While hotel prices in New York City and Europe are making U.S. visitors gasp in astonishment, in Central America the dollar still rules.
Take Honduras, where the best hotel in town by the famous Maya ruins of Copán will cost you $80 for a double, at Hotel Marina Copán. So step up big spender and get an executive suite, such as number 331 in this video tour.
For $180 plus tax you get a full living room with kitchenette, a spacious bedroom, a bath with double vanity and whirlpool tub, and two balconies with a killer view.
The incidentals bill is not going to be very painful either. The most expensive breakfast on the room service menu is less than six bucks. If you order the highest-priced item on the dinner menu in the restaurant--shrimp in garlic butter--it will set you back $12.36. (It comes with vegetables or potatoes and rice, by the way.)
A local beer is $2 in the bar. Direct flights from the U.S. land in three different cities in Honduras and with this being shoulder season there, flight prices are at some of their lowest points of the year.
Another bonus? If you're looking to do some Indiana Jones-style traveling, the Maya ruins of Copán have been studied by archaeologists for over a century and the hotel brags that many of them have stayed at the Hotel Marina Copán. No crystal skulls reported there...yet.
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