Bed And Breakfasts - Better Than Those High-priced Resorts!

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Written by Trip Wend

Monday, 24 November 2008 03:30

by TripWend

I visited Miami last year in order to attend their annual electronic music festival. In order to go, the first thing I did was look up the cost for plane tickets and decide if I could afford to fly down from New York City. I never dreamed that I would be able to stay at a place even nicer that some of the really high-dollar locations.

The next step, besides putting off buying the weekend pass to the event (which then, the price goes up $30 and you're kicking yourself you didn't catch the presale) is finding a place to stay. The year before, which was the first time I went to Miami, I put off finding a place until about 2 weeks before the event. Everything was booked solid.

The first time I went, I waited until there were only two weeks left, and every place I called was fully booked already. I ended up finding a place in Hialeah through an agent. I thought I would be able to walk there from the event, but it ended up being more than a half hour drive and in a bad area of town, so I eventually had to call a cab to get me back to my room.

So last year, I started to plan my trip a little earlier (yet somehow, I stilled missed buying my event tickets with the presale discount!). Because I was planning on attending the festival with my girlfriend, whom I didnat want walking through those bad areas of town, I began looking for a hotel while the event was still two months away.

Unfortunately, I couldnat find anything I could afford. No matter how I searched online, everything from aHotel Miamia to aMotor Inn Miamia came in with a price tag of $250 a night or more. I actually did think about doing it up right and choosing the $500/night hotel room, but I knew that was not really feasible.

I searched everything that I could, \"Motel Miami\", \"Motor Inn\", \"Resorts Miami\" etc, everything was too high priced (or believe it or not, already booked!). Then I had to stroke of brilliance to search \"Bed and Breakfast Miami\". To my delight a few searches popped up, one of which had a link to the BandB website, I called the office, they explained how they were setup, I reserved, and the weekend was taken care of. This place we found was not only affordable, it was walking distance to downtown, and to the metro trains, which we needed to catch the airport.

It was a great discovery, and the best thing about the bed and breakfast was the fantastic customer service. Practically at the last minute, I decided to take my brother with us to Miami, so I emailed the Band B to let them know what the situation was and that we would have somebody else staying in the room, probably on the floor or something.

About a week later, I got a return email from the owner saying, aSince your brother will be coming with you, we have upgraded you to an apartment suite.a Although we were expecting to receive an enormous charge for this fantastic upgrade, the B and B only charged us $10 extra for a full-size apartment, complete with kitchen and living room. That kind of service is practically unheard of at any hotel chain Iave ever been to!

We spent a long day traveling and a longer night partying, and then we were able to sleep well in a fantastic room. When we got up the next morning, we were treated to a great breakfast of cereal, fruit and banana bread, and then we took off for another fun-filled day and night. If you ask me, Bed and Breakfast places are more top of the line than most of those high-priced resorts, and they come with superior customer service at a truly affordable rate.

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