Fly in style, stay in ghetto. Anyone else do that?

[SOPOOR]

Anyone else willing to spend/redeem for premium flights but ghetto it for accomodation?

Thats me!

Flew first class long haul recently to europe, stayed in a 50euro hotel for a few nights, rated 2 star, internet reviews pretty bad. The room didnt havr a toilet!

I dont like backpackers accomodation, as i dont like sharing rooms

Some people who i tell, think im just weird

 

[Forg]

It’s hard for me to separate/determine the relationship between price & cleanliness … that’s what turns me off about “slumming it”. I have stayed in very cheap very basic and VERY clean places, and that was great; but cheap & clean ain’t something I’ve come across very often.

So generally, no. I would, given trusted recommendation …

 

[Human]

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[I love to travel]

Definitely happy with 3 star. Quiet is the key for me.

 

[RooFlyer]

Anyone else willing to spend/redeem for premium flights but ghetto it for accomodation?

I still like good accommodation; where I save a bit is on food - very rare fancy restaurants and lots of self catering in my room.

 

[SOPOOR]

I still like good accommodation; where I save a bit is on food - only rare fancy restaurants and lots of self catering in my room.

on my latest trip, (not every day)

Fly in F: stay in 1-2 star hotel: go out for michelin star restaruant

luckily I dont thnk of this mismatch unless someone points it out!

 

[SYD]

Pretty much anywhere in the downtown areas on the Pacific North West US are Ghettos at the moment but you’ll still be paying US$200 and up a night for some fairly ordinary accomodation.

But elsewhere, we’re not ones to splurge $500+ a night for a room to sleep in. An Ibis in a good location could suit better an a Sofitel in the business district.

Also depends on whether you’re flying solo or with someone. In the later, you need physical space and if the room is 15m2 or less you’ll be tripping over each other. Manageable by yourself.

 

[SOPOOR]

Pretty much anywhere in the downtown areas on the Pacific North West US are Ghettos at the moment but you’ll still be paying US$200 and up a night for some fairly ordinary accomodation.

But elsewhere, we’re not ones to splurge $500+ a night for a room to sleep in. An Ibis in a good location could suit better an a Sofitel in the business district.

Also depends on whether you’re flying solo or with someone. In the later, you need physical space and if the room is 15m2 or less you’ll be tripping over each other. Manageable by yourself.

One of the reasons why i dont spend too much $ on hotels is because i spend so little time in the room awake.
Its literally, go out the whole day, snd night come home, shower sleep, and unless the rooms are 3 bdr penthouses there is not much to do,

And since hotels are pretty expensive, the cheapee the bigge the savings

More $$ to spend on dinner, activites, alcohol!

 

[Forg]

One of the reasons why i dont spend too much $ on hotels is because i spend so little time in the room awake.
Its literally, go out the whole day, snd night come home, shower sleep, and unless the rooms are 3 bdr penthouses there is not much to do,

And since hotels are pretty expensive, the cheapee the bigge the savings

More $$ to spend on dinner, activites, alcohol!

It does depend on what you’re up to.
Last time we went on hols, my wife had opportunity for a work meeting, so while she was at said meeting I went to do some Work Stuff in Ghent. For similar cost to a room in a hotel I AirBnB’d an entire townhouse which was waaay more than I really needed; but I was going to be making my own dinners, catching the tram to work, having beers on the balcony with workmates I’d not physically caught-up with for over 5 years, it did make sense to have food-making space & stuffing-about space as I’d be at work all day and wasn’t going to be spending time at restaurants etc by myself after hours.

But when you’re “actually” on holidays, you spend most of your time out & about. Why pay for facilities you never see, if you’re just sleeping & cleaning yourself there? Still, my better-half came down with my lurgi while we were in Inverness on the aforementioned last holiday, and for her it was a lot more comfortable to have an entire AirBnB’d unit to feel awful in … not just a single gaol-cell of a tiny room.

 

[aikman]

One of the reasons why i dont spend too much $ on hotels is because i spend so little time in the room awake.
Its literally, go out the whole day, snd night come home, shower sleep, and unless the rooms are 3 bdr penthouses there is not much to do,

And since hotels are pretty expensive, the cheapee the bigge the savings

More $$ to spend on dinner, activites, alcohol!

How do you justify the cost of the first class flight? Presumably you spent only half the flight awake and well, there isn't much to do on a plane either.

 

[Blinky]

Sort of. Planning J or F if lucky flights to LHR to start. Budgeting $300 per night for accommodation. Any less than that in central London and you can’t even guarantee your own bathroom.

 

[SOPOOR]

How do you justify the cost of the first class flight? Presumably you spent only half the flight awake and well, there isn't much to do on a plane either.

thats actually a good point, after I posted, I asked myself that too,
I dont sleep that much on planes, but the cost multiplier of premium flights is higher than hotels

I guess its horses for courses!

 

[Forg]

Yeah F to me seems like something you do either on points or when there’s a huge sale on … the wines can be fancy but consuming more than a coupla hundred buck’s worth kinda needs you to go outta your way, the food is $50 cafe fare, there’s more space than a J lie-flat for sure but that doesn‘t necessarily translate to more comfort. F lounges are fancier I guess, I guess maybe a couple of hundred dollar’s worth of value if you made yourself eat & drink as much as you could, but a few paid F fares would give status-access to that too.

So yeah, I kinda believe the $5k+ extra cost per trip for F over J is “because I can” stuff, and paying that much extra for accommodation appears to me to give you more (or less if we’re talking bedbugs ).

 

[Freq Flier 2013]

For me it is the safety element in a hotel so with cheaper hotels I wouldn’t be comfortable that my stuff would not go missing. And cleanliness is important. On the other hand we stayed in a 5 star hotel a month ago and 2 of my daughter’s books were taken from the room. And I’ve stayed in low budget hotels that were very clean.

 

[antycbr]

For me it is the safety element in a hotel so with cheaper hotels I wouldn’t be comfortable that my stuff would not go missing. And cleanliness is important. On the other hand we stayed in a 5 star hotel a month ago and 2 of my daughter’s books were taken from the room. And I’ve stayed in low budget hotels that were very clean.

Reminds me of when my then-partner insisted on a cheap hotel in Guilin, China. After the fourth call offering prostitution services he suddenly became very keen on the Sheraton. For him it was a big ask to give up the remaining two nights at the slum - total loss $65AUD.

 

[VPS]

I'm in the fly well - long haul has to be J or above but stayed in quite a few very modest hotels on my recent trip. All but one were clean and I left that place early

I'm happy to self cater when I can but do a nice meal out though

 

[antycbr]

I'm happy to self cater when I can but do a nice meal out though

This is where apartments are good. Saving the cost of breakfast in particular is helpful, meaning a better lunch/dinner. Also a lot of Latin America doesn’t really do breakfast, other than medialunas.

 

[VPS]

Only criteria when I do cheap is I have to have my own ensuite bathroom - not negotiable to share

 

[Denali]

My husbands version of "roughing it" was a club room at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Seriously, he actually said "I dont mind roughing it, book the Bay Sands"

 

[elanshin]

Does staying at a friend's couch count?