The cost of travelodges. WTF!!

[Panatone]

I know the days of cheap accommodation in this country has long gone, but Christ, I can’t get over the cost of a travelodge.

It used to be our go to for a cheap weekend break away.
just back from a weekend in London. We went for a concert and added on a night.
we had booked ages ago and paid £140!for two nights.
I just looked for a weekend in September, and it’s £279 for two nights. It is central London, but even so😮

I’m not long back from a long weekend in a European city with a friend Paid £300pp for lovely central accommodation and flights.

@greatblueheron - or you know shareholders shouldn’t expect massive dividends each year and constant profit growth. Increased costs doesn’t always have to equate to increased revenue.

I know. I was shocked by the prices now too. DS has visited a northern city twice in the last 3 months and booked a travel lodge. It is most definitely not a tourist destination - in fact I'd go as far as to say you'd only go there if you had to! Cheapest he could get was £172 for 2 nights room only mid week.

Try Euston Road Travelodge - only 100m up the road but tends to be cheaper?

I would second booking.com, always use that for work.

@Facelikeanormer I stayed at that one, it’s so-so. We had no wi-fi at that one though, just couldn’t get it to work. very annoying when you have work to do that evening!

The trick is to stay further out of London in a TL. There are plenty near tube stations in Zone's 2 and 3 that are cheaper.

YANBU. Rooms used to be £40-50 now looking at closer to £100

@Panatone try the Brixton Premier Inn, toe mins from the tube and then you can get there Victoria line up to KX, takes about 20 mins.

Those shareholders are pretty much everyone who has a pension that's invested somewhere by someone on your behalf.... And countless pensioners rely on those dividends as well.

Yup and they keep advertising these cheap 30£ days except they're never £30 on a weekend :/

@greatblueheron - they really aren’t. I work with HNWI.

Whetstone Travelodge is perfectly good and near Totteridge tube, so not central but easy to travel in. They often have rooms about £40.

£35 at London Chessington Tolworth on 28th August
£29 at Aberdeen tomorrow (£23 at the other Aberdeen one this Sunday)
£32 at Camberley this Sunday
You need to go on pricefinder.travelodge.co.uk/?destination=City%20Centre

I went over to see my daughter in Belfast and stayed at the Premier Inn in town - £150 per room per night. I hadn't understood about 'dynamic pricing' - I went the weekend of the Irish Dancing Championships.

A good few years ago I paid £29 pounds for 4 of us to stay in a Travelodge in Blackburn.

It was too much.

We've booked one in October in Slough the day before we go to Legoland. £34! But you know. Slough.

My Mum and Sis stayed in a nice market town near London TL recently for a cheap price on a Sunday night. And this TL is a 'nice' one!

That'll be because it's not far in advance. I got one night in the Premier Inn at King's Cross for £80 in May, also the night before travelling via Eurostar. I booked it about 8 months in advance though.
£140 for 2 nights in a hotel in Central London really isn't a bad price at all though!

ive just booked the Brixton Premier Inn - family room for three of us including breakfast for £118 for one night in august which I didn’t think was too bad but not the £40 a night bargains you used to be able to get. There was one in Clapham even cheaper but not near the tube. The more central ones were stilly money so we’ve gone a bit further out. Nothing is cheap any more 😞

We have stayed in TL all over the UK and have probably stayed in almost all of the London ones over the years.!
i remember staying in Edinburgh a few years ago for £29, and Brixton and Bethnal Green the same year for £40 per night.
went to Glasgow last year and opted for an Airbnb over both TL and a jury’s inn because they were so expensive, and don’t get me started on the cost of TL in Brighton!
Traveling in the UK is just becoming stupidly expensive!

It does (still) depend on where you are staying, and when you booked. I'm currently in Stirling at the height of the tourist season, and paid £50 for my room - but I booked it about 4 months ago..

At least the at the Scarborough Travelodge you only have to look at The Grand and not stay in it!

Tried to book a hotel for one Saturday night in a Midlands town recently. It was only a week in advance, so some were booked up, but were were faced with 165 I think it was for a night in Holiday Inn, a Premier Inn 30 miles away for 130, something else nearish but right on the motorway for 125...

Eventually we did find a bargain B&B on AirBnB, but seriously, one night in a bog-standard double room in a boring location, with no breakfast included, who would have thought it?

I used to use Premier inn all the time but the price got ridiculous.
I use booking.com now and can always find a room with breakfast for much cheaper

I haven’t stayed there, but the Chichester Travelodge (behind / above the old post office) is only around 10 years old I think. So while not ‘posh’ I’d be surprised if it’s rough…. Though, on reflection, it is not far from a Wetherspoons 😂Or the cathedral to be fair!