Even the BFE overnights have decent hotels and 1-2 solid restaurants. I’m happy to have a 10 minute van ride, a steak dinner that costs 1/4 of what it does in NY, $4 old fashioneds, and a nice park or college campus to go run on in the morning. I’m going to many of the places I used to go in the RJ- and staying at a downtown hotel eating a nice dinner is a totally different overnight than minrest at the bedbug-infested airport comfort inn and suites hoping you landed in time to get a dessicated roller grill hot dog from the gas station before they closed.

NY/SF/CHI/LA/ etc are all fun too but on a 14-16 hour overnight the van ride eats up any time you’d use for big city fun.

The only exception would be the EAS route cities that will never see mainline service that barely have a holiday inn.