> Isn’t this a textbook case for Airbnb (or something akin to it)? Residents live year round, except during the festival, when they rent out their homes?
I lived above an AirBnB until the actual landlord shut that shit down. AirBnB is a fucking pest even without Oktoberfest, but during it it's even worse. NO ONE wants hordes of drunkards stomping through the stairwell at 03:00 in the morning. There's a reason accomodation providers are a regulated business.
> Put another way, would the hotels be open to long-term leases which black out the festival?
Who can afford that? Even at 50€ a night it's 1500€ a month with barely more than a bed and a shower.
I used to live right next to the Wiesn (on the place with the St. Paul’s church) and we‘d have strict orders to keep the gate to the buildings yard closed at all times during Octoberfest or the potted plants would die due to urea oversupply.
I believe I spent one year in Munich during the Wiesn, and then fled town every year.
I lived for a year on Bavariaring. After I woke up from the smell of someone having taken a shit in the garden right below my window despite a locked fence/gate, I fled the area. Cheap rent had its reason...
I loved the area, except for the Octoberfest. People leaning on the church walls, puking. No way to use any public transport station nearby. Hordes of drunks moving from/to Hackerbrücke. Unbearable. Unbelievable if you haven‘t seen it.
> NO ONE wants hordes of drunkards stomping through the stairwell at 03:00 in the morning
Isn’t this directly what the rent premium pays for? Segregated revellers. Either that or you nuke the festival, with the economic repercussions that brings.
One can’t legitimately complain about the hotels while rejecting co-residence without banning the Weisn. (Granted, illegitimate complaining and slaughtering golden geese are a hallmarks of modern German politics.)
I lived above an AirBnB until the actual landlord shut that shit down. AirBnB is a fucking pest even without Oktoberfest, but during it it's even worse. NO ONE wants hordes of drunkards stomping through the stairwell at 03:00 in the morning. There's a reason accomodation providers are a regulated business.
> Put another way, would the hotels be open to long-term leases which black out the festival?
Who can afford that? Even at 50€ a night it's 1500€ a month with barely more than a bed and a shower.