Decline in European Travelers to U.S.

Re:Decline in European Travelers to U.S. by alabastervlog on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:20PM (#43696584)

This does not hold for any but a very-few expensive markets, and even there, not most of the time. Hell, I stayed in Manhattan a few months back with my kids, and for two beds in a room just a couple blocks from Times Square, in a hotel that I'd classify as one full step up from "just clean sheets and a door", we didn't pay $300/night, even with those being a Friday and Saturday night. And that was the most expensive hotel I've ever paid for in my life.

You went somewhere very unusual and probably managed to hit on a peak weekend for whatever reason.

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Re:Decline in European Travelers to U.S. by gjfxdfyu on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:35PM (#43696759)

I’d like to know the name of this hotel because this sounds ridiculous. NYC hotels are notoriously expensive.

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Re:Decline in European Travelers to U.S. by alabastervlog on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @02:54PM (#43696966)

I picked that example exactly because it's infamously expensive, and I had recent direct experience.

A quick search for an arbitrary Friday and Saturday night next month gives a ton of options right around $300/night in Midtown, plus plenty under $300. I wanna say we paid around $220 or $240 a night. I did shop a little (maybe twenty minutes?) to find one that low that seemed pretty good (and was in fact pretty good)

My point is hitting $300/night in San Diego... and not even in a desirable location in San Diego, for a very-basic hotel... seems like an outlier, when you can get in (at least a little) under that in Midtown Manhattan of all places.

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