In just less than two weeks, the world is coming to town. People from across the country and continent will be arriving for . They’ll fill the Rogers Centre for six nights and swamp the streets of downtown Toronto.
They’ll flood events at the convention centre and trivia nights at bars. And when their night is done, they’ll rest their heads in hotel rooms they paid a small fortune for. And oh, how much they’ll pay.
For those who haven’t booked their accommodations yet, the price is expectedly steep. In some cases, downtown hotels are going for five times as much as the normal rate, meaning — combined with ticket prices and travel costs — the final bill for the Eras Tour experience may end up being the cost of a modest car. At the Bisha Hotel, located on Blue Jays Way just a short walk from the Rogers Centre, rooms have soared from their normal cost in the mid-$400s to $1,999 on nights of the concert, before adding taxes and fees.
At the Fairmont Royal York across from Union Station, the jump is similar. The Drake Hotel, an artsy hub on Queen West, is listing rooms between $1,039 and $1,350, roughly triple what a night’s stay would cost without the world’s biggest superstar in town. The Chelsea Hotel, one block up from Sankofa Square, has seen prices rise from $297 on Nov.
8-9 to $863 on Swift’s first weekend. The inflated costs even reach Hamilton. A night at the Homewood Suites, a 2.
5-kilometre commute to the West Harbour GO station — from which the Lak.
