According to discount travel site Hotwire, Orlando is the most affordable summer vacation destination in the world. Yes, in the entire world. To come to this determination, Hotwire pulled its 25 most popular mid-to-late summer destinations and ranked the top ten, based on the average nightly hotel rates. Here's the entire list (who knew the Czech Republic was a popular summer destination?):
Now, we've played tourist ourselves in Orlando a time or two, treating ourselves to a hotel room when we didn't want to be irresponsible and drive home tipsy. The hotel rooms on the lower end? They're not that awesome. We made a little (virtual) trip of our own over to TripAdvisor to get some review snippets from the hotels that score uber-cheap (like, under $45 cheap) rates on Hotwire:
But then, sometimes, you'll luck out and get a gem:
And seriously, just because you're spending half your paycheck for a swank suite, doesn't mean you're always gonna be 100 percent happy with what you get:
There's just no pleasin' some folks.
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