Hoxton Hotel, London £1 room sale

nicky318

so i cant change the date no?? i dont mind loosing a pound to be honest....but just annoyed i clicked the wrong date !!!

Scubabe

nicky318 wrote: »

so i cant change the date no?? i dont mind loosing a pound to be honest....but just annoyed i clicked the wrong date !!!

NO Nicky, you can't change the date! How many times do people on here have to say that!?!

nicky318

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT CALM DOWN!! only askin isnt that what a forums for!?!?

so glad i got the £1 offer

pinktheatrebunny

Ok, let's clear a few things up.

Having tried for the last 4 sales and been lucky/quick enough to get rooms 2 out of 4 times I can confirm it is not a con. The people at the hotel are lovely too.

I can also say that the first time they checked my name when I checked in but the second time my friend checked in for me, she just gave my name and her credit card and no questions were asked.

And Nicky318 you are very unlikely to find someone to swap a Thursday night for a Friday night, the weekends are like gold dust and always go first.

Congratulations all you lucky people and try the pear cocktail, it's like a party in your mouth!

x x x x x x x

James_N

nat_urally wrote: »

that is exactly what happened to me!...nothing since, managed to get on once and all £1 seemed to be unavailable :mad: i am a very fast typer and i know if had been able to get on i would have got one!how did people even manage it??

All the people complaining about it being "down" or a scam - if you had time to complain in a post between 1200 and about 1220 you WERE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. It's not a scam. Ever heard of a distributed denial of service? Think that countless people can connect to a service at once with no affect at all on that service? What you are seeing is the result of thousands of "hits" at once. Very few requests are served. I've been disappointed more times than not with this offer, but HAVE been twice.

For the record I had three separate browsers refreshing constantly with saved details as an existing customer. I had four times almost booked but completed too slowly even with pre-completion At 12.17 it offered a £29 room to me.

It's simply a mixture of luck and perseverance.

loulou_1984

James_N wrote: »

All the people complaining about it being "down" or a scam - if you had time to complain in a post between 1200 and about 1220 you WERE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH. It's not a scam. Ever heard of a distributed denial of service? Think that countless people can connect to a service at once with no affect at all on that service? What you are seeing is the result of thousands of "hits" at once. Very few requests are served. I've been disappointed more times than not with this offer, but HAVE been twice.

For the record I had three separate browsers refreshing constantly with saved details as an existing customer. I had four times almost booked but completed too slowly even with pre-completion At 12.17 it offered a £29 room to me.

It's simply a mixture of luck and perseverance.

You said exactly what I thought during the sale after seeing peoples responses, but put it much better than I could have!

yoyo1980

A lot of the Sundays full price are only £69 which is pretty good anyways. At the moment htey have a double room 20 & 27 June for £49!

yoyo1980

& all Sundays July & August are currently £49 for a double room.

shobibear

saramoore wrote: »

i believe this to be a con i got through and entered all my details everything was correct then when i was sent my confermation i was informed they were taking £1013 out of my account and thank you for bookin a 7 night stay! now i am trying to contact them on the telephone but it is either engaged or just rings for ages then cuts me off!! now i don't know what to do!!! my advice is don't do it x

Same happened to me, used the £1 link and now have confirmation for £179, have cancelled my card, but fear its not the end of it, surely must be an error on there site. Am i still liable to pay?

Crabman

shobibear wrote: »

Same happened to me, used the £1 link and now have confirmation for £179, have cancelled my card, but fear its not the end of it, surely must be an error on there site. Am i still liable to pay?

The hotel have been quite good with cancelling reservations in these circumstances - give them a call or email them, don't forget to update us how it goes