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There are some amazing hotels in London. I've had some amazing experiences. My own observation may be anecdotal but i think this comes down to what each dollar
by krmmalik 10y ago
There are some amazing hotels in London. I've had some amazing experiences. My own observation may be anecdotal but i think this comes down to what each dollar gets you for your money. $150 in London gets you an average hotel. $150 in Bangkok gets you something top notch. Chances are most of the analysis has been done at fixed price points, not accounting for relative value. That would explain why London rates poorer.
- Erwin 10y agoBerlin, Lisbon, Budapest and Bruxelles are some of those cities where you can stay at a 5-star extremely cheap. London's the worst for it; I have never been happy with the cheaper 5-star (less than 260 GBP/night) hotels there. Maybe if you stay at Mandarin Oriental... On the other hand the restaurants are a great value, especially lunch menus: save the 100 GBP on the 5-star hotel and spend 55 GBP (+12.5% "optional" gratuity) on a 3-course lunch menu, with 2 glasses of wine and coffee at an amazing 2-Michelin-star restaurant like "The Square". You'll still have enough for a last-minute good half-price theatre ticket at tkts.co.uk in the evening.
- cheriot 10y agoTrip advisor requires jumping through a few hoops to see a price so I doubt they have that data at all. And with hotels getting into the dynamic pricing game it will only get more complicated. It's hard not to get a little pissed when I'm paying twice as much and things are not done well so I suspect the value factor does not fully capture the effect of London being so damn expensive. Even when I've moved to a more expensive city, it talked time for the sticker shock to where off.