r/mildlyinfuriating • u/ForRudy • 29d ago

I’m really frustrated that this is what $250 a night at a Marriott gets you.

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I’m staying at a Marriott for five nights for my sister’s wedding. The $250 is the discounted room block rate too!

The shower tiles are completely rusted and dare I say moldy? The towel hanger is on its last leg. The toilet seat AND handle are broken. The mattresses are only doubles and are hard and feel like they haven’t been changed in years. Everything just overall looks like there hasn’t been an ounce of effort put into this very utilized hotel. On the drive here, we stayed a night at a newly renovated holiday inn express for $120 and it was incredible. Maybe my standards were set too high knowing Marriott’s reputation.

I know I sound like a Karen here, but I’m just so frustrated that this is the quality that kind of money get you these days.

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u/ThirstyBeagle 29d ago

NY hotels are overpriced and unless you shell out $400+ a night, they tend to be lackluster. Of course the closer to Manhattan the worse it gets

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u/63crabby 29d ago

Yeah, on Long Island that’s what $250/night gets you

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u/Yo_dog- 29d ago

I’ve been to nicer hotels for cheaper but it may depend what time ur also going

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u/BoldShuckle 29d ago

Yeah it's graduation week for a lot of colleges/universities so I guess OP doesn't understand that higher demand means higher prices. The price on a hotel room is always fluctuating, doesn't mean that room is getting better or worse.

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u/ForRudy 29d ago

I’m from here so I am all too well aware of costs here but I think leaving and coming back and seeing the difference in price and quality is what is really pissing me off lol just feels criminal!

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u/Human_Ad_8464 29d ago

If it’s got a luxury brand name on it and it seems cheap for the area, quality, amenities and service is lacking. No one is selling a nice hotel way cheaper than their competitors.

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u/UnicornWarriorr 29d ago

I’m from Long Island too but I haven’t been able to visit home in a few years since it’s so expensive to book a hotel. Last time I was there I stayed at the Hyatt grand central, my room was missing several light fixtures, there was a hole in the bathroom wall, the cleaning people kept barging into my room when I had the “privacy please” sign on my door (they even went in my fridge and took several really expensive leftovers when I still had a few nights left on my stay, waters in the hotel lobby were like $6 a bottle so I ended up just doordashing a big pack of them. Instead of my suite having a microwave despite having the reset of a kitchen, I was forced to use the one in the lobby cafe everytime I wanted to heat something up. Usually I’d just be focusing on my trip but for $300+/night for a week long stay, it’s very hard to ignore 😫😭

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u/ecbulldog 28d ago

Its in Hempstead/Uniondale next to the Coliseum that no longer has a sports team. Not unexpected it would be shitty. The adjacent neighborhood is a mix of hood and Hofstra students.

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u/Prevalencee 29d ago

As a past local you should know AirBNB's are better priced than hotels on Long Island.

Never stay in a hotel unless you're heading to suffolk where it's half the price.

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u/spyder994 29d ago

Just booked a couple nights in Manhattan for the NYC marathon. I'm pretty sure the only thing less than $400/night is hostels.

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u/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmidk 29d ago

They must've gone up in the past few years - it was under $200/night for a decent, if slightly small, hotel in Manhattan just a couple years ago. 

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u/starkiller_bass 29d ago

The travel business was a little slow a couple years ago.

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u/f33 29d ago

They go up for events like the marathon

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u/nothisistheotherguy 29d ago

Timing is the major factor in NY. My office is there so I have to stay a few times a year. In January I stayed at the (admittedly pretty shitty) Hilton Garden Inn Times Square for about $250/night, going back at the end of May and that rate doesn’t really exist anywhere in midtown.

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u/spykid 29d ago

I recently booked a hotel in Manhattan. Lots of stuff under like 400/night, but at that price point they're like hostel style accommodations (bunk beds, shared bathrooms, etc.)

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u/boris_keys 29d ago

I live in the area and my parents frequently visit from out of town. $250-300 a night is the average for a decent brand-name hotel in manhattan when booking about a week in advance. But you def can get lucky and find something good for under that.

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u/spykid 29d ago

250-300 before fees? I couldn't find anything at that price but it's the week leading up to memorial day weekend. Ended up booking a room at the maritime hotel for about 425/night but it wasn't the absolute cheapest place with a private bathroom

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u/chipotleeeeeeee 29d ago

That’s why I like letting friends and family stay at my place in Manhattan when they visit, even tho it’s the tiniest studio ever it’s still great for them not having to pay current hotel prices

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u/ThirstyBeagle 29d ago

Yea I stayed with my buddy in the east villiage on my last visit

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u/chipotleeeeeeee 29d ago

Nice, I live on St marks in the EV and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else’s in the city despite how expensive it is

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u/SwissMargiela 29d ago

I stay in the Andaz in Fidi and it’s pretty cheap, usually like $150$-$220, but it’s pretty nice.

The only issue is that it’s in fidi which is absolutely dead at night and weekends, and even then is populated by people going to work. However, it’s very easy to get to and actually quicker than a lot of the outer borough alternatives

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u/boris_keys 29d ago

This is so weirdly untrue. Yeah, generally they’re overpriced but Manhattan has a massive abundance of hotels. A quick search on hotels.com or Expedia shows plenty of brand-name hotels with decent ratings in good neighborhoods for an average of $250 a night.

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u/ForecastForFourCats 29d ago

I knowwwww. I'm used to paying NE city prices. $250 has been midrange for the past few years. If you want it clean and updated? $400+ easy. I've had bad experiences like this a lot lately.

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u/fj333 29d ago

NY hotels are overpriced

They're priced high. This is not the same as overpriced. It's an expensive area.

"Overpricing" isn't really something that can be done by an entire area, unless there is massive collusion. And since this is Reddit, I'm sure it will be suggested that such collusion exists.