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Old 24-06-2008, 5:58 PM   #1
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Default Hoxton £1 Sale 12pm Thurs 29th Jan

What's it about?

An upmarket hotel in Hoxton, London will be offering rooms for £1 a night for stays between 1st February 2009 – 30th April 2009. 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 (noon) Thursday 29 January.

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 successful past bidders top tips 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 February 2009 – 30th April 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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Old 22-01-2009, 3:41 PM   #2
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Default Hoxton £1 Sale 12pm Thurs 29th Jan

Just got email about this!

1000 rooms between 1st Feb and 30th April 2009
500 @ 1 and 500 @ £29

http://www.thehoxton.com/offers-1pound.php

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Old 22-01-2009, 3:45 PM   #3
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I just got the email too.....MAD FRENZY ALL OVER AGAIN...LOL
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Old 22-01-2009, 4:19 PM   #4
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How bizarre. Had an email about this over a week ago.
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Old 22-01-2009, 4:21 PM   #5
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Just about to post here, just posted it over in the travel threads.

Really hop I get one as I've always wanted to go to London and its my 21st in April xx



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Old 22-01-2009, 4:38 PM   #6
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Just about to post here, just posted it over in the travel threads.

Really hop I get one as I've always wanted to go to London and its my 21st in April xx
Good luck! I'd go straight for a £29 room as you have of a chance grabbing one of these.
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Default Noon or Night ?

Is this lunchtime 12pm or Nightime 12pm?
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Old 28-01-2009, 10:31 AM   #8
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It's noon!



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Old 28-01-2009, 10:33 AM   #9
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Yes Its 12pm which is a pain as Im never near a computer at work

Never managed to bag one of these rooms yet but hope some of you do tomorrow!
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Old 28-01-2009, 10:33 AM   #10
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Old 28-01-2009, 10:49 AM   #11
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I want to LIVE here!! By the way, they're apparenly opening more Hoxton Hotels in the UK, so if London's not your scene, maybe they'll have more £1 offers in other UK venues?



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What time is 12pm? Is it noon or midnight??
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Old 28-01-2009, 11:31 AM   #14
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It's just 12pm, 12pm can't be in the midnight and noon, it is just noon. 12am is midnight.
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It's 12 noon. Why couldn't they simply say "12 noon"? Why do these people always leave room for ambiguity?
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What time do you make it??



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just had a practise look at the website - do they only accept credit cards? I only have a debit card.



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Why hasn't it started yet?

EDIT: Whoops...missed that this is TOMORROW, not today!

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Old 28-01-2009, 12:08 PM   #20
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Haha oh I've done the same thing!
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