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.

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    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.

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    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…