Comments on: Plenty of Empty Rooms at Local Inns, Owner Says

By: Donna Bozza

Donna Bozza — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:24:01 +0000

This research may be helpful as it points clearly to the rise in travelers choosing vacation rentals. While hotels and motels have traditionally been the lodging option of choice for travelers, recent statistics indicate a growing preference for vacation rental properties. According to a survey released in April by TripAdvisor, nearly half (49%) of the 1,300 U.S. travelers who responded to the survey indicated that they either have or plan to stay in a rental home in 2013, up from 40% in 2011 and 46% in 2012. Why such a surge in interest for vacation rentals over hotels? According to the survey, 82% of respondents cited savings and last-minute deals as the top reasons. Other motivating factors included traveling with a large group and the availability of more living space. While not specifically mentioned in the survey, it’s probable that greater awareness of the availability of vacation rentals as a result of increased online marketing and guest referrals is also playing a big role in the shift.

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:58:41 +0000

It appears the real difference between Greek yogurt and the Cape Charles Planning Commission is at least the yogurt has an active, live culture. Maybe if McCoy and Natali could put the stopwatches down and listen to the people, they might actually learn something. The Planning Commission has become irrelevant, nothing more than a stooge’s playground, and hardly worth taking seriously. Why is it that when anyone on this presumed commission talks about development along the lower Eastern Shore, like one-trick ponies, they only seem to mention more hotels and strip malls? Is the intellectual bandwidth within their ranks so narrow that agritech, aquaculture, marine and estuarine research and development, and what the Town can do to promote them, is never mentioned? Mr. McCoy and his vulgar stopwatch has become mobile metaphor for the incompetence and malfeasance that has infected all levels of Town governance, and it fills the ordinary people with equal parts disgust and embarrassment.

How much longer must we be expected to tolerate the abuse of First Amendment rights, as well as access to legitimate due process? Like good serfs, are we just supposed to bear this on our backs like a rat’s burden, trying to ignore the dull quiet urging to just give in, as they whisper from the fog Mengele’s fastidious mantra, “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

By: Don & Deborah Bender

Don & Deborah Bender — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 12:47:59 +0000

Of course Mr. McCoy had to stop Mrs. Kohler mid-sentence. After all, she was speaking out FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES! Thanks so much, Ms. Natali, for working towards businesses on the highway. If there was a need for a big hotel it would already be here. What this town needs is more people on these boards that want to keep businesses IN TOWN and not encourage businesses on the highway.