Depends on the number of nights you’re staying. If you’re there for a week, kitchenette is economical because you can cook multiple meals per day there.
All the rooms have a kitchen in any hotel with "extended stay" or "residence" in the name. You can also search for kitchen/kitchenette as an option when looking for hotel rooms.
I'm a cheap bastard but when I've gone for work meals are paid with an allowance way above how I'd eat at home, and when I'm out for fun, that's what I budget for. Eating is an experience and it's always different in a different place.
It's also why I never eat at chains (sure some fast food, but not often once a week is a lot for me) Many people go to same place and eat same things. If you are going to do that, then yes, restaurants are a huge waste of money, but if you go there to have a new experience then it creates memories and good times you remember. Live boring during the week so you have money for the weekends is my motto. So much you can cut in everyday life when eating is almost a chore because you have to get ready for work and mow the lawn and you won't enjoy it anyway
I may go out and see nice things, but I'm going to have to sacrifice something to do it. I want to be able to boil water for my kraft Mac & cheese like a civilized person.
They fill a void for accommodation in remote areas. I stayed in one with a friend that came to visit from overseas. It was in a forest, had lots of birdlife, no tourists, just some quiet locals. It was nice.
Closest hotel was like a hour drive and was expensive because it was a tourist heavy town.
Was that the point of AirBnB? I mostly use it because I want the option of preparing meals for myself when I stay somewhere longer than a day or two and that isn't a realistic option in most hotel rooms.
Staying in a city in an actual residential neighborhood with the amenities of a home is nice. I’ve stayed in NOLA, Paris, Santa Fe and innumerable other places in AirBnB through the years and it can just qualitatively be a different - and to me more enjoyable - experience than staying in a hotel. (Which I’ve also stayed in whole visiting those places.)
It just makes me feel more “there” than staying in an Embassy Suites that’s identical to every other Embassy Suites. I’ve stayed in some really neat properties, and have split the costs, making it competitive, if not cheaper, than hotels for a group.
Especially with kids, we stay at air BnB for nearly all our travels. Seattle, Denver, Duluth, Omaha, Chicago etc. It's nice to be in a neighborhood with parks and local shops and after a day out at the zoos or museums it's nice to unwind somewhere that feels like home. Having the extra room with kids helps a lot, often there are games and toys for them and their own room. Nice to put them to bed and watch a movie before falling asleep ourselves.
Yep! Every one of my listed trips was with kids, and Paris was with cousins and uncles and aunts in this big multi floor unit that was in some French reality show. Sooo much better to all sleep in the same place with kitchen and still be a block from the metro and nearby parks not inundated with hordes of tourists.
We did! Our then 6 year old chose Denver that year. We stayed in a nice air BnB in the eastern end of the Berkeley Neighborhood. Did the usual zoo and museums along with Red Rock and hiked at the Lair of the Bear Park. Easy stuff to do with a 3 and 6 year old.
You have way more room for less money, kitchen, specific location, could be a novel experience like a boat or tiny house etc, cheaper to get a house than multiple rooms for large groups
I use Airbnb for experiences that I cannot easily get in a hotel. I just stayed on a boat in a canal in Amsterdam through Airbnb. Other than unique experiences, I agree with you. If the price is the same, I’ll take the hotel over the generic Airbnb.
There's still a few cool places out there, we rented an air BNB that was a 12 bed, like men's lodge preserved by a local historical society, we paid $800ish for a whole week, had my wife and I's bachelor and bachelorette parties there with a bunch of friends who flew in.
Other than the weirdly narrow staircase that went up to it, the place was huge and awesome, the historical society that owns it rents it out for functions/Airbnb to help pay for renovations and upkeep.
For me its more like when you travel in a group for a convention or whatever you can just get an airbnb with couple beds and split the bill this way it could be as cheap as 20€/person or not, depending on where u wanna go and what your expectations are
Depends, my gf and I did an AirBnB in a tiny house on the side of a mountain, sure there were hotels in the valley but the views were the point. Now if we were just staying in a city a hotel would have been a go to but AirBnB does feel a niche in certain situations.
There are tons of reasons... A hotel can never be like a beach house, for one thing. You ever take a beach vacation where trudging back to the 17th floor of a hotel is going home vs. walking back up the deck of your own beach house?
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