Work trip - no food in hotel!

[Boxingshibes]

I'm way for work for the week. I'm staying in a hotel in the middle of nowhere. It took me 4 hours to get here in v hot trains.
Room and hotel lovely but I went down to the bar/ restaurant and asked about dinner- to be told as they have an event on the kitchen is closed.
They offered me a free drink but apologised and said unfortunately there are no takeaways that deliver.
I'm on a meal allowance. I'm pissed off!
And I'm having to pay £200 for taxis for the. Grr
I'm hot hungry and annoyed. Aibu?

Wiltshire, near the army base, is not one of those cut off areas. 🙄

is OP from Wiltshire?

There was a point in time when I was earning 35k and charging 70k a year. I never missed a payment or paid any interest. It was all business travel. I would pay for my travel on cards, the company would cut me a check, as in a physical check because it was the 90s, and I would pay my credit card bill before it was due. I never fronted any money out of my own account and I never struggled to pay my own bills

the only time this was an issue was my very first week of work before I got my credit limit increased. It obviously quickly grew to be higher than what I earned. Still have excellent credit scores and availability to this day, despite stopping traveling many years ago.

people who travel for a living typically play the game and work the system to their advantage. Nothing illegal or untoward, just using the available options. You can earn all sorts of perks. It shouldn’t be hurting your family.

@Ponderingwindow nearly £6k a month, I could never afford that even putting it on a credit card

did you have to pay for everything. I've never had to pay myself for hotels or travel, that was always done centrally or via a 3rd party website

for one I couldn’t afford it but more importantly for insurance reasons travelling on business (covered by company) and the company knowing exactly where you are in anything bad happens where you are staying

When you're in an employed role that requires you to spend that much on travelling, you absolutely are senior enough to get a corporate credit card (or two, visa and amex) from your employer. The only instances where that wouldn't happen are when the company is either too small or disorganised to set it up for their employees but then they do give a cash advance if you point out that you cannot be expected to fund the business's expenses for them. In what world is it acceptable to shoulder £5K of DEBT a month for a job? Even if the refund window is short, a job is meant to PAY you, not risk you potentially defaulting on your payments. That's madness.

So OP can't possibly learn to drive in the present tense?