Slept in a $19 hostel dorm in Budapest, then tried a $60 private room the next night
I booked the cheapest dorm I could find for my first night in Budapest, 8 beds stacked in a room with one bathroom and a guy snoring like a chainsaw. Barely slept, and the next day I was wrecked walking around the whole city. Switched to a private room for about $60 the second night and honestly I got more out of that one day than the two before it combined. The real hack was booking private rooms for weeknights only, since hostels jack up prices on weekends but Mondays and Tuesdays are dead cheap. Anyone else plan their whole trip around which nights are cheapest instead of just picking a city and going?