To ask if hotels/Airbnbs will let me stay during lockdown

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My boiler has broken, plumber can't get out until Monday evening and it's subzero, we are shivering and freezing in hats and coats and scarfs. No heating and no hot water. Would I be able to book a hotel/Airbnb for a few days until it's fixed. As it's just bloody unbearable.

So glad you have hot water op! Go have the world's longest HOT bath.

Wish people wouldn’t spout shit on these threads though.

Staying because your residence is uninhabitable is one of the clearly defined reasons for using a hotel at the moment.

Also, we had to use an air bnb for for house moving reasons recently and not only could the owner have no given a shit why we were staying, I wouldn’t say she’d done much by way of extra cleaning and removing of nick nacks other than tick the box on the website...

Yes you can. We had no electric/heating/hot water and a baby and we stayed in a hotel. They asked us to confirm that we were legally allowed to stay so I took the letter from the electric company proving our electric was off for "routine maintenance". I'm staying in a hotel next week because I have to to finish our long-distance house move by myself and can't be awake for 72 hours nonstop. These are permitted in England and Northern Ireland, IDK about Wales and Scotland though.
I'd personally go for a chain hotel rather than air bnb because they'll have a standardised cleaning schedule.

Sorry OP I missed the update! Glad you have hot water now!