Originally Posted by
fastflyer
I also went to school in a small rural city. The fancy, local inn would allow local guests under 25, only if they were from three of the nicer local colleges, but not if they were from a fourth college nor from the large local university. When I first learned of this policy, I thought it might be illegal (this was in the 1980s). It would certainly not be welcome today with the sensitivity around all things elitist.
My bet is that the more “elite” a college/university, the higher the proportion of students with an out-of-state ID or a state ID showing a residentj address more than 30 miles away. So enforcement of “no locals” would fall harder on the “non-elite” school students than on the “elite” school students, as the latter could more easily run around such hotel restrictions.
Speaking of weird hotel policies in the same vein, the more down market hotels in the US are more likely to send over complete guest register lists to law enforcement authorities than higher end hotels.