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500 London Hoxton Hotel rooms for a quid!
Former_MSE_Archna
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What's it about?
An upmarket hotel in Hoxton, London will be offering rooms for £1 a night for stays between 1 Nov and 31 Jan 2008. The price even includes breakfast! Yet it's a lottery, to get them is all about timing and luck.
It does this as a regular publicity event, there will be 500 rooms at the special rate, and you can book them online when the sale kicks off at...
You can only grab one room at the special price and it's warned if you book more it will cancel all your bookings.
At that price surely the rooms can't be that good?
See for yourself. Check out the hotel's photo gallery (if that's not working due to traffic, visit the Trip Advisor review). This is a mid to higher level little hotel; which you'd probably expect to pay £50 - £80 a night for.
This £1 promotion is exactly that; a marketing promotion. Hence if you can grab it, do!
Why the hurry if they're not available yet?
The hotel have run this £1 offer six times before and the rooms went like proverbial hotcakes (though many of those were MoneySavers as each time it's available, it goes in the weekly email).
It's a bit of a lottery who gets them, as you'll see from past reports. If you are looking to stay in London between 1st November 2008 – 31st January 2009, then get online at 12pm sharp (or better still from about 15 mins before)
What if I can't get a £1 room?
Once the £1 rooms are sold out for a particular night the next cheapest discounted price is £29, still not a particularly bad price for a room in London as these rooms can go for over £100.
Also see the full Cheap Hotels guide for lots more options
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An upmarket hotel in Hoxton, London will be offering rooms for £1 a night for stays between 1 Nov and 31 Jan 2008. The price even includes breakfast! Yet it's a lottery, to get them is all about timing and luck.
It does this as a regular publicity event, there will be 500 rooms at the special rate, and you can book them online when the sale kicks off at...
You can only grab one room at the special price and it's warned if you book more it will cancel all your bookings.
Rooms available:
At 12pm Friday 31 October.
At 12pm Friday 31 October.
It sells out within minutes...
if you're not online then, you won't get one
if you're not online then, you won't get one
To get it, go to its website at the right time
(which will be as slow and sticky as treacle at that point, see top tips from successful past bidders on how to grab one in the discussion below)
(which will be as slow and sticky as treacle at that point, see top tips from successful past bidders on how to grab one in the discussion below)
At that price surely the rooms can't be that good?
See for yourself. Check out the hotel's photo gallery (if that's not working due to traffic, visit the Trip Advisor review). This is a mid to higher level little hotel; which you'd probably expect to pay £50 - £80 a night for.
This £1 promotion is exactly that; a marketing promotion. Hence if you can grab it, do!
Why the hurry if they're not available yet?
The hotel have run this £1 offer six times before and the rooms went like proverbial hotcakes (though many of those were MoneySavers as each time it's available, it goes in the weekly email).
It's a bit of a lottery who gets them, as you'll see from past reports. If you are looking to stay in London between 1st November 2008 – 31st January 2009, then get online at 12pm sharp (or better still from about 15 mins before)
What if I can't get a £1 room?
Once the £1 rooms are sold out for a particular night the next cheapest discounted price is £29, still not a particularly bad price for a room in London as these rooms can go for over £100.
Also see the full Cheap Hotels guide for lots more options
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Hi, Im just wondering, when I try to just check some dates now it wont show a price in the middle where it gives you the room type.Is that normal or am I doing somethign wrong ??????Thanks
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Don't forget Blindman's HTML link from the previous thread: https://reservations.ihotelier.com/crs/step1.cfm?hotelid=13279&languageid=1
This is often quicker than booking the conventional way. A few of us got scuppered last time as you had to click 'promotional rates' to see the £1 rooms, but they seem to have removed this.0 -
thanks! just got the email too
i've managed to get 1 room in the past two sales but i'm working this one, and can't get online! 0 -
Just posting so that this thread gets bumped.
Also look at this thread for tips on how to get a room.1) Don't forget to use the HTML Page to book.
Do NOT use the FLASH page- it can't cope.
TIP:
1) Do a dummy booking now for your dates to see if the Hotel has availability.
2) Download and install an AUTO fill tool to help with filling in the form. e.g Roboform- 30day free trial
Practice using it before the big day!0 -
One thing to remember is the don't take Switch or Maestro so make sure you have a Visa card - worse thing is thinking you've got a room but to find out you havent got the right card!
Have managed a couple of these rooms at £1 before so fingers cross for this time2020 Mortgage-Free Wannabes #20 £1495.03/£2760 OP0 -
Hi, Im just wondering, when I try to just check some dates now it wont show a price in the middle where it gives you the room type.Is that normal or am I doing somethign wrong ??????Thanks
Even if you're staying one night, you have to click in the box for the next day when you're leaving. The price should appear then. I had the same problem myself. Good luck.0 -
Do they take AMEX? ThanksI'm getting older, and lifes getting harder!:mad:0
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scottishlass wrote: »One thing to remember is the don't take Switch or Maestro so make sure you have a Visa card - worse thing is thinking you've got a room but to find out you havent got the right card!
Have managed a couple of these rooms at £1 before so fingers cross for this time
Thanks for that mate. I was actually going to use my Switch as well :beer:0 -
A_little_stressed!! wrote: »Do they take AMEX? Thanks
From the pics on the booking form it appears to be Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Diners - but not sure if thats a definate list apart from a Switch Card usually doesn't work2020 Mortgage-Free Wannabes #20 £1495.03/£2760 OP0 -
This will be my first time so sorry for the obvious questions, but are there certain dates that can be booked eg. 1st Nov to 1st Dec? Also, Is it only one night? Cant you get two for say the weekend? xx0/2013
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