Cheap Hotels

by Daisann Mclane

Release Date: September, 2002

Edition: Hardcover

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Caution -- highly wanderlust inducing!

This book makes me want to pack my bags and go! so badly... and at the same time it evokes happy memories of sunny, adventurous, and spectacular trips. Leafing through this book is like digging out your shoe box full of photographs -- just better. You see the pictures that YOU would take -- of the places that YOU would check into, and you will find yourself marvel at memories that you have yet to make. This book is not meant to be a guide -- it rather is a combination of art book and photo album. It combines pictures and little stories of more than 200 friendly, welcoming, and caring budget places around the world -- many from Asia and South America but also finds in the US and Europe. The list of addresses in the back enables the reader to directly contact the hotels for reservations. However the book is a huge inspiration to forego the depressing chains on your next trip and rather go search for these happy-making gems. When I am in need of a mood-booster I just love to spend some time in the travel section of a book store and "plan" my next trip. This book has the very same uplifting effect with one variation: It focuses on the place where you are STAYING rather than the place you are GOING. This concept is a bit baffling but makes sense: The place you are staying replaces your home for the time of your trip and should be oozing just as much hospitality as the town or country you are visiting -- without eating up the best part of your travel budget.

A brief glimpse of life on the road

The photos are what lead me to enjoy this book. Unlike many other books on travel this is more of small notebook on places to have a good rest and a surprising new view. Too many books miss bringing the feelings one has had on the road, this one doesn't. It attempts to get that across in the writing and the photos, the brevity of words does reflect how some experiences have no words.

So far have kept this book close to me to get a feeling during those times when something different is needed. The few friends I've given this book to have enjoyed receiving it.