To not understand why there are no 1x night a week City London sop overs more readily available?!

[citygal1986]

I travel to London for work once per week. I need a bed for a night. Usually work late, arrive back at 8pm or so, bed by 9pm, out the door early between 6-7am. I am at a loss at how to make this work logistically.

Pre-Covid, the Travelodge was great. £50-70 a night, sorted.

Now the TRavelodges are double that, easily. Usually more £150+ upwards. Isn't this a lucrative and fairly steady income market. Any suggestions from anyone that does this weekly?! I don't really fancy a shared bathroom, youth hostel or a shared apartment on an Air B & B. There must be alternatives...

Check out EasyHotels - there’s a couple in London now, and you can easily get them mid-week for £50/£60 if you book in advance. They’re cheap and cheerful, definitely, but they’re clean and safe.

I can recommend: goodhotel.co/london
Really great place.

Did you see my question about what nights you stay? The Premier Inn in Tower Hill was just under £100 on the random Monday in March I looked at.

There's a central booking hub for a lot of university accommodation - currently Goodenough College in Bloomsbury is just over £100 per night. x

I was going to suggest The Wesley near Euston. However I just did a test booking and it's about £170-200 a night. It didn't used to be pre Covid.

Have you tried Spare Room? Sorry if you have. I can't remember from your opening post as it's time I should be in bed!

www.spareroom.co.uk/london

I think having a lodger one night a week sounds a mutually convenient arrangement.

Find a B and B that isn't central.

Finchley or Golders Green you will get something for under £100 and with an independent you can negotiate a price if you are going to be there once a week.

I used to be a member of UWC and stay over. It’s next to the Dorchester.

www.universitywomensclub.com

UWC is £1000 to join, not sure that's really in scope for the OP

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@Swiftswatch because £200/month works out as £50/night if she's staying over one night a week. And potentially nicer than a hotel.

I would have a look at a handy Train or tube line to where you work and go out a couple of stops and check the price of the Travel Lodge there. I just looked at Waterloo for tomorrow and that’s £70 and my local Travel Lodge at the train station in Epsom and that’s £50….. 30 minutes into London Bridge from here. Not ideal I know but not awful either. I’ve stayed at the Waterloo one and it was being refurbished and was fine.

As an Airbnb host myself, I was going to suggest you look for an Airbnb. When you find the one you love, you book your regular night for every week for as far into the future as you can.
I have a nurse that does a two day shift at my local hospital, she books here fairly regularly as it save her a long drive home (100 mile round trip) for her.
But you want it within the square mile.

When you find cheap, clean and acceptable accommodation at budget prices within the square mile, let me know. I always thought it was ‘cheap, close, nice. You can have any two of the three if you want a city hotel but you can’t have all three.

Lots of nice accommodation above pubs in London. Definitely worth a look.

Op I work in central London (Whitehall) and have to stay over once a month at my own cost as my role is hybrid but my base is London. I tend to stay in Premier Inns but am willing to travel and so can often save quite a bit. I don't usually pay more than £60, often less and I won't travel more than 45 mins (usually on the tube) and only pick hotels in walking distance of public transport links. I use the TfL app to give me an idea as you can put your work place in and the name of your hotel and it'll tell you how long it takes