I stayed at the Hotel Kiev (the nicest place in town) in Donetsk, Ukraine a few years ago. By US standards, the place was a very bad Motel 6. But it was clean and had a shower, of sorts, though the water was always cold.
One afternoon, I had to get something from my room and my interpretor and a friend of his came up to my hotel room. They had never been outside of the Ukraine. They were astonished as they look around my Motel 6-like room. They had never seen such opulance.