https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/hotel-room-rates-set-to-rise-in-2025-driven-by-strong-demand-growth-124122200460_1.html

>After hotel room rates hit record highs in 2024, they are set to rise further in 2025 driven by a surge in demand of 7-8 per cent across segments.

>Hotels are going fully booked at the end of the year despite foreign tourist arrivals still remaining below pre-Covid levels.

Rooms keep getting more expensive in India. I've been reading some stories of guests with prepaid bookings getting turned away because the booking price was deemed too low by the manager. Nothing you can do besides file a complaint with the booking platform and get your refund. With demand outpacing supply, even the worst hotels still fill up on a regular basis. Reviews in recent months are particularly awful. Picrel is typical, repeated 1000x all across the country. And no, this isn't some 1000 rupee slumlodge either. Reviewers mention paying 3300 rupees ($37 per night) for a room here, only for everything to be dirty and broken.