I don't reserve hotels ahead of time. I plan the first day for hotel shopping. I walk in, if the hotel seems good, I ask to see a room, check for cleanliness and noise levels. If it doesn't pass, I move on. I've had to look at 6 hotels in one day before finding a good room before. Having a good, clean, safe place to relax and sleep is the #1 most important thing in a trip.
>>2827638I approve.
>>2827638>I don't reserve hotels ahead of time. I plan the first day for hotel shopping.I’ve done something like this more than a few times in the past, but I rarely want to sacrifice as much time or effort as it can take nowadays. When I did it, I always used to start the process off with a hotel candidate in mind to check first, which in my case I would choose from among those described in an old-school paper guidebook. How do you decide where to check out first? Do you research hotels online but not book anything?>I walk in, if the hotel seems good, I ask to see a room, check for cleanliness and noise levels. If it doesn't pass, I move on. Although I usually book at least my first night’s lodgings in advance nowadays, I have changed hotels or found the next one based on similar in-person inspections. But that’s much easier in some places than others. How do you decide where to check out next? Do you make a list of multiple prospects to inspect ahead of time? And how do you move between them when moving on? On foot? Taxi? Public transit? Obviously, some destinations will have streets lined with a lot of hotels, or small districts with a dense concentration of accommodations, but in a lot of places the next hotel might be quite far from the last one.>I've had to look at 6 hotels in one day before finding a good room before. That’s the kind of effort I no longer have the patience for. And surely you must have had to compromise or settle for something less than ideal at least once or twice, have you not? How often and how widely have you travelled like this?>Having a good, clean, safe place to relax and sleep is the #1 most important thing in a trip.It’s nowhere near so essential for me. I have minimum standards below which I won’t sink, but I can put up with a night or two somewhere a bit weird or disappointing without complaining. My price point (not luxury, but at least midrange) usually filters out the worst places anyway.
>>2827638Comfy Maxxing GODS win again.
>>2827638It really doesn't matter if a place is clean or not. I've stayed in some dirty rooms that were very comfortable, and some clean rooms where I could hardly sleep for how shitty the mattress was. I choose for price first and location second. Amenities aren't much of a concern of mine. Travelers should learn how to tolerate discomfort, especially if they are traveling in impoverished countries.
>>2827650Do you pay a taxi to take you from hotel to hotel with your luggage and wait while you inquire about a room, or do you spend three hours carrying your shit from one hotel to another in the 35 C midday sun?
>>2827638>>2827655Honestly...what? You know you're paying more for walk-in rates than you would if you booked online? This is some proper retarded shit.Like OP, I value a nice room/suite. Comfy, clean, decent size, nice finishings with all the amenities you need. But unlike OP, I'm not poor. I stay at places like the Mandarin Oriental, Ritz Carlton, and other similar places. I recently went to Japan and stayed at the Hyatt in Shinjuku. You can safely assume that the rooms you book at these hotels will be comfy, so you don't have to be a poor fag like OP lugging his suitcase from one APA hotel to another. >>2827667Filth. I can smell you through the monitor
>>2827726A comfy, spacious room is worth it when you come back from a whole days worth of exploring and sight seeing. Rest up for a few hours before heading out again for dinner and the whore bars.
>>2827638Do you usually stay at the chosen hotel the whole time your in the location?
>>2827726>You know you're paying more for walk-in rates than you would if you booked online?That’s often not true. Many “online only” rates (especially those offered by third-party vendors—it varies by country, but in more cases than you might expect, contacting hotels directly instead of going through a booking site or app can result in better rates), are actually arbitrary markups. The higher prices that get displayed next to these “deals” as slashed through and reduced are frequently just made up. Higher walk-in rates do exist, but they are nowhere near universal.
>>2827726That's your own skidmarks you're smelling, pal
>>2827829It depends on your country. In Malaysia, Agoda gets you the best deals 99% of the time. In Thailand, you can find cheaper rooms at walk-in hotels.
If you walk out of the train station the "wrong" way in Udorn Thani, you will encounter this hotel.
>>2827835I recall that walk-in rates in Thailand aren’t inflated as a rule; it’s also a place where it’s often possible to get room upgrades/added value from front desks. When I was in graduate school and spending a summer doing research there, a 5-star hotel gave me a state-employee discount rate just because I was tangentially affiliated with a public university. I was by no stretch of the imagination a Thai government employee, and they knew that, but they didn’t care.As for the third-party booking sites, it’s literally always cheaper to avoid them in Switzerland, and just book directly with a hotel, whether online or otherwise. It’s often cheaper in other parts of Europe as well (pretty sure it’s also the case in the Netherlands), but it’s not totally predictable. And I think Luxembourg hotels do add fees for walk-ins, or the one place I booked as a walk-in seemed to, but who cares?
>>2827668Imagine being too dumb to understand luggage storage.
>>2827638I had to stop for a night in budapest and I didn't bother booking anything in advance for so short a stayso when my overnight train reached Budapest Keleti I just walked out and to the first hotel I saw and it was the comfiest most amazing hotel I've ever been to not necessarily luxury, just in terms of the basics - like location, comfortable bed, adequate furniture, being able to open your window, general decor and facilities. and price wasn't too bad eitherso yeah that's the best way to do it if you can
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