I simply cannot understand why people would want to go and sweat for two weeks in some filthy hot country, let alone lie in the sun and get skin cancer. In my limited experience of second-rate hotels there is seldom decent air conditioning and the rooms usually have a view of some dull water, or the roof of a restaurant with vents, or the hotel car park. I have to travel on business to hot dirty countries where people have no manners and MTV culture is all they know but at least I'm being paid to do it, I can stay in nice hotels and I don't have to make a pretence of enjoying myself.