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    JustActSurprisedHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:32am

    What would the price point be for these hotels, though? I’m aging out of the prime demographic soon, so maybe I’m not the best judge (still a millennial though) and to me $230 - $275 seems like a reasonable per night approximation for a decent quality hotel in a major metropolitan area (except for NYC but I live here so I don’t really care about that). My husband and I stayed in Miami and that price point will get a pretty good hotel with beach access and a pool. Definitely not 4 star (that would be $350+ in my mind) but not “we need to burn these sheets and leave stuff in the safe” level.

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      Pepsi MoondogJustActSurprised
      3/08/16 11:35am

      I don’t think that’s a reasonable price point at all. Half a month’s rent for a single night? Maybe that’s just flyover country talking though...

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      foolyooJustActSurprised
      3/08/16 11:36am

      Older Millenial here, I only travel to places where I have friends and family to stay with, I can camp, or has decent hostels. I cannot justify paying over $50 per night to sleep. But if I am being reimbursed through work travel, I am maxing out my per diem.

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    dothedewHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:38am

    I have been saying for years, the answer to all our accomodation problems is over, friends. The answer is obvious and is already being deployed in a normal-ish modern country

    White millennials seems to enjoy it as much as a Tokyo salaryman.

    Hilton can use the extra space they save to build a “social room” where these young men and women can gather to socialize by texting one another from comfy couches and bean bag chairs.

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      Chuck Schwadothedew
      3/08/16 11:42am

      “Won’t you consider adopting a rescue tourist today?”

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      aranxa1dothedew
      3/08/16 11:44am

      Looks a lot like the kennel my dog stays at. If it’s good enough for my dog, its definitely good enough for a Millennial.

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    HaighaHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:41am

    Wait, as a Gen Xer, in the late 80s and early 90s, I had no money. My friends had no money. So if we knew someone, we’d crash on their floor. Or, we’d stay in a shitty motel with peeling wallpaper, a bad bed and a broken TV. Like a chain hotel that hadn’t been renovated since 1970, or a former Howard Johnson’s now under local management but still keeping the orange roof and the weird smell. There weren’t enough of us that some company was going to launch a new budget hotel offering just for us. They were building expensive shit for Baby Boomers.

    So, the complaint is what, that they’re actually going to build a new line of budget hotels that won’t be falling apart? The horror.

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      TheBurnersMyDestinationHaigha
      3/08/16 11:56am

      I was forced (by the weather) to sleep in the shadiest motel in existence somewhere near the Kansas-Colorado border while I was travelling last year. Drug deals happening in 3 feet of snow, truckers with people who were clearly prostitutes, children being barely supervised by chain-smoking teenagers... the works. I actually jammed the chair under the doorknob like you see in the movies and tried to avoid touching anything else in the room. I figured there was about a 75% chance that I was going to wake up in the bathtub with a kidney cut out. That said.... only cost $45 and I was out of there as soon as the snow stopped and the roads were re-opened.

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      NoOnesPostHaigha
      3/08/16 12:18pm

      The problem is that Hilton is pandering to millennials by pretending they’re doing anything other than making shitty cheap motels.

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    Low Information BoaterHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:30am

    Ahh, the transition to a service economy where nobody is able to purchase the services is nearly complete!

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      tr5uedLow Information Boater
      3/08/16 11:37am

      I don’t really get how rich people think this new economy is going to work.

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      Johnny Chunderstr5ued
      3/08/16 11:43am

      Step 1: be rich to begin with.

      Step 2: nah.

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    JessieHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:33am

    Important question... My baby is due in August... Please tell me it will be post Millennial generation? It’s going to be something else, right? To be honest I’m not even sure if I’m a Millennial... or that mid generation between the X and M...

    So confused...

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      terryboleasghostJessie
      3/08/16 11:38am

      your baby is going to be born in generation the last, a few decades before the Great War for Basic Resources breaks out

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      LooseSEALJessie
      3/08/16 11:51am

      Yes, the youngest millenial is now like 16-17. Millenials ended in 99-00.

      For reference, I am a 34 year old millenial also having a baby this year, our kids will either be amazing or complete garbage, its yet to be seen.

