Perfecting the Balance Between Tourists and Locals

Slate Money

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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this special episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers. They talk discuss why you should never get the hotel breakfast, whether locals should get discounts at popular spots, and whether you should avoid tourist traps. Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.2	Hello.
0:30.4	Welcome to Slate Money Travel.
0:32.4	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:34.1	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:34.7	Hello, hello.
0:37.5	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. Hello. And we are going to talk about how much things cost these days. And specifically,
0:46.4	because we are not actually boomers, we are going to talk about how much things cost in towns
0:53.0	where there are a lot of tourists. And I have this theory,
0:56.5	which I have been waiting to spring upon my interlocutors here, which is that if you are flying
1:05.0	to a tourist destination, you are spending a lot on plane tickets, you are spending a lot on hotels, this are spending a lot on hotels this is a large
1:13.6	expensive thing you could spend as we also heard in this series from Hillary Frey like
1:20.3	$5,000 just going to Disneyland for four days so at that point everything else kind of becomes a rounding error.
1:29.6	And so an expensive meal, an expensive museum visit, something like that, it's just like,
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