Travelodge £10 room summer sale 2012

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Confuzzled wrote: »

well done you, i've honestly never seen a cheap friday, well now i can live in hope

I've booked a friday night - 24th august for £10 :j

poundcoin

Looks like all these offers are to help cash flow , as Travelodge have just had a £10 million loan .
Borrowings of £850 million which if my memory serves me right was about what Woolworths had when they went bust !

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-12/travelodge-takes-15-8-million-emergency-loan-times-reports.html

Hopefully they will still be going when it actually comes to staying there !

terryw

poundcoin wrote: »

Looks like all these offers are to help cash flow , as Travelodge have just had a £10 million loan .
Borrowings of £850 million which if my memory serves me right was about what Woolworths had when they went bust !

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-12/travelodge-takes-15-8-million-emergency-loan-times-reports.html

Hopefully they will still be going when it actually comes to staying there !

Interesting and thanks for the post but for the sake of losing a tenner, it looks a good gamble to me.

These ten quid sales at TL are regular - they have them every couple of months regardless.

Doc_N

terryw wrote: »

Interesting and thanks for the post but for the sake of losing a tenner, it looks a good gamble to me.

These ten quid sales at TL are regular - they have them every couple of months regardless.

A fair point - but things do seem to have deteriorated quite a bit over recent months:

LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - British budget hotelier Travelodge has had to call on its lenders for emergency cash to tide it over, and could need more capital shortly as it struggles to cope with its debts, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The hotel chain, famed in Britain for its 10 pound-a-night rooms, received an extra 10 million pounds from its creditors in recent weeks, the sources said.

It has also hired lawyers and debt restructuring specialists to advise it on negotiations with its lenders, who are reviewing the business and their own options.

Travelodge, which launched an expansion drive in January, declined to comment.

The group is the latest high profile UK name to run into trouble, after discount clothing retailer Peacocks called in administrators in January. Profit warnings from British companies rose at the fastest rate in a decade in the final three months of 2011.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/10/travelodge-restructuring-idUSL5E8DACLM20120210

poundcoin

terryw wrote: »

These ten quid sales at TL are regular - they have them every couple of months regardless.

True and yes I have taken up the offers numerous times .

I expect if they did go belly up there would be plenty of takers for the business and I'm not sweating on my 4 nights in May yet !

Confuzzled

prac wrote: »

how often do they do these sales?

i need to go to Edinburgh in July... not sure whether to book now or whether to hold out for another sale

any help appreciated

this is my first post also

i highly recommend the waterloo place travelodge in edinburgh, it's about a minutes walk from the train station and there are buses to everywhere quite nearby, it's my TL of choice when we go to edinburgh, for busy months suggest avoiding the rose street TL, but it's good in winter months it's just very noisy there cuz it's near all the bars

the shandwick place TL is also good but not quite as convenient as the waterloo place, if you don't mind being a little further away from the city centre edinburgh learmouth isn't too bad (beautiful neighbourhood) and the cameron toll TL is VERY convenient for buses and has the shopping centre with a greggs, sainsburys and a food court right across the road

Confuzzled

poundcoin wrote: »

True and yes I have taken up the offers numerous times .

I expect if they did go belly up there would be plenty of takers for the business and I'm not sweating on my 4 nights in May yet !

if they do go belly up i don't know what people going to the fringe festival will do, TL owns soooo many hotels in edinburgh it's crazy, they went on a big buying spree in the last few years, in fact there is a new one opening in march actually

Doc_N

Confuzzled wrote: »

if they do go belly up i don't know what people going to the fringe festival will do, TL owns soooo many hotels in edinburgh it's crazy, they went on a big buying spree in the last few years, in fact there is a new one opening in march actually

Not a lot to worry about overall (unless you've paid in advance!) - the hotels will still be there and trading. They might not be in quite the same ownership though.....

skibat

BOBBIs_MUMMY wrote: »

May I ask where this is please?? we are looking for accomodation in June near Legoland

We've stayed in bracknell central - on a main road but not noisy and frimley-which has a toby carvery next door..very yummy .
Both only about 15 mins from legoland and both have free carparking. Breakfast in bracknell is good and meals available in evening too

would keep away from windsor / slough way as car parking has to be paid for and also when leaving legoland the traffic in to windsor is made but normally clear heading to bracknell way

hope this helps and have a great time

pugsley_h

6angels wrote: »

We have booked breakfast and evening meal deal in the cafe bar so hoping they are ok. After looking at hotels for days this seemed by far the best deal at £65 (with food) a few miles from Legoland!

Im not 100% sure but think it is 1 free child per paying adult - worth checking! We are ok as only have one child with us x

Just a word of warning regarding the evening meal. We booked this in October - although on the site it said that the kids would eat free at breakfast, it didn't say anything about if the kids would eat free in the evening. We turned up, expecting that as we had booked a room and evening meal for 2 adults and 2 kids, that the kids meals were included - but we found that they had to be paid for on arrival. We hadn't budgeted for this, and to be honest I was so annoyed at this not being made clear, that I refused to pay for them. We ended up either getting the starter or the main for the kids, and we would have the other course - so it didn't end up paying for it - but it wasn't such good value.

So it is worth budgeting approx £6 per child for a meal and a drink on top of what you have already paid. We went for 4 days, so this would have been another £48 on top of what we had already spent - more that the actual rooms cost!

HTH