Rehan - loved the thread.
there is always a two side
1- while going with Family and
2- while going with friends/alone.
living in a google environment which is very helpful in making decisions like route, transport, hotels and food. with family one need to take the proper googling. the taste of family matters a lot, you have to compromise in your decisions for family, with them you can stay with your relatives place in other cities but in some cases we avoid because we are bounded with them or dependent on their free time. its better to spend nights with relatives and roam during the day according to your plans.
other side is with friends - chill party, every one was in the mood to limit the cost.
when we went for the road trip in 2015 December accompanied by my friend, his wife and kid along with my wife and kid - in night stays my wife is very reluctant in choosing a hotel, room is that, this, window is not proper so on, so as my friends wife told her 'Aik raat he to stay karna hai', but its difficult to let her under stand - its only a night stay. eventually we searched 3 to 4 hotels in hyderabad for stay and finalize one, same as in rahimyar khan, and same in lahore (Per night cost matters alot - especially for me(as a finance minister).
now - planning a small 3 to 4 days visit to go and touch the snow of "ziarat-Quetta" (for a change from this hectic office life), because of low budget - planning to go via bus, drop to quetta and then move to Zairat. stay at Zairat for 2 days and then back. Finally 50 percent convinced my WiFi and kid as they both hate travelling. Pray that it will materialize. Inshallah.
rest - other experts can share their experiences like the Great ,asifcae ,nagar1 ,vickytulla ,r1 ,tamour ,naeem ,feika ,yasirkhanpk ,hassangr8 ,Porsche_Maker ,kn_khipk @haroonmcs26 ,aks_e_ahmed
,sajid65 ,capsat ,tourist ,selman ,Aqeel1982 ,shaikhrulez ,tintin1,suhaibayaz bilal.tariq.18041,umarxe,farhan_khetran,rizwan400,emmaar and our Greatest Hanif Bhai.
Good Luck