"A hotel that is less than 200 yuan on weekdays will exceed 1,200 yuan on the day of the exam, which has increased too much." Recently, Xiao Wang, a citizen of Jinan, told the Qilu Evening News and Qilu One Point Assistant reporter that the postgraduate entrance examination is about to be held, and the price increase of hotels near his test site is too outrageous. A reporter from the assistant found that the "surge" price of postgraduate entrance examination housing was very common, with the highest increase even more than 8 times.
Book a hotel near the test site
I felt cold when I saw the price
"I spent 2,100 yuan on a hotel, and the price was too high." Xiao Wang is one of the top candidates this year, and her test site is in Changqing No. 1 Middle School. "Because my family lives in Shizhong District, and the test site is in Changqing District, which is far away, I want to find a hotel near the test site on the day of the exam, but I feel cold when I see the price."
According to Xiao Wang, in the early morning of the 10th, she knew the location of her postgraduate entrance examination site and started booking hotels at that time, but she checked five or six stores in a row, and saw that the prices had increased several times, and the housing supply was very scarce. "The prices of Ginza Jiayi Hotel, Hanting, James Joycee Coffee Hotel, Yunduo Hotel, Aiman Hotel, etc. nearby have all increased a lot." Although such prices are difficult for Xiao Wang to accept, they have to book. In the end, she ordered for two days and spent 2,100 yuan. "I also took the exam in Changqing District in 2019. Although there was a rise, it was not as outrageous as this year. It was just over 1,000 yuan a day," she said.
"We no longer have any housing units during the postgraduate entrance examination." On the morning of December 12, the assistant reporter visited a hotel near Changqing No. 1 Middle School. Staff from Hanting Hotel (Jingshi West Road Branch, Changqing District, Jinan) said that the rooms during the postgraduate entrance examination have been booked early, and the price of each room is about 1,000 yuan. The price announcement of Ginza Jiayi Hotel near Changqing University Town shows that the price of a standard queen-bed room on the 12th is 156 yuan, but searching on the booking app, the price of a standard queen-bed room from the 24th to the 26th has risen to 501 yuan, and it shows that there are no listings.
Assistant reporter found that in the booking software, the usual price of hotels near Changqing District No. 1 Middle School is 100 yuan to 150 yuan. According to candidates, on December 23 and 24, during this year's graduate examination, 1,000 yuan has become a common housing price.
Third-party institutions locked in the housing supply in advance
exacerbated the tight housing supply at the test site
Assistant reporters visited and learned that hotels around many graduate examination sites in Jinan had price increases of varying degrees. Near Jinan Tourism School, the usual price of a business queen-bed room at Ginza Jiayi Hotel is 149 yuan, and from the 24th to the 26th, the price rose to 372 yuan; the usual room at Ginza Jiayi Hotel at Qianfoshan Campus of Shandong Normal University, which is 131 yuan per night has recently risen to 293 yuan due to the postgraduate entrance examination. Staff at five hotels and hotels near the central campus of Jinan University all said that there were no houses during the postgraduate entrance examination, and the prices increased by three times the average average.
"The rise in hotels in Changqing District may be related to the small number of surrounding hotels." Xiao Li, a candidate, said, and at the same time, he also had a question: "We are booking rooms from online platforms. Is the income of online booking platforms linked to the housing prices set by merchants, so the housing prices will increase so much?" In this regard, the staff of the online booking platform denied it. "The rooms are all set by the merchant themselves," said a staff member of an online platform.
To save energy and ensure that you can book a room, many candidates will choose a third-party booking institution to book a room. In this way, you only need to pay a certain deposit. After the admission ticket is printed out, you submit the examination site information. The third-party booking agency will inform the hotel information and location two days before the exam. According to the staff of the third-party booking agency, they will reach cooperation with the hotel in advance and reserve certain rooms for them to ensure that the third-party booking agency has enough housing prices, and the price per room is between 200-450 yuan.
Because a third-party booking agency locks some rooms in advance, the space for candidates to book rooms independently has been further reduced.
Supervision Department:
Supervision is difficult, and 65 hotels have been interviewed for
Regarding why the price increase of hotels in Changqing District is so powerful. The reporter contacted relevant staff of the Changqing District Market Supervision Administration.He said that hotels have the right to independently price pricing. If the hotel clearly marks prices and does not have price fraud, the regulatory authorities will have no legal basis for intervening in price increases. The existing relevant regulations are relatively vague, and supervision is indeed difficult. You can only remind hotel operators from the form of interviews, warnings and reminders.
Relevant staff of the Changqing District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau said that they have received a lot of complaints, and have issued warnings and reminders to 65 hotel operators in Changqing District and interviewed them, and severely cracked down on corresponding illegal business activities. Relevant operators are warned to regulate price behavior in accordance with the law, regulate prices within reasonable ranges allowed by laws, regulations and policies, and effectively strengthen industry self-discipline and prevent price violations from occurring.
Next, the Changqing District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau will organize law enforcement personnel to focus on checking hotels and hotels near the school district test sites. For illegal acts such as refusal to implement clear price tags and price fraud, they will be severely punished in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and will be made public in accordance with the law in the National Enterprise Credit Information Disclosure System.
"The skyrocketing hotel prices near the postgraduate entrance examination site is suspected of being illegal." Li Yunqing, a lawyer at Qilu Law Firm believes that according to the provisions of my country's "Consumer Rights Protection Law" and "Price Law": "Operators and service providers should abide by social morality, operate in good faith, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers." During the postgraduate entrance examination, hotels "willful" price increase violates the relevant provisions on the principle of fairness in the Civil Code, and hotels taking the opportunity to slaughter customers is obviously contrary to market ethics.
Source: Qilu Evening News
