What do you spend per night on hotels?

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Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m shocked at some of these responses. We make $400k, and if a hotel for a regular trip is over $200/night I have an existential crisis on if it’s worth even going.

(And that <$200 had better include breakfast!)

Where and when are you traveling that you can find this? My minimum hotel is a holiday inn or hampton inn time. Not down to a Super 8, travelodge, best western. It is REALLY hard to find even a hampton for under $200 a night any time or place we travel.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m shocked at some of these responses. We make $400k, and if a hotel for a regular trip is over $200/night I have an existential crisis on if it’s worth even going.

(And that <$200 had better include breakfast!)

lol are you married to my husband? He thinks everything costs the same as prices back in the 90s.

Because he’s so frugal, I put everyone in our household on a linked credit that accumulates points for travel. Now I can usually tell him the hotel is free since I’m using points.

Having said that, sometimes we simply need to pay whatever it is…and I just remind him that we haven’t paid out of pocket for the last X trips.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m shocked at some of these responses. We make $400k, and if a hotel for a regular trip is over $200/night I have an existential crisis on if it’s worth even going.

(And that <$200 had better include breakfast!)

Where and when are you traveling that you can find this? My minimum hotel is a holiday inn or hampton inn time. Not down to a Super 8, travelodge, best western. It is REALLY hard to find even a hampton for under $200 a night any time or place we travel.

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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys all finding the $200 hotels in the United States!? That does not exist!

I guess they technically might be motels, but lots of Spring Hill Suites, Residence Inn, Courtyard, Hilton Garden Inn (and similar) are less than $200/night for double queen beds.

That won't work in Manhattan, of course, but its a big country with lots of other places to go.

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.

Similar. The more money we make we find we get cheaper and cheaper.

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Anonymous wrote:We love to travel but I don’t like dropping huge amounts of money for someplace we’re mostly going to sleep.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys all finding the $200 hotels in the United States!? That does not exist!

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.

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Anonymous wrote:HHI $600+. We’re typically Courtyard Marriott/Holiday Inn Express type people, so maybe $200-400/room/night, depending on the city? Now that our 3 kids are teens, we’ll sometimes get two rooms or a suite if everyone is traveling together. The big exception on the price front is the Disney cruises we went on where we splurged for 2 rooms, or cities like Rome or NYC where we don’t want to sleep in roachy rooms.

I feel like everyone has things they are unusually cheap about and other things they are willing to spend stupid amounts of money on (see Disney cruises above and feel free to flame away! 😄) The key is to consider all your discretionary spending in one big basket and make sure you’re saving for your goals first.

There’s a mom in my neighborhood who lives in a big house, drives a new Benz SUV and has all the luxury things. And her kid with 1500+ SAT who busted his butt studying through HS has been told he needs to get merit scholarships or go to his state school. 🤷‍♀️ That doesn’t make sense to me, but people value different things. I’m sure some people value nice hotels more than retiring early or expensive colleges/cars. You do you, OP!

Over-leveraged. So common.

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Anonymous wrote:Where are you guys all finding the $200 hotels in the United States!? That does not exist!

Of course they do, if you don’t mind budget hotels. I just booked a hotel in Williamsburg for about $70/night. Even in NYC, I find centrally-located hotels for less than $250/night with advance planning and off-season dates.

Do you also not care much about cleanliness of where you sleep?

I stay fancy for work and cheap for family. No difference in cleanliness.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:We just book a 5 night trip. $1300/night room for me & DH, 780/night for teen DS.

HHI 400

You’re nuts to pay that nightly.

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Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m shocked at some of these responses. We make $400k, and if a hotel for a regular trip is over $200/night I have an existential crisis on if it’s worth even going.

(And that <$200 had better include breakfast!)

I hustle and work my ass off every day. I’m not staying at a Hampton Inn on vacation, and I don’t care if breakfast costs me an additional $100. I work too damn hard to nickel and dime my leisure time. I refuse to do it.

With that said, I’m sure there are things you spend money on that would can use me to have an existential crisis. Value is so subjective.

+1

I feel the same way, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Holy cow! I’m shocked at some of these responses. We make $400k, and if a hotel for a regular trip is over $200/night I have an existential crisis on if it’s worth even going.

(And that <$200 had better include breakfast!)

lol are you married to my husband? He thinks everything costs the same as prices back in the 90s.

Because he’s so frugal, I put everyone in our household on a linked credit that accumulates points for travel. Now I can usually tell him the hotel is free since I’m using points.

Having said that, sometimes we simply need to pay whatever it is…and I just remind him that we haven’t paid out of pocket for the last X trips.

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.

The issue here is not really one of hotel room costs...

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We try for under $400, but hotels have gotten pricey so sometimes it’s $450, especially for weekend rates.

I don’t waste money on expensive resorts.