[bradlys]

Probably should speak for yourself.

We definitely look at the accommodations while looking at a place to travel to. If it’s too expensive, we won’t go. Airbnb is significantly less expensive than hotels for many places. We couldn’t even get a damn hotel when we tried to visit Rome. (Short of them being $300+/night, way out of our budget)

If the only thing available is extremely expensive hotels (especially if they’re not even giving you anything for that cost) then we skip on the location. We just don’t have the money for it.

[peterlk]

Accommodation cost is the primary heuristic I use for travel. I have a personal model for places to go, and I actually prefer going to places with lower prices because the most expensive places are often just tourist traps. The places with lower prices and decent amenities but fewer tourist destinations tend to be the places that I enjoy the most.

[ApolloFortyNine]

Boy, AirBnbs (or vacationrentalbyowner, as I've used that in Rome a couple times) are fantastic in Rome.

For less than the hotel 2 blocks away from the Pantheon I got a rental with an actual view of the Pantheon.