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Have hotel stays become an unaffordable luxury?
Open this photo in gallery:THE GLOBE AND MAIL. SOURCES: GETTY IMAGES. John Lee is a Vancouver-based travel writer. I booked my first hotel stay when I was a University of Victoria graduate student in my early 20s. My girlfriend and I, keen to swap the …