What’s the Value of a Cheap Hotel?

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.12.03 | 3:38 PM ET

Thankfully for those of us on a budget, it’s often far more than the cost of a night. South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel Editor Thomas Swick muses eloquently in Sunday’s paper about Daisann McLane’s great book, Cheap Hotels, and his own experiences in hotels around the world. “A hotel is a place to sleep in the way a library is a place to read: It has a primary function, with a multitude of ancillary benefits,” he writes. “Which, in a sweet irony, often increase in inverse proportion to the cost. It’s in the humble hotels and guesthouses where you find ceiling fans, street music, motherly advice, material for a book.”