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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Renting a hotel has always been cheaper than an Air unless you are staying at high end places.  Cheep hotels are nice and simple for times when you just need a room to sleep in, but most of your day is going to spent outside.  Higher end hotels are for times when you want a bit more pampering to your stay, you might be someplace for business, and you are not going to out and about for much, so having extra luxury is nice.  Air BnB always felt to me like, you want to have more of the living experience of the area, as well as the vacation.  You are going to spend several days there, and you want to feel the community as much as you want to experience its perks.  For the life of me, I do not understand why a normal person, taking a vacation some place, would ever do an air bnb.  Maybe thats just me, maybe it used to be super cheep, I only looked into it about a year ago, and was dumbfounded by the costs.
gpt
Yeah if you started looking at it in the past year, it definitely isn’t cheap. I started using it like 7 or 8 years ago and it was great. You could get a full apartment in the center of a city for the same as a mediocre hotel room. If you were traveling with friends, you could easily find a multiple bedroom place and the per person cost would be way less than a hotel. They still has cleaning fees and things like that, but it would be something like $50 for your whole stay