Just booked a room in Boston despite outrageous prices in the downtown area (we're talking hundreds of dollars! Didn't know real estate in Boston was that expensive!)
For a while I've been going with hostels instead of booking hotels for traveling. Perfect for the single traveler, I really didn't know what I had been missing because I didn't know these things existed.
Hostel advantages:
1.) cheaper than hotels
2.) Open areas to socialize with other travelers
3.) all the same accommodations as hotels. \
4.) brings one back to the college, bunk bed days
5.) Did I mention cheaper than hotels?
Hostel disadvantages
1.) have to share bathroom with other people
2.) have to sleep in the same room with other people- snoring, getting up in the middle of the night, etc.
3.) not the best accommodations- not a king bed, for example.
4.) all the possible disadvantages from the movie "Hostel."- hasn't happened to me yet.
5.) sometimes you can get a bad apple- air beds or worse, like sleeping on the ground in New York one time. That sucked. Check the reviews before you go. Anyone and their mother can set up a "hostel" by opening up some rooms in their house and taking people's $30.
Hostels, superior to hotels (the extra "S" seals it, and better than airBnb! ( in my opinion better for longer-term stays like for a week or so). I haven't tried Couchsurfing.com, though, where one literally "crashes on someone's couch." Also should some enterprising entrepreneur come up with a way, an "airport BnB" app could be useful to get the best airports to take a nap in/ get the best spots in that airport.
Could be useful if you're a home field cooler like me and go around the country making the home team lose games.
Fantasize on,
Robert Yan
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