AIBU to think Premier Inn should’ve let homeless in.

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www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/premier-inn-homeless-people-turned-away-customer-paying-westonsupermare-a8240171.html

A woman who couldn’t make her mass booking of 19 rooms due to the weather last week offered the rooms to the homeless in the area via a charity’s Facebook.
A couple who had a flooded home were also given a room.
Flood couple let in no problem, homeless people who attended with charity rep were turned away.
Now Premier are saying they needed the lead room booker to be there and ID to be presented which is obviously bollocks because the flooded home couple were allowed in with no problem.

AIBU to think they should’ve let them in, it was bitterly cold and I think they acted heartlessly. Then the backtracking that followed. AIBU to boycott them? Would you?

So LOL to you. Do you think people can't see that?

I'm not raging, sorry, but no.

It’s a shame, it was a lifeline to my friend who couldn’t renew her private tennancy and had to rely on the council to house her & dc

That's an entirely, completely, utterly different circumstance to rough sleeping. Yes, it's entirely reasonable to use hotel accommodation in place of other forms of council-provided accommodation to house people who find themselves temporarily homeless. Do you believe that the reason people with complex addiction and mental health issues are rough sleeping is just that they couldn't renew their tenancies, and just need a cheery wave as they nip into a warm hotel room?

Huh? Lol to me cos I’m bored? People can see I’m bored? I am loving this conversation please keep it up with me all day

Yes Cubo just as the circumstances of this particular instance of it being freezing and there being spare rooms (yes! I know why it can not work! I don’t need further educating on it!) are a world apart from long term homeless solutions.

The hotel were reasonable. OP, why not let the homeless pitch their tent in your garden and use your facilities (seeing as you haven’t got a spare room)?

There have been huge problems before where well meaning people have offered hotel accommodation to homeless people. The last one I read about resulted in the entire room being trashed, soiled with all matter of disgusting things, TV destroyed, furniure destroyed etc. I can see why the manager could not risk 19 rooms. Margins in the hotel industry are tiny. Having a room out of service due to extra clean up costs a lot more than the room rate. Then there is the issue of lice. Not something people like to think about, but get those in the rooms and bedding and they will have to be closed for fumigation. More lost room nights.

I would happily donate money, but I wouldn't open my premises as a shelter. The costs would far exceed the reveue, and hotels are businesses not charities.

'Huh? Huh? I don't understand.'
OP you are just making yourself look silly now.

yes! I know why it can not work! I don’t need further educating on it!

So if you know why it can't work, why are you continuing to argue that the hotels should in any event have virtue signalled by pretending that it would work and then ignoring the consequences?

welcome to the pile on flouncy . I know and understand why the hotel couldn’t accommodate them and I probabl would have reached the conclusion myself once head and heart levelled a bit.

Its difficult ..Would you expect any hotel to let homeless people stay in especially if booking has been done by a person who is not present... it might make other guests feel uncomfortable... they were in a fix

Where? I haven’t said that though.

If anything I’ve said this thread has helped me to realise why it couldn’t happen. Naive yes but not stupid. Oh I love it when we all get along!

No because they have been known to trash the rooms and nick the TVs etc. Some of these people are desperate so have no morals when put in a situation like a free room. The person who booked it gets the bill. Which means a good heart can cost you a lot more than just thinking you're doing them a kind gesture. You can't expect a hotel to let in homeless people, even if someone else has paid for the room. Because as bad as it sounds hotels have standards. It would also put a lot of guests off. Hotels make enough money without having to open up their doors to the homeless as well.

The thing to remember here is that an awful lot of 'homeless' people are nothing of the sort.
It's a very lucrative business these days, with in some areas, the potential to make several hundred pounds a day.

I read a few weeks ago about a journalist who went to Windsor to investigate the 'get rid of the homeless off the streets before the Royal wedding ' story. He spoke to some taxi drivers who told him that these beggars turn up in the morning, plonk themselves down, complete with the usual sleeping bag, carrier bags etc.
Then come 10.30pm they get a taxi back to nearby Slough where they live.

As regards Premier Inn, they have their normal paying guests to think of, because as others have said the beggars could well be drunk/on drugs and violent. They did the right thing by refusing.

But that is not relevant in this instance susannah all those better than minimum wage beggars wouldn’t need the services of the PI on that particular night

I think OP is a very particular type of person. The ones we all avoid on the school run, but who have convinced themselves that they're popular and in the thick of everything!

Aren’t you just lovely madmags

Are you one of those mums, who stand in a clique? Who ostracise the offspring of those outside of those you deem worthy? I don’t do the school run anyway so no need to avoid me. Or those like me. Blimey.

There was one hilarious thread on here. The OP stated that her mother, who suffered from mental health issues, had a homeless person break into her garden shed and was using it. Cue dozens of people advising her to take him bedding, flasks of soup and tea, a 'welfare pack', all sorts. A few reasoned posts about who to actually contact.

expat hilarious is a really poor choice of words, I feel. I didn’t see that thread but is it really such sport to laugh at peoples first instincts, however naive?

Are you one of those mums, who stand in a clique? Who ostracise the offspring of those outside of those you deem worthy?

No.

There have been a number. A while ago someone gave a homeless man a sandwich, and he in return gave her a mouthful. Cue pages of outraged posters saying that he could have been a vegan and how dare the poster not have respected his food preferences

Oh sorry, I thought we were all just making wild and unfounded assumptions.

Oh god, is this still going?

That’s what threads do don’t they stoat ? What exactly was your point other than to ‘keep it going’? If you don’t like a thread, don’t engage and it will die it’s natural death