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Budget bracketing for empoverished countries

Swept in from the pub

Does anyone else find the three bracket system a bit weak in countries with huge wealth disparity? The "budget" section is filled with a mix of places that have a tenfold price difference and I for one think it makes it unwieldy, people after a one dollar room aren't the same people looking for a ten or twenty dollar room.

The "splurge" category often has the same issue but often only has a few entries.

I love the wikivoyage conformity, and I can see a value in doing nothing - but maybe a fourth "squalid" bracket help.. Or redefining the brackets in genuinely cheap countries.

Just a thought. —The preceding comment was added by Billbarrelrider (talk • contribs)

Defining based on country is probably the way to go, indeed that is what we already do (even if it isn't stated in most articles).--ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 13:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

At Cebu_(city)#Sleep someone added a "Backpacker hostels" sub-heading separate from Budget. That is certainly better than "squalid", but is it a general solution? Pashley (talk) 14:09, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Often, we do split accommodations by type (hotel, motel, tent camping, cabins, bed and breakfast, caravan/RV park, caves for sleepy bears, whatever...) or by location instead of splitting by price range. K7L (talk) 14:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

There aren't any globally defined price limits for the "budget", "mid range" and "splurge" ranges. They depend on the price level in the destination the article is about. The most affordable places to eat and sleep go in budget, no matter how expensive they are, and the most expensive places go in splurge no matter how cheap they are. ϒpsilon (talk) 14:57, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

The problem, I suppose, is that backpacker places tend to go to Budget, even where also backpackers are rich and spending fortunes by local standards. The problem is that you have to realize a specific region is poor enough that backpackers' standard is middle range and not budget. The second problem, mentioned above, is that the middle and splurge sections cover large ranges of prices. I suppose that is a problem also with New York's or Paris' Splurge, so we mostly just have to live with it, but the problem of backpackers' places being midrange is something we should raise awareness about. The problem is made more serious by that you hardly find the local budget places on Internet or in tourist brochures. --LPfi (talk) 09:57, 23 August 2018 (UTC)