We are not going on spring break because it’s too expensive for a few days

Yep, I've noticed that too. Then I looked up how much it would be to stay at the hotels we got for our family vacations pre-covid and they are double the price now (or more).

I told the kids that at least they were lucky to experience it while they were younger because now we are totally priced out!

Anonymous wrote:When did hotels start charging 2k a night????!!!! I know these are luxury brand names but this seems excessive. Some of the normal brands are charging 1000-1500???!!! What is happening to the travel industry? It’s not like the amenities have improved. Is there a hotel worth these crazy prices?

What is a "normal" brand in your mind?

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t stay in those places. We look for Airbnb properties or inexpensive hotels or share a room (which is miserable and I won’t do it anymore).

Except their prices are crazy too now. I was just looking all around online yesterday and was shocked at the prices even in basic places not even touristy places.

I travel a decent amount in the summer and spring break and winter break. During the summer sometimes I can get a Courtyard for $125/night for a sports tourney and at spring break or winter break I'm definitely paying $1000 a night for a normal two queens room at an ocean front resort in Florida. Not even Ritz level. I've paid $700-$800 a night in both Rehoboth and Ocean City in August, hotel and condo rental. The places I would like to stay there are closer to $15,000 for a week, so I stay in the hotel.

Anonymous wrote:We don’t stay in those places. We look for Airbnb properties or inexpensive hotels or share a room (which is miserable and I won’t do it anymore).

Except their prices are crazy too now. I was just looking all around online yesterday and was shocked at the prices even in basic places not even touristy places.

We don’t stay in those places. We look for Airbnb properties or inexpensive hotels or share a room (which is miserable and I won’t do it anymore).

Hotel prices are a reflection of the K-shaped economy

I don't think we've spent over $250/night, although we're just schmucks looking for a clean bed for the next 12 hours.

Are high priced places "worth it?" I don't think that's a useful question; that's now how capitalism works. The price is whatever they can get people to pay. If they push it too high, the rooms go empty. Fortunately, there have never been so many people who can pay $2k/night and simply enjoy themselves. Even better if the customer can have their employer/LLC/family member to pay it for them. We live in gilded times.

I pay $269 a night at the Hampton Inn on the eastern shore overlooking cornfields and Walmart.

People are traveling post covid.

If you ask, you can't afford it, OP. Come back down to the Residence and Hampton inns with the rest of us riff-raff.

This is a very niched part of the market. You need to add context like the other posters asked. Where and when, etc.

Anonymous wrote:This isn't the case everywhere. Expand your destination options, or pay for where you are.

Yeah this isn't helpful without any context of where/when, what kind of hotel, etc.

For spring break or winter break that’s been true for a while. Other times less common.

This isn't the case everywhere. Expand your destination options, or pay for where you are.

When did hotels start charging 2k a night????!!!! I know these are luxury brand names but this seems excessive. Some of the normal brands are charging 1000-1500???!!! What is happening to the travel industry? It’s not like the amenities have improved. Is there a hotel worth these crazy prices?