Thousands of people are expected to visit Juneau for the Ironman triathlon. But the city only has around 1,000 hotel rooms and it's still uncertain that everyone coming into town will have a place to stay.
One athlete, Michael Bissell, says that he was late to the game when looking for a place to stay, but he got something arranged fairly painlessly.
“I was looking at hotels for about two weeks,” Bissell said. “And after no luck there like, seriously, none, I started on a Facebook page.”“And then within 30 seconds, 30 minutes, I had two people who have messaged me already,” said Bissell. “It just took a couple of days to see what was best for me and my crew that was coming out.”
His crew is his mom, his brother, and a friend. They’re paying $1,000 a night for four nights, and he’s still hoping his crew will help him with that. The comments on the Facebook thread started back in October, with people mostly looking for housing in Juneau during the race. In January, there were a lot of discouraged commenters saying that they were really struggling to find a place to stay. Shortly after, more and more renters began commenting on
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