Comments on: American Hotels are a Rip-Off http://wanderingjustin.com/2009/08/american-hotels-are-a-rip-off/ Flyin', Bikin' and Arizona Adventures Tue, 22 May 2012 04:51:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nick Bensema http://wanderingjustin.com/2009/08/american-hotels-are-a-rip-off/#comment-676 Nick Bensema Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:27:15 +0000 http://wanderingjustin.com/?p=1343#comment-676 They say Japan's expensive, but I found a place to stay for under $60/night in 2003. The room was tiny, but had its own tiny bathroom and shower, and tiny TV, and a bed big enough that I could have shared it. And I mentioned I had trouble with sunlight, and they asked me if the curtains were too shear (they thought of the English word for shear before I did), and when I came back that evening, they'd taped newspapers over the window. No free "breakfast" and coin-operated laundry machine was present. It's still 6000 Yen, but the exchange rate is less favorable now -- $1 was ¥109 in 2003, it's ¥93 now. They say Japan’s expensive, but I found a place to stay for under $60/night in 2003. The room was tiny, but had its own tiny bathroom and shower, and tiny TV, and a bed big enough that I could have shared it. And I mentioned I had trouble with sunlight, and they asked me if the curtains were too shear (they thought of the English word for shear before I did), and when I came back that evening, they’d taped newspapers over the window. No free “breakfast” and coin-operated laundry machine was present.

It’s still 6000 Yen, but the exchange rate is less favorable now — $1 was ¥109 in 2003, it’s ¥93 now.

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