What is your Fantasy Budget Hotel room?

[Paul154]

The bookings for my nicely laid out apartment have become almost non-existant. I am way way down in the listings 😞

So I did what I'm supposed to and took new photos. I staged the bed with frilly quilt, shams and pillows so that the pictures would pop.

I am so ashamed of myself.

Frilly is not my style. I think most guests prefer simple, comfortable and clean.

What do you all look for when you travel to a big city on a budget and not interested in lazing? 

I'm asking as a host. 

In my mind, the perfect room would be small and simple. Desk, chair, reading light. It would make up for being small by being very, very clean. To keep the price low, there would be some enforced austerity. Linens provided,  bed not made.  Maybe you have to bring in the firewood or pump your own water...

The quiet and calm of a monostery is a style I like

I also am fascinated by the cleanliness and profitability of the Japanese hotel capsule

While I could never provide the cleanliness these cheaper styles require, it is fun to think about.

What would your perfect budget room be like?

[Lucifer0]

Whenever I travel I always look for the best but in budget. Even I book my flight tickets from the one who gives me the cheapest fares. So its obvious that I will prefer the cheapest hotel and as a seen its good nicely done and its also in budget.

[Robin4]

@Paul154

Listen Paul, I know about you, and you are one of the finest hosts going around, in so much as you subscribe to the original Airbnb philosophy and you provide a nice listing for a fair price. You have many hundreds of reviews and I have followed you for more than 2 years now.

That bed is bloody terrible....and you are right....it's not you. That is something I would expect to see in a local red light parlour.....not that I have ever been to one!!

You and I Paul are very similar, we host  modest listings and we cannot offer what some of the competitors in our respective areas offer. Maybe you are approaching your hosting from the wrong angle, you are expecting your listings to sell you more bookings....possibly you should be promoting yourself. I think you sell yourself short Paul.

Everyone who knows me says I am over the top....even Adrienne (wife) used to say.."For Christ sake shut up and give someone else a go" but Paul I think I sell my reservations! I am fully booked now. This month I have hosted 8 one night 'back to backs'....gives me two hours to turn the cottage around. Each month just seems to fill up and, from the reservation requests, it's the reviews that do it. People seem to come from out of the way places to stay a night! I am not seen as a destination, I am seen as a curio!

I host a humble converted garage in a nondescript country town, not some fabulous beachfront condo.....or 'Bird Island'!!!

This was the review that last nights guest left!

It's not the Taj Mahal for God sake....how can it be 'fabulous'!

Possibly the shortest review I have ever had, but certainly one of the best, and that review is going to be worth a lot of bookings. I always leave a public response, but I don't quite know what I am going to say there yet!

Paul, maybe it's time for you to bring some of that brilliant dry chararcter of yours into your hosting, forget about frilly beds and concentrate on you! Despite the best endeavours of the hierachy, this is still a hosting platform and there is an abundant number of guests out there who want just that.....to be hosted!

Give it some thought mate. Offer something the others don't!

Cheers.....Rob

[Rebecca181]

@Paul154 Do you provide an optional hair shirt or bed of nails for an extra fee?

[Gordon0]

While I'm generally after the slightly clinical look myself, what really frigtens me is these things you lovely Americans put on top of the bed...some sort of quilt? And with just a sheet between that and my skin, eesh...not for me.

And while I'm about stereotyping you all, two American guests at the weekend used small towelling shower mats at flannels...feet to face no less!