What do you spend per night on hotels?
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Anonymous
DP. It entirely depends on where you are looking, and also how last minute your booking is. I've recently booked Hampton Inns well under $200 in Florida, Delaware, and California. |
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$330k HHI and $200-$300 if at all possible especially for things like college visits, kids sports games, and out of town family events. All I need in a clean bed and bathroom.
Will pay more for vacation splurges in prime locations or weekend away with spouse, but often get an Airbnb in those cases. Love to travel and we do a ton of it, but only way to make that work with other goals is to try to keep the expenses we can down. That typically means cheaper hotels, flights at weird times, and limiting some meals out. When we’re empty nesters I imagine we’ll splurge more |
Anonymous
Np. I’ve stayed at dirty Ritz Carlton’s and clean motel 6s. In fact, the cleanest hotel I’ve stayed at recently was a Best Western Deluxe. Brand new too and had an indoor pool. Dh refuses to stay in hotels that don’t have free breakfast and free WiFi. I personally prefer Kimpton though. |
Anonymous
These are the types of places we stay, even in Manhattan it just costs more there. Usually once a year we will take a “fancier” trip where we stay somewhere really nice but I often try to do that on points. For example we are staying at the Kimpton Seafire on Grand Cayman for spring break ($1-2k/night) but I booked it all on points. HHI has in the last couple of years exceeded $1M but prior to that was $300-400k and we have not really changed our spending. |
Anonymous
Oh I’m not trying to shame anyone, I’m just legitimately shocked. I assumed the people staying in $500/night hotels made $1m+, because I don’t even consider them. Do you spend that much time at the hotel on an average trip? For me it’s usually only an hour, maybe two, of being awake. |
Anonymous
Last 3 trips were to Philly suburbs (Hilton), Denver (drury inn, free dinner and breakfast!), and Santa Barbara (small independent hotel). SB was $209 a night (I just went and looked at the receipt in my inbox) but the other two were $139/night and $179/night. |
Anonymous
I have the same husband too. I also started doing the points game because I was tired of the absurdity. The man made $1.5M last year (and busted his a$$.) The only way I get to stay somewhere nice is to pay in points. |
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Depends on what I’m doing. If I’m transiting somewhere or doing something like a college visit, I try for a decent Hilton-branded hotel (for the points) that is near where I need it to be with the right number of beds. The price of that is going up lately and I really want it under $300, and preferably under $200. I want clean, dependable, and honestly a brand name so I know what we’re going to get. But if I’m doing something in Manhattan, I’m not staying in Jersey City. I will pay more to be in Manhattan.
If the purpose is vacation or relaxation, then I personally start getting hinky at $500 a night. When we used to go to Disney, I wasn’t going to stay in the budget hotels, but only once splashed out on the deluxe. Mid-tier worked for us. But in terms of convenience we never considered not staying on the property. We just don’t take a ton of true relaxation vacations, so when we do I want it to be what I want it to be in terms of space and location. We live by “fewer, nicer things” as a general rule. HHI $200k, college paid for, only low-rate mortgage as debt. |
Anonymous
Oh and sorry. Philly is one weekend a month almost year round. Denver was July. SB was January. I have zero issue splurging on vacations, hotel is just not something where I feel like $500 gets you any more than $200 most of the time. (Admittedly I have never booked a hotel at the beach—that’s Airbnb type vacations for our family to have more space, and then I’ll pay way more than $200/night for all the extra perks a whole house comes with and because it is assumed a decent amount of time will be spent at the house) |
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Our HHI is about $500K. I do most of the travel planning and try to keep it to around $200/night, up to $300 if going somewhere very expensive. We also use a lot of Hyatt points. It’s gotten more challenging as the kids have grown because they can no longer share a bed.
We love to travel but I don’t like dropping huge amounts of money for someplace we’re mostly going to sleep. |
Anonymous
Similar. The more money we make we find we get cheaper and cheaper. |
Anonymous
This. I do not think I have ever paid more than $250/night ever anyplace. The closest I got was a business / work conference at a hotel in Silicon Valley and that was maybe $230. Staying at the meeting hotel saved a bit of money because I skipped the rental car. |
Anonymous
Hotel Tonight app. 👍🏻👍🏻 |
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It all just depends on where we are going.
In London this fall we spent about $550 per night. So I don't go hunt for an inexpensive place, but I don't pay $900+ for Claridge's or whatever either. In NYC I always stay at the Empire, which is very inexpensive for NY, you can get it for under $200; that's all about the good location and saving money. In NY I don't need room service, or whatever. In Colonial Williamsburg we happily pay for the Williamsburg Inn, I love the atmosphere, especially at Christmas, and order room service and utilize the spa. When we did a safari in Tanzania we paid top dollar for the very best lodges since it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing (we thought it was very worth it). We are going to be doing a Viking or Cunard cruise to Alaska, and with a cruise I'm willing to pay a high amount to avoid the hell that was my only Royal Caribbean cruise. So sometimes we are paying a lot, sometimes looking for something inexpensive, and sometimes in between. We are probably not going to Little Palm Island ever, that kind of thing is out of reach. HHI about 250k total, but expenses aren't as high as they are for some in the DMV. Net worth about 2.5M or so. |
Anonymous
Over-leveraged. So common. |