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500 London Hoxton Hotel rooms for a quid!
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An upmarket hotel in Hoxton, London will be offering rooms for £1 a night for stays between 1 August and 31 October 2008. The price even includes breakfast! Yet its 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 1pm Thursday 3 July.
It sells out within minutes... 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)
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 five 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 August and October, then get online at 1pm 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
Higher than you think if you look back on the previous threads in the travel board and get the link to the HTML site, which is much quicker. Can't remember the details but I think that you go through ihotelier. We've had a few stays and it has booked when the flashy site was struggling. Preparation is the key- know what nights you can go and persevere.
We stayed here last December with my wife and 2yr old son, very nice flashy hotel if a little out of the way at a weekend for the Xmas shopping, especially as the nearest tube station didn't open at weekends.
I went staright to booking a room at £29 as when i had tried previously the rooms at £1 i didn't get one, as i would imagine that everybody would try and start at £1, althou i believe last time it sold out in 19 mins and the site got 500 000 hits !
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Thank you so much blindman! Have set up my robform and am very ready!
How sad am i? i'm so excited. i got a fantastic room last october for a quid , but last time i wasn't lucky.
So as me and my fiance have had lots of bad luck this year, i wasn't going to bother, but i've decided that like the lottery you've got to be in it to win it!
We had such an amazing time last year, a lovely hotel and the staff were so helpful, even managed to get our train tickets from Norwich for £6 each way so our weekend away cost £25!!!! More money to spend!! Look out for 2for1 if you're going by train and different money off of sightseeing!
Now that I looked at the photos, I know that place. Went and had a drink or two there once and encountered the rudest bar staff I've ever seen. Said I'd never go back.
But for £1, I'm prepared to go back on my word!!!
I hate mondays. Mondays can bite me.
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500 London Hoxton Hotel rooms for a quid!
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