$3500 for a week in Georgetown, not including flights. That's a hard sell for any travel agent. As you say, another 30 hotels will create the correct competition and drive down prices.
Those prices are totally out of control and unless they don’t go down I can honestly see them shutting their doors. Just image, one can travel to Dubai on Emirates Airlines with breakfast included and top notch tours, staying for 7 days for $3500. Mmm! How disappointing!
I am a Guyanese living in Westminster London. Marion hotel nearby charge $158.00 Us for a night sleeping 2. I bet the staff are not paid the same rates as here. Who benefits form this? Only the companies who put their profits into foreign banks. The government should put a high tax on their profits reflective on their overinflated greedy prices. I visited Guyana in July and stayed one night at the Princess Ramada and the bathroom was crumbling with the skirting board coming off the wall. We stayed in an Airbnb near the Botanical gardens and paid a fraction of the price. Loved it. Air conditioning, WiFi, hot water, mosquito nets outside varenda, parking, kitchen utensils, iron and lots more. Very peaceful from the concrete jungle of London. Lots of bird watching. Loved shopping at the well stocked supermarkets and markets and cooking our own Guyanese food. Coming again in a few months BUT DEFINITELY NOT STAYING IN AN OVERPRICED HOTEL. More regulations needed by the government. Maybe, many more modest smaller hotels with good standards for customers. Probably with loans from the Government Government
The bathrooms in Princess Ramada are Unique to say the least. The room I stayed in had the shower stuck in the middle of the room and the glass enclosure was only half frosted! Weird
Wait, so $3500 a week in other Caribbean countries gets you a fabulous room with food, drinks, and entertainment, but at these hotels, it's just a room?
In you were in Guyana during the elections and you heard the racist propaganda that this political party used in their campaign you would understand why One Guyana is a political statement. The distribution of cash grants mostly to their supporters and the refusal to raise the teachers salaries to the same degree that they raised politicians salaries and benefits is what makes One Guyana simply political propaganda.
@RaphaelNation. Since Guyana sees it's part of the Caribbean and a cultural extention of Trinidad and Tobago. If Venezuela was to build a proposed bridge Trinidad across the gulf of Paris at its narrowest, will that benefit Guyana in some way? 😊
Guyana is not a cultural extension of Trinidad. And there are thousands of Venezuelans already living in Guyana. A bridge between Trinidad and Venezuela will not affect Guyanese.
Most guyanese make G100,000 US 500 per month.That would be stupid to spend your monthly salary for one night at the Marriott. AT THE MARRIOTT OR ANY 5 STAR IN TORONTO THE PRICE IS NOT THAT AMOUNT.
Food prices were cheaper than the UK in July in some products. Buying local definitely better and cheaper. We could buy everything we had on sale in the UK but prices were more expensive than the UK. I loved the local products. I use a lot of honey and Guyana honey is the real macoy. The smell and taste, heavenly. In the Uk, the honey is very expensive and mixed with golden syrup and from several countries. Coconut oil thicker and lovely. The Guyana store was excellent for selling local products.
Further to my earlier comment - it seems that Marriott International operates 38 distinct brand experiences according to a page on their website. This means that many of the seemingly rival hotel chains are actually just different facades of the same corporate ownership so they are unlikely to oversupply rooms in their own market any time soon if it will undercut their revenue from their grander investment properties. They will slowly spread around and let their new properties absorb a suitable level of trade before pressing deeper. Best Western seems to be more of a franchising operation but that means it may rely on the initiative of an independent entrepreneur to seek their branding as part of a concept for a given new property. Just a thought.
That's the online price. Usually their customers would be corporate employees and paid by their employers You should go in and ask for available room price. Problem with demand is that Guyana is not yet a highly rated tourist destination. Maybe cricket events would be good for the hotel business.
Georgetown is a ghetto the hotel rates are ridiculous you can rent a room in the United States for one hundred dollars a night it's only Guyanese from the diaspora that goes to the hotels
Everything in Guyana(hotels & airbnbs) is overrated and overpriced. Horrible hospitality, customer service doesn’t exist, and offers a limited amount(or none)of activities for the nightly cost of being there. Take it from someone who resides in Africa, Singapore, and Panama through the year as my residence. Each of those places are 1/4 the price of all the basic options Guyana is offering, with superior service, quality, and amenities. SMH!!
This is a prime example of how much needs development in Guyana. This vlogger thinks a bit of oil money makes us rich enough for every citizen to expect cash handouts and steep pay rises. However, so much needs fixing the money is a drop in an ocean. The countries you name have been in the game of tourism and hospitality longer that Guyana. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.
@clairehartman481 these analyses are based on modern economic theory. The economic policies that the government makes determines the cost of living. It has nothing to do with how long a country has had money. Some countries fail economically because of bad policies. Some go through cycles of boom and bust. If you watch more of my videos you will understand my views on the value of the Guyana dollar, the fact that Guyana gets 14.25% of the total oil production and now $3 billion USD annually at this production rate of 650K barrels per day. How this wealth is distributed is the issue. And yes the people of Guyana should receive a basic income just like American and Canadians received a check from the government during the pandemic.
@@RaphaelNation I have so much to respond to this, I need a conversation with you. So, I have just started looking at your videos. Don't really know anything about you. Are you an economist? I really had not envisaged that looking at someone showing me infrastructure development in Guyana would be a cover for teaching me the politics as well as the economics of running a country! The fact that you are blightly comparing Guyana to America and Canada is disturbing. Guyanese did also receive a cheque from the Government during the pandemic. No doubt you are of the view that was not good enough.
@@clairehartman481 I have degrees is several fields and a PhD in medical science several years of postdoctoral fellowships in the USA and work experience in Asia North America and travels in Europe. I am quite qualified to make these assessments. I am happy to discuss economic policy or politics or science or business with you at any time. My contact information is on the about page. And yes I do compare Guyana to the USA based on my decade and a half of living in New York. Read about me here rnbrand.uk/about.php
@@RaphaelNation Well, congratulations on your achievements. Though I am not sure how your degrees etc qualify you as an expert on economic policy/business. I have one BA hons degree (when one degree seemed to be sufficient) and do NOT profess to be an expert on anything. However, I do know that sound economic policy is not based on handing out money when you have a fledgling growing economy; a largely unskilled and uneducated workforce; undeveloped and decaying infrastructure and a culture of lawlessless to identify a few. Having lived for the greater part of my life in a developed country, I also appreciate that that development came after CENTURIES and AT A GREAT PRICE including slavery. Even so, that development is also prone to knocks. I lived through 2 serious recessions. To cut this short, I am convinced we will not find a consensus. We will have to agree to disagree.
Dr again you gone with wrong information. new building in blue& white is not dpp office but Tsu ( tacial service unit). dpp office just opposite kids play park have to used rabbit walk entrance.
This building housed the office of the DPP before it was destroyed by fire. The DPP office had to be relocated while this building was reconstructed. This is a channel for intelligent people.
@@RaphaelNation think you need to do proper research& reading before you talk. up to new video you talking about one Guyana like that problem for you. that just tell level you 🤔
@@nandkishorerai6649 you seem to misunderstand that the building was destroyed so the office was temporarily relocated. This temporary location is what is contained in your comment.
@@RaphaelNation Tsu old 3story building was tear down & replaced with new building. in fact I am expolice Officer. downstairs used to have shooting range for pistols, submachine guns. ect. top fllat used to be barrack room,. there are two building were used by Tsu unit. other building next to new building. dpp office is opposite cid. new cid head office is under construction in cid compound.
