To think DH cant come to this

This is over 6 months old, pretty sure it's been resolved by now...

If the company doesn't like it you should consider if you want to work for them.
It doesn't cost them anything and you are away from your family.
A good company should encourage it.

I’ve joined my husband on work trips before. It’s never been an issue. I just stayed in the hotel room or went round the shops while he worked. I don’t think anyone even really knew I was there but if they did I can’t imagine why they would care.

thought OP had updated the thread then.

Strictly he’s supposed to pay half but I’ve never enforced this on my staff.

I don't see why not, I expect it's a double. As long as he pays for any meals he consumes it should be fine.

Edited as wrong thread

araiwa that's absolutely ridiculous. Why do you think company policy applies outside working hours? Op can go to work and sleep with whoever she likes in her hotel room, same as every evening she's at home. Work are simply paying for the room to ensure she can be at work at the requested hours, if it has no impact on cost, the rest is none of their business.

i never said there was any harm.
im trying to point out all the reasons I think it is strange and unreasonable to be “flummoxed” than an adult residing in the UK has never been to London.

I would be flummoxed if an adult had never been to a supermarket or a park. Not a huge expensive city that could be a long train journey or even a plane journey away.

my whole point is I find it surprising that they are “flummoxed” that an adult residing in the UK hasnt visited London, and then when people point out that this is a perfectly understandable and not surprising fact, start talking at length about the arts and culture. That explains why people want to visit London but it doesn’t explain why they are so completely floored when someone hasn’t. If my arguments seem exaggerated it’s to mirror the exaggerated nature of their surprise.

It's allowed at my company and makes travel a lot nicer for the person working too. It does take some common sense though. One of my recent trips involved meetings and working into the early hours every day, with a 7am start the next morning. Definitely not one for a tag-along! Ditto if it's a schmoozing trip with dinners and other evening activities. It changes the dynamic.

If it's just going to a conference/office during the day, then kicking your heels in your hotel room then bringing your DH is fine IMO.

How do you know what company policy is at OPs company. Many places would allow it as long as he paid any extra costs.

We are not all in Englandshire.

My school trips were to Edinburgh - our capital.

We studied Scottish history, not English history.

We learned about Scottish heritage, not English heritage.

Who said 'expected'? It's more that people find it surprising.
Some of my Midlands family, who are certainly not 'cultured' in a Donmar Theatre/Royal Academy way, and who pretty much stick to their home area most of the time, nonetheless come to London on coach trips to see West End musicals and the like. Lots of people come for shopping too. And big sports events.
I think a lot of French people probably do visit Paris, and not just for the Louvre. But you seem to like an argument based on reductio ad absurdum.

Because I don’t know why it follows that because of all the arts and culture etc, that all adults in the UK are expected to go at least once in their lives. That’s what seems quasi religious about the posters being baffled that an adult in the UK has never been to London - like, maybe they’re happy with the arts and culture available where they are??

Goodness.

It is London’s constitutional importance that makes it a draw for people from all across the world. The seat of government of an at least historically globally powerful state; centre of legislation and justice, trade and cultural heritage. That’s why London has the huge multinational population, which generates all the other stuff.

Perhaps education has changed? Certainly when I was at school, trips to London were seen as a vital part of one’s understanding of English heritage. How could you study British history without visiting the Houses of Parliament, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, The Tower of London? And of course it may not be crucial to your sense of yourself if you feel your heritage to be wholly outside England and its colonial history - but what could be the harm in setting eyes on the capital of the country you currently reside in?

Where do you work?

It’s allowed at my work as long as partner covers their own food and any upcharge on the room. Most of our corporate rates are on a room basis though and it’s no extra if 2 people stay. Travel with people from a variety of big consulting companies & have never heard of this being an issue for anyone.

Because I don’t know why it follows that because of all the arts and culture etc, that all adults in the UK are expected to go at least once in their lives. That’s what seems quasi religious about the posters being baffled that an adult in the UK has never been to London - like, maybe they’re happy with the arts and culture available where they are??

Are people also surprised that the majority of French people have never been to Paris? because “le Louvre”? It’s also a global tourist destination but it doesn’t mean all French people go and visit it - many of them prefer to holiday elsewhere in France.

I know people do this for some of my roles and it's always fine. Breakfast to be paid for if the second guest wants it.

😂😂😂

Except it’s neither filthy or full of knife crime.

full of knife crime

I lived in London for over a decade, spent another 20 or so years visiting it at least monthly, and didn't get stabbed once (nor did I stab anyone, or see anyone stabbed). Was I Londoning wrong?

DH used to travel overseas with work a lot and when in Europe myself and baby/toddler DS joined him a a few times. Budapest was the best.

DH and I grew up near London, he actually went to school in London and I also lived there as a young adult. This was in the heyday of Brit pop and I had friends that worked in very glam industries, I didn’t but wow the parties were amazing. Wanker bankers with too much money, parties in Primrose Hill, Notting Hill carnival. Nothing would induce me to live there again but it’s worth a visit.

This thread reminds me of the episode of the Royle family where Anthony is going to London
'Shut it Dad you haven't even been to London'

just because you haven't been to London does not mean you are sheltered!

I would agree BUT being unwilling to leave your 'beautiful little village' does.
And I say that as someone who lives in a beautiful little village!

As neither of you have been to London before, how can he possibly say ' do you really want to get on the tube to central London by yourself, I wouldn't recommend it! '

so he doesn't recommend it BUT he has never been, never done it yet thinks that by him being there he CAN do it for you...