£100 allowance for hotel

[thedendrochronologist]

I have to attend a weekday meeting for a large company I do some associate work for.

I have been told I can have a hotel up to the value of £100. The meeting is in central Manchester.

I can have breakfast up to £6

Does this seem quite low?

This is around our general guidelines for business hotels although breakfast i think is £10. It isn't a hard and fast time for us so no one worries if a London hotel is more, but with the understanding that we'll get the best value where we can. We also have to choose hotels with good sustainability scores too for an extra complication!

Hard and fast rule I meant!

Yes. I think you can get a travelodge in manchester for less than £100 but where can you get breakfast for £6?

I think ours is about the same, although £8 for breakfast and a bit more for London hotels. Although they haven’t been updated in a very long time.

I suppose it’s on the lower side of things but as long as it covers somewhere like a Travelodge / Premier Inn I think it’s fine: it’s business travel, it just needs to be comfortable and functional, not a treat. £6 will buy a coffee and porridge pot / pastry / sandwich / toastie from somewhere like Pret, which is a perfectly adequate breakfast.

For London it's 120.

Yes I suppose it's a coffee and a pastry

It's just annoying as premier inn itemise their breakfast separately as 8.99 continental and 10.99 cooked/full English buffet. even though premier inn is £95. It's convenient at the train station.

Anyway thanks for clarifying it is on the low side!

I get £120 for a hotel outside of London and £50 for subsistence.

Can you pay the difference at premier inn For brekkie.

But I almost never get hotel breakfast as greggs/Tesco coffee and sausage roll/pastry are cheaper.

It's fine.
I go to manchester for business often. There are plenty of £250 per night hotels. There's the EasyHotel where you can stay for £35 per night and sort your breakfast at Costa, and there's everything in between. I have been fine staying at the EasyHotel, it's comfortable and clean though very basic. £100 is fine for a middle-of-the-range place.

Sounds like an unrealistic rate in 2024.

£6 for breakfast… I’m not sure I can get a coffee and a pastry for that in London now.

Are you on booking.com or the like? You can get some very good rates, including breakfast, and it gives distance from the hotel you put in.

There are usually options for 'breakfast included' and they're quite good. I stay away often.

Ours is £100 and must include breakfast. Our expenses policy allowance for subsistence hasn't gone up I 12 years. We are still only give £20total for all meals and drinks for an overnight stay!

Of course you can! Greggs are between £3.50 and £4.50.

Ha I'm now feeling fortunate! That is beyond ridiculous!

I'm being a bit precious is suppose. Don't want travelodge and want a largish decent chain hotel.

Premier inn is fine. Don't want a creepy b and b or guesthouse!

Yea can top up the amounts.

I have looked booking.com yet just premier inn.

On a work trip you shouldn’t be having to travel around at the start of the day to source a cheap enough croissant to stay in budget.

Hotels are far more expensive than pre-covid, but a lot of budgets don’t seem to have changed.

Our allowance got bumped up after a few incidents in Travelodges with people housed there by the local council. Before that we were on £85/night outside London but it's now £110 with manager's discretion to go higher if you're a lone female and there's nothing suitable within budget. We get £30/day subsistence but it depends on whether you're away for the whole day or just part of it. We have to book using a central system but you can ask for somewhere to be added temporarily (eg Airbnb) if it's cheaper and better than the system options.

Just stay in a premier inn and pay the £5 difference for breakfast. You won't need lunch and would have to eat if you were not travelling.

My apologies, you said London so I assumed central London where you could easily get something within that budget on pretty much every block. However if Greater London I guess it could be more difficult.

Personally, my work expenses policy will go up to £30 for breakfast, but there is a Greggs on the walk between my (central) London hotel and office, so I just stop there.

I will stay at the premier in a probably pay for breakfast although lunch will be catered and I am meeting a friend for dinner so it not that bag of a deal!

i may just have a costa!

Thankfully the premier inn is at the trains station so super convenient

Other premier inns are £150 for the same night in Manchester!

easy hotel is £68 and confused as so w rooms seen not to have a window.

McDonald's breakfast isn't too bad

So top up the breakfast by a couple of pounds if it's not enough. You'd be paying for your breakfast if you were at home. Or buy a porridge pot, croissant or bagel or something and have it in your hotel room.
£100 is fine for a room in Manchester.

We use Holiday Inn Express a lot and their (usually) reasonable rates include breakfast. Generally the hotels are pretty decent, clean, comfortable and modern. Breakfast includes a basic continental buffet as well as cooked options and tea/coffee. Might be useful for future trips. Check the reviews because some are definitely better than others.