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Travel: New York on the Cheap

8:09 AM, 4/2/2007 .. 0 comments .. Link

Last month Nicole Haagenson's 6-year-old daughter, Gia, decided she'd like to spend Christmas in New York City. "I think she saw the movie 'Elf' one too many times," says Haagenson, 29, of Houston. But when she called hotels, Haagenson learned that rooms were going for upwards of $250 a night. "We just can't afford that," she says. Instead of giving up, she posted a note on the popular online community craigslist (nyc.craigslist.com ), looking to swap her three-bedroom house for a spacious apartment. She's still weighing the offers. The holidays have always been the most popular time of year to visit the Big Apple. But this season, forecast-ers are expecting an especially tight--and pricey--hotel market. "Rates for the season will average about 15 percent higher than they did last year," says Bjorn Hanson, a travel consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. The price hikes are due partly to a shrinking number of rooms--popular ...
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