Why the hell do hotels cost so much?

They are sometimes $40 a night, you just happened to go at the wrong time. The more rooms, the lower the prices. The less rooms, the higher the prices.

:(

Have you considered AirBNB as a much cheaper option?

Also, Vegas always has cheap hotels.

$40 motel is eady to find if you have a car. If you need a hotel near transportation, it's going to be around 80 and up.

In the US

I stay at hostles 99% of the time while traveling. At home I use the hourly hotels.

yeah, your money is better spent on an AirBnB at this point.

They do indeed cost a ton. They hit you up for parking and all kinds of shit too

They can be expensive but I travel for work relatively often, so I have those costs covered. However, as much as possible, I stick with one brand. That way points accrue and perks come along with it. I generally consider $90-$120 to be cheap/affordable for leisure. But that is highly dependent on the city and whether or not there are any events going on. $40 range? That's run down motel on the side of a highway range. Maybe Motel 6 is an option or equivalent?

I have never worked with AirBnB or anything, though. Always an option I guess. And when traveling overseas, you have hostels as options - a great way to save a ton.

As for the why? I guess inflation, breh.

In general hotels suck. I get discounts because my wife works in the industry though.

Staying at one brand if you travel a lot is a great idea though

I'm going to be broke when I grow out of/get tired of hostels. $20-30 a night at a hostel vs $150+ at a hotel is a pretty easy choice for me right now.

Its usually the most expensive part about traveling

By [esai.] Go To PostIts usually the most expensive part about traveling

Depends ... fly trans Atlantic and shit starts to even out. Though you did say usually

I Rent the occasional house as i now have a family, but that's like a once a year thing

Not a bad option if you're traveling with friends thiugh

Check out Airbnb my dude, I've saved a lot since I decided to use Airbnb exclusively. Can usually find a whole apartment for the like half the price of a hotel room in some cities.

By [esai.] Go To PostIts usually the most expensive part about traveling

It's really not. But if its too expensive for you, get a van and outfit it for stealth camping on Walmart lot.

You can even do it in a Prius if you want to super frugal.

I mean, most hotels around here wnat 150 a night. So ....

I tend to stay in Hilton/Hyatt brands for the points.

Very surprised how reasonable the prices are for Christmas in Milan/Rome.

Pretty excited to be staying at the Cavalieri.


I get two weeks of vacation a year, I want to enjoy every second of it, so don't mind paying extra.

Thing is. That 80$ was for an off brand days inn outside of ATL. And 125 was for a Hilton in my small hometown in Alabama with only 60,000ish people. Both shouldn't be that fucking expensive.

Yeah I agree, and some airbnb's are hit and miss, I recommend staying in a house all to yourself if you can, I stayed in a triplex when I went to Toronto earlier this year and it was a nightmare. dude upstairs kept jacking off at like midnight every night, then wake up at 7:30am every morning because I guess he recently got dumped so he called his friends to bitch about his ex loudly, like we could literally hear every word. When we first arrived I guess the people that stayed there before us were extremely loud because we found an extremely passive aggressive note under the door from the downstairs neighbor making it known that he lived there and couldn't stand all the noise so we were literally top toeing around the house when we were there.

By Fenderputty Go To PostDepends … fly trans Atlantic and shit starts to even out. Though you did say usually

I Rent the occasional house as i now have a family, but that's like a once a year thing

Not a bad option if you're traveling with friends thiugh

Depending on where you are located, there have been some competitors come in for budget flights. I have flown Norwegian from Boston to London, then Copenhagen to Orlando and it was something like ~$300-350 each way including meal and luggage. This was last year. They're expanding deeper into the US with I think service starting from Austin, TX and other places later next year. It was economy, but it was on a 787 Dreamliner and it was overall a good experience.

WOW airlines is also expanding into the US, but I've never flown them and I can't remember which US airports they'll fly to. DFW I think is one option.

Airbnb is where is at

By GoldenEye 007 Go To PostDepending on where you are located, there have been some competitors come in for budget flights. I have flown Norwegian from Boston to London, then Copenhagen to Orlando and it was something like ~$300-350 each way including meal and luggage. This was last year. They're expanding deeper into the US with I think service starting from Austin, TX and other places later next year. It was economy, but it was on a 787 Dreamliner and it was overall a good experience.

WOW airlines is also expanding into the US, but I've never flown them and I can't remember which US airports they'll fly to. DFW I think is one option.

I find this guy's videos on the economics of travel really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions

These new planes are so much more fuel efficient and with better distances, that airlines can now operate more 'unusual' routes.

By BladeoftheImmortal Go To PostThing is. That 80$ was for an off brand days inn outside of ATL. And 125 was for a Hilton in my small hometown in Alabama with only 60,000ish people. Both shouldn't be that fucking expensive.

If you have a car, there is no such thing as overpriced motel, just keep move around on google map until it shows you a cheap quato. Google map quote usually is very close to the lowest price you can find.