No, I don’t mean you should put your vacation plans and vacation money into the stock market. Although, with stock prices so low, if you have some extra bucks this would be a good time to carefully buy up some stock bargains. (My son tells me that; he’s the only stock trader in our immediate family. I’m broke.)
No, I don’t mean your average Las Vegas hotels are offering stock shares to their guests.
What I’ve heard about is this: According to a report this morning on the “Today Show,” there’s a resort somewhere in upstate New York which is offering a room rate based on the closing Dow Jones Industrial number on Fridays. In other words, if the Dow closes at, say, 9000 on a Friday, the rooms at this resort will go for $90 a night the next week.
Go to the “Today Show” website for more details, or you can probably Google it and find out specifics. But it looks like an interesting idea if you’re planning a winter family vacation. If I had any money for a winter family vacation, I know I’d check into it!