How did hotels become so damn expensive? I remember when I was a teenager you could stay at a pretty decent Holiday Inn or Best Western for like $40 a night. Today, it's minimum $70-150 unless you're in Vegas or some casino town with a subsidized stay. Even in Trump's book Art of the Deal, he mentions only charging $100-300 for his fancy inner city hotel. Today, literally a few blocks away they go for $1000 a night for an shitty """historic""" one. Even reserving one in advance costs over $500++, and this is for the worst of the worst. Despite inflation, this business is such a joke. You'd think with AirBnB it would help, but it doesn't. And yes, I know landlords banned AirBnB but I know a few people who run businesses renting out their apartments to AirBnB. Cities are just shit and I'm so sick of this: "MUH PROPERTY" garbage the boomers memed into this hellish reality. This is why China is beating the shit out of us. They can build whatever the fuck we want while we can't because stupid boomers use zoning laws to make their shitty properties worth more.
How did hotels become so damn expensive...
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Inflation you boomer retard
>china
Its a communist thread
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This answer is always boomers. They are the ones writing the laws and maintaining status quo of high prices. To play devils advocate though, I would do the exact same things the boomers are doing if I was in there place.
You seem smart as hell
wew lad, spend less time on Jow Forums
you can still get a decent hotel room at a fair price in any major city in the world, just maybe not the famous/historic ones
one reason other than inflation is that the hotel business has fundamentally changed over the past 100 years because travel and communication has become cheaper and easier. in the past it was common for travellers to stay at the same hotel room weeks at a time, sometimes even months because that's how long it took them to do their business or because they couldn't afford to hop between several cities during the one trip like we can do now.
>Cities are just shit
statistics show that on average people who live in cities are healthier, happier, richer and produce a lower carbon footprint than flyovers/suburbanites
>This is why China is beating the shit out of us
China is not beating anyone at anything. Their cities are uninhabitable toxic wastelands due to their lack of planning protections and a huge number of their structures are unsafe due to the widespread use of cheap concrete by corrupt builders.
>They can build whatever the fuck we want
Yeah and have literally whole cities built that are empty, not a bubble at all, keep working goyim
>you can still get a decent hotel room at a fair price in any major city in the world, just maybe not the famous/historic ones
No you fucking can't. Check NYC's prices. Check San Francisco or Los Angeles. Even a few years ago I remember getting a decent hotel for around $150 a night. Now they're price gouging in the last 2 years. Why the fuck is that? Oh right, because boomers and their stupid price speculation over inner-city property.
We have so much land it's not even funny. We're not developing on it. Zoning laws, environmental regulation have CRIPPLED us. The quality of life has significantly declined in the last 10 years, and even worse just 20 years ago. The boomers are absolutely out of control and need to be stopped. It's sad that idiots like you think raising the minimum wage and sucking Bernie's cock will fix all of this.
>statistics show that on average people who live in cities are healthier, happier, richer and produce a lower carbon footprint than flyovers/suburbanites
>happier
>richer
hahahahahaHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Okay, enjoy living in your cuckpartment paying 50% of your income toward it.
>China is not beating anyone at anything. Their cities are uninhabitable toxic wastelands due to their lack of planning protections and a huge number of their structures are unsafe due to the widespread use of cheap concrete by corrupt builders.
The point is they're building. Their hotels are far cheaper than over here and it costs barely anything to live and stay there, at least outside of Hong Kong. Yes, they are a paper tiger ready to collapse but they always were a weak third world country with fake growth.
>Check NYC's prices
2 minutes on expedia and here's a nice hotel room in manhattan for $95/night
>hahahahahaHAHHAHAHAHAHA
Okay, enjoy living in your cuckpartment paying 50% of your income toward it
great counterargument how about you show me some statistics?
why would people pay so much for their apartment rather than moving back home to the sticks if it didn't make them happier?
>Their hotels are far cheaper than over here and it costs barely anything to live and stay there
not even true the cost of accomodation and real estate in beijing, shanghai and guangzhou is basically the same as western capitals
>guangzhou
What's that?
A huge city near Hong Kong
it's the 3rd biggest city in china, where lots of the manufacturing is and many westerners (including myself) buy the shit that we bring home to sell
The nearest reserve date for that price is NEXT YEAR. Get something 2 weeks from now which is the typical advanced notice and you get prices over $500, and this place isn't even that nice despite the pictures, and despite it being in midtown. Oh my allah you really need to read before posting.
>why would people pay so much for their apartment rather than moving back home to the sticks if it didn't make them happier?
maybe because they've lived there their whole lives? maybe they have jobs there?
>inflation
>boomers
That's really it.
here's an acceptable room two weeks from now for less than $200/night
also manhattan is like the most expensive real estate on earth, it's an exception, if we looked at other boroughs or even other major cities it is different.
ADD ONE MORE DAY TO THAT. Oh. It's sold out.
Do you honestly think you know more than me? I've traveled far more than you kid. Prices are sky high from 3 years ago. We are getting fucked over. Stop trying to make shit up and just accept reality.
>It's sold out
so do more than one fucking minute of research, there are obviously tonnes of hotel rooms out there if you're internet savvy enough to find them
i've been running my own import/export business for 6 years now so i'm pretty well travelled myself. i've literally posted reasonably priced hotel rooms and you are still claiming that they don't exist. every time i post evidence you disagree with respond with basement-dweller tier ad-hominem attacks.
you are experiencing this:
>so do more than one fucking minute of research, there are obviously tonnes of hotel rooms out there if you're internet savvy enough to find them
Then post them. Oh right. You couldn't find any.
And no one in the import business calls it import/export.
>you are experiencing this:
>youarenotsosmart.com
How exactly am I wrong? Hotels are fucking expensive. I used Art of a Deal as a source. Trump now charges 2x what it used to cost despite accounting for inflation.
Also, stop using reddit spacing.
immigration plus inflation plus qe
Your completely anecdotal personal experience with hotel room pricing is not a solid ground for the argument you’re trying to have. Your IQ must be as low as your budget
>2018
> not using booking.com
No idea why you don't make it