Yotel plans three locations in London for early 2006, with rooms priced at about $156 for a full night or $78 for four hours.

Unfortunately, all that fresh paint must be costly; it's hard to find a large, full-service hotel with double rooms priced under $160 a night.

With double rooms priced from $128 including breakfast, the 40-room Alexander is also pricier than its neighbors.

It has eight modern rooms, priced at $55, double, and $44, single, including breakfast.

It applies only to rooms priced at $100 or more per night, a high rate for most places but not New York City, where the average is $113.

No one would call the Four Seasons cozy, but it's comfortable, as it should be with rooms priced from $295 to the $4,000 Presidential suite.

Double rooms range from $175 to $285 with some rooms specially priced at $160 to $215 for weekend arrival.

But with double rooms priced from $118, this soothing, 200-room hotel, built in the 1920's near Carnegie Hall, is a bargain.

On the cruise ships, 80 percent of the accommodations will be in double rooms priced at about $242 a night, including daily breakfast.

Most exclusive Caribbean resorts, with rooms priced at $400 a night and even higher for the Christmas holidays, have no rooms available, she said.