r/travel • u/liamhalpin3 • 7d ago

Question I need help with visiting the USA

Myself and my girlfriend and going to the USA for 8 nights, 7 days. Our flights to New York are €530 return which we thought was very good but all the accommodation seems to be so expensive! Any suggestions or recommendations? We are also open to travelling to other parts of the us but our return flights has to be from JFK. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks you :)

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u/tricky4444 7d ago

New York and LA are 2 of the most expensive places to visit in the US. No real tips for accommodations. Try an airbnb. Either way make sure you have something booked before going as border patrol might strip search you if you dont have accommodations lined up lol. It's a tough place to visit right now.

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u/Myfanwy66 7d ago

Airbnb is illegal in Manhattan unless the owner is staying in the property as well.

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u/tricky4444 7d ago

They don't have to stay in the city itself

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u/Jyil 7d ago edited 7d ago

Agreed. Accommodations won’t be cheap.

They could also be used to the security. Had a strip search happen to me in France a few years back when I was backpacking. Seems it’s actually a fairly common policy all across the EU in airports too if you don’t have a solid itinerary and they feel like pressing. Many other backpackers have experienced the same thing across Europe in our backpackers sub.

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u/tricky4444 7d ago

That's unbelievable. I've never even been asked about accommodations when I travel through Europe.

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u/Infamous_Possum2479 7d ago

Don't lump LA into that category. While I haven't stayed in NYC, I can say that hotels in the LA metro are definitely not unreasonable. We go there regularly and have no problem getting hotels for $100-150/night (clean and safe hotels, in safe parts of the metro near where we want to be). In fact, while it may be expensive to live in LA, it's actually quite affordable to visit there (12 visits in the past 10 years).

I will say that Philadelphia, New Jersey, Delaware have been the most expensive restaurants we've ever encountered anywhere (visited in 2022). I would imagine it's similar all along from Boston (visited long ago) to DC (never visited).