{"id":140383,"date":"2025-09-13T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140383\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:24:11","slug":"sold-out-morgan-wallen-concerts-lead-to-sold-out-edmonton-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140383\/","title":{"rendered":"Sold-out Morgan Wallen concerts lead to sold-out Edmonton hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tens of thousands of country music fans have converged onto Edmonton in anticipation of country music star, Morgan Wallen\u2019s<\/a> two back-to-back sold-out show at Commonwealth Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Fans are coming from across Canada and even from the United States to see this concert.<\/p>\n

According to Edmonton Destination Marketing Hotels Ltd., there are pretty much zero hotel rooms available in the Edmonton area for Friday or Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last time Commonwealth sold out, with 66,000 fans was the U2 360 tour,\u201d Chris Yeung, with Edmonton Destination Marketing Hotels Ltd., said of the 2011 concert at Edmonton\u2019s stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have any statistics for hotels back then, but I suspect they were quite full.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon Global News did an online search around the region and found only a handful of rooms available \u2014 with the lowest rates going for over $1,000 for one night. Rooms at hotels like the Holiday Inn were listed for more than $1,200.<\/p>\n

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Music fans Lukas Kirschner and Quinn Hanks made the trip from Pemberton, B.C. for the concert. They couldn\u2019t get a room in Edmonton but planned to stay in the area until Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe do have a rental car though, so we might go down to Red Deer,\u201d Kirschner said.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just concert-goes filling up Edmonton\u2019s hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s Liberal caucus has meeting at a downtown Edmonton hotel all week<\/a> ahead of the fall sitting of Parliament.<\/p>\n

Nearby in the Ice District, Oktoberfest is underway in the fan park beside Rogers Place and organizers for it said they nearly couldn\u2019t find rooms for the event\u2019s artists.<\/p>\n

Yeung said this weekend is the biggest convergence of events in Edmonton in the past five years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNot only hotels, but we look at restaurants, we look local businesses, everybody\u2019s going to benefit from these major events that come in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Edmonton Police Service said on Friday and Saturday, traffic around Commonwealth Stadium will be impacted between 3:30 p.m. and midnight for the concerts.<\/p>\n

In addition to significant traffic delays on 112 Avenue, police said Stadium Road will be closed between 92 Street and 112 Avenue during that time.<\/p>\n

Yeung said for this two-night country concert, Edmonton can expect to see between $3 to $8 million in economic impact.<\/p>\n

Meaning Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem tour will be far from a problem for local businesses.<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from Karen Bartko, Global News<\/p>\n

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