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    CatdogWhispererHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:36am

    I don't need much to sleep comfortably honestly, but you should probably at least clean the semen off of everything before I get there. Oh, and you should DEFINITELY clean the semen off of everything after I leave..

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      godspeed aquaboyCatdogWhisperer
      3/08/16 11:49am

      God, I hope it’s urine.

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      opiumsmabytchCatdogWhisperer
      3/08/16 12:01pm

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt7GTR…

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    Joel_CRHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 12:10pm

    When I was a solo traveler who scraped to save dough on hotels, I used Hotwire (not Priceline) extensively. With the aid for websites like BetterBidding, you can get a sense of what the opaque hotels actually are. This can work really well, but it doesn’t get around the annoying zoning restrictions that confine hotels to downtown and airport districts in many major cities.

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      audenJoel_CR
      3/08/16 1:07pm

      I’ve used Hotwire many times. I’ve figured out my own way of knowing what hotel is being offered before I buy. It only works if you’re familiar with the particular city though.

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      LittleKauden
      3/08/16 1:57pm

      Any tips? My one-time experience with Hotwire was terrible even though I did extensive research.

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    NoGasHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:33am

    I write this from an off-brand hotel directly off of the interstate. Millennials have no money. It’s that simple. Would I like to stay in the luxury hotel a mile down the road? Yes. But it’s $400 a night. Nearly as much as my monthly rent. A low rent, because I don’t have a lot of money.

    Most of us have a college degree of some kind. And yet all of the jobs we get are miserably low in pay. But according to the walking economic failure that is the baby boomer generation, I just need to keep working that job and living in near poverty so I can get a dollar raise at the end of a five year period.

    So I guess it's not that we have no money, few prospects, and are in a system that is rigged. It's that we have poor financial planning and love heroin chic.

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      RedNoGas
      3/08/16 2:52pm

      “Most of us have a college degree of some kind. “

      And there is half your financial trouble right there. Many of you have overpriced degrees that have not prepared you for anything other than working hard for little money.

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      NicoRed
      3/08/16 3:00pm

      Well, from birth it was drilled into your head that anyone who doesn’t go to college will wind up flipping burgers, so they went to college and still wound up flipping burgers, or making little more than burger flippers. I thank my stars all the time I dropped out after 1 semester because I make the same if not more money than people my age with degrees without the crippling debt.

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    SpangarangHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:31am

    Why even bother with a motel? I just need a couple of trees to put up my hammock and reconnect with nature. I can turn the car on for light and to charge my phone.

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      dothedewSpangarang
      3/08/16 11:34am

      I’m generally on board with that concept but you know it’s not safe or feasible to just set up a hammock between 2 trees in actual American cities, right?

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      I like pooping.dothedew
      3/08/16 9:15pm

      it is, however, perfectly safe to sleep in your car in just about any rest area or a few streets back of the main highway on any small town street grid.

      (source: I do it about 25 times a year. used to do it over 50.)

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    ThrumbolioHamilton Nolan
    3/08/16 11:33am

    Eh, works for me. If I’m on vacation, I want frills. If I need a place to sleep, a mattress and a room with a lock on it are fine by me.

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      EvenBaggierTrousers4Thrumbolio
      3/08/16 11:40am

      I’m pretty no frills too since if we’re going on a mini vacation, we’re not going to be spending much time in a room anyway. That being said, I’ve been hotels/motels so cheap that when the couple next door were banging, the wall behind our bed bulged out slightly whenever they rhymthically did whatever it was they were doing. True story. I was torn between applauding them and getting the fuck out before the wall collapsed.

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      godspeed aquaboyThrumbolio
      3/08/16 11:59am

      Be careful of what you ask for. I was splitting a room with some friends back in the 80's in Stockton, CA and won the coin toss for the bed. After gloating, I lay down and something is poking me all over my back. I jump out bed and tear off the fitted sheet, expecting cockroaches or some other horrible thing. I was more confused when I discovered the bed had been made over the top of what looked like a bag of Fritos.

      I slept in my sleeping back on top of the covers.

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