Is it worth it to ramp up the hourly rate until tables sit unrented?

[MikeM]

CreeDo,

A couple of things:

1) How do you come to my hometown and go to my home room without letting me know?

2) If you had been with me you wouldn't have been charged that much

3) I know what the rent is for that space and even at $18 an hour that is a tough nut to cover

 

[dr9ball]

$18.00 per hour for pool, you got to be kidding!! That is what you might expect to pay at a really nice golf course for a round of golf. If pool get's that expensive I will only play at private homes. Wow is my only thought, I'll be doubly sure to ask about rates everywhere I go in the future!

$18 for a round of golf? on a "really nice course"

Where do you have these "deals" the courses I play on can be over $100 per person for one round with 1/2 cart.

I live on a golf course and with my discount still wind up paying $40.

It should be noted that the OP paid $18/hr, this is the price for Friday and Saturday night night or "prime time" as it were. The pool is free during the day if you buy lunch.

 

[CreeDo]

Dr9 and Mike, I'm in the area for foreseeable future so we'll need to play sometime.

My buddy was far more outraged than I was, he had a few drinks and was ready to add a flying chair to that nice view outside the window

I'd played before always on the buy-food-free-pool special so I had no idea what prices were like off the special. If there were some big obvious sign I'd definitely have no cause for complaint, but to be honest I'm not sure there's any sign. If so I missed it.

Herndon's definitely a rich town. You've got Boeing, Verizon, ITT, government contractors, and Dulles airport's just a minute or two away. The rent there probably would make me faint. At the same time, it's not THAT nice. The view is high up, but it's of a big parking lot. The food is average bar food, chicken strips etc. No idea what the drinks are like. There are the usual golf and hunting video games.

There are downstairs tables too, they may be cheaper, we alway go upstairs as that's where the players are.

I think their price point should be $12. 18 x 3 tables is not as profitable as 12 x 6 tables. And I bet you can keep all 6 going at that rate. I grew up spoiled, it was a flat 8 bucks all the time regardless of number of players, and as business slowed down they went to free pool before 4.

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Of course, even if they went down to 12, you can go to First Breaks for cheaper and it's a player's hall - all diamonds, all good condition, q claws on every table, nice chairs, and the houseman gives you recently polished balls (insert obvious joke) and the newest cubes of chalk he can find. In fact I think they now have a special... a flat 8 bucks to play from open to 5, and another flat 8 bucks from 5 to close (but probably not on weekends).