One night in an hotel in the UK: over £100?
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26 August 2018, 10:55 AM
#9
Many people book weeks off as part of bank holiday weeks ( use up less holiday entitlement that way as some employers treat bank holidays separate to statutory holiday entitlement).
Combine that with everyone else on the same bandwagon = Supply and Demand.
Same goes for hotels near a Premiership football team that is playing on that weekend.
Premier Inns and Travel lodges blatantly do this...a £40 room suddenly becomes £150 without breakfast! As I found out when I was dragged to a wedding in Swansea on a bank holiday week. Most expensive ****ehole I ever stopped in. Considering I've stopped in 4/5 star luxury UK hotels for less than half that with breakfast
Combine that with everyone else on the same bandwagon = Supply and Demand.
Same goes for hotels near a Premiership football team that is playing on that weekend.
Premier Inns and Travel lodges blatantly do this...a £40 room suddenly becomes £150 without breakfast! As I found out when I was dragged to a wedding in Swansea on a bank holiday week. Most expensive ****ehole I ever stopped in. Considering I've stopped in 4/5 star luxury UK hotels for less than half that with breakfast
Last edited by ALi-B; 26 August 2018 at 11:06 AM.
26 August 2018, 08:26 PM
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Just don't. We booked a weekend in London a couple of months ahead of time, along with other paid for outings, so we couldn't just cancel.
Fekkers cancelled the minimum 7 days before, leaving us with nowhere to stay.
A friend had the same, they lost their entire summer holiday when their host cancelled at the last possible minute.
Not worth the aggro.
Fekkers cancelled the minimum 7 days before, leaving us with nowhere to stay.
A friend had the same, they lost their entire summer holiday when their host cancelled at the last possible minute.
Not worth the aggro.
26 August 2018, 08:41 PM
#16
Lucky escape, saved dosh back in pocket.
26 August 2018, 08:51 PM
#17
Don’t see the problem with over £100 a night. What do you expect. Think about what the owner pays for the property in rent, taxes etc, staff wages and everything else on top. Unless you want to stay in an absolute hole of a place I would say that was reasonable
26 August 2018, 11:04 PM
#18
Yeah the place is a pretty anonymous hole, was a social housing dumping ground when it was first constructed to offload from Birmingham and Wolverhampton conurbations, hence the issues with drugs and child sex gangs. You don't really want to go out your way to stop or dine there unless you had no choice. I'd rather pay the £80 taxi fare back home LOL.
Best bet round there is somewhere outside of the town in one of the many surrounding villages. Converted pubs and manor houses are a plenty.
Last edited by ALi-B; 26 August 2018 at 11:18 PM. Reason: Taxi quote LOL
27 August 2018, 09:16 AM
#20
All those doing the usual "acceptance" thing, "What's wrong with £100 per night?", are just avoiding two points:
WHY can I get the same WITH BREAKFAST for €60 per night in France, which is more expensive than the UK, and,
WHY are you accepting high prices instead of complaining? YOU are part of the problem!
Typical UK: and then we wonder why so many folk in this country RIP US OFF.
WHY can I get the same WITH BREAKFAST for €60 per night in France, which is more expensive than the UK, and,
WHY are you accepting high prices instead of complaining? YOU are part of the problem!
Typical UK: and then we wonder why so many folk in this country RIP US OFF.
27 August 2018, 09:35 AM
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Bloody hell - Just ignore all the posters lol
Heres another one .
The pound is weak , because of you know what
So hotels are cashing in on passing foreigners
Heres another one .
The pound is weak , because of you know what
So hotels are cashing in on passing foreigners
27 August 2018, 10:06 AM
#23
All those doing the usual "acceptance" thing, "What's wrong with £100 per night?", are just avoiding two points:
WHY can I get the same WITH BREAKFAST for €60 per night in France, which is more expensive than the UK, and,
WHY are you accepting high prices instead of complaining? YOU are part of the problem!
Typical UK: and then we wonder why so many folk in this country RIP US OFF.
WHY can I get the same WITH BREAKFAST for €60 per night in France, which is more expensive than the UK, and,
WHY are you accepting high prices instead of complaining? YOU are part of the problem!
Typical UK: and then we wonder why so many folk in this country RIP US OFF.
27 August 2018, 10:54 AM
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That has little to do with it. House prices in Germany are way more expensive than the UK, as are wage costs, but you can still easily find a hotel in Germany for €60 a night with breakfast, never mind £60. The difference in the UK is (other than in a handful of seaside resorts or London) there are very few independently run hotels around, the hotel market is overrun with hotel chains such as Premiere Inn who control the market and inflate prices - its very typical of corporate Britain where the tax system favours larger corporations over small independent businesses. In most of Europe, there are many more independent hotels with no shareholders to pay dividends to, so they can operate at much lower costs. The tax systems often encourage small businesses over corporations, so small hoteliers can easily survive with low prices.
27 August 2018, 11:08 AM
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That has little to do with it. House prices in Germany are way more expensive than the UK, as are wage costs, but you can still easily find a hotel in Germany for €60 a night with breakfast, never mind £60. The difference in the UK is (other than in a handful of seaside resorts or London) there are very few independently run hotels around, the hotel market is overrun with hotel chains such as Premiere Inn who control the market and inflate prices - its very typical of corporate Britain where the tax system favours larger corporations over small independent businesses. In most of Europe, there are many more independent hotels with no shareholders to pay dividends to, so they can operate at much lower costs. The tax systems often encourage small businesses over corporations, so small hoteliers can easily survive with low prices.
With regards to hotels, even if you were right about the relative lack of independents here in the UK, it stands to reason that the over-inflated price of property here must play a major part in this too.
27 August 2018, 11:18 AM
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Well i heard the tax system / social contributions in france were pretty punitive , once a business employs more than couple people
An eating place we stopped at on canal lateral de loire would only take cash or CHEQUE ! ...... , local shop ( only one ) was actually closed for 2 weeks on hols , no fill in staff . Post office similar
DO as we say not do as we do .
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An eating place we stopped at on canal lateral de loire would only take cash or CHEQUE ! ...... , local shop ( only one ) was actually closed for 2 weeks on hols , no fill in staff . Post office similar
DO as we say not do as we do .
got love em
27 August 2018, 11:34 AM
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Also read article in which town councils were up in arms at the proliferation airbnb
since it took business away from local ( probably 1/2 shareholder owned ) hoteliers
since it took business away from local ( probably 1/2 shareholder owned ) hoteliers
27 August 2018, 12:26 PM
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I can only assume this is heavily dependent on which part of Germany you're talking about, and which part of the UK. Otherwise I would beg to differ very much, and I base that not only on my own knowledge of the housing markets in both places, but also on the endless whinging I was subjected to from several expat Germans in the office, who were appalled at how much less house they could buy for the money here in SE England than they could back home.
With regards to hotels, even if you were right about the relative lack of independents here in the UK, it stands to reason that the over-inflated price of property here must play a major part in this too.
With regards to hotels, even if you were right about the relative lack of independents here in the UK, it stands to reason that the over-inflated price of property here must play a major part in this too.
