US hotels give way more value than Europe now with better AC and amenities
I'm back in America
My hotel room has:
- AC that goes down to 18°C/64°F but my sensor shows it's 16°C/61°F! Ice cold means perfect sleep
- $100 in free spending on anything + full minibar with beautiful products like Norwegian canned salmon with Sichuan peppers (!)
- free water and sparkling water bottles every day, fresh fruit bowl
- daily room cleaning without asking, finished before noon!
- bathroom full of amenities + extra amenities you could request during booking like Marvis toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash ear plugs, sleeping mask
- moderately fast wifi (to be honest)
The top European hotel in Netherlands we were in last few weeks for same price:
- AC did not go below 23°C/73°F, and to make it worse windows were locked (for eco reasons)
- empty minibar (for eco)
- no water bottles (the paper said use tap water like the locals for eco, guess what NL tap water is full of PFAS the gov just admitted)
- no daily cleaning, we had to ask for it every day, and when we came back 4pm it still wasn't cleaned, every day (for eco)
- strictly no amenities (for eco)
- unusably slow wifi
America is much more value now for your $ or € than most of Europe
(And ofc Asia too)
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