How Much Does a Hotel Cost (2026 Data)

A night in an American hotel averaged $160.54¹ in 2025, counted per occupied room and before taxes and fees. The spread around that figure is wide: the cheapest of the 15 brands for which one global hotel company reports comparable figures averaged $127.68² a night worldwide in 2025, while luxury hotels in Hawaii averaged $862.82³. Taxes then add 12.5% to 18.712% of the room rate in the seven big cities compared here, and some chains add a resort fee on top.

This page prices the night from every side: the national average and its path since 2019, prices by month, the long record of hotel prices against inflation, the class of hotel, the most expensive US markets from Hawaii to Las Vegas, the taxes and fees on the bill, and what American households spend on lodging on trips in a year. A short section at the end sets the room rate beside what hotel staff earn and what a new room costs to build.

What a night in a US hotel costs

The standard measure of hotel prices is the average daily rate, or ADR: room revenue divided by the number of room nights sold. It is what guests paid on average for one occupied room for one night, and it leaves out sales and occupancy taxes, resort fees, parking and anything bought during the stay. In 2025 it rose 0.9%¹ to $160.54. Every 2025 change on this page is measured against the 2024 figures as restated in the 2025 year-end release, which put the 2024 average rate at about $159.11⁴; the table below shows each year as first published, so its 2024 row, $158.67, is slightly lower.

The average rate since 2019

The average rate has climbed in every year since the pandemic low. In 2020 it fell to $103.25⁵, about 21% below the $131.21 of 2019.⁶ It recovered to $124.67 in 2021 and jumped to $148.83⁷ in 2022, a 19% rise in a single year. By 2025 the average night cost about 22% more than in 2019.⁴

The climb has slowed. The rate rose to $155.62⁹ in 2023 and $158.67 in 2024, a gain of 1.7% on the restated 2023 figure, and 2025 added less than 1%. Growth of a few dollars a year is small next to the gaps between seasons, classes of hotel and places that the rest of this page measures: the same year's average hides nights that cost less than $100 and nights that cost more than $800.

The table adds two measures that are not prices. Occupancy is the share of rooms sold, and revenue per available room, or RevPAR, divides room revenue by every room on offer, sold or not, so it equals the average rate times occupancy. In 2025 RevPAR was $100.02¹, down 0.3%, because fewer rooms were sold even as the rate edged up.

How much a hotel costs for a week

At the 2025 average rate, seven nights come to $1,123.78⁴ before taxes and fees, and a 30-night stay to $4,816.20⁴. Those sums assume the national average every night; the sections below show how far the season, the class of hotel and the market move it, and the tax section shows what the bill adds.

When hotels cost the most in the year

The average rate by month

Hotel prices follow the calendar. Winter is the quiet season, and the average rate in January 2025 was the lowest of the months shown here, $151.20¹⁰. By September it had risen to $162.69¹¹, about 7.6% higher, before falling back to $153.77 in November.¹² Demand moves with it: US hotels sold 52.5%¹⁰ of their rooms in January and 68.2%¹³ in July.

Between those points the rate climbs in steps: $159.39¹⁴ in February, $161.28 in April and $161.90 in July.¹³ The whole spread between the cheapest and the dearest month shown was $11.49, about 7% of the average night, so for a trip within the country the choice of month matters less than the choice of city or hotel class.

Consumer prices by month

A second monthly measure tracks the price of comparable hotel stays rather than the average bill, so a shift toward pricier or cheaper hotels does not move it. This consumer price index for hotels and motels rises every spring and falls in late autumn. In 2026 it climbed from 358.1 in January to 426.2¹⁶ in May, and the May figure was 25% above November 2025. In August 2026 the index stood 2.9% higher than a year earlier.

The same seasonal shape repeats every year: the index peaked in May in 2024, 2025 and 2026 alike, and its lowest readings came in November and December.¹⁶ In 2025 the index ran from 405.722¹⁶ in May down to 341.837 in November, and in 2024 from 412.909 in May to 353.109 in December. October 2025 is missing from the series because prices were not collected that month during the federal funding lapse.

What hotels charge by month

The producer price index looks at the same rooms from the hotel's side: what hotels and motels, not counting casino hotels, receive for renting a guest room. Its calendar is flatter and usually peaks in June (in 2025 it peaked in October). In 2026 it rose from 183.143 in January to 200.467¹⁷ in June, 9.5% higher, and in August it stood 3.3% above August 2025.⁴

Is a hotel night really more expensive than before the pandemic, once general inflation is counted? The long-run indexes answer that.

Hotel prices against inflation

Since 1967

Measured from 1967, the first year of the series, hotel and motel prices have risen about 14 times, against about 9.6 times for consumer prices in general.¹⁶¹⁸ The lead built up steadily from the late 1970s to 2000 and has narrowed since: hotel prices rose 15.5%¹⁶ in 1979 alone and 14.2% in 1991, when all consumer prices rose 11.3% and 4.2%.

The recent record is the reverse. Since 2019, hotel prices have risen 11.9%⁴, while prices across the economy rose 25.9%. The hotel index fell 11.9% in 2020, rebounded 10.9% and 12.4% in the next two years, and then declined in both 2024 and 2025, by 0.7% and 1.8%, while consumer prices kept rising.¹⁸ Put side by side at five-year steps, the two indexes show when hotels ran ahead of general inflation and when they fell behind. Hotel prices have fallen in only a handful of years since 1967: by 1.0% in 2002, by 7.2%¹⁶ in the 2009 recession, by 11.9% in 2020, and in 2024 and 2025.

In most other years they rose faster than consumer prices as a whole.

Budget, full-service and luxury prices

Producer prices, what hotels receive for a guest room, give a third view. For all hotels and motels outside the casino category, the guestroom index stood at 184.831¹⁷ in 2025, 16% above 2019 and 1.77 times its 2004 level.⁴ Its pandemic drop was sharp: it fell 17% from 158.9 in 2019 to 131.2 in 2020.¹⁷

Split by class of hotel, the picture divides. From 2019 to 2025 the producer price index for full-service hotel rooms rose 25%⁴ and the luxury and resort index 19%, while the limited-service index fell 0.8%.¹⁷ The upper end of the market has been raising prices; the budget end has not. The limited-service index, which covers the economy and midscale hotels without restaurants or meeting space, peaked at 199.962¹⁷ in 2023 and has eased since.

Full-service hotels, with restaurants and meeting rooms, tell a different story: their index jumped from 206.175¹⁷ in 2021 to 257.540 in 2022 and kept rising to 278.440 in 2025.

Luxury and resort rooms rose fastest over the whole period: the index went from 104.9¹⁷ in 1994 to 290.801 in 2025. Its pandemic drop, from 244.4 in 2019 to 201.9 in 2020, was deeper than the recession fall from 199.6 in 2008 to 177.2 in 2009, and it had recovered past the 2019 level by 2022.

Casino hotel rooms

Casino hotels, the resorts of Las Vegas and other gaming towns, have their own price index, and it swings harder than any other. It fell 38% from 127.6¹⁷ in 2007 to 79.7 in 2010, took until 2017 to climb back to its 2002 level and until 2021 to pass its 2007 peak, then climbed to a peak of 149.366 in 2023. By 2025 it had slipped 4.8% from that peak, to 142.245, still 32% above 2019.⁴ No annual average was published for 2020, so the chart skips that year.

What the national accounts show

The national tourism accounts measure traveler accommodation as a whole, hotels, motels and other places to stay. Its price index fell 7.04%¹⁹ in 2020 and then rose 7.76%, 9.12% and 4.14% in the next three years, while the real volume of accommodation sold fell 32.4% in 2020 and grew 20.7% and 21.3% in 2021 and 2022. Prices and volume rose together as travel came back.

Luxury, upscale, midscale, economy: what the class of hotel adds

The national average blends every kind of hotel, from roadside motels to five-star resorts. The large hotel companies publish rates by brand tier, and the gaps are wide. At one of the largest global hotel companies, luxury brands in the United States and Canada averaged $442.41²⁰ a night in the last quarter of 2025, premium brands $219.58 and select-service brands $156.21. A luxury night cost 2.8 times a select-service night, and luxury rates were also growing fastest, up 4.3% on a year earlier.²⁰

A full brand ladder shows the same steps in finer detail. Across the 15 brands another global hotel company reports comparable figures for, full-year 2025 rates ran from $127.68² at the cheapest of them to $489.67 at its top luxury brand, 3.8 times as much. Its upper-midscale and extended-stay brands averaged $130.00 to $159.47. These are worldwide figures, so they mix US hotels with hotels abroad.

The middle of the ladder is crowded: eight of the 15 brands averaged between $145.70² and $240.77 a night in 2025, and four more between $127.68 and $143.09. Only the three highest-priced brands charged more than $270 a night, at $276.54, $467.39 and $489.67,² so the jump from the upper middle to the top of the ladder is far larger than any step below it. At the bottom, the two cheapest brands, at $130.00 and $127.68, were only $2.32 apart, with 71.1% and 71.3% of their rooms sold.²

At the budget end, a major US franchisor of midscale and economy hotels charged $70.73²¹ a night at its economy hotels in 2025 and $149.75 at its upscale hotels, about 2.1 times as much. As for how much an extended stay hotel is, its extended-stay brands, built with kitchens for guests who stay for weeks, averaged $66.10 a night over 2025, 3.1% more than in 2024 and $4.63 below the economy hotels. Across all its US hotels the average rate fell 1.6% in 2025, to $95.05.²¹

Where hotels cost the most in the US

Location moves the price a long way. Among the large US hotel markets, the Hawaiian Islands had the highest average rate in 2025, $366.66³, 2.3 times the national average. New York came next at $333.71¹, followed by Boston, San Francisco and Miami, all between $224 and $233 a night.³

As for how much a hotel is in New York City, the 2025 average of $333.71 was about twice the national figure and 4.7% higher than a year earlier. How much a hotel is in San Francisco rose even faster: the San Francisco/San Mateo market averaged $225.82¹, up 6.0%. Las Vegas was the exception among the big markets, with its rate down 4.3% to $199.79.

How much a hotel is in Hawaii

In Hawaii the class of hotel matters even more than elsewhere. Luxury hotels averaged $862.82³ a night in 2025, four times the $215.87 of midscale and economy hotels on the same islands. By island, Maui County averaged $536.80 and the Kohala Coast resorts on the Island of Hawaii $600.93, while Oahu averaged $284.12 and Waikiki $268.08.³ Kauai averaged $416.69 and the Island of Hawaii as a whole $443.56, and the resort area of Wailea on Maui reached $758.30³, second only to the luxury class in the table.

Rates moved unevenly by class in 2025: luxury hotels charged $862.82, up from $833.00 in 2024, while upscale hotels fell from $257.72³ to $237.43 and upper-midscale hotels from $223.50 to $201.00.

Prices there run on a strong seasonal cycle. The statewide rate fell to $314.75²² in September 2025 and peaked at $449.12 in December, 43% higher.³ December 2025 was also $14.69 above December 2024.

How much a hotel is in Las Vegas

Las Vegas publishes its own long record of room rates, from a survey that covers more than three quarters of all hotel rooms in the city, downtown and off-Strip hotels included: a different sample from the market figure above, and it comes out lower. On that count the average night cost $183.52³³ in 2025, 5.0% less than the record $193.16 of 2024.³⁴ The rate collapsed by 22% in 2009, from $119.19 to $92.93, and took until 2015 to pass its 2008 level.³⁵ After the pandemic it jumped 24% in 2022 alone, to $170.98, and by 2025 it was still 38% above 2019.⁴

The Strip and downtown are two different price levels. In 2025 a Strip hotel averaged $196.54³³ a night and a downtown hotel $97.98, so a Strip night cost about twice as much. Across 2025 the citywide rate ran from $154.76 in July to $203.88 in October, 32% more, and February 2025 averaged 25.0% less than February 2024, which had reached $248.35.³⁴ Summer is the cheap season on the Strip too: its rate fell to $164.57 in July, against $219.56 in October.

How much hotel tax is

Hotel taxes are charged as a percentage of the room rate, and they are stacked: a state rate, then county and city rates, special district charges and sometimes a flat fee per night. The advertised rate never includes them, and the total depends on the address.

Hotel taxes and fees by state

At the state level alone, the District of Columbia charges the most, 15.95%⁵¹ on every hotel stay. Connecticut and Hawaii follow at 15%, Rhode Island at 12% and New Jersey at 11.625%.⁵² Alaska, California and Nevada charge no state tax on hotel rooms, leaving hotel taxes to cities and counties, and Georgia adds a flat $5 fee per night to its 4% rate.⁵²

Neighbors can differ sharply. Oregon charges 1.5% at the state level while Washington charges 6.5%, and Nevada charges nothing while Utah charges 5.17% and Arizona 5.5%.⁵²

City hotel taxes

Add local taxes and the bill climbs further. Of seven big tourist cities compared here, Honolulu charges the most, 18.712%⁵³, after Hawaii raised its state accommodations tax to 11% on January 1, 2026. Houston charges 17%, split between the state, the city, the county and a sports authority.⁵⁶ New York City's 14.75% looks moderate, but it comes with $3.50 in flat fees per room per night: at the 2025 national average rate, a New York night carries $27.18⁴ in taxes and fees. On the same $160.54 night, Honolulu's rate adds $30.04⁴ and Orlando's 12.5% adds $20.07.

Chicago shows how fast these totals change. The Chicago hotel tax rate for 2025, as a total percentage, was 17.4%⁵⁷, a composite of six state, city, county and authority taxes, some charged on the room rate and some on gross receipts; the city's own 4.5% base rate has not changed since December 2018.⁶³ On May 1, 2026, the city added a 1.5% charge for hotels with 100 or more rooms in 16 downtown-area ZIP codes, the Chicago Tourism Improvement District.⁶⁴ The charge falls on the hotel, which may pass it on as a separate line on the bill; with it, the total in the district comes to about 19%.⁴ At the 2025 rate, the taxes on one night at the national average rate came to $27.93.

Other states changed their rates too. Rhode Island raised its local hotel tax from 1% to 2% on January 1, 2026, so a room anywhere in the state now pays 14%⁵⁵ in state and local taxes, and Louisiana has charged its 5% state sales tax on hotel rooms since January 1, 2025, except in Orleans and Jefferson parishes, where hotels with 10 or more rooms, most New Orleans hotels among them, pay 3% until the end of 2029.⁵⁴

Resort fees and the total price

Resort fees are not taxes, but they are charged per night on top of the room rate at hotels that levy them. In a study of more than 100 US hotels with December 2023 check-in dates, the average resort fee among hotels that charged one was $38.82⁶⁵ a night, and the chain averages ranged from $25.00 to $50.00. A 2026 sample found a fee at 30 of 160 hotels, averaging $33⁶⁶ a day.

Since May 12, 2025, a federal rule on unfair or deceptive fees requires anyone advertising a hotel stay to show the total price, with every mandatory fee included, up front.⁶⁷ That puts hotel sites that show the total price on the right side of the law and hidden resort fees on the wrong side. The regulators estimated that the rule would save consumers up to 53 million hours a year of searching for the real price, worth more than $11 billion over ten years.⁶⁸ Tips are a further cost of a stay; the page on hotel tipping sets out what hotel staff are usually given.

What households spend on lodging on trips a year

Room rates are one side of the cost; the other is how much households actually spend. The national survey of household spending counts lodging on out-of-town trips: hotels, motels and other lodging. Averaged over all US households, including those that did not travel, it came to $906⁶⁹ in 2024, 46% more than in 2019 and three times the $299 of 2010.⁴ That is the price of about 5.7 nights at the 2024 average rate. The pandemic cut it to $318 in 2020, about half the 2019 level.

Income sets the budget more than anything else. Households in the top fifth by income spent $2,137⁶⁹ on lodging on trips in 2024, almost nine times the $240 of the lowest fifth; the middle fifth spent $668.

Household size matters less than income. One-person households spent $471⁶⁹ on lodging on trips in 2024, two-person households $1,131 and four-person households $1,286, the most of any size, while households of five or more spent $910.

Spending rises with age into the peak earning years. Households headed by someone aged 45 to 54 spent $1,136⁶⁹ in 2024, 3.5 times the $328 of those under 25, and spending stays near $1,000 into the 65-74 group before falling to $698 at 75 and over.

Where households live matters too. Those in the Northeast spent $1,173⁶⁹ on lodging on trips in 2024, about double their $581 of 2019 and 68% more than households in the South, who spent $700.

Beyond the room rate: hotel pay, building costs and long stays

Three questions sit next to the price of a room. On how much hotel workers make, the median worker in hotels, motels and other traveler accommodation earned $18.05⁷⁰ an hour in May 2025, before tips.

How much hotel managers make is well above that: lodging managers earned a median $67,890 a year. How much hotel housekeepers make is near the bottom of the scale, a median $16.79 an hour, so one night at the 2025 average rate costs about 9.6 hours of their pay.⁴

As for how much it costs to build a hotel, the median US project in 2025 cost $213,000⁷¹ per room, counting land, construction, furniture and pre-opening costs: $170,000 for a limited-service hotel, $467,000 for a full-service hotel and more than $1.6 million for luxury. The median new room has to sell about 1,327 nights at the 2025 average rate to take in its building cost.⁴

And how much it costs to live in a hotel depends on the kind of hotel: 30 nights at the extended-stay rate above come to $1,983.00⁴ before tax, against $4,816.20 at the national average rate. In New York City, a guest who stays at least 180 consecutive days owes no hotel room occupancy tax.⁵⁸

Conclusions

1. The advertised rate is not the bill. The $160.54 national average leaves out taxes: at that rate a New York night carries $27.18 in taxes and flat fees and a Chicago night $27.93 at the 2025 rate of 17.4%.⁴ Resort fees, averaging $25.00⁶⁵ to $50.00 a night by chain in a 2023 study, must now be shown in the total price under the federal rule in force since May 12, 2025.⁶⁷
2. Hotel prices have trailed inflation. Since 2019 the like-for-like price index for hotel stays rose 11.9%¹⁶ and even the average rate paid 22%⁴, against 25.9%¹⁸ for all consumer prices; producer prices rose 25% for full-service rooms and 19% for luxury rooms but fell 0.8% for limited-service rooms.¹⁷
3. Place and season move the price more than any year. Hawaii's average rate is 2.3 times the national figure and its December rate 43% above September's;³ the Las Vegas rate was 32% higher in October than in July,³³ while the national average rate moved 0.9%¹ in 2025.
4. The class of hotel sets the level. Luxury brands charged 2.8 times as much as select-service brands in late 2025,²⁰ and extended-stay hotels averaged $66.10²¹ a night, well under half the national average.
5. Household spending on lodging on trips has grown faster than room rates. Spending on lodging on trips reached $906⁶⁹ per household in 2024, 46% above 2019, and the top fifth of households by income spent almost nine times as much as the lowest fifth.