Hello and welcome to sleep. Hello!

Welcome to Sleet Money Travel.

Your guide this week to staying in hotels,

which it turns out there's a lot to be said about staying in hotels.

I am not the person to say it, but I know the person who is Pavia Rosati, welcome.

Felix, I am honored to be a guest on slate money talking about hotels.

But first, before you do that, introduce yourself, who are you?

I am Pavie Rizotti. I am the founder of Fab Fathom which is an editorial travel platform that covers the world

through a mix of personal stories and curated guides focusing on independent and boutique and really special hotels, experiences and

places all over the world. And if you want to see what we're about, we are at fathom away.com.

And before fathom you actually worked at Slate.

I mean for 15 minutes when the internet was a baby, but yeah, no.

In what, 1995?

Yeah, it was brief and glorious. I really liked it.

The glory days. So we are going to talk about hotels and the economics of hotels

and what has happened to hotel prices, especially luxury

hotels, we're going to talk about what value consists in, we're going to talk about

whether there are any arbitrages, we're going to talk about junk fees, just a whole bunch of

glorious stuff and at the end of it all, you'll probably just be going to found them to work out where to stay

because it turns out there's very, very little sort of one-size-fits-all rules when it comes to this industry, but it's a fascinating thing to talk about. So that's all coming up on slate money travel.

So Pavia you are the best travelled person I know.

That's nice of you.

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