Sloooooooooooooooow. Nothing until Mem Day. Not even with discounts..
Does your season normally start with Memorial Day? Seems like I remember that from years ago when we traveled up your way.
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Samster said:
Does your season normally start with Memorial Day? Seems like I remember that from years ago when we traveled up your way.
We don't really have a 'season' per se. We're slower now than in the summer, but never this slow. I went back and checked and previous years we were full every weekend and had 2-3 rooms/night during the week. Because people are traveling (my parents said it was busy everywhere they went in April) it appears that it is somewhat regional where the traveling is not occurring. I know places north of me who are truly not 'in season' are much busier than we are.
For this I 'blame' the folks in charge of promoting this area. They aren't. And it's tough for an individual business to bring in herds of guests if the NAME of the town isn't known.
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So what is the traffic like at LL Bean?? and the other shops. Maybe they think LL will pull them in and no advertising necessary :-( So how come there are no B &B's listed under lodging at the portland maine site??? Just hotels? Do you have to be a paying member to show up there?
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Slow, it is slow all over town. LL is laying off.
What Portland site? The CVB site? (visitportland.com) If yes, it is almost $800 to list with them. We got 2 bookings in 2 years listing on that site, did not pay for itself at all. If that is not the site, let me know which one you mean. Part of the problem with listing anything in Portland is that guests looking for Portland do not want 'this far' away. They want the city.
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