500 London Hoxton Hotel rooms for a quid!

Former_MSE_Archna

What's it about?

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

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lipglossbutterfly

Is it on the Wednesday or the 3rd of July because on my calendar the 3rd of July is a Thursday... ????

grandslamgirl

lipglossbutterfly wrote: »

Is it on the Wednesday or the 3rd of July because on my calendar the 3rd of July is a Thursday... ????

I've just checked and it is on Thursday 3rd July

blindman

They are on Sale at 13:00 on the 3rd July


The booking period is

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1st August – 31st October 2008[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]1000 bedrooms up for grabs between
1st August – 31st October 2008
500 at £1 and 500 at £29[/FONT]

stphnstevey

What are the chances!

mcallister1

stphnstevey wrote: »

What are the chances!

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.

blindman

HTML Link

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kathrynvaughan

And so the madness begins......

Cant wait....

I love it.....

AND I've never managed to get a room - its all in the thrill of the chase!

Good Luck to one and all
:beer: :j :beer: :j :beer:

blindman

I'll just bump this as it seems a bit quiet...

john6241

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 !

neil72uk

I stayed here on Saturday - managed to grab one of the £1 rooms in their previous sale. I'd recommend it to anyone.:T