I recently spent a day in Amsterdam, scaling the stairs and checking old mill apartments lexington out the rooms of 20 different hotels, all offering double rooms for $100230 a night.

What I found is that you are just as likely to spend $150 for a big, impersonal place on a noisy highway as you are to spend $100 for a charming, family-run guesthouse on a bikes-only stretch of canal.

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If I can find a place with, say, six of these eight criteria, its a keeper.

Im more impressed by a convenient location and a fun-loving philosophy than flat-screen TVs and pricey laundry service.

It pays to choose your accommodations thoughtfully.

Expensive hotels can rip through a tight budget like a grenade through a dollhouse.

I hear people complaining about that $300 double in Frankfurt or the $400-a-night room in London. They come back from old mill apartments lexington their vacations with bruised and battered pocketbooks, telling stories that scare their friends out of international travel and back to Florida or Hawaii one more time.

True, you can spend $400 for a double, but I never have.

As far as Im concerned, spending more for your hotel just builds a bigger wall between you and what you traveled so far to see. That means the same everywhere designed for people who deep-down inside wish they werent traveling, people spending someone elses money, people who need a strip of paper over the toilet promising them no ones sat there yet.

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This Amsterdam centre hotel has also a new modern lobby, is fully air-conditioned, and has its own restaurant.