Americans are rich, so skin 'em!
In a followup to my dismay at how much per night the Army is spending to rent hotel room in Tsbilisi, Bob Ballard (link to his blog at left) observes that the Army is getting a real bargain:

When doing a seismic job offshore Moskalvo on the north end of Sakhalin Island in Sept 1999, the contractor tried to get hotel rooms for a crew change in Okha and the proprietor wanted $1,000 (cash, USD) per room per
nite with max 2 people per room (35 guys coming and going). Told 'em to go [p**s] up a rope and the plane finally showed up so we could get out of there. If it hadn't, it woulda been on the street at about 40 degrees F or pay the fare.

I recall that on an exercise in Honduras in 1987, my unit landed heavy vehicles by sea at the northern port of Lempira. We contracted with a Honduran company to haul them to the Comayagua valley at a cost of $20,000 per flatbed.