The New Year holiday this year is prolonged, so the demand for tourism has increased. In Sa Pa, Lao Cai, many hotels in the central area have announced that they are out of rooms.
Survey by Reporter Dan showed that most 3-4 star hotels in Sa Pa reported out of room during the New Year holidays, a few still had sky-high prices compared to normal days.
Specifically, Sapa New Hostel hotel offers a price of 500,000 VND / night for the New Year, about 200,000 VND higher than normal days.
This facility currently only has rooms for the night of December 31. Thus, if you want to stay for 2 nights, you will have to change your hotel in the middle. This can cause many inconveniences for visitors’ schedules during the New Year.
Sapa Odyssey Hostel 2 star hotel also offers the price of 1.5 to 1.7 million VND for a night stay. However, when contacting the reservation, this unit also announces the room out for the New Year holiday.
Little View Homestay rates for normal days from 400-550 thousand VND, but this homestay also announced “room fire”.
According to the research of PV Dan Tri, most hotels in Sa Pa during the holiday season are surcharge 30% more than normal days.
This is not the first time Sa Pa has had a “room fire” situation on holidays and Tet. However, this year the New Year holiday lasts 3 days, the weather turns cold, convenient for people to relax, hunt for ice and snow on Mount Fansipan, so the number of people flocking here is also more crowded.
According to Mr. Hoang Van Tuyen, Chairman of the Tourism Association of Lao Cai province, due to the impact of the epidemic, the travel and accommodation units in Sa Pa have carried out many stimulus campaigns with attractive programs over the past time. price to attract tourists to visit and experience.
Currently, prices during the New Year holidays at 3-4 star hotels in Sa Pa range from 700 thousand VND to over 1 million VND / night. According to Mr. Tuyen, this is the most suitable price, especially during the peak holidays.
“In addition to the beautiful scenery, the weather can hunt for ice and snow, the reason why Sa Pa is crowded is that many units have done very well digital transformation, selling online, approaching customers. Package combos from eating, traveling, resorting at reasonable prices have attracted a huge number of tourists, “said Mr. Tuyen.
Mr. Tuyen also said that at this time most of the hotels in the center of Sa Pa town have beautiful views, so the room is very fast. Some hotels are far from the center, so there are likely to be rooms.
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