to kickoff.
Gotta imagine there will be catered tailgating at the hotel with golf cart shuttles to the stadium prior to kickoff.
I’d guess a second location there for walk up traffic. But if you’re parking to the east, it’ll be a lot easier to get to the other locations around town. So I’d hope the Duff location will stay.
Guessing Cy's locker room does not own the building they are in... thus they will have to stay there until their lease comes up for renewal. After that? Who knows. With the Rally House across the street, Cy's just might move.
I’d be fine with a move. Just they need more than Cytown for gameday purchases. That’s way too hard to get to unless you’re tailgating there. Maybe a Somerset or an East 13th location would be good instead of Duff to get away from the crazy traffic?
Our football team stays at the Gateway during fall camp and the Friday night before games. My guess is that they'll probably stick with that because of the location.
but hear me out, how bad ass would that spirit walk be through cytown to get to the stadium? Based off renderings it appears that the hotel is on one end and the stadium is on the other. Team stays at that hotel, walks through throngs of fans to get to the stadium
For sure....and maybe they will. It would probably depend on the meeting rooms/catering options available. And what the coach would want.
Would look awesome, but I doubt they want the distractions of that hotel and quadruple the length of the spirit walk.
Marching band going through it will looked awesome too.
I doubt it. I don't think that hotel is going to be wildly more expensive to the general public and the team probably gets special rates.
Don't most hotels on gamedays charge near the maximum per night allowed by law?
I had no idea there is a maximum allowed per night. Huh. News to me.
But I have to imagine it will immediately be the most expensive place to stay on game weekends and it wouldn't surprise me if it's by a decent margin. Brand new heavily themed hotel that literally overlooks Hilton/JTS/CyTown is for sure going to be a hotter ticket than old and worn-down Gateway that's on the other side of 30. Unless, again, there's a legal cap they can't go over, then that will artificially keep them closer.
I could definitely be wrong, but I used to think they posted it on doors. Maybe it's not a real thing.
There will be a newness factor, but I don't think it's going to be an $800 a night kind of thing for a basic room.
The only cap is the one they post. I'm not sure what keeps a hotel from posting a ridiculous cap (like $10k or something).
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