To ask how much you'd spend on a hotel?

[Planejane34]

I'm happy with a Premier Inn tbh. For a treat (maybe twice a year at most) I'd spend up to £100, and that might be something with a spa or definitely with breakfast included.
I've just seen that a friend of mine spent £750 on a night's stay at a top rated hotel with a Michelin Starred restaurant.
I'm sure it was very nice, but £750!! I could go to New York for that price.
Obviously it'll depend on income and leftover money, but just curious to see.

Even you saying each to their own here has a strong hint of judginess about it. You clearly think your uses for the mythical hotel room are better or more worthy than others.

But it's an impossible question to answer anyway, because none of us are taking the exact same room, at the exact same time, with the exact same income, or for the exact same purpose.

I paid a lot of money for a room this year for a very specific to me purpose. It fulfilled that purpose and gave me huge value for many personal reasons. For the very next guest, it might have been pocket change and just a meaningless bed for the night. Both are no more and no less valid than your perceived more worthy home renovations.

I would normally not want to spend more than about £250 a night for a room as I wouldn't normally be in it much. But that being said, we had 3 nights in Amsterdam recently and it cost about 1100 euros. The breakfast was amazing though and the beds very nice. I think the place we stayed in Calabria in May was similar - but we had a duplex suite with terrace and I could have happily moved in permanently.

For a night in England that’s just ‘a bed and a shower’ because we need to be overnight in that area - ideally £130

On holiday abroad - £250 - £350

oh id love to stay somewhere like that.

what's was so god about it?

my husabnd doesnt understand inflation

he refuses to spend money and it broke me and he doesnt understand that squirrelling £100K away and living like the clampers is utter crap

If im booking its usually within the £150 to £200 price range, including breakfast.
When dh books it he is happy to go much higher! He likes us to have a great room, a lovely hotel with a spa etc.
I let him get on with it!(and encourage him to making the bookings!!!).

Premier inn for me!!! Lol

The beautiful building, the food, the ambience, but mostly the staff - they are fantastic. Not obsequious, just helpful, as in there when you want them but not in your face. You never have to quote your room number, because they know who you are. And call you by your name, eg "Good Morning Ms Whoever".
Sadly, prices have shot up since I last stayed - probably more like £1,200 per night now, which is getting a bit more challenging!

oh how lovely. id like even to go for an afternoon tea somewhere like that one day.

we had the money but my DH would never even fork out for an afternoon tea - his meanness broke me sadly.

my mum grew up in London snd used to go to the Dorchester when she was a nurse there.

A lot of what people like about 5 star hotels sounds creepy to me. I don't care about them remembering my name and if I need something, as long as I can find someone fairly easily, I don't mind if I have to ask, rather than them 'helping' me.

On a thread about a 5 star hotel overseas, people were praising the staff who would appear and clean your sunglasses for you every day, or be constantly offering you cocktails. Creepy. Just leave me alone FFS.

I wouldn't spend loads on a hotel because I'm not rich enough to not have to think about spending my money wisely and most £100-£200 pn hotels are generally lovely enough for me. But even Premier Inn isn't cheap any more, we can't use the one near one near our main office because it's rarely under about £180 so it's too expensive - not even near London.

Speaking as a woman who has just splashed out £1000 for a Premier inn in edinburgh for 3 nights during festival, I'm wondering about my life choices right now.

I go more on the going rate kind of approach.

In places like Vietnam and Thailand I have got really nice hotels for £35-60pn. It would have been pointless spending £100pn

Other places are more expensive, so you would be hard pressed to get anywhere decent for less than £100.

I look more at what my needs are, am I traveling alone, am I with my partner. If with partner we need more space because our sleep wake cycles are different and I need somewhere to sit so I don't disturb him. You have to pay more for that usually, especially in Japan where the rooms are tiny. But then, if you are travelling with someone you are splitting the costs so it's cheaper anyway.

Also, you might pay £4-500 per night for something like a Ryokan that includes kimonos and traditional Japanese banquet served in your room and private onsen, but you wouldn't do that every night, you would just do that for a special night while there.

Same with going away for a spa weekend. You'd spend more on that but get access to the spa.

Ryokan? We have booked one for our upcoming trip!

I won’t stay in anything less than 4* and I grew up in a council estate and I now work at Amazon. I want a treat when I stay at a hotel.

A lot of what people like about 5 star hotels sounds creepy to me. I don't care about them remembering my name and if I need something, as long as I can find someone fairly easily, I don't mind if I have to ask, rather than them 'helping' me. On a thread about a 5 star hotel overseas, people were praising the staff who would appear and clean your sunglasses for you every day, or be constantly offering you cocktails. Creepy. Just leave me alone FFS

Same here.

I find the same with cruises. I would quite like to experience a suite but I would never get one because many come with a Butler. An actual bloody Butler 😂. They pack and unpack for you if you wish, give you 100% personalised service, they're basically just always a stone throw away. It sounds bloody awful to me, so suffocating and awkward. Even the standard concierge class sometimes feels a bit much as it's often the same 1 or 2 people you see all the time - but that's more bearable because at least those staff members have quite a few staterooms to cater to.

Part of what I love about holidays is the anonymity. I want to spend time with just dh, or dh and dc or whoever i'm with. I don't want to feel obliged to build a fake relationship with my own personal servant!

Around 1000 a night

I love this

As little as possible and tbh I’ve had some great weekends away in some interesting places for very little. The 3 nights in wales for £120 for 4 of us was an interesting little hotel, very much like faulty towers 😂.

I don’t think I have ever paid more than about £130 for a night anywhere. I booked dd1 and her boyfriend a couple of nights away in what looks like a nice city centre hotel with a pool, spa and breakfast for £230.

I’ve booked London for my and both dds in the summer hols for £110 (cheapest o could find that wasn’t certainly a brothel). I’ve stayed in LSE uni accommodation before.

I could afford to spend more but my dont really feel the need. It’s just somewhere to sleep.

Anything more than Prem and you're paying for an experience.

I'm about to drop £500+ for a 40th birthday night away with my husband and we will be eating, drinking, lounging, spa-ing, sleeping and resting. I'm not paying that sort of money to sit in a Prem Inn!

If the point of the visit is to see something then there's no way I'm paying more than Prem.

I would spend closer to your friend’s budget. I would never stay in a Premier Inn. I love travelling but find it stressful. I want it to be better than home when I get there. I always say life is for living but to each their own

We don't really have a set amount. I've spent £1 for a night on a hammock for the night, I've also spent £2k for an over water bungalow with a butler in the Maldives.

I get the shivers paying more than £100 per person, I do make the odd exception due to location and relative cost of nearby hotels. I like the norm of £60 mark max (per person, with brekky) as a general rule. I get the shivers again it it is less than £30 per person, unless it is a particularly cheap location. I think I am a cheapskate compared with other posters though..HTH x

I’ve never stayed at a fancy hotel! I grew up thinking that holidays in a building (rather than a tent) were luxury!

But I am currently tucked up in a PI in London zone 2, which is £220 for 2 adults and a child for 2 nights. I only booked it 2 weeks ago, and don’t think that’s a bad price.

For city breaks it's about having a central location. There is normally a Premier Inn to book, but this is not always the cheapest or best value by the time you have factored in breakfast and parking options.

I think the most I’ve spent is around £500 for one night.
You really couldn’t go to new work with a £750 budget, it’s not 2002.
I can’t say I’ve ever see a spa hotel that costs £100 and actually looks decent.