Accomodation - Bath

[dang65]

By-the-way, if this is common practice then why do we have so many threads on here about cheapest options for accomodation and travel savings? If it's routine for the client to pay then these things should be completely irrelevant.

[Bagpuss]

I have never known them to pay accommodation in the Pharma Industry unless you go abroad. Some of these companies must have money to burn,

[TheBigYinJames]

By-the-way, if this is common practice then why do we have so many threads on here about cheapest options for accomodation and travel savings? If it's routine for the client to pay then these things should be completely irrelevant.

I think what you are seeing here is one or two very top-notch contractors who can and do demand these things. if I tried anything like that (run-of-the-mill software dev) they would tell me to swivel on a long pole.

[oracleslave]

By-the-way, if this is common practice then why do we have so many threads on here about cheapest options for accomodation and travel savings? If it's routine for the client to pay then these things should be completely irrelevant.

Well there is one way to find out:

http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...avel-poll.html

[dang65]

I think what you are seeing here is one or two very top-notch contractors who can and do demand these things. if I tried anything like that (run-of-the-mill software dev) they would tell me to swivel on a long pole.

Yeah, same here I suspect. Be interesting to see how the poll pans out.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I have stayed at The Bath Priory, Milsoms, Oldfields and the Harington.

Brief review

Bath Priory - very nice but expensive, we managed to beat them down to 100 a night!

Milsoms - OK but noisy as it's above Loch Fyne on a street corner.

Oldfields, nice and not expensive, but a little out of the centre

Haringtons - my top choice for value, very friendly - only drawbacks are no on site car park (I used to go by train so didn't care) and some rooms a little small. It can be a little noisy as there's a pub opposite, but nothing like as bad as Milsoms which is the confluence of the sub woofers of many local bars and chav cars with coffee can exhausts passing.

HTH

PS I got a flat eventually :-)

[Moscow Mule]

I think what you are seeing here is one or two very top-notch contractors who can and do demand these things. if I tried anything like that (run-of-the-mill software dev) they would tell me to swivel on a long pole.

I think it's very much a factor of what clients have come to expect.

The vendor of the software I work on has always charged expenses to the banks when consultants have been on site, so I saw no reason to do otherwise when I was going direct (or through an agent).

[Dow Jones]

Expenses Rule

Irrespective of what some people can get away with and exceptions to the rule, the usual guidelines for clients are:

Acommodation and travel can only be paid in addition to the contractor's daily rate only when they visit client sites or the work is temporarily based on a different site from the one the contractor is based.
Eg A company that has a Head Office in London and different sites in Scotland, Wales etc can take someone who is London-based and ask him to spend a couple of weeks or so at those sites. Then they will have to pay for his hotel/travel.
Like MM, I have encountered several consultancies that can get away with charging clients hotel and travel expenses on a regular basis. I did sort of enquire then through my HR contact, but they turned round to say that I was paid enough to sort out my own. But so were they!