Hotels

One of the smallest and often forgotten towns in San Diego County could see a revival with the revamped Jacumba Hot Springs Hotel. In 2020, Jeff Osborne and his partners Melissa Strukel and Corbin Winters bought the hotel for a reported $3.9 million. The hotel will have a grand reopening on Wednesday.

“This is the beginning of a revival of this town,” Osborne said.

But he and his partners worry that a solar farm right next door could ruin that revival. Osborne says German company Baywa RE got unanimous approval from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors to build

Hotels

By Chris Taylor

NEW YORK (Reuters) – If you think getting tickets to a Taylor Swift concert or the World Series is tough, try booking a hotel room in an American college town for Graduation Day.

Toni Milbourne faced this before her daughter’s graduation from West Virginia University in May. Hotel room rates in Morgantown doubled before the local event. In a nearby town, prices more than tripled to $350 a night.

“It absolutely feels like price gouging,” said Milbourne, managing editor for a West Virginia newspaper. “People need to be aware that companies are taking advantage of people in