Like I mean a place that doesn't feel like a total corpo nothing flavorless anywhere monstrosity. I don't even care if it's gross or rickety I just want it to feel like a real place.
I never stayed at one before but I wanted to do something special and they are all like $200+ even on a Tuesday. Damn I just wanted a hot tub night.
I could maybe swing like $120 but nothing like that exists. Even the big corpo ones start at $160. At this point, I should just build an onsen lmao.
I think it's cheaper if you try to book it far out ahead of time. like a month out.
I get that they have to make money or whatever but they all do seem way too expensive for no good reason.
right?! like some of them it was $550 for a night. Like it's a few things I can do that I can charge $550 a night but damn....
and you know that $500 aint mostly going to the hospitality workers :[
fr........ hotel is the one thing I am the best at boycotting but maybe as I get older and my back and hips get stiffer I won't want to sleep out as much.
I've stayed in like over a dozen for the last couple of years and even worked in one for an internship. Usually, I paid 50 to 100€/night and are always my biggest expense of going to concerts or other events/longer distance trips.
I much prefer that than places where landlords very clearly prefer to turn apartments into AirBNBs and at the same time allow rent to baloon in the area.
For sure. I ain't been but my impression is that hotel prices in europe are less nutty. Here, when I worked at a shelter we would sometimes put people up at a dogshit bedbug motel for $55 a night with a sympathetic manager we had a connection with. What was your experience in the 50 euro hotel?
Fine, really - though I am not picky in the slightest.
The prices vary a lot depending if you're in a city or rural-ish area. You will struggle to find something below 90€ in Berlin or München for example.
I only do hotels when I visit my family for holidays, but the ones I stay at have been way more expensive than they were 5 years ago.
They're also worse quality. My biggest gripe is that they put the AC on a motion sensor, so it stops working when you go to sleep. I'd be fine with it if the room stayed cool, but when you're on a higher floor it the heat rises. Climate control used the be the most basic feature of a hotel room.
If you’re looking at a booking website, you might be able to get a slightly cheaper price (like 5-10%) by calling the front desk and booking directly with them. Sometimes it’s cheaper than the hotel’s website. Anxiety tax sucks lol
5-10% is still crazy! Some of the really handsome ones I looked at are as much as my monthly rent for a night. I wish I was rich so I could go on cute and quaint vacations.
God damn, some expensive ass hotels. The only time I stay in hotels is for work, and I have to use their booking service, but the tiny amount of times I stay in one for personal reasons I try to call the front desk.
Yeah I think I'm just going to skip it lol. I think I have spent all of 5 nights in paid lodgings in my adult life. Usually I just rough it or go places I can stay with friends or comrades.
I just came back from china where like 5 star hotels go for $100, luxury hotels go for like $50, and like regular ones for like $25 and these prices feel even more absurd...
