A few reasons:
1-For the cost of less than a moderate hotel room per night, you get the room, food (and sometimes drinks), and entertainment.
2-Let someone else do the driving on vacation (no flying or interstate highways for me, I live 15 minutes away from Port Canaveral).
3-Being able to disconnect from everything. No one in my squadron can call me. I ignore email and news and get to do nothing but relax.
That sounds good. I watch too many videos of mega waves (cruise ships, tankers, oil rigs) and there’s a pretty big pucker factor there for me. Two things God created strike terror in me, the ocean and deep forests. The seeming infinity of both. The power to swallow you up and disappear you.