Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
You could stay outside of the city, nearer to the start.... but, you'd need to have a car to do that.
Yeah, we looked into that. And knowing how the transportation can be difficult on race day, we opted for the hotel close to the finish line. But, if family does a house swap we may stay with them and just suck it up and save a bit of money for sure.

The good thing that did come out of the hotel prices being so high - we are going to do the GAP & C&O! So there is a silver lining to everything I suppose.

And talk about tourists! Obama just arrived in our town last night. He spends Christmas here in Kailua and it brings in all the nut balls. Ever since he started this, Kailua is on the map and our tourism has skyrocketed! I'm fine with it because I run an Airbnb and ride my bike around town so the traffic doesn't bother me. But ohhhh boy are folks up in arms over it! We love to hate the tourists. But I can think of worse things to drive our economy for sure! It's always a touchy subject….that and politics, religion and Duck Dynasty. :-)