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£19 De Vere room sale: Only 5,000 rooms available...
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Posh hotelier De Vere is selling 5,000 Fri, Sat and Sun night rooms at 20 of its 30 UK locations for £19/night. Stays must be had by Sat 28 Feb and the offer's available until rooms sell out or Weds 14 Jan, whichever happens first.
Update Note 7 January 2009. It seems the De Vere website is struggling with the traffic.
These rooms are usually priced between £59 and £130 so, as Valentine's Day falls on a Saturday in 2009, you could bag yourself a very good deal on a romantic weekend away if you're organised and act FAST.
Which hotels are included?
A list of all the hotel's locations are on De Vere's site but these are excluded from the offer: all five London hotels (Canary Wharf, Devonport House, Holborn Bars, Portland Place and West One), Horsley Park, Barony Castle, New Place, Milton Hill House and Staverton Park.
The hotel's range is standard, and can be a mix from small and clean rooms to much more luxurious, so do check out the specific reviews for the hotel you're considering on TripAdviser to get an idea before booking. Yet either way this is a substantial discount on the usual price.
How to find the cheap rooms
Step 1: Pick your hotel
Go to De Vere's website and scroll through the hotels and dates to decide where and when you'd like to stay. The cheap prices are only for Friday, Saturdays and Sunday stays (ie 1-3 nights). You'll see if any £19 rooms are available immediately.
There's limited availability for each location and date and as this offer's featured in the weekly email, which is received by nearly 3 million people, you'll have to act fast if you want one of the 5,000 rooms.
Step 2: Book
Pick your hotel and date then work through De Vere's system to book the room. It's as easy as that.
If you spot a bargain room, please post the details below so other MoneySavers can benefit too
Things to watch out for
Rooms are only discounted for stays between Friday and Sunday, so from one night up to a maximum of three, plus you must pay for them in full at the time of booking. Rooms are neither refundable or venue/dates changable and breakfast isn't included.
Thanks, just booked a random night in a beautiful looking Oxfordshire hotel for a Friday coming up for just £29 - should be lovely and not too far from home, but not too near either. A lovely unexpected treat!
£19 De Vere room sale begins 2pm Weds 7 Jan. Only 5,000 rooms available. Go quick!
The sale's already taking place for better or worse. Maybe you meant 2AM?
I just booked a room for two people for 1 night on 14 February in Reading for £19!!!
PS: We'll bring our own champagne.
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I have always just been a viewer on these forums, mainly because of the good quality material already available. Ive literally only viewed the forums since the day they started.
But today, I had to post my first ever post, because I thought I had to let the people know something was very wrong with the information given by Natasha in this post at the top. It is something which will sway many peoples minds so its important.
Natasha has said that De Vere is a "Posh hotelier". I must warn you this is NOT correct. Even though De Vere may try to make their rooms out to be a lot more than what they actually are. If your idea of a "Posh hotelier" is small beds in large rooms, and basic "little chef" style resturants, then ok. However I would more describe it as a Park Inn type hotelier. Very clean, but so is Travelodge and Ibis. Just not "Posh". So dont just book random nights, or especially Valentines day, thinking itll be a great getaway to a Posh hotel, its not like that. Make sure you read the reviews on the hotel first, dont go by the pictures. You wouldnt want a small tight squeezed double bed for Valentines day would you now!! ha ha or mayb you would!!!!
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Londondude, you must be talking about the 'Village' hotels of De Vere's. They are 3* but the others are definitely upper class. I have stayed in several and can honestly say they are my very favourite chain. Travelodge and Ibis are not in the same league.
I have always just been a viewer on these forums, mainly because of the good quality material already available. Ive literally only viewed the forums since the day they started.
But today, I had to post my first ever post, because I thought I had to let the people know something was very wrong with the information given by Natasha in this post at the top. It is something which will sway many peoples minds so its important.
Natasha has said that De Vere is a "Posh hotelier". I must warn you this is NOT correct. Even though De Vere may try to make their rooms out to be a lot more than what they actually are. If your idea of a "Posh hotelier" is small beds in large rooms, and basic "little chef" style resturants, then ok. However I would more describe it as a Park Inn type hotelier. Very clean, but so is Travelodge and Ibis. Just not "Posh". So dont just book random nights, or especially Valentines day, thinking itll be a great getaway to a Posh hotel, its not like that. Make sure you read the reviews on the hotel first, dont go by the pictures. You wouldnt want a small tight squeezed double bed for Valentines day would you now!! ha ha or mayb you would!!!!
from experence Belton woods, Grantham and Dunston hall Norwich are leagues above a travelodge.
BUT neithre of these hotels are showing as available or even in the list from the link on the OP ? strange
From what I can see all of these offers apply to DeVere Venues locations. These are typically conference venues used by companies during the week for training events, meetings etc., hence the offer runs over the weekend when most of these venues would be empty anyway.
Word of caution, these are not luxury 4/5* hotels.
I have always just been a viewer on these forums, mainly because of the good quality material already available. Ive literally only viewed the forums since the day they started.
But today, I had to post my first ever post, because I thought I had to let the people know something was very wrong with the information given by Natasha in this post at the top. It is something which will sway many peoples minds so its important.
Natasha has said that De Vere is a "Posh hotelier". I must warn you this is NOT correct. Even though De Vere may try to make their rooms out to be a lot more than what they actually are. If your idea of a "Posh hotelier" is small beds in large rooms, and basic "little chef" style resturants, then ok. However I would more describe it as a Park Inn type hotelier. Very clean, but so is Travelodge and Ibis. Just not "Posh". So dont just book random nights, or especially Valentines day, thinking itll be a great getaway to a Posh hotel, its not like that. Make sure you read the reviews on the hotel first, dont go by the pictures. You wouldnt want a small tight squeezed double bed for Valentines day would you now!! ha ha or mayb you would!!!!
You need to take this in context, compared to travel lodge they are posh, and they have some very nice well run hotels.
I aways say that if u gave some people a bag with 10 grand they would moan it's heavy
PS Dont that Natasha work late, night shift or what !
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* ah it just loaded, took 10 minutes,
no hotels even close to me (Yorkshire)
For us northeners theres a couple in cheshire area, 1 in bolton and 1 in Scotland
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Natasha has said that De Vere is a "Posh hotelier". I must warn you this is NOT correct.
Actually, I think you'll find that De Vere sounds a bit like De Beers (as in diamonds), and also Richard DeVere was the rich one in "To the Manor Born", so DeVere Hotels MUST be posh! :-)
(Off at a tangent: my favourite made up name is the huge building consortium Fariclough Construction, which was named after Len Fairclough (a builder in 1970s Corronation St).
There are a few £10 rooms too! just found friday 13th feb milton keynes and high wycombe, some also available for 15th feb at £10.
I think the Milton Keynes ones are single rooms only - they have been on previous offers, maybe that's all they have there!
The High Wycombe one (Uplands) is about 3 miles from where I live. It's not in High Wycombe itself (a good thing ), it's a couple of miles out and it's about a three-quarters of a mile from the nearest pub/shop.
Actually, I think you'll find that De Vere sounds a bit like De Beers (as in diamonds), and also Richard DeVere was the rich one in "To the Manor Born", so DeVere Hotels MUST be posh! :-)
Not necessarily, when you read the bottom of the page and see their actual company name is "Verve Venues Ltd trading as De Vere"...
And to prove "Verve" isn't very posh...
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£19 De Vere room sale: Only 5,000 rooms available in 20 UK locations. Go quick!
), it's a couple of miles out and it's about a three-quarters of a mile from the nearest pub/shop.
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