Booking work hotel

[Verbena17]

Hi - quick query about work hotels.
Say if someone was going to be working 3 days away from home and 2 nights in a hotel, and say if the company would not be paying for it or if they were, it would be via allowance not the employer directly booking it, how does booking for every working week go?

Do you just have a rolling booking with set room each time or do you say have to book the 2 nights monthly for example?

I can see Premier Inn for example have a Business Booking /Business account type system but that’s for employers, not employees i don’t think.

Like what happens in the unlikely scenario all the hotels for that week are booked up or super expensively priced…is there a really easy system people who work away in the week know about?

I think you missed a bit out of your op -
Do you mean every week?

I'm a bit confused about your paid by allowance part / company not paying it part? I'm thinking I'm just misreading it 😂

DH works away. It switches up who books it, either he books it using his own work credit card, or someone in the admin / support team does it using a different work credit card. There's no rolling bookings, each booking is an individual one. If the rooms are booked he stays elsewhere (but he does stay in nice hotels anyway so I don't think he ever really has that issue), if they're expensive they just get paid for anyway.

Premier Inn Business booker is for employers. You sign up for a monthly credit account and it gives the option of different people in the company being able to book. You still book in the normal way though, whatever rooms are available at the fluctuating price. I am the administrator for work.

My husband works away 3 days per week. He has a set allowance per night and just logs on to see availability. Sometimes he’s not been able to find somewhere in budget so he looks a bit further afield.

@thedendrochronologist I mentioned it being every week at the end of 1st para. So yes, it would be every working work - commuting from home so staying over 2 nights every week.

So this is a theoretical question - DH is considering applying for new jobs that would need him to stay away from home /too far from here to come home each day. By allowance, I meant that potentially some employers seem to give an accommodation allowance but maybe I’ve misunderstood and they all book it themselves or if not, the employee using their work credit card then.

So I guess if he finds a job that doesn’t allow for accommodation, and that we need to pay for, he just books it weekly as anybody would do normally.

Thanks @Comefromaway that’s great.

Ah sorry Op

I think this would be out of pocket expense either reimbursed or through a salary allowance.

So Book as you go booking a refundable rate on a designated personal credit card and pay off monthly is how I would do
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At DH work only the mobile sales guys get credit cards