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?

Well, I doubt he'll be spending only £30 a night there... no wonder he doesn't have any money for you - he is prioritising his friends.

Oh my goodness, I admire you for sticking it out OP, I would have left him there and booked a £500 a night room 😂

Doesn't he deserve it?! I didn't say I would stay there!

Tell him to go back and stay in the shithole he paid for and you stay in the hotel

If there are actual Hamilton tickets, will they be behind a pillar I wonder…

Good point!

Completely agree

He’s picking up your supper at 16:35?

Oh, no.

In that case I would bin him off. You're young enough to have plenty of time to find someone better, but not so young that you can afford to waste too much time on the wrong man.

Yeah this is a bit weird.

Sorry but booking somewhere to stay that's worse than where you normally live isn't a "treat" and you have every right to complain.

I know!!

it’s all just such a disappointment.

😂Maybe he wanted to take advantage of the Early Bird offer???

I wonder if other people are having problems with the site - I keep having overload issues and have to refresh, or it takes forever to post because of the purple 'something's gone wrong' message that pops up and by the time it reloads/posts the conversation has wrong. I certainly am and have had to move from my iPad to my laptop as it seems to work a bit better on here.

Enjoy your weekend but I would end it after that. He’s a tight arse with you. You’re worth more than that.

Please don't let him back in with you. He's being absolutely obnoxious, especially after he's booked himself the skiing holiday. He's literally showing you what he thinks you're worth. I'd rather have done nothing than be put in a potential bedbug £30 a night dosshouse.

I paid £80 for a room in a guest house in North London in 2010, so how he can think £30 in 2025 would have led to anything reasonable is beyond me.

No way would I stay with someone thinking a £30 a night anywhere was acceptable.
It cost more to go camping 😂

Its not the price in itself, it's that it cannot be anything else than a dump.

Cheap and basic is not a treat, but practical, but a hovel is just a no.

Sounds like it’s going to be a VERY long weekend.

Luckily because he will not have checked there aren’t any pillars in the way at the Victoria Palace.

Has he definitely got the tickets?

Dump him. Then in a few months, you’ll look back on this and laugh.

Oh no poor OP ! You can't do London on a budget but it doesn't have to be stingy and miserable.

I saw it two weeks ago and it was incredible!!!

You can literally get a ticket for yourself for tomorrow a few rows back for £100. Go by yourself 🤣 and enjoy your birthday without this miser!

See the show then DTMA. Tightarsed twat.