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Hostel near the Rome train station vs a farm stay outside Florence, and I picked the one that cost less
Back in 2013 I was planning a two week trip through Italy with about $900 total, and I had to choose between a $28 hostel bunk near Termini in Rome or a $22 farm stay outside Florence that needed a bus plus a long walk to reach. I went with the farm stay to save the six bucks a night, which added up to almost $80 over the trip. It turned out the bus ran only three times a day, so I lost a whole afternoon waiting at a stop near a roundabout with no shade. The owner's mom made breakfast though, and I still think about her plum jam. The hostel folks I met later showed me a free walking tour app that would have saved me money in Rome. Anyone got a good rule for when a cheap room is actually a bad deal because of the trip to get there?
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the_robin20d ago
The real cost of that farm stay was your whole afternoon at a roundabout with no shade, which sounds like a prison sentence with plum jam as the reward. My rule is if the walk to the room takes longer than the shower you'll take in it, you picked wrong. Six bucks a night is a great deal until you're counting buses like a castaway watching for ships.
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