[Wikimedia-l] AffComs $40,000 Hong Kong junket

[Michael Peel]

On 13 May 2013, at 22:03, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
> 
>> ...Paris and London are both more expensive cities that Hong Kong, so I'd
>> expect the daily rate here to be closer to $130/night, and ideally less
>> than that where bookings are made sufficiently in advance.
> 
> 
> Not to be a nit, but I wanted to point out that this biannual study shows
> otherwise.
> 
> On this list of most expensive cities for hotel rooms, Hong Kong is #8,
> Paris is #9, and London is not in the top 10.
> 
> http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/escape/costliest-hotels-list-637685
> 
> I don't have a viewpoint either way on this issue, but just thought
> Wikipedians in favor of verification would like to know.

I was basing my comment on the list at:
http://www.citymayors.com/economics/expensive_cities2.html
(found via google)

Is there a Wikipedia article that covers this? I'd trust that rather more than any single study here…

Thanks,
Mike