AIBU to book a hotel room for Monday night to avoid strikes?

[MsMarch]

ON Tuesday I have to be in London for 7:30. I live in Surrey. I also have to be in London on Monday for a meeting. I was dreading the effort required to make the 7:30 meeting anyway as we only have 2 trains an hour so, to ensure I'm not late, I inevitably have to take one even earlier. But with the train strikes, I'll have to cab to the edge of London to take a tube and I'm not even sure tubes will be running efficiently.

If I get a hotel room, I can do my meeting on Monday then use my hotel room to work in the afternoon. Enjoy a quiet evening to myself and get up at a normal time because I'd just have to walk to my meeting? It's a breakfast meeting, so don't even need to eat breakfast in my hotel first!

Is this crazy and selfish? Leaving DH to deal with the DC monday night and Tuesday morning when he also has to work Tuesday and will need to get DS off and DD off to breakfast club?

I've done the same!

I have a work event in London Monday and another Tuesday, so although my usual train journey is only usually 1h15-1h30 to central London, I'm driving to an hour plus to an overground station (as opposed to mainline train) on Monday, and staying over - then will head back out Tuesday to the overground (which luckily is also an underground option) to drive home.

Means no drinking, but not a bad thing!

Fantastic idea. Love time alone in London!