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| Mar 16, 2015 at 9:54 | comment | added | lambshaanxy | @Lohoris Correct! Play around with the booking engine if you don't believe me: tallinksilja.com/en/web/int/book-a-cruise But if you "don't return" to your cruise too often, they'll eventually twig on and stop letting you on board. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 9:03 | comment | added | o0'. | @jpatokal uh? In that case it would be cheaper to buy another way-and-back ticket to come back in a different day… | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 5:26 | comment | added | cpast | @monkjack The linked answers have nothing to do with weekends. Every company wants to charge as much as they can get away with. Asking customers how much they're willing to pay won't get honest answers; however, if companies notice that people fitting some criterion are willing to pay more, they can charge more to people meeting the criterion. All that's needed for Eurotunnel's policy is that for whatever reason, people staying longer are willing to spend more on train trips than people staying shorter; they don't really care why. | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 2:53 | comment | added | Vince | @monkjack start with this wikipedia article about pricing and follow the links. In short, companies have a Revenue Management department where people's job is to figure any way to "optimize" the price of your tickets in order to get the maximum revenue out of you. So if there is any single thing that went through your mind to explain the increase, I am certain someone tried it to see if it brought money. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:53 | comment | added | sksamuel | Non circumstantial evidence. The linked article answers why fares are more expensive at a weekend. That is not what I asked. I can book a Monday-Tuesday or a Tuesday-Wednesday far cheaper than a Monday-Wednesday. Why is that. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:05 | history | edited | lambshaanxy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 23:03 | comment | added | lambshaanxy | What sort of "evidence" are you looking for? Leaked pricing strategy docs from Eurotunnel? Having special rates for short trips is very common, eg. a Silja Line one-night cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm and back often goes for €50, while a pair of one-way tickets will set you back >€300. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 22:53 | comment | added | sksamuel | I can see the argument, I'm just not convinced by it. It's only speculation after all, there's no real evidence to back it up other than it could make sense. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | Vince | @monkjack in his answer, jpatokal mentions "different markets", and while it is not detailed, it is not limited to business and non-business travellers, as the linked answer suggests. I suppose if you stay 5 days, you have a budget of say 5x100 euros, if you stay 1 day you have a budget of 1x100 euros (these amounts are examples). So the traveller for 5 days is more likely to accept to pay a higher price for his train ticket (say 20 extra euros in 500 is OK). There are probably other "markets" some people are paid to determine. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | sksamuel | I'm not sure I buy this. The eurotunnel market for cars is primarily tourists. Business users will not drive (I go to Paris somewhat often on business and not in a million years could I be bothered to drive when I can take the eurostar). Also that link is about including weekends, which makes sense as weekends are more desirable, but the short pricing is still in force if I do Monday-Tuesday vs Monday-Wednesday. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 21:54 | history | answered | lambshaanxy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |