frankly, I believe the lodging industry brought this upon themselves--especially in Anchorage, Alaska where "box hotels" popping up like mushrooms by foreign interests that expect human beings to cough up $300/night plus bed tax for four walls and a bed. The ugliest, plainest, jail-looking least-hospitable accomodations just because they are hedging bets that people are just passing through.  Worse yet, there's no service associated with $300/night either.  Free enterprise reigns supreme in Anchorage too !