While history is being made in Washington, it's also being made in Harrisonburg. At least ten Harrisonburg hotels will be filled to capacity January 19.

"I don't think we've ever sold out for Inauguration Day," says Gini Boyers, general manager at the Best Western Harrisonburg Inn.

After the election Tuesday on November 4, everything seemed normal to Clifford Weber, regional general manager of Harrisonburg Hampton Inn Hotels, the Sleep Inn and Candlewood Suites, but that was short lived.

"By the time we came in Monday morning, six days later, that's when our email boxes were overflowing, our voicemail was about full, with all of these requests. So it was just that sudden, like it all happened over the weekend," says Webber.

Travelers have booked up practically every hotel from Washington D.C. to Harrisonburg for the historic Inauguration Day. Valley residents who plan to attend the event might as well stay in the Valley and travel from home.

Loni Kyle works with Weber as the Director of Sales for those four hotels. She said it was shocking to think that people were driving two hours to and from D.C. for the event. That two hour estimate does not include the traffic. Inauguration goers are likely to encounter heavy traffic both coming and going.

Kyle says that people would agree to anything when they called for the rooms, as long as they had a bed to sleep in before the big day.

"Anything I would say to them, they were like OK I'll take it, and I’ll give you a credit card right now. I'll pay for them right now," says Kyle.

Most, if not all, of the future hotel guests did not have guaranteed tickets to the Inauguration. Kyle said that she asked guests if they had tickets, and most of them said that it didn't matter. One way or another, a million people are expected to make their way to Washington D.C. for January 20.

Both Kyle and Boyers said that they've seen a lot of large groups coming in charter buses from the southern states of Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.

More hotels than not are sold out for the day before the inauguration. A few still have vacant rooms, but they're going fast.

Weber mentioned that the Hampton Inns in both Staunton and Richmond have already sold out for January 19 as well.