Hotels have gotten pricey!

[slo town]

Sue and I are planning a 4 or 5 night road trip to Sedona AZ for some sightseeing and hiking. We like nicer hotels but prices have gotten ridiculous. It's very easy to spend $500 a night in Sedona. Gasoline is a bargain in comparison!

Rant over.

Scott

 

[supton]

Ouch! I have been thinking of a road trip and I thought $150 was expensive.

Nothing gets cheaper with time, I know. Still annoying.

 

[MalibuRam65]

Yeah nobody is catching a break anywhere the hits keep on coming. This is all by design folks unfortunately

 

[Pew]

Families and students are probably trying to get their last vacation in before school starts again.

 

[slo town]

Families and students are probably trying to get their last vacation in before school starts again.

We're looking at mid October and the prices are high, probably because of the cooler weather.

Scott

 

[JayhawkRoy]

Seeing some better prices mid Oct at below $350 M-F. See Courtyard by Marriott and Aiden by Best Western. Hotels.com. No idea of quality, although had no issues in the past with these two chains.

 

[#18FAN]

Sue and I are planning a 4 or 5 night road trip to Sedona AZ for some sightseeing and hiking. We like nicer hotels but prices have gotten ridiculous. It's very easy to spend $500 a night in Sedona. Gasoline is a bargain in comparison!

Rant over.

Scott

That's Sedona you might as well be staying in Beverly Hills .

 

[RhondaHonda]

Traveling to Sedona in the fall with limited hotel rooms and peak travel time that sounds right. We were there in September 2024 and I think it was right about that for hotel rooms at a Marriott or similar.

 

[Pew]

We're looking at mid October and the prices are high, probably because of the cooler weather.

Scott

Give us an update on how it goes! I haven't been on a roadtrip to AZ since before the lockdown and I miss it.

 

[Chris142]

Wonder if you could find an Airbnb cheaper?

 

[2005jettatdi]

Sue and I are planning a 4 or 5 night road trip to Sedona AZ for some sightseeing and hiking. We like nicer hotels but prices have gotten ridiculous. It's very easy to spend $500 a night in Sedona. Gasoline is a bargain in comparison!

Rant over.

Scott

Consider spending the night in a nearby town. Camp Verde or even Flagstaff are not that far away.

 

[slo town]

Give us an update on how it goes! I haven't been on a roadtrip to AZ since before the lockdown and I miss it.

Rooms prices drop quite a bit going into mid October. Might go later than we originally planned. We can get a nice room at the place we wanted for about $325/night. Weather is supposed to be good that time of year; daytime highs of mid to low 70s, night time lows mid to high 40s. That'll work!

Scott

 

[slo town]

Wonder if you could find an Airbnb cheaper?

We're not the Airbnb type. I get a better sense of what I'm getting from a hotel listing.

Consider spending the night in a nearby town. Camp Verde or even Flagstaff are not that far away.

Flagstaff was one of our planned day trips, driving on Hwy 89 through Oak Creek Canyon to Flagstaff and back. I hear that's a really pretty drive but I was told a big fire just passed through there.

Scott

 

[Dave Hess]

I agree to stay away from Airbnb with all the silly fees.

Stay at hotel and build up your points. Can get another room if there’s a problem with the first room (A/C not working, sink clogged, etc…).

Flagstaff was on our radar in the future.

 

[slo town]

And BTW, we were going to spend the first night in Needles so we can drive the old Route 66 through Oatman AZ. Past Oatman the road is desolate and way the heck off the beaten path, but that's the kind of road trips we like. Then 3 nights Sedona and one night in Palm Springs on our return to visit friends.

The following link is a nice video about Route 66, Oatman, etc. We'll drive this route. This guy, Steve of Sidetrack Adventures, is really good at what he does.

Scott

 

[GaryMX5]

I'm retired and enjoyed taking 3 to 4 road trips a year. We rarely spend more than a full day in any one location unless it turns out to be special. We stay in motels anywhere from 5 to 8 nights or so on a trip. Only a few years ago I could do this for 75.00 to 85.00 a night staying at places like Best Western, Comfort Inn, etc. These same hotels now cost 125.00 to 150.00 a night (sometimes significantly more in urban areas). Our AARP and AAA discounts don't put much of a dent in lodging prices any more. I now do a lot of pre-trip planning and make prior reservations to get best rates and to make sure places we stay have good reputations for cleanliness and not in iffy areas.That can take spontaneity and some enjoyment from a real road trip. Staying at a mom and pop 50.00 a night motel in a small town was a reasonable risk and often rewarding but at 100.00+ a night is now too big of a risk/gamble for me. Needless to say, at these still increasing rates for lodging along with restaurant prices increasing as well, my road trips are now down to maybe1 or 2 a year.

 

[Pablo]

Try 15 nights in three known cities in Italy! There is a stupid (person) tax on that luxury!!

 

[Chris142]

And BTW, we were going to spend the night in Needles so we could drive the old Route 66 through Oatman AZ. Past Oatman the road is desolate and way the heck off the beaten path, but that's the kind of road trips we like. Then 3 nights Sedona and one night in Palm Springs on our return to visit friends.

The following link is a nice video about Route 66, Oatman, etc. We'll drive this route. This guy, Steve, is really good at what he does.

Scott

We got married in oatman and drove that way to Williams after the wedding. Its well paved. If I can do it in an 87f250 with a manual you can do it too. Just go slow around the blind turns cause cows and donkeys may be standing in the road.

There's a set of stairs on the side of that road that lead to small pond with goldfish in it.

 

[slo town]

We got married in oatman and drove that way to Williams after the wedding. Its well paved. If I can do it in an 87f250 with a manual you can do it too. Just go slow around the blind turns cause cows and donkeys may be standing in the road.

There's a set of stairs on the side of that road that lead to small pond with goldfish in it.

Thanks for the tip about animals on the roadway.

Scott

 

[dishdude]

That's Sedona you might as well be staying in Beverly Hills .

Came here to post almost this exact message. Like complaining about room prices in Breckenridge over the ski season.

Sedona is beautiful, well worth it.