On our 1st ever holiday abroad, we went accomodation on arrival, in Yugoslavia, as it was then. It had a negative affect on our views of the holiday accomodation we stayed in for years after.
We ended up in a brand new 5 star hotel that had just opened. We were there to sort out the gremlins that naturally occur in any new venture.
On all holidays after that the accomodation was compared to the first place and all were found to be lacking.
That was just our experience. I'm sure others wern't so lucky.
Murt