That is vile.

You know, that really surprises me....

I'd be interested to see which hotels it was, and whether they are small independent places or parts of big chains.

On a more positive note of course, the river boats were providing free transport to people stranded by the bombings (or so I heard yesterday - can't find a link at the mo)

Someone needs to be force fed a desk register.

Abhorrent

I'm tempted to play devil's advocate here and point out that we don't know the whole story... maybe the hotels are all overfull and virtually none of the hospitality and cleaning staff can GET to work because of the subway closure? If the system can't handle the load, prices go up to discourage the extra traffic... i don't know.

Appalling

If anything, you'd hope that hotels would make allowances and maybe, just maybe lower their prices seeing as people could be stuck without somewhere to stay overnight.

Where's Russel Crowe when you need him? Send him 'round to all those hotels to throw some phones in the manager's faces.

I think capitalism is great. Its simply down to supply and demand. I am suprised that so many of you conservatives have a problem with that.

that statement you just made is wrong on so many levels. Capitalism and supply and demand both have their place in this world. Taking advantage of traumatised and stranded people in the wake of a terrorist attack is reprehensible.

isn't it

Haha, I love this.

The news papers will be full of people saying stuff like this, but the actual country is chock full of cynical Brits saying "London sucks"/"We trained them"/"we brought it upon ourselves"/etc.

Everyone who condemns the practice is right, it's a horrible thing to do. Hotels don't need to reduce extra demand; once they're full they're full and they can't take any more people. Running out of rooms to sell is a good thing for hotels.

I wonder (I haven't looked yet) what's going to happen to London congestion charging while transport networks are down, and if car-sharing is going to increase?

It'd be really nice to hear of Londons spontaneously offering stranded commuters lifts home. :hopeful emoticon: