With fall conference season well underway, Cheap Hotels has released its list of the most expensive cities for hotel stays in the U.S. Boston tops the list as the most expensive city for accommodation, where the average price for a double room has reached $320. Hotels in the survey were chosen based on their central location and 3-star rating or higher. 

Jersey City comes in at second place with rates averaging $310, followed by New York City at $284. Raleigh jumped to fourth place, averaging $258 per night, an increase of more than 25 percent compared with 2023. 

The biggest jump in hotel accommodation prices was in San Diego where it now costs 31 percent more to stay in the city than in 2023, according to the survey. 

Areas that have seen their accommodation rates drop include San Francisco, which fell by 20 percent, averaging $105 per night. 

Skyrocketing hotel prices are not just confined to major urban centers. In comparison, earlier this year, Cheap Hotels released the names of cities that offered the most expensive hotel stays during the summer travel months in the Midwest. In this case, Ann Arbor topped the list for the Midwestern region, averaging $287 per night for the least expensive room. Saint Joseph and South Haven were second and third at $274 and $256 respectively. 

According to Cheap Hotels, compared with 2019 when the survey was last conducted, hotel rates in the 10 priciest destinations in this region were up by more than 20 percent, on average.