Are you still travelling (overnight trips) for work?

[LaceCurtains]

DH manages projects for the electricity generation industry, so key work but he has worked from home since the start of lockdown.

He has a new project starting 200 miles from here next week. The industry expert who would usually supervise on site would have to travel from another continent, so that will not be happening and DH has been asked to go instead, he'll be away 5 days pw for 5 weeks, home at weekends.

He's found a hotel that is open and will do B&B but what does he do for his dinner?

In answer to the title, no I'm not.
About his dinner - supermarket sandwiches or salads? That is what I usually do tbh

Occasionally. Supermarket - if it’s city centre most have aparthotel things like a mini studio apartment w kitchenette. Better for social distancing too. Or buy sandwiches. Or Deliveroo. Or pick up take out from places.

His work should be able to advise on options though.

Mine have been stopped for the foreseeable. If I did have to right now I would either get cold pasta/sandwiches or a takeaway.

We're not allowed to travel at the moment, but in that situation, I would get a s/c apartment/studio and get takeaway and cook in. I frequently do this when travelling abroad alone anyway because it's just more flexible and I don't always want to eat out alone every night.

If his biggest problem with travelling at the minute is where to eat he should just get on with it. It's more than possible to get by on some combination of takeaways and supermarket convenience foods for a few weeks.

What do you consider should be his bigger problems @StatisticalSense ?

Not me, but a friend works in TV production and has had to travel. She just buys food from the supermarket and has to stay in the hotel room.

Can the hotel provide an evening meal? Or are takeaways available nearby?

Or there's supermarket food but that depends what he prefers to eat, he might be happy with sandwiches, pot noodles and snacks or if the hotel can't provide an evening meal they've cooked themselves, they might be happy to heat up ready meals that he's bought from a supermarket?

It sounds like a self catering place might be more suitable, then he can just buy supermarket food and cook for himself.

Suoermarkets, takeaways, I don’t understand why you’d not know this?

Ours have been halted, can only travel if no overnight stays (which cuts all mine out!). It is possible in normal times you can get takeaway to hotels etc which could be an option too. Maybe take some cutlery/paper plates just in case.

May not be the biggest worry in the scheme of things, but this would worry me and is worth thinking about. We’re all just getting on with many things just now, doesn’t mean we can’t plan to make things a little easier/smoother.

Not at present but even pre pandemic for a requirement like that we'd get a self catering apartment or air bnb and just book it out for the full 5 weeks. Then he can just do a supermarket shop - works out cheaper for work too.

No not at the moment. I would get a Takeaway or something from the supermarket as others have suggested.

He's found a hotel that is open and will do B&B but what does he do for his dinner?

Buy food?

Is it a rural location with no takeaways? Download an app like UberEats or Just Eat or drive to the supermarket. Big ones will cook a pizza for you or have a deli counter with rotisserie chicken etc

Some pubs restaurant and cafes doing hot food takeaway. Pick up.from doir. Or Deliveroo or uber eats.

Those that are saying to eat supermarket sandwiches or takeaways - would you really want to do this 5 nights running for 5 weeks? I wouldn’t. Agree with others that asking the company to find a self catering apartment is the best bet so he can cook his own meals.

I have a corporate Deliveroo account. It’s the account I use normally when I’m at home but I just have an option at the checkout to use work credit for the payment bit. If he doesn’t have access to anything like that can’t he get deliveroo and then expense it?

Quite, thank you Chessie. Obviously he can feed himself but 5 weeks of supermarket sandwiches and takeaways isn't appealing, not to mention the damage it will do to his lockdown weightloss. Just wondering what others do.

If he's going to the same place every week, I would definitely push for a serviced apartment/Air BnB. Much nicer all round. And probably cheaper in the end for his employer, even if they have to pay for weekends he's not there, because if he can cook his expenses will be much lower than Deliveroo etc. A block booking for 5 weeks is likely to be more economical than 5x5 hotel nights.

Regardless of COVID, if I’m staying in the same place for several weeks I book an apartment so I can cook. You get more space and can cook proper meals. Takeaways and sandwich meals become boring very quickly.

Rather than a hotel he might be better off at an air bnb, that way he has a kitchen etc to use. Although I am surprised that he's allowed to do this in the current t climate

Well, I'm guessing people still want electricity copy.

Lacecurtains
JustEat will deliver to the hotel
if he finds somewhere doing middle Eastern food (so lots of salads and vegetables) he'll be able to eat quite well for not much.

Alternatively a self catering room in a hotel with a kitchenette should be feasible.

Despite what you'd think from MN, there are plenty of people working and flying and travelling and staying in hotels and lodgings.

If an venue gets funny, point out to them what his contract will be ....

www.booking.com/aparthotels/region/gb/england.en-gb.html

Yes of course they still need electricity, I work in projects in IT, providing IT services to a whole range of different organisations, inc nhs, retail and electricity companies. We do all of it from home. As a PM I don't need to be onsite, I just need people who do need to be onsite. Unless he's an engineer 'doing' the actual work