London B&B/Accomodation Help Needed!

[OwlHoot]

Central London B&Bs are an utter mug's game, grossly overpriced and with all the disadvantages others have mentioned.

Enrol with SpareRoom.co.uk or mondaytofriday.com and you're sure to find a cheap room in Pimlico, or somewhere such as Lambeth south of the River.

Other advantages of renting a room include (1) No problems with B&Bs being full and having to swap and change (2) You can turn up on sunday evening without needing to pay for an extra night, and then you won't be knackered having had to get up at silly o'clock on monday morning to commute from home to London.

I'm paying £60 per week for my room in Cambridge, which isn't much more than what I paid _daily_ for my B&B the first week on this gig. (edit: I do the same as EO - B&B it the first week or so, and ask around at clientco for areas to avoid etc - Sometimes clientco staff or contractors know people letting rooms)

[Clippy]

Doesn't SAS live in South London?

You could share his bunk bed?

[EternalOptimist]

my modis operandi is to stay in a cheap hotel or b&b for a week, spend the lunches and evenings looking in the ad in tescos and the post office window for people letting a room out.
you can get a room for about 40-50 a week, if you dont mind slumming it a bit

[Incognito]

My mate used to stay here when contracting down Vauxhall

Welcome to The Comfort Inn, London - Vauxhall

I think he got it down to around £45/£50 a night as he block booked in advance. You'll need to speak to the manager though and tell them you'll be staying there for x amount of months for y days a week.

Stayed there once when we went out on the lash, bathrooms were clean and rooms were warm.

[SueEllen]

Yup.

No female visitors.

Lights out after 10 pm.

Lovely.

And one bath a week.

[Spacecadet]

Once upon a time in this country there was a concept of lodgings. Usually run by an unmarried lady who let out 2 or 3 rooms in her house.
You got a room, dinner, breakfast (possibly a packed lunch) and your laundry done

[doodab]

Mentioned this before. When staying in some of the bigger Asian cities, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore I've stayed at 'Homestays'. They're like a cross between hotel/hostel and a private lodging/B&B.

You could rent for a few days or a few months. Be a communal lounge, some with a pool table type area, shared kitchen area, the owners would have like a small provisions cupboard you could buy food from and store in your room & if you needed a laundry service. Of course Asia is bigger and staff cheaper, but surely a concept like that in London could work if you had the space. (Actually I think DIm mentioned putting up static caravans last time)

It's called the YMCA.

[MarillionFan]

Mentioned this before. When staying in some of the bigger Asian cities, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore I've stayed at 'Homestays'. They're like a cross between hotel/hostel and a private lodging/B&B.

You could rent for a few days or a few months. Be a communal lounge, some with a pool table type area, shared kitchen area, the owners would have like a small provisions cupboard you could buy food from and store in your room & if you needed a laundry service. Of course Asia is bigger and staff cheaper, but surely a concept like that in London could work if you had the space. (Actually I think DIm mentioned putting up static caravans last time)

[doodab]

B&Bs tend to be tulip and expensive in London. Plus most of them smell of piss.

[SueEllen]

For rooms.. bedsits...

SPARE ROOM for flatshare, house share, flat share & rooms for rent

have a lot of monday to fri lets. Search lets you tailor for that as well as short term lets. That tends to have a lot of shared flats/houses though they do have studio flats and one bed flats on there too. I'm sure there is a monday to friday website too but I've never tried it.

You mean this? Monday to Friday

Personally I would avoid staying with younger professional couples, families with young children or women with lots of cats. The first two as they need the money but really make it clear they don't want you around so are very rigid in their rules of occupancy and the third because why do you need more than one cat?

There are single people with spare rooms and no cats, older couples who know how to treat people, and families with older children plus your own en-suite on there.

B&Bs tend to be tulip and expensive in London. Plus most of them seem to be used by councils to house the homeless.

[stek]

I think MF might be looking to share more than a bit of info since the OP did refer to 'fist time' and may well fancy a bunk-up....

And a 'reach-round' mozhet byt'?

[northernrampage]

For rooms.. bedsits...

SPARE ROOM for flatshare, house share, flat share & rooms for rent

have a lot of monday to fri lets. Search lets you tailor for that as well as short term lets. That tends to have a lot of shared flats/houses though they do have studio flats and one bed flats on there too. I'm sure there is a monday to friday website too but I've never tried it.


Really depends as MarillionFan says on what you are looking to spend. Because if you are not looking to share with others there may be other websites more suited for that.

I've lived in a few houshares in London, it can be good. People I'm with now make me psychotic so about to move out and live on my own.

[MarillionFan]

Hey everyone,

Fist time posting on here and after reading all the great help everyone else has received I thought I'd try my luck!

Anyway, I'm going down to london for work and need a B&B, Room or flat ideally in the SW1 area or close to the victoria line as I will be working in Pimlico. I'll be staying their for six months and returning on weekends.

Any help is appreciated and thanks very much in advance!
Chris

Assuming Mon - Thursday Chris, how much are you looking to spend?

[GeordieChris]

Hey everyone,

Fist time posting on here and after reading all the great help everyone else has received I thought I'd try my luck!

Anyway, I'm going down to london for work and need a B&B, Room or flat ideally in the SW1 area or close to the victoria line as I will be working in Pimlico. I'll be staying their for six months and returning on weekends.

Any help is appreciated and thanks very much in advance!
Chris