High Hotel prices & Overnight at Kansai KIX Airport Part 2 #travel #travelvlog #japantravel
I don’t want to stay overnight at the airport again due to suddenly inflated hotel prices. All booking platforms (Agoda, Booking, Trip..) in the entire Japan only had a few hotels and rooms that cost several hundreds to even thousands of dollars per night. It was crazy. There was no concert (except for 1 at Shizuoka), no event except for a Sports Day public holiday on Monday.
It was a Saturday night. Next morning, the hotel prices decreased to $100+ and I was able to at leasts book an APA hotel for USD$124 a night which was still expensive since on normal days, it’s USD$50 to $70. Japan was having a 3-day weekend starting on Saturday 12 October 2024. Then Sunday. And Monday Sports Day on 14 October. Still, the hotels shouldn’t be so fully booked till not a single one is left.
I stayed another 2 days, then took a flight out of Osaka to Taiwan. If the hotel prices are meant to deter “overtourism”, it worked, at least for me.