{
  "id": 205851,
  "title": "Hotels hike prices for the eclipse: 900 euros for a night at a hotel in Soria and 500 in Teruel",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/los-hoteles-disparan-los-precios-por-el-eclipse-900-euros-por-una",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-06T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/ciencia/2026-08-06/los-hoteles-disparan-los-precios-por-el-eclipse-900-euros-por-una-noche-de-hotel-en-soria-y-500-en-teruel.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "Seeing a total solar eclipse is priceless, but the rates of thousands of accommodations have been reflecting the opposite for months. This is confirmed by EL PAÍS's daily monitoring of over 5,500 ads on Booking, the massive vacation accommodation platform, over 90 days. The increase in the cost of a hotel night in Spain is concentrated almost exclusively in the area where the phenomenon will be most visible.\n\nMethodology\nSource: Booking.com.\nCapture period: 90 days, from April 28 to July 26, 2026.\nUniverse: the 200 most populated municipalities in Spain, plus Teruel (province capital located in the totality band, although it is outside the top 200 by population) — 201 localities in total. Of these, 60 are within the totality band of the eclipse and 141 in the area where it will be partial.\n\nWhat was captured: every day, for each locality, the price of available accommodations for two nights was recorded on Booking: from August 12 to 13, 2026 (the night of the eclipse) and from August 5 to 6 (a week earlier, as a control night). The accommodations that appear among the top results on Booking sorted by price were tracked. The search always corresponds to a room for two adults.\n\nWhat is considered \"comparable\": not all accommodations seen in the scraping are useful for measuring a price change — only those that appeared with a price on both nights on the same day of capture count. 5,574 accommodations meet this condition and are the basis of this analysis.\n\nHow the price change was calculated: for each comparable accommodation, the ratio between the price of the eclipse night and the control night was calculated day by day. From this series of daily ratios, the median was taken — a measure that is not dragged down by a single day's scraping peak. For the figures by locality or province capital, the median of these medians by accommodation was used, not the average price or the cheapest of the set: thus, a single extreme case cannot by itself determine the result for an entire city.",
  "summary": "Un análisis de 5.574 alojamientos en más de 200 municipios muestra cuánto se han encarecido las reservas en la franja de la totalidad",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}