Bank holiday Monday night isn’t one of the best examples as leisure travellers are returning home and business travellers won’t be around until Tuesday. So unless there’s a major event you could say bank holiday Monday night will be one of the quieter nights of the year hence the unusually low prices.
This is true of most hotels. It's true of Sunday nights in most hotels as well. In general I'd be ignoring PI and the like on a Sunday night or bank holiday night, and seeing if I could get a bargain somewhere fancy
That reminds me of 2019, when I stayed at Travelodge Plus near Aldgate East. As I was so certain even in January of wanting the day out on the August Bank Holiday (coincidentally also August 26th that year), I booked the Sunday there. It was very good value at £47. Anyway, a member of staff there told me how all the Travelodges in the area were rammed because of the Notting Hill Carnival. I was therefore all the more surprised to have secured my room at such a good rate! Maybe they need some revenue all the year round, and so sell some bargain rooms for later in the year just for the early income.
Weekend prices are pretty high this year. Usually £100 and above for one night at Premier Inn and Travelodge when looking at the South Coast.
I wonder if that is more people taking weekend breaks (possibly Friday to Monday inclusive) since Covid19 - rather than going abroad.
It’s very rare that I stay in the type of hotels being discussed in this thread over a weekend. However, I’m finding it’s very high prices of seemingly random nights midweek which really bump up the cost of a Monday to Friday stay.
A lot of times there will be events happening in the area midweek. These might not be large enough to garner all that much attention - they just need a large proportion of the attendees to be not from the local area.
The trouble is that fixed price accommodation doesn't really mean budget rooms for most, it just means zero availability anywhere near the date. We need a degree of growth in the whole sector if the current level of demand for hotels is the new normal, but in the meantime I think it's just necessary to accept that 3 figures is the cost for staying in a lot of places.
You had me at hotel and brewery, never mind the price.
Aren’t they all Memory Foam? I don’t really notice the difference as that’s what I use as Chez Buzby
And how can having the restaurant still open but for hotel guests only be saving PI money? Other than a reduction of staffing requirements (ie they could probably get away with only one member of staff front of house) but some overheads will remain without the benefit of income from non hotel guests.
I gave up on TL and PI breakfasts - ‘Spoons could not be bettered from 0800, and on one trip to Galashiels, the Full Scottish Breakfast was £3.79, which I doubt I could buy the components for that amount (a drink was extra). Faced with that competition, even B&B’s are not bothering!
This morning I feel there was one FoH and maybe one chef (who popped out at one point to clear tables). This ‘solution’ must be a stopgap, though
The simple solution would be just to get a domestic style simple pop-up toaster labelled "gluten free only" back of house to use for the gluten free bread. They don't need a full salamander grill just for toast. Have the conveyor toaster out front for the wheat containing bread and a regular toaster out back for those with allergens.
I suspect that's what the solution will be. The likely reason why they've marked the equipment as for removal rather than removing it is that they want to find out about these issues so that they can figure out what they need to buy.
Or its being done by different teams. One team goes into the kitchen to mark the items as 'to be removed' followed by another team which removes the equipment to take it to wherever it's going.
