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I'm not talking some commie shithole like Hungary. This is Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, some of the most expensive cities in the world have NICE modern hotels going for $120-150. No these are not hostels, I checked.
Be USA:
- 10x as much land
- ability to mass-produce buildings with advanced technology
- tons of vacancies, hotels rarely sold out
- not even downtown, have to drive everywhere
- surrounded by homeless, druggies and hookers
- still be $250 bare minimum in big cities
How does Europe pull it off?
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>>2866491
>- still be $250 bare minimum in big cities
Because they often
>lack an ice machine
>don't have a mini fridge maybe a hot kettle
>lack breakfast(usually) or have some breakfast being a slice of ham cheese and bread
>AC may be that BS "lol we use natural cooling :)"
>taxes not reflected, many EU hotels have per person staying tax where the US is mainly per room
>size is smaller, some of these are 6x6 meter cubes
>prices also reflect local and country average income
>prices can be lower due to guaranteed booking through
You're also not booking weekends which is going to not reflect the spikes in prices. I could point to Vegas, Seattle, LA, Miami, Orlando, etc for similar prices. Picrel, Miami beachfront you can take the metro to and get on a hotel beachfront.
>- surrounded by homeless, druggies and hookers
Literal skill issue if you're too stupid to just hit book by lowest price on airbnb/hotels.com/etc Though this is probably just another bait thread of "USA sux... why bother... everything is boring" thread
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>>2866491
All of your points are bullshit.
There are just as many lowlifes on the street in European cities, it all depends on which neighborhood you are in (just like in America).
You can easily find a great room for under $200 in any American downtown, especially during winter when fewer people are traveling. Chances are the room will be bigger than its European equivalent.
American cities all have public buses, metro rail, rental scooters, rental bicycles. No, you don't have to drive everywhere, and I'm tired of people pretending this to be the case. It clearly shows that you have never spent time in an American city.
The only reason 90% of Amerimutts drive everywhere is because they want to spend as much of their waking hours plopped down on a soft seat as they possibly can, safely isolated from their fellow armed Amerimutts of dubious mental stability.
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>>2866503
>book hotel in Europe
>bed is futon tier quality
>"okay lesson learned I'll book better next time"
>huh deluxe/luxury room
>it's just 2 futon ikea tier beds put together with a small 2inch foam thing put on top
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>go to next stop in my trip through europe
>hotel is actually an apartment but called aparthotel so technically a hotel :^)
>no desk to check-in
>digits to check in sent either sent in the app or oopsies you fucky wucky needed to respond to this random email to login to this website to fill out some information and do a front desk workers job THEN you can get to a room btw room service not included :^)
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>>2866491
Genuinely why would I ever want to pay $100+ a night for a hotel when I could pay $50, $20, possibly less a night for a hostel, and on top of that have the opportunity to meet people?
Maybe if I had a gf or something, but as a solo traveler? lol, hostels are the only reasonable option
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>>2866511
What's with this constant shilling of the idea that you can't meet people unless you are all sleeping in the same room breathing each other's farts, BO and bad breath? A better question would be, why spend $18 to be crammed into a hostel with normies you don't like when you can spend $18 to get a place of your own in [Third World country] and not have to wear pants while relaxing? Hostels are a humiliation ritual. Silently seethe while the sleeper above you shakes the bed and jostles you awake for the 20th time.
>>2866517
Schedules are online. Time your travel to fit the schedule. Google Maps will tell you to the minute when you need to start walking to the bus stop.
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>>2866526
Where you gonna meet people, huh? Out on the street? People are just living their lives and don't have time to be bothered. At a hotel lobby? It's usually people with their families, or hot shot businessmen. They don't want to be bothered.
Sure, you could still theoretically just have a nice one-off conversation, but what's the point?
Hostels is where you meet people you can actually go out and spend the day/night with
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>>2866502
a) you are the one who clearly hasn't lived in America, any city less that 1 million people has pathetic excuse for "transport" and unless you're RIGHT downtown, not walkable.
b) in winter places like Miami and Honolulu are more expensive than during the summer
c) lowlifes in Copenhagen, Dublin, Amsterdam, on the same level as Chicago, NYC, Miami? Absolute larper
And no, i don't give a shit about an ice machine, or breakfast, or living in a 40 m2 space. But in USA you just have no choice
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>>2866511
Obvious bait, but last time I stayed in a hostel was Melbourne, and it smelled like absolute ass. Whole room smelled like socks. Every time I tried opening the window people would close it not 30 minutes later.
I'd rather sleep in a capsule any day
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>>2866715
A) OKC is under 1m and has a decent bus system to get you all over, train to DFW and other places easy. Never had an issue using a ebike+bus combo. Even from the airport it's not that bad, at least I don't have to walk 3 miles to the metro then sit on a train with migrant "workers". Even when I lived in Hampton Roads, bus was easy as shit to get around even across the waterways.
B) Not my hekkin Miami or Honolulu for hekkin winterino! It's winter I'm probably going to be with friends and family around town rather than Miami. Even then it's not that bad.
C) Sorry you go to a booking site sort by low to high, then select cheapest. Literal skill issue.
>But in USA you just have no choice
Hostels exist in the USA, most have rules you need to have an address X miles away to bar homeless and poors. If anything I like them more than some of the places in europe who have rando drunk german stumbling in for a place to puke.
A lot of this thread seems to be "shit I heard about the USA because I went to FL, NYC, LA once!"
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>>2867307
Repeating a lie does not make it any truer, anon. There are plenty of hotels in the $150 USD price range (approx Rs 13500) that can be patronized in most any large American city. Most of them have good reviews. Motel 6 is more like $75 per night.