Comments on: Posh hotels: why do they make us hate them? http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/ Sharing the world with you Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:48:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Andy Jarosz http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/#comment-1833 Andy Jarosz Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:34:05 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=1771#comment-1833 Super 8 are great. Cheap, clean and perfect if you just want to check in after 9pm and be out at sunrise. Some of them even have a pool! And best of all, from my limited experience of maybe five or six motels the staff treat you like a human being. €20 is about the going rate Anil. Like you say, it's crazy. They would generate a much better public perception if they just absorbed the wi-fi costs into their room rates (it really wouldn't be much) Super 8 are great. Cheap, clean and perfect if you just want to check in after 9pm and be out at sunrise. Some of them even have a pool! And best of all, from my limited experience of maybe five or six motels the staff treat you like a human being.
€20 is about the going rate Anil. Like you say, it’s crazy. They would generate a much better public perception if they just absorbed the wi-fi costs into their room rates (it really wouldn’t be much)

]]> By: Anil http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/#comment-1820 Anil Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:43:13 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=1771#comment-1820 I was recently in Dublin where one of the hotels I attended a conference at was charging 20 Euro for Internet per day. My hostel room was 9 Euro and that included wi-fi! Fees like that drive me insane. I was recently in Dublin where one of the hotels I attended a conference at was charging 20 Euro for Internet per day. My hostel room was 9 Euro and that included wi-fi! Fees like that drive me insane.

]]> By: John http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/#comment-1808 John Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:28:32 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=1771#comment-1808 Personally our family is a Super 8 fan. Cheap, Free Wifi, and breakfast every morning. For work sometimes I have to go to a higher class hotel, but it isn't as good as Super 8. Personally our family is a Super 8 fan. Cheap, Free Wifi, and breakfast every morning. For work sometimes I have to go to a higher class hotel, but it isn’t as good as Super 8.

]]> By: Andy Jarosz http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/#comment-1792 Andy Jarosz Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:42:45 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=1771#comment-1792 Hi Don, Thanks for stopping by and posting. Yes, you make a great point. If your business model revolves around guests who are on expenses and so don't care about the charges, you can pretty much print your own cash. Now that we are back in the real world where companies are actually checking how their costs are racking up on travel costs, these hotels are being exposed. Let's hope they get the message, and if TripAdvisor helps to force them into reality then all power to it. Hi Don, Thanks for stopping by and posting. Yes, you make a great point. If your business model revolves around guests who are on expenses and so don’t care about the charges, you can pretty much print your own cash. Now that we are back in the real world where companies are actually checking how their costs are racking up on travel costs, these hotels are being exposed. Let’s hope they get the message, and if TripAdvisor helps to force them into reality then all power to it.

]]> By: Don Nadeau http://www.501places.com/2010/02/posh-hotels-why-do-they-make-us-hate-them/#comment-1791 Don Nadeau Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:02:35 +0000 http://www.501places.com/?p=1771#comment-1791 Twenty-five dollars a day for parking? Consider yourselves lucky! This easily runs over $40 in central business districts. As long as these 4-star type hotels were catering to the expense account crowd, as well as to the leisure luxe rich, these types of fees were probably not a big issue. Now, that these hotels are opening their doors to the rest of us by deep discounting due to cash flow problems in this economy, unseemly fees have become a big issue in guest satisfaction. If they don't want lower TripAdvisor ratings than the by-the-hour motel down the road, deluxe hotels should address the fee problem. Twenty-five dollars a day for parking? Consider yourselves lucky! This easily runs over $40 in central business districts.

As long as these 4-star type hotels were catering to the expense account crowd, as well as to the leisure luxe rich, these types of fees were probably not a big issue. Now, that these hotels are opening their doors to the rest of us by deep discounting due to cash flow problems in this economy, unseemly fees have become a big issue in guest satisfaction.

If they don’t want lower TripAdvisor ratings than the by-the-hour motel down the road, deluxe hotels should address the fee problem.

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