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What do you guys do at a hotel that you need all this room?

I only get one if I have to, so that typically means long distance vacations. The room is a necessity, not a destination. I basically need somewhere I can lie fully down... and that's about it. Even things like pooping and showering are things I could do communally. One of those Jap tubes would be my go-to, if price went by square footage.

Perhaps it's the tenting and the sailing, but tiny rooms with little to no modern comforts are no deterrent whatsoever to me. Even if the room is solely for a tryst, any one of these would be sufficient.

Seriously, what do you do in a hotel? You got me thinking I'm missing out on some fun =p

I am mostly the same way, bed, TV, bathroom, and I am set. I do not know how big the room is when I am sleeping. I have heard that smaller rooms are a European thing. When I get together with buddies once or twice a year we need a bigger room, by myself not so much. BTW: I would like to go to Japan and try a capsule hotel.

Quote: Face

Seriously, what do you do in a hotel? You got me thinking I'm missing out on some fun =p

What don't I do!

But seriously, when you stay 18 nights in a room, you want a space where you can live. At least I want some space where I can live. I like the rooms at the 4 Queens well enough. I like the ones at the Golden Nugget better enough. I thought the rooms at the Rio were too large, and the extra space didn't provide much for a solo traveler.

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BTW: I would like to go to Japan and try a capsule hotel.

Colorado, Canada...
Major ski resorts in Canada import a zillion GAP YEAR students to man the hotels and restaurants and ski lifts at starvation wages in return for the opportunity to ski and screw other GAP YEAR students. The resorts can not put their staff up in "real" hotel rooms so its all bunkhouses, microtels, and stacked plastic bed spaces made in Japan. The USA does not really offer such visas but the economics is the same: work in Aspen, sleep in a bunkhouse twenty miles away.

Hostels in Europe and Australia are family institutions, not just 20 year olds with back packs.

Hostels that are close to the action always do very well. Small rooms five minutes from a destination beat larger rooms that require some sort of shuttle.

Quote: Fleastiff

Hostels that are close to the action always do very well. Small rooms five minutes from a destination beat larger rooms that require some sort of shuttle.

I have done the hostel thing. Was like a minimum security prison fantasy camp. Happy to say I have done it. Wish I had done it when I was 10 years younger at the time.

I don't want a hostel, I want the real deal in Japan....

Quote: AZDuffman

I have done the hostel thing. Was like a minimum security prison fantasy camp. Happy to say I have done it. Wish I had done it when I was 10 years younger at the time.

I don't want a hostel, I want the real deal in Japan....

Can I get an MRI while I'm at it?

Quote: Face

Even things like pooping and showering are things I could do communally. One of those Jap tubes would be my go-to, if price went by square footage.

The tube hotels are really not designed for intercity visitors. They are mostly for men to crash when they are too drunk to make it home. Cost can be $25-$30. Or they are for airports where rentals are often for a few hours.

Rooms with single beds that are under 120 square feet are available mostly for men on trips. They are clustered near the train stations and inexpensive places to eat.

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The tube hotels are really not designed for intercity visitors. They are mostly for men to crash when they are too drunk to make it home. Cost can be $25-$30. Or they are for airports where rentals are often for a few hours.

Perhaps not, but I can't be the only poor here. If I actually had to pay to go to Vegas, and I had six figures to spend, I'd still be opting for a tiny box or a tube. There's just not much value in a room for me other than the bed. If it saved me even ten bucks, I'd be waltzing down to the communal pooper / shower as opposed to having those facilities in my room.

Quote: Face

Perhaps not, but I can't be the only poor here.

I understand your point.
From your prospective there are millions of hard working people who don't care about private facilities. In addition to outdoor enthusiasts there are men who served in the military. In particular the people in the Navy are used to sleeping in coffin size bunks and taking showers where the water runs for 30 seconds at a time. There is a huge travel industry in Europe which is primarily built around teens, but often includes people up to age 30 who live in hostels and eat communal meals and share communal showers and toilets.

It seems like intercity travel in the USA is hampered by lack of public transit, but also the fairly high price of rooms. Low cost hostel travel in Europe is actually seen as a way to promote unity across the continent.

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Can I get an MRI while I'm at it?

Brilliant.

NZ and Australian hostels often have endless racks of Chamber of Commerce type brochures on the area, anything needed for cameras, camcorders or phones, internet access and kiosks with ride share services to music festivals or the like... its not just for the poverty stricken students but for anyone who wants to travel on the cheap and visit water falls rather than night clubs.

Rooms can be dormitory, singles, doubles, ensuite or not.

The best travel mode if you stay near the coast seems to be Crew Houses. Dormitory style beds mostly but some private and double rooms too, plenty of kitchen space and appliances, bicycles available, often naked "yachties" cavorting in the pool, bulletin board for yachting jobs.