Despite the obvious impediment to strong personal branding caused by the likeness of their logo to a vagina balls butt, Airbnb has become an accommodation alternative while travelling that’s oftentimes preferable to a close encounter with bedbugs or a communicable disease in a hostel, or the kind of crippling debt you might accrue in a hotel.
The issue then, as always, becomes one of the price being right when seeking out the most feasible accommodation option for each city on your international hit list.
You might then find it helpful to know that Berlin-based travel website Go Euro has conducted “an impartial price index study of 150 cities and over 60,000 properties”, assessing the average discrepancies in price between various kinds of accommodation. The result is a pretty baller travel itinerary of the most expensive cities in which to stay in Airbnb rentals, hostels and hotels alike.
Where Airbnb is concerned, the most expensive cities in which to stay are Boston (averaging $274USD daily) and Cancun ($247), a top billing which the Wall Street Journal attributes to the high demand for student accommodation and density of luxury vacation homes respectively. New York ($231) and Dubai ($226) follow soon after in the Top 3; Sydney too cracks the Top 20 at 19, just above Venice and below St. Moritz at $168.
The most expensive cities for hostels, on the other [fungal] foot [infection], fared much the same: New York averages $65 nightly, followed by Miami ($52), Zurich ($47) and St. Moritz ($46); Aberdeen, Boston, Bern and old mate Sydney all average around $40-$45 for a good time in the top bunk of an overcrowded dorm.
Should you wish to, you can analyse the mean price points for each city and accommodation type in helpful interactive bar graph format over on the Wall Street Journal.
The more you know.
