stut

Does it have to be hotels or do ferries/trains count?

pinniped

Backpacking Europe, we had a string of about 2 weeks where we didn't sleep in the same place twice. Mix of hostels, cheap pensiones, and overnight trains/ferries. Then we stopped in the middle for 3 nights in Corfu...then 2 more weeks of moving every day.

We were 21 years old so it didn't seem exhausting. No way in hell I could do that today, even if we were talking Marriotts and Hiltons the whole way.

VivoPerLei

Did you have a long string of them? In my case, it's fly to city, stay overnight, go to customer sites in the morning, drive or fly to next city, repeat, repeat, repeat, etc

Kagehitokiri

when 1 night on plane (like train/ferry) might also be included

when driving, could have luggage setup in car, not full unpack/pack each night

when returning to same places, decent hotels might store some luggage

would imagine it gets rough, even if upscale hotels

for business travelers flying J/F and spending a lot of time in airports (each day) might consider paid VIP services at commercial airports, to cut down on some of that time

jrl767

summer of 1989 ... not as many as some ...
28 Jul - in-laws' vacation house, Camano Island WA
29 Jul - mom's house, Temple Hills MD
30 Jul - friends' house, West Chester OH
31 Jul - VOQ, Wright-Patterson AFB OH
1 Aug - hotel, LAX area
2 -3 Aug - VOQ, Edwards AFB CA
4 Aug - in transit LAX-BWI (the last Piedmont flight)
5 Aug - mom's house
6 Aug - VOQ, Wright-Patt

stut

Longest string would be about 20 nights of alternating ferry/train/accommodation on a UK-Antwerp-Amsterdam-Berlin-Warsaw-Krakow-Prague-Budapest-Vienna-Venice-Florence-Rome-Geneva-Paris-UK trip. I was 17, and the train accommodation was just seated.

More recently, I used to use creative ways to go on business trips, because, well, I'm just like that. You'd often find that somewhere like Copenhagen would get booked out last minute, so rather than stay at some awful middle-of-nowhere hotel, I'd do something like fly to Berlin, have an evening out there, get the sleeper train to Copenhagen (sadly no more), spend the next two nights in different hotels in Vesterbro, then catch the overnight ferry from Malmo to Travemunde (classy - it has "no shooting up" signs in the cabins), watching us go under the Oresund Bridge, have a wander round the Lubeck Christmas Market, stock up on marzipan, and fly home from Hamburg.

An average holiday will see me stay in about 4-5 different places. This year was different, though, as we now have a baby! So it was just 3.

tentseller

5 nights in the same city over three different properties.

The joy of chasing top tier and promotional bonuses.

jrl767

yep; I did exactly the same thing this past January

VivoPerLei

Was that the train that rolled right up onto the ferry? I only did it once about 27 years ago, but I remember being super impressed by the experience.

stut

Nope, it took a very roundabout route via Hamburg and Flensburg. Woke up crossing the Great Belt, which was pretty impressive in its own right. It was one of those trains that had carriages from everywhere going to everywhere - my carriage was Czech.

The direct Copenhagen - Hamburg train still goes on the ferry - and it's an ICE train too! There used to be a sleeper to/from Malmo that did the same via Trelleborg, which promises to wind up every year, but somehow keeps going...

Toshbaf

I once spent 2 nights without sleeping in a bed.

Night 1: red eye flight (not in F or J class)
Night 2: short red eye flight (Spain to UK)
Next day: UK to US and then a domestic connecting flight

ugh

mandolino

Most I've done recently was four in four nights. Hanover, Osnabruck, Kassel, Munich last year.

This year, Gatwick ( hotel in terminal), Munich, Kavalla, Athens. I reached my 10,000 steps the first day, just in airport terminals.

I hate moving hotel every day, but if I have to, I pack in sequence so I don't have to unpack completely.

darthbimmer

YES! Careful packing is essential when traveling to a different hotel each night. Otherwise the pack-unpack process becomes a ridiculous ordeal. I pack my bag methodically. It takes a tad more time before leaving home, but when I arrive I can fish out the few items I need without having to dump the whole bag out, and when it's time to leave I can repack in 1-2 minutes just as neatly to be ready for the next destination. Lather, rinse, repeat.

KDS777

My record is 3 changes in 3 days in Madison, Wisconsin.

Don't ever stay in a Microtel.

I travelled for business for 5 years and spent 120 nights a year in hotels.

stut

Think my record for this is 5 nights - spur of the moment holiday with two friends when I was younger.

Night on the floor of a ferry (you never had to splash out for a cabin in those days, and could get away with paying for the £1 day trip offers and 10Fr in reverse if you could speak reasonable French and ditching the return half) in both directions, plus two nights bivvying in the woods and one night sleeping in the car (that was cramped). Loved being able to just do that.

If you count indoors, I could probably stretch to a week on the floor in a sleeping bag. Longer if you include on sofas.

Ah, to be young again...