How much do you spend on hotels?

[flyboydk]

My boss likes us to keep it to about $100-$120 per night if possible, what are the typical allowances for hotel for your part 91 flight department?

 

[Raskal]

Wow for that money you'd be lucky to get something with a door on it.

Seriously though, it depends on what city you're staying in, I would say my average room this year is running about $210...it varies

 

[h25b]

totally depends on where you are and when you are staying there... we stayed at the Courtyard at LGA during the US Open and the rate was like $300/night. I don't need to be in the Ritz but I refuse to stay at some dirtbag place just to save forty or fifty bucks...

 

[Beechjetr]

I thought i just saw some govt rates on here, like 140 for a low city, and 250 for a high city???

Florida has like 30% taxes on hotel rooms, throws the budget off...

 

[charter dog]

Setting a dollar value for crew hotel expenditures is completely unrealistic, even if adjusting for geographical area. Pricing is just too volitile. These days, the very same room in any given hotel may be priced differently according to day of the week, season, local events, reservation volume, or perhaps, simply because they feel like it. I've paid between $75.00 and $350.00 for the exact same room at the same hotel during the same month. It's not just Vegas that does this anymore. The rocky mountain resort towns are especially problematic in that there are very few brand-named hotels. This leaves you staying in resorts at exhorbitant rates or no-name rat holes if you are not careful. Let the FBO help.

It is far more appropriate to select a "class" of accomodations and pay whatever it costs. The concept should be explained to the purse string holders as necessary. At our company, we have guidelines stating that "business class accomodations" will be the preferred goal for crew hotels. We typically shoot for Courtyard, Springhill, Hampton or equivalent. Sometimes, only Holiday Inn, Best Western or some no-name are available. As well, Marriots, Hiltons and Rennaisance may be what is available. Rat-holes are out. If someplace they put us in turns out to be like that, we don't check in, or move when something else becomes available.

I hope you are able to apply similar reasoning in you situation.

Best,

 

[Raskal]

Setting a dollar value for crew hotel expenditures is completely unrealistic, even if adjusting for geographical area. Pricing is just too volitile. These days, the very same room in any given hotel may be priced differently according to day of the week, season, local events, reservation volume, or perhaps, simply because they feel like it. I've paid between $75.00 and $350.00 for the exact same room at the same hotel during the same month. It's not just Vegas that does this anymore. The rocky mountain resort towns are especially problematic in that there are very few brand-named hotels. This leaves you staying in resorts at exhorbitant rates or no-name rat holes if you are not careful. Let the FBO help.

It is far more appropriate to select a "class" of accomodations and pay whatever it costs. The concept should be explained to the purse string holders as necessary. At our company, we have guidelines stating that "business class accomodations" will be the preferred goal for crew hotels. We typically shoot for Courtyard, Springhill, Hampton or equivalent. Sometimes, only Holiday Inn, Best Western or some no-name are available. As well, Marriots, Hiltons and Rennaisance may be what is available. Rat-holes are out. If someplace they put us in turns out to be like that, we don't check in, or move when something else becomes available.

I hope you are able to apply similar reasoning in you situation.

Best,

Very well said, and I have also experienced the rollercoaster of pricing at the same hotel during different weeks...

In our case the preference is stated to the client as courtyard or better, and that covers an enormous price range. The days of setting a price, rather than a standard level or brand, are long gone. Airplanes are expensive and hotels are becoming worse every year.

 

[rice]

My boss likes us to keep it to about $100-$120 per night if possible, what are the typical allowances for hotel for your part 91 flight department?

By "boss" do you mean some cheap a$$ Chief Pilot who's having you look for all the Motel 6's in the US just so he can THINK he's impressing the real Boss??? Or are you talking about the owner who is so out of touch with the world that he has his crew which flies HIS multi-million $ asset (not to mention his MM$ A$$) all over the country but is atempting to save pennies on hotels????
Either way sounds like someone has their priorities out of whack!!!!!!!!!!!!:smash:

 

[byrmar]

We seem to be anywhere between $40-$70 per night. This is normaly with a corporate rate that has been negotiated. Our execs stay in the same hotels. Usually LaQuintas, Comfort Inns, and the like. Most overnights are in the midwest and southeast.

 

[flyboydk]

By "boss" do you mean some cheap a$$ Chief Pilot who's having you look for all the Motel 6's in the US just so he can THINK he's impressing the real Boss??? Or are you talking about the owner who is so out of touch with the world that he has his crew which flies HIS multi-million $ asset (not to mention his MM$ A$$) all over the country but is atempting to save pennies on hotels????
Either way sounds like someone has their priorities out of whack!!!!!!!!!!!!:smash:

It's both who do it, we have several different owners and some of them are major penny pinchers when it comes to spending their money on anyone but themselves. I got a complaint from an owner last month because I stayed in a $120/night hotel, but it was either that or a major cr*p hole. If I were an owner, I'd like to have a well rested, happy crew, not one that spent the night trying to sleep on a rock hard bed listening to little kids screaming and yelling in the next room.