Mexico City hotel prices spike nearly 1000% ahead of the World Cup

Hotels crossed North America are dramatically hiking prices for rooms up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to an investigation conducted by The Athletic, the sports journalism section of The New York Times.

The survey reveals that country rates successful Mexico, Canada and the U.S. — the co-hosts of the planetary shot tourney — spiked by an mean of much than 300% successful aboriginal June erstwhile 16 big cities volition beryllium staging their opening matches.

According to the analysis, country rates astatine 96 Marriott and Hilton hotels successful North America soared aft FIFA unveiled the 104-match docket connected Saturday pursuing Friday’s draw.

The mean per-night complaint astir an opening crippled successful each of the 16 big cities roseate to US $1,013 — up from US $293 conscionable 21 days earlier, the survey revealed. That’s a 328% increase.

The Athletic recovered that the astir important percent summation was successful Mexico City, wherever the inaugural lucifer of the tourney pitting Mexico vs. South Africa volition instrumentality spot connected June 11 astatine Estadio Banorte.

The astir egregious illustration is the Marriott edifice Le Meridien Mexico City Reforma which has a listing for US $157 per nighttime successful precocious May. That aforesaid country volition outgo US $3,882 the week of the opening match, a 2,372% increase.

Six Mexico City hotels adjacent Estadio Banorte — the tract of 5 matches — person listings that mean US $1,572 per nighttime up of the opening match. That’s an astonishing 961% increase from rates for mid-May stays that would acceptable you backmost conscionable US $172, according to the analysis.

The surge successful country rates successful the 2 different Mexican big cities was besides considerable. Monterrey edifice fares climbed connected mean by 466% (second-most among the 16 big cities), portion Guadalajara saw fees emergence by 405% (fourth-most).

As The Athletic noted, it is not antithetic for edifice prices to emergence astir mega events. At the Paris Olympics past year, the French superior saw a year-over-year country complaint summation of 141%. 

However, The Athletic observed,” the standard of the increases … instantly aft the World Cup docket was confirmed appears to beryllium overmuch much sizable.”

The commercialized work Inside World Football besides voiced concern, penning that it feels similar existent fans are being priced retired of the World Cup, describing the exorbitant rates arsenic “opportunism.”

The Athletic’s methodology progressive identifying the per-night terms for a two-night enactment astir the opening lucifer astatine six randomly selected hotels successful each of the 16 big cities. That terms was past compared to the equivalent rates offered precisely 3 weeks earlier by the aforesaid hotels.

Despite the skyrocketing country rates, request for edifice rooms is undeniable. The Athletic discovered that lone 3 of the 46 hotels listed connected the Marriott Bonvoy app were not described arsenic sold out.

With reports from The Athletic, Mediaite and The New York Post