Reply to: No more 25 gbp hotels.

[chef]

10th flr 58sqm apartment with proper kitchen, leather sofa and dining area as well as 12 restaurants, an irish bar, 2 theatres and a 10 screen multiplex cinema all on the ground floor

1600€ a month

perfick

[DS23]

cool. what were the highlights eo. give us the lowdown eo styleee.

[EternalOptimist]

Me and the missus just got back from 4 weeks in the outback. We headed off into the sunset without booking ahead and we always said that if we couldnt get in anywhere we would sleep in the car.
Well we had to, one night up in Port Hedland, on the edge of the great Sandy desert. All the hotels were full because of a miners convention. We had two choices, leave the windows open and get eaten alive, close the windows and suffocate.
The fact that I had been living on beans and tins of tuna for a week didnt help.

Then in Newman , the only room we could get was a backpacker room at £25.
communal bogs and showers. I had to stand guard on the door while the missus had a wee, then a sneaky shower at 4:30 am.



We had three nights in a penthouse suite in Perth though at £75, to make up for it

[HermanDune]

Yesterday while I was enjoying myself in my value but very disgusting 25 gbp hotel room ... ( Indian entrepreneur converted his house into a hotel and kept sub-sub-sub-prime standard to provide accommodation to miserable people )

After dealings with the Indian "business" community in Glasgow as a student tenant I made a vow only to rent from white middle class landlords forever after.

A vast sweeping generalisation I know, but my prejudices were confirmed by an Indian woman who tried to rent us her son's student house for a New Year stay. Let's just say our notions of cleanliness were vastly different to hers.

We left the next morning straight into a hotel five times more expensive.

[TimberWolf]

£25 seems a bit steep considering you will be asleep for most of the time. Unless you stay awake in the room all night. What a rip off.

[Diver]

Anything less that £160 a night is slumming it

[HairyArsedBloke]

I'm in an Etap right now, at 41 EUR a night. Paying your own expenses does focus the mind on the costs/benefits.

You want to keep expenses down!

Why suffer just to end up paying more to the evil T-man?

[Bagpuss]

http://www.laterooms.com/

[expat]

Etap are fine enough at £32 per night......

I'm in an Etap right now, at 41 EUR a night. Paying your own expenses does focus the mind on the costs/benefits.

[Clippy]

Yesterday while I was enjoying myself in my value but very disgusting 25 gbp hotel room ... ( Indian entrepreneur converted his house into a hotel and kept sub-sub-sub-prime standard to provide accommodation to miserable people ) ... my attention was grabbed by the tremble of the roach sitting on my bed and sniffing around obviously after my mcdonalds burger.. After unsuccessful attempt to kill the bugger I moved to travelodge....

No more 25 rooms for me , nor anything that has not got recent standard...

Was the 'hotelier' a portly Russian chap with a 70s porno style moustache and a squirrel stuck to his arm?

[HairyArsedBloke]

It makes me itch all over just reading this thread - yuk!

[Wilmslow]

Etap are fine enough at £32 per night......

[Crossroads]

I have to confess to being in a Travelodge right now...got it booked 3 nights/week from now until Jan at (mostly) £19/night with a few nights at £29 where I didn't get booked in time.

Premier Inn are better standard but much more expensive.

[Turion]

The point might be the HMRC limit for expenses....

There's no limit. Whatever the hotel costs, you charge to the co. It really depends on your rate and comfort requirements. Personally I do not do slums at any price.

[d000hg]

Travelodge is about 50 these days , and they are always almost full .. I am at a 55 room plus 5 for parking ....

That said , I don't think there is anything better out there

My parents came up to visit just a week or two ago and they found 3 or 4 at £19 or £26 I think.