Bed and Breakfast Style Accommodations in Hoboken - Good or Bad?

Bed and Breakfast Style Accommodations in Hoboken, is it a good thing or bad thing for Hoboken?  This seems to be something that was once tried and the idea was quickly met with not a lot of hands raised in support of the idea.  Considered the #2 most visited city in NJ, next to Atlantic City, Hoboken is the home to 1 hotel, the W which can range in price given the night and date, sometimes upwards of $500 a night for a single night.  Not everyone can afford the prices the W offers, therefore visitors to Hoboken must travel to Weehawken or Jersey City and stay there, which sadly doesn't keep people spending their money in our city. With a lack of parking and often deemed "venomous parking enforcement", visitors to Hoboken seem to be a necessity more than ever.

A bed and breakfast also known as B and B is often small hotel setting for travelers.  In most cases a bed and Breakfast is a home that has been transformed with little to moderate work to allow for guests to reside in on a nightly basis. Some offer privatized bathrooms while some offered shared.  Rates for Bed and Breakfasts routinely are far less than most small hotels (Howard Johnson, Days Inn, Embassy Suites).  In Hoboken, the Yankee Ferry, the vintage, nostalgic ship that rests uptown on the Hudson is charging as little as $127 for a nightly stay for the night of September 25th, the W is charging $369 for the same night.   The Yankee Clipper offers an experience where one can reside in rooms fancied to resemble the early 1900's, with fresh quilted handmade linens, of the period furniture and decor and a grand dining room that almost resembles royalty.  In addition to the Yankee Clipper, websites like bedandbreakfast.com and airbnb.com offer Hoboken homes and rooms to rent by the night for a fraction of the cost of major hotels.  Historically Bed and Breakfasts attract a mature middle aged crowd, typically tourist and business people who prefer a home-like feel rather than be a statistic in a sardine can styled hotel.  Bed and Breakfasts, as far as research can prove does not attract the rowdy types, party animals.  In fact most bed and breakfast's mention on their applications that any type of bad behavior will result in immediate departure.

For residing Hoboken residents I am sure there would be concerns for having a bed and breakfast in the community.  Party goers, strangers around the neighborhood, minor traffic snarls, excess noise seem to be the top issues that come to mind.  However for years people have been staying here in Hoboken already and to date no noise complaints or issues have been brought up that I have learned about.  In fact, a recent search of airbnb.com shows dozens of places to stay in Hoboken with little vacancy as the rest of the world seems to want to stay in Hoboken, which leads to the question what as a city are we not welcoming the world with open arms?  As the #2 most visited city in NJ, we should be open to business with regards to bed and breakfast style accommodations.  Hoboken is indeed a boutique like town, very walkable and close to everything.  For Carlo's bakery fans, Hoboken is a perfect place to spend the night.  A family can tour Hoboken one night, visit NYC another.  Hoboken would stand to make a hotel tax as well, money for the city that seems to be a need these days.

Should Hoboken be more open to bed and breakfasts style accommodations and allow home owners to decide if they would like to open their homes to the world or should we turn away our tourists, friends, parents, etc?  Or should we say as a tourist destination "leave, go stay somewhere else and spend your money elsewhere"?  Please feel free to comment.