As advertised earlier: the cheapest Hyatt House in the world.
Not new, but perfectly fresh.
The video shows a studio for $40 including taxes. No upgrade. But since I still have 3 more stays to go, I didn’t make a scene.
City centre. Shopping mall, noodle joints, the works.
Now for the main point. Why here, of all places.
Firstly, in April you can find places in China for $30 as well. But Hyatt House is running a promotion: 5k points for a minimum of five nights.
As readers of this channel will have gathered, the author is a practical man. Given the choice between price and comfort, he chooses beer.
Secondly, while reading other travellers’ reviews, I noticed a pattern.
“Pro”-level tourists who travel a lot, and for long stretches, start finding fault with everything.
Such is the sad outcome of professional deformation.
So let me set out my own circumstances first.
Two months living in a village by the sea. Silence, fishermen, nothing happening. And then β bang β a town!
Cars hooting. People rushing about. A cool spring sun at +17 at its peak.
I look at all this and think: these people know how to live.
That’s exactly how a village boy feels on his first trip to the big city. Dick Whittington, minus the cat.
Nobody warned him he’ll be fed up with it within a month.
I’m not fed up with it yet β unlike the Vietnamese village.
