{"id":1808,"date":"2007-01-01T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2007-01-01T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T22:58:47","slug":"unrealistic-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1808","title":{"rendered":"Unrealistic expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been booking a planned holiday in Avignon (a week) and Paris (three days on the way home) in February &#8211; bound to end up with clashing with something else I&#8217;m supposed to be doing, but I&#8217;ll never get away if I don&#8217;t just do it.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at budget hotel ratings from visitors (yes, I&#8217;m a cheapskate, but I won&#8217;t pay more than \u00c2\u00a330 a night for a hotel room if I can possibly avoid it), I can&#8217;t help asking what some people expect for their money. I booked a hotel just down from the Moulin Rouge for \u00c2\u00a328 a night for a single. Some of the commentators thought the rooms were dingy and not as clean as they might be. Well, for the price, what do they expect?!<\/p>\n<p>Yes I&#8217;m probably going to freeze in the Luberon in February, but I should get to enjoy the history without being entirely buried under floods of fellow-tourists. That&#8217;s the theory, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been booking a planned holiday in Avignon (a week) and Paris (three days on the way home) in February &#8211; bound to end up with clashing with something else I&#8217;m supposed to be doing, but I&#8217;ll never get away if I don&#8217;t just do it. Looking at budget hotel ratings from visitors (yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}