To have made my partner switch hotels in London?

[LondonWoes]

My partner surprised me with a long weekend in London, for my birthday. He got us theatre tickets and told me he had sorted the hotel out.

We got on the train today and he started bragging it was £30 a night. That immediately set alarm bells ringing. We arrive and it’s a dump. It’s not even a hotel, but someone’s house with a load of converted rooms. There’s no reception, just a living room, and every door has the same key. That same key also opened the front door. We had been put in a downstairs room, with no window. It was boiling hot.

I told him I wasn’t staying in that hotel. It didn’t feel safe and the vibes were off. He has begrudgingly moved but made me pay, so now im £500 down for my birthday weekend. Was I being unreasonable?

He made you pay? I’d be staying in the new hotel on my own and having a nice pampering weekend alone, and he can stay in his scuzzy fleapit.

Not really if you ended up paying.

Have you tested your key in other doors? How long were you planning on staying in the room for? Was it a good location to your activity? Who chose the £500 per night room?

Is he always like that?

Has he form for shit like this. Being an utter tight arse or is this a new low?

Can’t he stay in the room he booked and you stay in the more expensive one if he won’t pay for it?!

Were the theatre tickets on the back row of the balcony?!

I guess she will find out when they get there!

There's quite a difference between £30 and £500.

I understand why you wanted to move, but you didn't need to choose a £500 hotel, even in London!

How do you know all the rooms had the same key???

We’re not in £500 a night, sorry. It’s £500 all in.

What's he got planned for dinner? Yellow sticker sandwiches from Tesco? Going through the bins behind Pret?

No
you weren’t U, if you didn’t feel comfortable or safe then you did the right thing to move.

How many nights is it?

When you turned up and saw it, what on earth did he say?

Stinginess is so unattractive! I think I would do the same as a pp and be staying in the nice hotel on my own. How long have you been together? Does he have form for this type of thing?

Whatever was he thinking £30 would get him?! Did he last book a hotel in 1976?

Even a dorm in a hostel type hotel is more than that.

It’s shit. But you’ve upgraded so that’s sorted and I would be trying to put it behind me for now, get out and explore and have a lovely weekend - otherwise it will feel like a miserable AND expensive birthday.

I would absolutely be talking to him once home and hoping he’ll see sense and pay you at least some of it back - but for now, happy birthday and hope you have a great time!

It wouldn't have been the same key for all rooms. Plenty of hotels have keys that all work in the front door and then for individual rooms - that only work for those rooms. Unless you tried to go into someone else's room?

I don't think you were unreasonable to not want to stay there if you felt unsafe - that's totally fine. I'm not sure how you are 'down' £500? How much was the replacement hotel?

And they say romance is dead

😂😂😂

Couldn't you just book a Premier inn and pay for that.

Surely there was something I between £30 and £500?

Even a travel lodge won’t be cheap but is £100-200 for a night and acceptable.

sounds like you wanted high end? If you’ve decided to pay for high end instead of a suitable room I’d be asking to split the cost.

Because each key to the room opened the front door!

We’re in an ibis. Just over £150 a night because it was last minute

You’re on this thread and you are currently actually in the new hotel? Is that air thick with tension?!