London accommodation hotels, vs renting vs sort-term renting

[OwlHoot]

It's harder if one smokes, unless the owner smokes too. But even then they sometimes prefer a non-smoker to someone who will be puffing away in an upstairs room.

I've been lucky with my Cambridge lodgings, a large room for which I pay only £100 a week.

[amcdonald]

The cheapest I've managed was £60 a week, up in North London in a shared house with some Chinese students

Apart from the place being overflowing with rice cookers, it was the cleanest houseshare I'd had

It was worth paying extra for an oyster card to save that much