<p>It's not just luxury hotels that are a scam, it's almost everything that's luxury that's a scam<br>

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Gf bought Rimowa suitcases, expensive and supposed to be better quality than regular ones, but of course they're much worse<br>

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They keep breaking, like all of them, cracks in the handles, cracks in the sides, it's just cheap plastic shit but it costs $1000 or more<br>

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Rimowa was bought by LVMH in 2016 which has an average profit margin of 66% and whose strategy is to increase prices by ~5x, decrease costs by ~5x and then create artificial scarcity (limited availability per shop) because people want what they can't get (not me though but many)<br>

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LVMH is kinda like the luxury version of private equity, it makes everything more expensive and worse and hard to get!</p>

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<p>Agreed, and I can prove that luxury hotels are mathematically literally very bad value<br>

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For the amount of "more" money you pay for this luxury, you should be getting way way way more than you actually get (as measured by ratings)<br>

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Aman should have an average rating of 9.5 but in reality barely hits an 8 on average, so they simply cannot produce the "luxury" experiences they are trying to market and brand themselves for<br>

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It's essentially all smoke and mirrors, and reflects my experiences completely, you pay 10x more and get either 0.5x-1.5x more (eg many times 2x worse, sometimes a bit better) not 10x better!<br>

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Other luxury chains are slightly better but none of them even get close to a 9 rating with the famous Ritz-Carlton being especially bad: its average rating is a 7.68 for a median price of $549/night, terrible!<br>

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Real value can be found with Okura, Minor, Melia and even Marriott. Okura is interesting because well known as luxurious but median only $143/night<br>

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So as I always say, luxury is mostly a scam, it doesn't exist and you're best off spending much less for much better value (and often better experiences too)<br>

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Source: my new site stats page <a href="http://hotelist.com/stats">hotelist.com/stats</a></p>

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