One night in an hotel in the UK: over £100?
 

WHY?
And that's with no breakfast.

Whereas in France I can find both for around €60

Cool story Bro . . . . .

Higher price accomodation generally here


Also , continental breakfast doesnt involve staff

:lol1:

LateRooms.com ?

It's not for this weekend, it was for next.

This is nothing new, and I can't see it ever changing. Might be worth giving AirBnB a try, although options might be limited if wheelchair access is needed.

Bed and breakfast is always better value; cheaper, proper breakfast and cleaner, if you pick well.

It was going to be near telford, for the exhibition centre.

Not happening now.

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.

we stayed at the Exhibition center hotel, it was ****e! There is nothing there except the shopping center nearby. One of the most soulless nights of my life.( I'd confused the engineer Telford with the new town)
Lucky escape, saved dosh back in pocket.

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.

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

Its probably because of some EU regulation than only affects the UK! Everything will be better when we leave the EU next year :thumb:

Seriously, what planet are you on? Accomodation in France is generally far cheaper than in the UK, full stop. As a second-home owner over there it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume you'd be more than averagely aware of the fact!

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.

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.

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 .

got love em

Logis seems to have cleaned up since we were in France last time , buying up various places

Ill bet theyre owned by shareholders

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

Well, I live in one of the most expensive areas in Germany, both property and wages wise, yet there is still an abundance of independent hotels with <=€60 night, including breakfast, free parking and free wlan! The property value only has an impact if there is outstanding debt on the property. Many hotels have been hotels for generations and there is no outstanding debt, so the property value is often irrelevant.