I don’t have emperical data, but my sense tells me that as time goes by, going to a hotel for Pesach, as opposed to staying home, will become the more economical of the two options. Using the price increases in hand made shmura matzah and other Pesach specific products as a guide, the cost per person of staying home for Pesach is increasing at a faster rate than the hotels’ per person charge. If that continues, eventually it will be cheaper to stay home. If you consider the rate of proliferation of Pesach programs as compared to the increase in companies manufacturing kosher for Pesach foods for the retail market, that point may come sooner than we might imagine. The increase of programs will serve to drive the cost of going away down. The paucity of manufacturers of food will drive the cost of staying home up, especially when we factor in the food discounts the programs, who buy is huge volume, can get from the manufacturers. Only in America.
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