Accommodation Away

[TheFaQQer]

Serviced apartments are a good thing if you can find them. A while back, I negotiated with a place in Edinburgh that I paid £400 a month for Monday to Friday each week, which was in Leith overlooking Brittania.

[cojak]

There are those who put in stupid rules i.e you can't use the living room but those should be avoided

I actually prefer those - it means that I don't have to socialise with the owners (I'm strange that way). I just make sure that they put a TV in the bedroom and allow me to share their wi-fi.

The kitchen/dining room is common ground and I can happily disappear to my room once I've eaten...

[psychocandy]

Used holidaylettings.co.uk in the past. You can get accom for just one night at a time here if you like.

Used them in the past. Had a cracking little flat on the outskirts of cheltenham for a few nights. Cost about £55 a night if I remember so about the same price as the travelodge anyway.

Small kitchen, settee, tv, dvd. Excellent it was.

[psychocandy]

Aparthotels... Interesting concept. I will look into CAS too.

I have to say that the idea of a house/flat share is a bit off putting. I'm probably being too snobby.

Sharing not me for me either. Possibly because Im a miserable git and once I'm out of the office cant be arsed to make small talk.

Also, dont want to wake up one night with a big sweaty fella called Dave trying to get into my bed.

[MojoDog]

Also, dont want to wake up one night with a big sweaty fella called Dave trying to get into my bed.

That happened ONCE and I apologised. Let it go.

[kevpuk]

Another vote for Spareroom - served me well last summer for 6 months, and now back in same place again with latest gig, after 4 months back home.....

[TheFaQQer]

Did you get August in that deal?

I think so. Can't remember when I started to be honest

[kingcook]

Aparthotels... Interesting concept. I will look into CAS too.

I have to say that the idea of a house/flat share is a bit off putting. I'm probably being too snobby.

I don't like house share either. I did it for a few months when I started out in contracting.

The couple who I lived with were polite enough, but the idea of living in someone elses house with them in it just drove me around the bend.

I've prefered B&B/short term rentals ever since.

WRT rentals, you can sometimes get lucky and find a landlord/agent that will offer 1 month notice period - very rare though. All depends what the demand for rentals is like in the area you're looking at.

[TheFaQQer]

Aparthotels... Interesting concept. I will look into CAS too.

I have to say that the idea of a house/flat share is a bit off putting. I'm probably being too snobby.

Last time I did it, it was more like a better student house - I had an en-suite and then shared kitchen and lounge with internet and TV and all bills included.

One of the residents was a 21-year old Australian gym instructress and part-time model

I was by far the oldest person in the house - everyone else seemed to be in their first jobs out of university, but it was a good laugh.

[TheFaQQer]

Through the Fringe? If so, that is an amazing deal!

At the time, they were still renovating / building Leith up so there were loads of empty flats that had been completed but no-one wanted to buy any of them because they were still essentially in the middle of a building site.

I had to move out on a Friday and back in on a Monday, but some weeks I was in a two-floor penthouse, which was nice. Quite often I had to log into the wifi router using the default password that had never been changed, and limit the connection speeds of some people so I got a decent connection as well