Hilarious! No apology necessary. Every place is different for every person. Things can also be drastically different if you stay even a few blocks away from where someone else did. We were in a complete, out-of-the-way, almost 100% locals area so we didn’t have the “Niagara Falls” experience or exposure you got.

I’m not horrified by their budgets. I just don’t travel that way, so I can’t understand being excited that a place was “only $150 a night!” when that would be 5 days on our budget. We’re really going crazy spending money when we’re paying $30 a night somewhere. We spent $30/night in Nha Trang for an oceanview room and considered it a major splurge. LOL

I hope this blog isn’t one that you watch so you know to do the opposite!

P.S. I totally know what you mean about being horrified by other people’s travel budgets, however! We routinely met people in Vietnam who kept claiming they couldn’t find hotels for less than $90 a night, and we were totally baffled. We rarely spent more than $10/night! Same for Thailand where we heard a girl “bragging” about her 6000THB/night hotel somewhere… We were like, “Uh, we spend that in a week, all in…”

We’ve also learned that there are certain travel blogs we like to follow simply because whatever they say to do, we do the opposite! Without fail, whenever they have loved a place, we’ve disliked it, and vice versa! If you ever needed more proof that I’m a contrarian, well, there you have it! 😉

Yep! Everyone is SO different. One thing I find with myself, though, is the more I have people telling me to go to a specific place the more likely it is I won’t go there. I don’t necessarily want to go where everyone else is going. 🙂

Most definitely! I just love when people gush about a place and tell me we should totally stay there, and “it isn’t that expensive at all!” only to find out it’s $150/night. That’s what we spend in 5 days! LOL

Precisely! When people rave about a place, I want to know why it’s so special to them. We may not enjoy similar things.

We love recommendations, but nothing beats listening and making a decision for ourselves based on the things we know we’ll enjoy.

One of the reasons we didn’t go to Pai was because we’d heard it was great to relax and go to a bar – HORN – no thanks.

I do something similar. The top 10 and “best of” lists are usually great guides of what I want to avoid. LOL