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Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels

by heshiebee on 4/8/24, 4:07 AM with 78 comments

  • by xyzelement on 4/8/24, 4:38 PM

    As of this moment 100% of comments have to do with “I guess other people have a lot of money”. Very weird thing to be concerned about.

    Personally I didn’t care about the eclipse until recently. Then I realized then when the next one happens in North America, my son will be in his 20s and I will be in my 60s. I got the idea that it will be cool to (G-d willing) see that one together and remember how we saw this one together 20 years earlier.

    It happened to be that we had family we can stay with in the path of totality but even if it cost me an extra few hundred to do this, I would find it a good use of funds.

  • by apwell23 on 4/8/24, 3:12 PM

    There is so much excess money floating in the economy at the moment. Its insane.

    People emboldened by market and housing gains have to been spending ridiculous amounts of money like there is no tomorrow. Layoffs have been limited to tech.

  • by deodar on 4/8/24, 3:29 PM

  • by mvkel on 4/8/24, 5:09 PM

    Really disappointing takes in here.

    Considering it's a literal once-in-a-lifetime experience for many people, and the scientific nature of said experience, I assumed people would be a little more open-minded.

    Some things in life are worth paying for. Seeing an eclipse in totality is one of (many) of them

  • by dehrmann on 4/8/24, 4:51 PM

    Only halfway related because it's travel, but I wonder what the eclipse will do for operations at DFW.

  • by DataDaemon on 4/8/24, 4:06 PM

    This means the economy is doing fantastic if they still $ for useless stuff.

  • by refulgentis on 4/8/24, 4:43 PM

    I don't understand the efforts I'm seeing people in Boston go to. We'll see it 94% obscured, meanwhile people are taking days off work and spending $$ to get to 99.9%. Then again I've never been a vacation person.