View of the Square with the
Court House, which is where all festivities focused around, behind the ad for
Double Decker weekend.
The lodging scene
in Oxford, Miss. is filling up fast due to The Square’s biggest venue coming to
town on April 22nd.
Double- Decker
weekend provides the usual 60,000 attendees with a showcase of art, music,
food, and history from all around the Mississippi area, which presented by
Caterpillar Inc. again.
With such a
popular festival many people are needing places to stay and not much is left,
not even first-year sponsor for Double- Decker weekend itself: The Graduate.
Out of the twelve lodging options visitors usually have to pick from in Oxford,
only four remain with available rooms, which rates are increased because the
weekend.
“The weekend of Double-Decker
is a very demanding weekend,” The Inn at Ole Miss’s Desk Manager Lena Snow
said. “Being a hotel on campus we are always a prime spot for visitors.”
Available hotels
include the Super 8 with plenty availability, Quality Inn and Suites with eight
rooms left and Motel Oxford, which is only down the street from The Square. Rates
for these hotels are around $90 per night.
Also, Castle
Hill’s Bed and Breakfast, located only six miles from the square, has two of
their six rooms left: “Peggy’s Room” and the “Dixie Room”. These room rates
vary from $190 to $225 per night.
All other hotels
on Jackson Avenue are filled and have been for awhile now.
“Our 80 rooms
filled up fully a month ago,” Assistant Manager of the Hampton Inn Jobie
Charlie said. “Since then we have been constantly turning down customers.”
The weekend starts
on April 21st with car flyers advertising the weekend and how the
music will start at 6 p.m. on the 22nd. Only to be followed with
music from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on the 23rd. “From an eclectic live music scene to the
variety of arts events happening almost daily,” Visit Oxford said. “Oxford’s
creative community will make your visit to Oxford inspiring and entertaining.”
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