Tip- don't say yes to your wife on a one-night anniversary overnight without checking the rates

[SC Maintenance]

If you have to ask you can't afford it.

Seriously - stay 2 nights - hard to enjoy a hotel on an overnight. You can't take it with you.

 

[ecotourist]

We are talking about the OP, who stated that the cost wasn’t a hardship.

So, have you not taken your wife somewhere that she thinks is special?

My wife is as focused on value as I am.

So, we wouldn't spend $1,000 on a hotel. On the other hand we just spend $25,000 on an all inclusive 15 day river cruise. It was good value too.

 

[Pablo]

For $1000 they better throw in AYCE Filipino food. Rare steak buffet and runny egg counter.

 

[CKN]

My wife is as focused on value as I am.

So, we wouldn't spend $1,000 on a hotel. On the other hand we just spend $25,000 on an all inclusive 15 day river cruise. It was good value too.

That's does include the airfare both ways? I assume it's not in the U.S. ?

 

[MNgopher]

The second you said Colorado Springs and a high cost stay, it was obvious its the Broadmoor.

If you know, you know.

If you go, stay two nights, not one.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

You could just stay at edy's house instead...

 

[Vil_Riker]

Wife texted me and said she found a hotel in Colorado Springs for us to spend a one night anniversary in October. Three days later we will be in the area for our oldest Grandson's birthday.

Being out of town working, I simply said yes without checking the rates.

The rates START at $1,000 USD per night. Ouch, ouch, ouch. This place is reportedly booked/ sold out often. How the heck can a place in Colorado Springs command $1,000 USD per night for the weekday in October....

https://www.broadmoor.com/

You do what you gotta do. Happy wife = happy life.

 

[02SE]

My wife was a CPA, and is very smart with money. She won't waste money on bad deals. That said, casual observers might think we waste money on frivolous things. We enjoy life, but live within our means.

If an indulgence won't hurt your standard of living or future plans, by all means enjoy your life.

 

[Kira]

I've heard they are delicious. Won't ever find out.

For all the joking about Rocky (steer) and Smokey (pig) Mountain Oysters. I've never met anyone who ever ordered them nor heard a description of them.

In Cortez, CO we went to a steakhouse where you can gaze at a pasture and see bulls looking around for their missing brethren.
It was there I endured my "grass fed beef" disappointment. There was nothing at all special about it. In fact, it was lacking.
So often, items which are touted as special are "nothing burgers".
The same has to go for hotel rooms. I doubt there exists $1,000 worth of services or facility they can deliver.

Stiffness and cut corners are often what you get when seek 'grandeur'.
And we are planning a river cruise as relatives thoroughly enjoyed one on the Continent.

The restaurant in Cortez had RMO on the menu. I asked the waitress how many you get, and she said, "two".
Then she and my wife giggled like schoolgirls. At least that was a laugh.

 

[Pew]

I can now see why no retirement.

Stay single!

 

[Sumboodie]

Drop a week's wages on a 1 night hotel room? Helllllll no

 

[Astro14]

You guys keep taking this out of context, and applying your own circumstances to the OP question.

This is not an entire week’s pay for the original poster. He has been out of the country for a very long time. His wife wants a special anniversary.

He’d be crazy to question the cost.

You guys are welcome to choose what works for you and your own circumstance.

But for him, I would not even bring up the cost. I would simply tell my wife, that I am delighted she chose such a romantic place.

 

[JHZR2]

I won't buy a bottle of water at the airport on principle, not if I can afford it. I can swing the $1,000 monetarily. Not sure I can swing the $1,000 mentally.

Perhaps your wife will provide $1000 of in-kind.

It’s your anniversary and what she wanted to do.

I think my wife would scratch it given the cost because she’s that practical type. It’s not an affordability thing, she’s just that way - almost 180 degree opposite of your situation. Sometimes I have to push her to spend money on things she wants just because they appear expensive. Perhaps they are but if it’s what she wants so be it. We earn plenty of money and are frugal in other ways so we can buy and do whatever we want. So if she wanted to go, I sure wouldnt argue. Relationships are a team sport.

Go enjoy.

 

[ATex7239]

The first night go down to the bar and start blowing money on top shelf liquor and get hammered drunk. When your wife comes down to complain just say, “Oh sorry, I thought that’s what we decided to do here… was I not supposed to do that?”

I’m really good at this game by the way.

 

[Foreman04]

Wife texted me and said she found a hotel in Colorado Springs for us to spend a one night anniversary in October. Three days later we will be in the area for our oldest Grandson's birthday.

Being out of town working, I simply said yes without checking the rates.

The rates START at $1,000 USD per night. Ouch, ouch, ouch. This place is reportedly booked/ sold out often. How the heck can a place in Colorado Springs command $1,000 USD per night for the weekday in October....

https://www.broadmoor.com/

Will they leave the light on for you?

 

[Pablo]

For $1000 they better throw in AYCE Filipino food. Rare steak buffet and runny egg counter.

With a covered onion bar.

 

[fdcg27]

It is rarely worth cheaping out a hotel and it is often worth spending a bit more.
For a grand a night, I'd expect spectacular, and you'll probably get it.
If a grand is no more than a blip in your expenditures, then why not?
There are many of us here who would not be considered wealthy who could well afford this splurge, so why not?
We'll spend around 17K on a month in Europe this year, including an eleven night cruise.
We are not wealthy, but we can well afford it and it should be well worth the money.
The memories you carry from travel last forever.

 

[rstcso]

It is rarely worth cheaping out a hotel and it is often worth spending a bit more.
For a grand a night, I'd expect spectacular, and you'll probably get it.
The memories you carry from travel last forever.

Your timing couldn't be more perfect, as I'm booking my hotel(s) for London in September. My company is based in Wimbledon and my wife went with me twice last year, bookending multiple days. We found a hotel near Waterloo Station which was convenient to buses, tubes, and trains, and my wife could easily get wherever she wanted relatively easily while I was at work.

This time she's not going. I'm still bookending my work week with several days on either side, but staying in Wimbledon while I work. I'll be staying next Paddington Station on the bookends. Since she's not with me, I'm taking the Heathrow Express instead of a cab. I was debating whether it was worth spending an additional $70/night and getting a premium room vs standard. You've helped answer that question. Thank you.

Added - I find it hard spending $300/night for a hotel room when I only plan on using it to shower and sleep.

Location. Location. Location.

 

[ecotourist]

That's does include the airfare both ways? I assume it's not in the U.S. ?

That didn't include the airfare which was $10,000 more. You're right, it was not in the USA.

 

[BHopkins]

Many, many years ago, when my wife and I were on a vacation, we stayed at an expensive hotel. We dropped off our bags, and went out to explore the city and have dinner. We got home just in time to settle in and go to bed. The next day, I realized we had put out good money, and got nothing more out of it than we would have at a budget hotel. We have never done that since.

That said, if my wife asked me if I would buy her some expensive gift, for example a new long arm quilting machine, I would gladly do it. She asks for so little, as far as expensive items, so I would be all about treating her to something nice. So what is the difference between something tangible, or an expensive vacation? If it makes my sweetheart happy, and we can afford it, then I'm all for making her feel special.