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World's most expensive city for Australians to stay in revealed in Hotels.com Hotel Price Index
By Kylie McLaughlin
A hotel room in New York will cost you on average $317 per night.Credit: iStock
Looking to book a cheap holiday in the coming year? Then avoid New York, where the rooms remain the most expensive in the world for Australian visitors.
According to Hotel.com's Hotel Price Index, the average price for a room at the popular USA destination was a whopping $317.
Other cities Australians on a budget should bypass include Rio, Dublin, Berlin, Paris, London and San Francisco, which all recorded double-digit price rises for hotel rooms.
Rooms in Morocco, usually thought of as a cheap destination, jumped 41 per cent to $169.
While the Aussie dollar flops to a six-year low, great deals on hotels are getting harder to find.
Don't bother looking across the ditch to our friends in New Zealand, where the cost of hotel rooms has risen 15 per cent for Australian travellers as the Kiwi dollar continues to strengthen against the Australian.
Prices for accommodation in Fiji and New Caledonia were also on the increase, jumping 12 and 11 per cent respectively since 2013.
Which leaves Asia as the best place to secure a good price on a hotel room.
Costs of accommodation have been falling throughout the region over the last two years, making them only slightly higher than they were ten years ago.
Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka were the top choices for Australians looking for a cheaper places to stay.
In some cases, hotel prices in cities such as Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Chiang Mai, Phnom Penh and Hanoi have fallen substantially.
Northern Asia countries such as China, Japan and Hong Kong, however, saw a small increase in prices.
Hotels.com's Regional Director, Katherine Cole, said: "Aussies are still spoiled for choice in Asia, where they have a wide range of hotels to choose from, good value and competitive hotel deals," she said.
Travelling in our own backyard is also a decent option, with hotel prices increasing on average by only one per cent across the country.
Hobart and Adelaide saw the largest increase in hotel room prices at six per cent, but Adelaide still remains the cheapest place in Australia to get a room ($153 per night).
The Hotel Price Index is based on bookings made on Hotels.com and tracks the actual prices paid per hotel room for more than 169,000 properties.
A snapshot of hotel prices in 2014
Top five most expensive international destinations
New York: $317 (seven per cent increase)
Rio de Janeiro: $299 (14 per cent increase)
Cancun/Riviera Maya: $282 (19 per cent increase)
Honolulu: $281 (10 per cent increase)
Boston: $272 (10 per cent increase)
Top five international destinations with the highest growth in hotel prices
Morocco: $169 ( 41 per cent increase)
Mauritius: $277 (25 per cent increase)
Greece: $196 (18 per cent increase)
Qatar: $197 (17 per cent increase)
New Zealand: $162 (15 per cent increase)
Change in Australian hotel prices for Australian travellers
Hobart: $176 (six per cent increase)
Adelaide: $153 (six per cent increase)
Canberra: $185 (four per cent increase)
Brisbane: $172 ( two per cent increase)
Sydney: $200 (one per cent increase)
Melbourne: $177 (one per cent increase)
Perth: $184 (three per cent drop)
Darwin: $200 (four per cent drop)
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