True, but the will you/won’t you achieve it adrenaline can add a bit of a thrill to proceedings!
Well this is what I have paid this year. The Travelodge are all at the flexible rate, often for a 'Plus' room ie. on the top floor with coffee machine etc. The Premier Inn are their Standard rate which is amendable but not refundable. As has been said, rooms are still cheap enough if you can be flexible on date and location. Cheapest Travelodge I have seen this year are £24.99 and the cheapest Premier Inn £35.
| Travelodge | £ 28.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 41.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 36.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 39.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 30.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 32.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 32.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 32.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 36.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 33.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 27.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 32.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 31.99 |
| Travelodge | £ 36.99 |
| Premier Inn | £ 40.00 |
| Premier Inn | £ 35.00 |
| Premier Inn | £ 40.00 |
| Premier Inn | £ 35.00 |
| Premier Inn | £ 46.00 |
That is bearable.
If there is a promotion on then I better get the person who decides organised.Travelodge have a promotion for rooms for £35 or less, for selected stays until June 21st.
has a list of Travelodge rooms for under £29
With their Price Finder, you can get a room at the Edinburgh Central Travelodge this Sunday for £50
Their prices go up and down. It might be worth booking now on a flexible rate, so you can cancel and rebook if prices drop.
So £28 (Travellodge) - £46 (Premier Inn). Not too bad.
That is the advantage of paying a bit extra for a cancellable rate - up to 1300 on the day in question (Travelodge). Being able to only move a booking to a different date at the same hotel and for the same length of stay is a bit restrictive if your travel plans go wrong or if your personal circumstances change. I have done both and now prefer to book a flexible Travelodge rate because they are generally cheaper, more flexible and offer just as good a product that meets my needs - bed, shower, TV, kettle.
| Travelodge | |||
| saver | flexible | plus room saver | plus room flexible |
| £ 24.99 | £ 27.99 | £ 29.99 | £ 32.99 |
| Premier Inn | |||
| standard | advance | semi-flex | flex |
| £ 35.00 | £ 48.00 | £ 49.00 | £ 59.00 |
Not if you pick your dates - I stayed two nights in T/L in central Chester for under £60 (total for both nights) earlier this year.
My daughter is the same. "Moon and Stars" & "Blue Hotel" is how she calls PI & TL.
I've just booked 350 quid of fixed hotels for a month upfront, which goes very much against my nature. Unfortunately booking.com seems to end up charging 15% more for cancellable. I'm wiling to go to about 10% for the flexibility, but beyond that it's effectively self-insuring - I've only missed one night out of the last 50 or so I've booked. Premier Inn flexibility was something daft like 30% last time I looked.
I had a Premier Inn booking in London once where they were insistent on me presenting the card I'd booked with when I checked in.
Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate how awkward this was, both in terms of contacting the finance director and the unpleasant timing for an emergency change of hotel.
I once got declined a room by Premier Inn because it was booked through a corporate travel provider and their payment system went down late at night when I arrived. They refused to budge, wouldn’t resolve it in the morning or anything. I didn’t like their attitude and it was only 1.5 hours from home so I just drove home instead. I found it all a bit ridiculous, like a corporate travel provider wasn’t going to pay up to a company they must use all the time.
Bizarre really.
I stay in lots of Travelodge’s and Premier Inns and haven’t been asked for ID once.
Indeed, it seems to be a hotel-by-hotel basis.
But do you look under 18? That's the only reason Premier Inn ID'd us (and we were indeed both only 17!)
Have you ever stayed at the Travelodge in Aberdeen city centre .. if so, would you happily stay again, or would you pick somewhere else in Aberdeen.
Good prices there.
I agreed 100%
Have you any good recommendations for city hotels in Germany, or the Benelux countries please ?
I like going to the mid-size towns/cities in Belgium and the Netherlands - Ghent, Mechelen, Antwerp, Delft, Leiden, Breda etc. They are big enough to have places to eat and things to do, but are still small enough to get around easily.
Hasselt is far less exciting or beautiful than Antwerpen or Gent, but the cathedral is charming, it has nice bars and restaurants, it's a bit of a bargain and importantly it's very easy to do day trips from to almost any other large town or city in Belgium, or to Maastricht or Rotterdam. It's also very easy to get to and from Brussels Airport Zaventem, or from Eurostar London. The station area is currently undergoing extensive rebuilding work. https://brusselsmorning.com/hasselt...-starts-monday-for-spartacus-lines-1-2/68334/
