Hotel Costs for upcoming hunt

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Al Hansen

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Just contacted our usual hotel and they wanted a increase of 50% per night over last year. Ouch. Start saving your money it's going to cost a lot to do a 10 -12 day hunt. Primer, bullets, powder, gas and now hotels.
 
That's a shame, a lot of stuff is getting out of reach. Everything is going up except my income.

I fear the "good old days" of American consumerism are past. At some point, people will have no choice but to tighten their belts and do without non-essentials.
 
Time to become self sufficient. 12 days in a hotel might just pay for a camper and there are plenty of free or low cost camping.

I use these for free camping.

freecampsites.net

campendium.com
 
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Good news . We booked a hotel that we use to use several years ago at the same price as last year. The hotel we used last year wouldn't budge. Game on !!!
 
I rent a cabin with no water, the facilities are right across the lawn, very nice. It’s been $50 a night, maybe inch up this year. We don’t hang there much anyway
 
airbnb's/vrbo are getting the same way.

covid taught them that they're providing more amenities than typical hotels, and most of the hosts have started charging accordingly and stopped trying to undercut the hotels on the cost per night. the cleaning fee's alone have gotten redonkulus. often $120 or more.

i used to use them a lot for short term business travel. but they've priced themselves right out of the market for that. they're still reasonably affordable for lets say a week long+ family vacation type of thing - but you gotta have a few bodies there to make it truly cost per guest affordable.

ive had to travel for work over 13 times this year alone, and in the past i would have airbnb'ed almost exclusively for two people. i have a huge rental history with them for that. these days its right to holiday inn express, and i'm still coming in under what the price of a 2 bed airbnb costs, usually before even any cleaning fees are added too.

im seriously considering like AWS mentioned, saving up and getting a popup for hunting/fishing and other outdoors recreational travel usage. just Waiting for the horde of the indoors-turned-suddenly-outdoors folks who bought them all the last 2 years with their stimmy checks to realize its just collecting space in their yard/driveway now that they've been forced back to reality (work, kids in school, etc) and start to sell them off.
 
For flights to far-off hunting spots, I've cut costs on premium seats at temu which leaves more room in the budget for expensive hotels and gear. Their deals are solid.
 
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I don’t much these days but my wife’s idea of roughing is Holiday Inn Express, a little more expensive then the competition but if mama ain’t happy nobodies happy, but after my last experience I am done with HIE and their membership, gave my points up etc. what happened was spent couple days I think Sunday and Monday with then the next week on Wednesday. I never asked the price just checked in. When I checked out I see I’m charged $100 a night more then the week before, same motel, same floor, I think next to last weeks room. I asked why, was told in a matter of fact way with no apology that the corporate office sets the prices daily, Wednesday is usually the most expensive and nothing the local management can do about, so I bailed out of Holliday Inn
 
What hotel costs!

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Everything fits in the tote behind the tent including, tent, stove,.cot,.chair, mattress and sleeping bag.

The van is gone, needed a new home.

The view from the room is wonderful and whatever you want it to be.
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I've thought about sending my springbar tent off to have a stove jack put in it but haven't. How often do you have to get up and put wood in those small stoves each night?
 
I have warm sleeping bag so just have the fixings alongside the stove and start it to get dressed in the morning. When I was living in a tent in northern WI, -10 once, -20 twice and -30 and below three times and you don't sleep through, starting a fire at -30 in your union suit is damn cold. I lived in a 9x12 wall tent for three winters and ran traplines out of the wall tent for four more. I had a small barrel stove made from a cut down grease barrel(30 gal ? size)

The barrel was just rounded enough that you could slap a slice of bread on the side and it stuck till it was toasted and it would slide off. Higher on the barrel and it would toast more. In the winter I kept a pot of soup on the stove day and night. I could adjust the position so it stayed hot but not boil.away or burn. Come in from the cold and slap a piece of bread on the stove and ladle up a bowl of soup. Life was great.

The little stove that I have in this tent makes great tortillas right on the top.
 
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My nephew had a stove jack put in his spring bar and loves it, his wife gave him a stove for Christmas a couple years ago. He said it makes elk camp a lot more fun when you can sit around at night and have breakfast in your shirt sleeves.
 
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