Dear English people - why do you like to share your toilets?
 

Next month I'll be spending a night in London and currently looking for a hotel room.

Not looking to spend a fortune since it's only a couple hours of sleep, i rather spend the time i have sightseeing and/or eating/drinking

What I find weird - most hotel rooms between 70 and 100 gbp in the center come with shared toilets/bathrooms - I know that only from $10 hostels

what up with that???


PS: If you live in London and fancy a drink/dinner on August 8th...

Last time we stayed in Premier Inn @ Kings Cross - London Kings Cross Hotel | Premier Inn .. It was a lot better than expected. ~80GBP/night/room

thanks but the 8th is a Saturday and suddenly one room is 164 gbp - not 80 :-/

sucks being too old to stay in a hostel doesn't it?

Yeah, taje a look at premier inn or travel lodge. Those places sound like a right shithole thats taking the piss. I've stayed in hotels all over the fucking world, from the cheapest I could find to the 5 star extravagances to treat myself. Never ONCE have I heard about sharing a toilet.

One hotel I did like, real cheap but top quaility was https://clubquartershotels.com/ in london. Great location and facilities.

http://i.imgur.com/CBTVlHJ.png

Club Quarters St Pauls - Where I stayed - Excellent

I have come across it a few times in London - They are always old dumps that simply haven't been touched in a hundred years - Kings Cross is the worst area for that sort of shit - Stay well clear and use the ideas above...

i have postcards i wrote to my parents from school trips when i was 8 or 9 years old where i complain about the hostel we stayed at - it's a general thing for me

The price is higher when the date is two weeks away only :)

Re Club Quarters

Book Online and use promo code Repeat Guest to save an extra £10 off

(From Email I was sent recently)

http://i.imgur.com/scB0ZbX.png

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

I'd also check HRS.de as they have many deals with new hotels in most European cities for 50 pct off. Doesn't always work for one night only though.

that looks good...

maybe someone can give me some advice on this as well: i'll be arriving at Gatwick and the next day i'll have to leave from Stansted. so it would be great if i could get to the hotel and next day to the airport by public transportation. without having to change too much

Cant help with the transportation side I'm afraid, but I did like that hotel. Right by St Pauls Cathedral and just across from the Millennium Bridge. Also within walking distance to the London Eye (That big Ferris Wheel) and the Houses of Parliament - Big Ben :)

Anyhoo - Good luck - I'm off out for a bit now...

thank you - also for the promo code! :thumbsup

Not that easy - You would normally get to Stansted from Liverpool Street station on the Stansted Express (Book in advance - It's cheaper) - Liverpool Street is in the City Of London and you might get a better price for hotels there than in the West End as the area closes over the weekend - There are lots of tubes though if you want to go into town - It's just a few minutes away...

The Gatwick train will take you into Victoria station - It's easy to get a tube from there to Liverpool Street - Use the Circle line, it's direct.....

Edit: The hotel CS is talking about is near Liverpool Street - Perfect for Stansted the next day...

alright - that sealed it :thumbsup

Take your own toilet paper just in case:helpme

sneaky, sneaky... when i use the "Repeat Guest" code, the 119 gbp option is not available anymore

so i booked without the promo code and they add another 23 gbp in taxes - so the total is now 143 gbp :error

ah well, at least i have my own private toilet :upsidedow :1orglaugh

great - there's a train from Gatwick that stops 2 minute walking distance from that hotel too

Cool. Let me give you some insider knowledge...

When you get there, you wont see a 'hotel' as you are probably imagining it. It actually doesnt look at all like a hotel from the outside. Its just a door with logo on that leads into a small corridor. You will find two burly bouncers stood in the corridor. They are totally cool and you talk to them and they book you in via a machine a bit like an ATM

You do this by using the card that you used to book the room and your receipt and room key pop out of the machine... This takes about 30 seconds. Then they let you past and you'll see the bar area at the back, and thats where you get to the lifts. The hotel part is all the floors above, but it just has a very small footprint (The Corridor) on the ground floor...

AS I say, the place itself (Once you are past security) is very nice, with little touches like a stack of empty water bottles and filtered cold water dispenser on every floor, so you can take a fresh bottle of drinking water out with you. A complimentary touch :)

What I'm trying to really say though, is when I arrived first time, I thought that I'd been had, it wasn't a real hotel and the two big guys were going to mug me ! However within a few moments I realised that it also means you are nice and secure. No one can get past the guys without a room key so its nice and safe :)

Enjoy :)

the cons of lodging in the ghetto....for over $200 per night...jesus fucking christ.

edit: in your situation i would of checked out airbnb, the prices are similar but without the bloods/crips vibe.

The area is not really 'Ghetto' - Some of the world's most expensive real estate in fact - It's the heart of a big city and like any other there are issues...

No one wants to share a toilet with me.

doesn't look like ghetto to me

https://www.google.cz/maps/place/24+...!6m1!1e1?hl=en

plus perfect location for my travel

and i did check Airbnb - people rent out their closet for $100/night in London. no thanks

and thanks again - very helpful :thumbsup

Do me a favor when you are there. Go into this guys restaurant and tell him to think of a fucking name for his place :1orglaugh

http://i.imgur.com/nZ7tLcI.png


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Actually, from the updated street view and the pics on site, it appears that they have widened the entrance part since I was last there :)

Anyhhoo... Full trip advisor review to be posted here please, on the 10th of August lol

take off your sunglasses :winkwink:

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There are rubbish hotels out there, avoid them

+1

(Eddy and I both grew up not far from Stansted Airport)

There are a lot of places in rural areas around here that are called Eat, I think it's a chain.. :upsidedow

Last year we stayed 3 nights at The Arch (near Modonna's home) 24 of us for our annual corporate planning meeting -- remember, there is no money in cams and tubes make millions :1orglaugh

Luxury Hotel Suites in Marble Arch, Marylebone, London

I also stayed at the Hilton for the Xbiz show and at a Holiday Inn near Gatwick on my return trip from Paris.

Other than the Arch (very nice but very expensive), from what I saw of the 'better' London hotels by US standards they are a joke :( London is very expensive and not that impressive ... The best thing was everyone spoke English albeit the Queens English. For the most part both in the hotels and on the street people were pretty cool (got to say something good):upsidedow

I've stayed in old hotels throughout Europe and the really ancient ones, with old time plumbing, have a shared toilet down the hall with usually a tiny sink in your own room.

See Ma, there are no old hotels left in Germany because of the war and all the bombing. But a few still stand in and around London. Also, you are used to 5 Star accomodations being so successful and an icon in our Industry. Put a zero at the end of that hotel price man c'mon!! LOL :)

I ate at one at Oxford Circus. The food was great and a hot meal with coffee was about £9 :thumbsup

I think its simple. English people are ugly so they dont care about hygene. They prefer to smell like shit and old shoes. Call it cultural.

jeez OP, just book a fuckin proper hotel and pay the money.

London is no different to any of the major cities in the world.

£100 gets you a dogs bed.

£2 -300 gets you 5* on Park Lane.

And please dont tell me you can get a 5* hotel in Berlin for £100.

Prick.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What would be the point of wasting extra 100-200 pounds? Even if you have millions.
Especially when it is not a trip with your gf/wife, but rather just a sleeping spot.

it always pays to read the thread first before you start ranting

and yes, Berlin is significantly cheaper - here are 5 star hotels in Berlin for the same date, prices are mostly 100-150 ?

Booking.com: Hotels in Berlin. Book your hotel now!

now blow me