Premier Travelinn - still a budget hotel?

colmil

I've just checked a price for a Monday night in May at the Premier Travelinn Kings Cross St. Pancras- £117!!

What? if they think I'm paying for Lennie Henry, they can forget it!

Jack's_mummy

TBH For a decent hotel that I know will be clean and comfortable right around the corner from kings cross station I think that is quite good. I paid £94 a night at the Cromwell road one last October and was more than happy. It balances out with all the £29 rooms I have had from them to stay elsewhere

diddyangel

You seem to pay a premium for last minute these days. The earlier you book the better prices you generally get. Not much help to you, but thought I'd explain it. The same hotel probably had £29 rooms on offer when the deal first came out.

isitenough

Definately not a budget hotel anymore. Tried to book for May at Ashford and can't get below £67! for one night! So we're not stopping over and just getting up earlier and driving down to the tunnel!
When do the £29 rooms come out? I'd say 4 months was an advance booking (I did look about Oct time last year for a rough price and still got the same cost!). Plus you add in breakfast for a family of 4 and not cheap at all!

RichyRich

I think that the central London PTIs are always more expensive (except when they have a sale). It's the penalty you pay for centrality. The same applies to, say, the Holiday Inn in Kensington. It's far more expensive than some Holiday Inn on a motorway junction near St Helen's.

altyfc

They're just PIs nowadays, not PTIs folks... They dropped the 'Travel' bit a long time ago now.

And yes... they seem to be the following the example of Travelodge for their pricing nowadays. It's not just the straightforward £50 a room but instead the price is more reflective of demand. I still think this is an OK price for the location and for a room quality where you can be fairly sure of what you're getting.

shiningdove

Yeah as a previous poster said, the earlier you book the much cheaper it will be.

Liquorice_Twirls

I booked a Premier Inn in central Glasgow just this week, for accommodation half term in Feb for £29 so pretty pleased, but I do agree that prices have been steadily rising on the whole.

diddyangel

isitenough wrote: »

Definately not a budget hotel anymore. Tried to book for May at Ashford and can't get below £67! for one night! So we're not stopping over and just getting up earlier and driving down to the tunnel!
When do the £29 rooms come out? I'd say 4 months was an advance booking (I did look about Oct time last year for a rough price and still got the same cost!). Plus you add in breakfast for a family of 4 and not cheap at all!

The £29 rooms at the moment are only available on stays up until the 18th April.... No idea if they are extending this yet. Keep checking the PI website because my guess is if they do extend it, you will get your hotel cheaper

Foggster

I am confused by the whole £29 scheme.

Last August I booked 2 nights, family room for the December. The cost showed as £174.20. I booked the Kensington, Olympia on Cromwell Road.

A couple of days later, a friend also booked a PI for the same weekend and told me she got it for £49 by following a link on an email from PI. I did the same thing and it came up as £98 for the same 2 nights/hotel/room. I was able to cancel the first booking and re-book for £76.20 less. I called PI and they said that going through the link would indeed save me money but when I explained I went through "My Account" because I had used them a couple of times before and it was suppose to save me time as a regular customer they backtracked and told me if I was to cancel then I would still be charged and thats why the other room was more expensive because it could be cancelled without charge. Mmmmmmmm still no wiser.

Amys

If you book the higher rate rooms then you can cancel up to i think it is 1 pm the day before the booking. If you book the discount rates you cannot cancel or change the booking.