Yeah, I mean it's fine most of the time, but if something happens (e.g. a delay and you get there at midnight) I like knowing that 1) a hotel is going to be in

Yeah, I mean it's fine most of the time, but if something happens (e.g. a delay and you get there at midnight) I like knowing that 1) a hotel is going to be in a busy, well-lit area downtown 2) the lobby will be open and there's going to be someone there to help me and 3) there will probably be a restaurant or bar or something I can go to within the hotel to eat at if there's nothing else around. Again, it goes back to minimization of travel-related risk. Personally there's nothing about staying at someone else's "home" that give me any feeling of being at my "home".