Contracts in London

[Pickle2]

As to travel from the NW to London. You really need to understand the system here when doing Monday-Friday. You need to get yourself a Virgin Trains 'Traveller Club' card. You qualify by getting 16 Single or 8 Return 1st Class Tickets within a 3 month period. Once you qualify you'll then get FREE Weekend travel. But Virgin define the 'weekend' as All Day Friday/Saturday/Sunday and till Noon on Monday. Once you have this card you effectively get FREE travel for 1 Year plus other benefits such as FREE drinks in the Euston Lounge and priority parking spaces.

You'll spend around £1200 to get the Card, but you then get 12 months of FREE travel Monday mornings and Friday Evenings. The £1200 you spent getting the card then works out as £25 per week for a return 1st class journey at Peak times for a whole year!

P.S. The quickest way to get the qualifying tickets is to get multiple return tickets for one journey by using stopping stations. You'll qualify twice as fast for the same money.... You can get the 8 return tickets to qualify in just 4 weeks if you buy your tickets in a clever way....

Sir, I am forever in your debt. That tulip rocks.

http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/travel...ister_faq.aspx

[dang65]

Originally Posted by dang65
I've mentioned on here before that I use Youth Hostels when working on short contracts in London. Usually less than 20 quid a night, usually including breakfast. Laundry facilities on site, internet connections, clean, friendly, amazing locations, big showers, big rooms (shared, obviously, but still spacious).

Urghhhh......what a tramp. Bet the place smells lovely in the morning.

You people make me laugh. You'd rather sleep in a Travel-Lodge 40 minutes Tube journey out of town on a trading estate next to a dual-carriageway than in a clean and comfortable hostel just round the corner from St Paul's Cathedral. At half the price.

Maybe you've read George Orwell and think of these places as homeless hostels or workhouses or something. A lot of them are far more modern and clean than any "reasonably priced" hotel I've ever stayed in.

As for the smell... well, I've always found that other guests are far more considerate about their cleanliness and tidyness than they are in hotels. When you know there are other people in the room then you keep the place, and yourself, nice and smart.

[bobsyouruncle]

You people make me laugh. You'd rather sleep in a Travel-Lodge 40 minutes Tube journey out of town on a trading estate next to a dual-carriageway than in a clean and comfortable hostel just round the corner from St Paul's Cathedral. At half the price.

WHS

I have always found hostels to be more comfortable, cheaper, and better located than most soulless business hotels

[SueEllen]

You people make me laugh. You'd rather sleep in a Travel-Lodge 40 minutes Tube journey out of town on a trading estate next to a dual-carriageway than in a clean and comfortable hostel just round the corner from St Paul's Cathedral. At half the price.

Why do you want these laugable people to book up all the hostel beds where they will meet sociable and interesting people?

Let them stay in their more expensive hotels on their own.