Work trip - no food in hotel!

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It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

Wiltshire, near the army base, is not one of those cut off areas. 🙄

I think, @thinklagoon that some people just cannot imagine a life other than the one they are living. There are huge swathes of the country without Uber and without Justeat, Deliveroo and Ocado. Where there are no 24 hour supermarkets and convenience stores, where there is one taxi (one car, not one taxi firm) which has to be reserved in advance.

Which is why they all pile onto threads like this with "just get a taxi to bring you a takeaway" or "just walk to the nearest 24 hour supermarket" or other similar gems.

It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

Well good newish, as I didn't eat on Sunday I have 30 going spare ( sort of) and 30 for tonight so my friend is going to come hand we can both eat for free.
Which will leave me with money.
I actually make goodish money but as the only person earning it needs to go far and I rent in the SE which doesn't help.
I travel 1-2 weeks a months so am always paying around £4-500 a month on expenses which I do get back quickly but as soon as I get them I need to use it for the next month if that makes sense.

Yes, typically have at least 5k going through expenses every month often much. more - as I say you need credit cards and enough float to pay them off if needed, but with weekly expenses it's typically not needed.

You don't need anything special, just think of it as standard short term savings - same for replacement washing machine, windows etc.

It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

Well this thread has made me plan for a famine like situation where I'm going in September. Outside the main tourist season and to a relatively undiscovered seaside town in Italy. Arriving at around 11.30 pm and add an hour or two for bag collection, immigration, and transfers from the airport.

I can see sleepy Giovanni at the desk getting the chef out of bed to make us something at that hour, can you? Also it's a Sunday night and by the looks of things all the restaurants will be closed by the time we arrive.

Never fear, there is a coffee maker in the room + mini fridge. I'll freeze some plain cheese sandwiches (not smelly), put them in the checked bag, and throw in some biscuits and other scoff. I'm kind of looking forward to my 2am picnic now lol! 😊

Well, medium money, but think about a couple of days to Bristol - hotel will be 300-400 per day, train at least 200 return, meals at least 100 per day, taxis likely 100 per day, parking in station at least 30 per day.

Yes, business expenses are significant.

Well, medium money, but think about a couple of days to Bristol - hotel will be 300-400 per day, train at least 200 return, meals at least 100 per day, taxis likely 100 per day, parking in station at least 30 per day.

Yes, business expenses are significant.

It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

You must be on serious money if you can afford to put up to £1000 a day on expenses. Two days of your expenses would be a month's net salary for a lot of people!

It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

@Rosscameasdoody thank you for that.
@jxpop665 so you have £5k for a week away just in case?
Back in the real world we do what we can.

It’s not great, annoying - but happens all the time.

You need to stop making such a drama out of nothing. If you are travelling for work you are a professional traveller - you need a selection of credit cards and in the UK should at least be prepared to expense £500 per day, more likely £1,000. It’s completely on you to ensure you can cover normal work expenses before you take such a role and manage these minor things.

It's because we might not pay off the credit card as the money goes into a bank account and not straight off the card. Ironically probably to try to avoid people going into financial difficulties!

What the hell! Surely you just present the receipt, what business of there’s is it whether you bought it with a credit card or a debit card?