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$50 Hotel Room VS $5,000 Hotel Room

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Brian Awadis puts a $50 motel room up against a $5,000 penthouse suite, and the cheap room actually wins some rounds.

FaZe Rug has built a channel on stunts that force a reaction, and on August 12, 2019, he found a new one: book a budget room for $50 a night, then book a suite that costs $5,000 a night, and see whether the markup is worth it. The result, titled “$50 Hotel Room VS $5,000 Hotel Room,” runs just under 23 minutes and leans entirely on Awadis’s comedic reaction format rather than any travel-vlog polish. He and his crew walk through both spaces on camera, room by room, reacting in real time to what a hundredfold price jump actually buys.

• Awadis and his friends tour a $50-a-night room expecting a run-down motel and instead find it clean, updated, and modern — the opposite of what the price tag suggested.
• The comparison then shifts to a $5,000-a-night suite, where the crew evaluates scale, amenities, and design against the budget room they just left.
• The video was published August 12, 2019, riding the high-vs-low price comparison format that was dominating YouTube that year.

The Setup Behind the Comparison

Awadis frames the whole thing as a simple test: put a rock-bottom room and a five-figure-a-month suite side by side and let the cameras do the arguing. There’s no hidden twist and no sponsor pitch driving the itinerary — it’s the same premise that’s carried other high-vs-low videos across YouTube in 2019, just run through FaZe Rug’s own comedic lens with his usual crew along for the reactions.

The $50 Room Defies Expectations

The cheap room is where the video gets its best material. Awadis and his friends walk in bracing for stained carpets and a broken TV remote, and instead find a space that’s clean, updated, and reasonably modern for the price. That gap between expectation and reality is what fuels most of the early jokes in the video — the crew keeps circling back to how “put together” a $50 room has no business being.

A $50 room that looks this decent breaks the whole bit before the $5,000 suite even gets a chance.

The $5,000 Suite Gets Put to the Test

Once the crew moves into the luxury suite, the format flips into full evaluation mode — scale, high-end furnishings, design details, and the overall atmosphere all get weighed against the room they just left. The question Awadis keeps circling isn’t whether the suite is nice — it obviously is — but whether anything in it actually justifies costing a hundred times more than the room down the price scale. That’s the same comparison logic that’s fueled other extreme-contrast stunts, including the escalating budget-vs-budget setups in World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room! and the scale-driven stunt in World’s Largest Challenge!

Factors Behind 2019 Format Success

Cheap-vs-expensive comparisons were everywhere on YouTube that summer, and Awadis’s version landed with his audience because it didn’t try to dress itself up as a real estate review — it stayed a reaction video from start to finish. The same appetite for extreme financial contrasts shows up in stunts like Made $1 Million in 7 Hours, Ruined a Whole City in One, where the hook is also the gap between two wildly different price points rather than any single outcome.

What sticks after 23 minutes isn’t a verdict on luxury hotels — it’s that the $50 room kept stealing the segment it wasn’t supposed to win. FaZe Rug built the whole video around a $5,000 suite being the payoff, and instead the punchline turned out to be a budget room nobody expected to hold up on camera.