Monday to Friday digs - Xmas etiquette

[Sausage Surprise]

If you have access to the room, then pay the rent. If you won't, then don't.

Last time I rented a room, I still paid over Christmas and NY when I wasn't there, and also for the weeks when I was on holiday and not working.

Ditto...I see it as a kind of retention payment. One guy offered me the money back for the Christmas period but I refused on the grounds that he was a lovely chap who gave me the occasional lift to and from train station/pub/airport.

[kevpuk]

Ditto...I see it as a kind of retention payment. One guy offered me the money back for the Christmas period but I refused on the grounds that he was a lovely chap who gave me the occasional lift to and from train station/pub/airport.

As above, my landlady was thinking about giving me money back for a couple of Bank Holiday's that I wasn't required to work, as well as a couple of days I didn't invoice as EuroDisney pulled the clan over.....
We figured out between us that actually I had had the wife and tiny people up on a couple of occasions (close to Heathrow, Eurostar) on 'non-paid-for-days' and that it was swings and roundabouts.
All to do with the relationship, I reckon - I am more than happy to keep paying over Xmas or any period I am not @ Client temporarily, as it seems the right and just thing to do.