Yet another stress to add to my ever growing list

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Can't find anywhere to stay on teh night after our furniture leaves here - we need to be in Yorks as they are hoping to drop furniture off about lunchtime next day!

aren't you supposed to use central booking place anyway if they are paying lol? we told them where we needed to be and they booked it for us (a totally random glaswegian hotel)... isn't it called chbs or something? or have they been cutback etc? central hotel booking service?

Oh dunno. The silly army clerk who doesn't know her job woman in Admin told Dh that we have to pay any hotel accomodation out of our disturbance.

you are entitled to 2 nights accomodation , when you move .I know this as my friend has just been posted and had 1 night this end and 2nd at posting end. Both paid for outwith thier disturbance. HTH

Really? can you please ask her how they claimed (I mean obv JPA but under what allowance was it), as DH ahs been told on 2 seperate occasions that disturbance has to pay for hotels

We've always stayed in hotels which have been booked centrally not sure who you need to call though. We normally get 2 rooms which are adjoining and the hotels have always had a pool. Make sure that you claim your meals back as well and the 1 glass of wine that you are allowed

Hubby said to call the unit you are going to talk to HR and confirm the rules with them.
It should be in the JSP, the rules are different depending on where you are moving from and to, when we moved back from Germany we were entitled to 4 nights in a hotel.

we've always stayed in centrally booked hotels too.

i just looked on the mod raf webpages and they are astonishingly bad. maybe the rafff website might be of help?

(vaguely recall you might be raf lol)

or try calling the hive in the new place?

Just speaking to DH... the unit clerk should sort this out. Ours was booked for us by them (Hogg Robinson do the booking). We paid and DH claimed back via JPA. We also claimed day subsistence for each member of the family (even exclusively bf DS2 ) and incidentals (although DH can't remember if this was just for him or all of us).

We always try to move out on a Friday and in on a Monday so get hotels for Fri, Sat and Sun nights. You are entitled to it for each night you don't have a bed in your house (that is usually the last/first thing they load/unload). You can split the nights too (e.g. first night in location 1 and then last night in location of new house).

We've had some fab hotels, and some dives (in one case I refused to stay in it and drove to my MILs - reported it as substandard!), so try and do some research and follow up if you know it's somewhere dodgy in advance.

Good luck with the move.

So do we pay for it and then claim back or do they pay upfront? (guesses answer to this one!)

Pay and claim back unfortunately. But can you claim the disturbance allowance in advance to make up for it, or ask for an advance of pay?

My Dh says to look at JSP 752 ( available through work internet) this will give you all the details of what you can claim and how.
He did 3yrs ex with RN and says he had the same carry on with the navy admin clerk, so don't believe any thing they tell you. HTH