The inevitable surge pricing is now underway as the Super Bowl tourists come pouring into SF (and Santa Clara), with some hotels up to nearly $2,500 a night, and some SF Airbnb units costing $2,000 for the weekend stay.
The tourists are already showing up in San Francisco for this weekend’s Super Bowl that is counterintuitively 50 miles away in Santa Clara, as tens of thousands of them are already here. With the influx now in progress, both NBC Bay Area and KTVU are covering the not-at-all-surprising development that hotels rooms and Airbnbs are costing substantially more money than usual this weekend, and have pretty much gone into Dreamforce-week price ranges.
“The good news is there’s still rates available,” Marriott Marquis general manager and SF Travel board chair John Anderson told KTVU. “They may be a little bit pricey as compression tends to build, but you can find a room anywhere between $700 to $2,400.”…