Worldwide hotel rooms for £1. Discussion Thread

hammy_the_hammer

i agree with the dubious merits of promoting this ....the site says 600 nights available (that's 400 down on what we thought ) for a pan european offer ...start working out your chances.
on the plus side i priced up a room i've already booked and this site was competitive so i'll add it to a list of suppliers to check for the future

Mum_of_5_2

I think it's a brilliant and valid thing to put on the site, we have absolutley no money and i would love to take my daughter to london. If i can be one of the lucky ones who manages to get a £1 room then brilliant, if not then i'm no worse off! On the flight side of it, I paid 0p to to go to Norway in May, i did then pay taxes but it was hardly much more. Ultimately no one is forcing you to spend any money, if you were silly enough to pay £1 for a room in shanghai and then spend hundreds getting there that is your decision, surely if you were trying to get a room there then you would have checked flights first!!!

I think some responsibilty for spending is what's needed here. Also Martin is just telling you what is out there and that is what we need, i don't have time to surf around looking for these things. ultimately 600 or 1000 people will get a room for £1 it might not be you and I but someone will. Also it's not drawing people into the site as it's come through a weekly newsletter so we are already on here anyway.

Shame to live so negatively 8-)

wavey_davy

Can i also point out that the promotion is only £1 per room for London, all others are 1 EURO ?!? an even better deal for those lucky few who get them...

laurajordan

I also think its good to put in the news letter as it is only for information and i would rather know about deals than think I'd missed out later! Fair do's yes NJ does make some good points but just because MSE puts it up there it is in your own hands as an adult whether you act on the information given! I have had very cheap train tickets and hotel rooms and would rather pay less than more. xx

laurajordan

Sorry, Also does anyone know if there is a limit on how many nights eg, If you got a room for £1 whether you could pay normal rates to stay longer or do you just have to be out??? Thanx xx

JR19

Will give it a go - thanks

Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

RickS_3

Thanks for letting us know about this site. I have a trip to Paris booked for next month with my boyfriend. We already have flights and need a hotel. A hotel for one pound, or even one euro would be fantastic!

Rick

rustygriswald

i think this is a valid thread and a shrewd move by the site promoting their hotel booking service.
They realise that the people that are on here desparate to get a bargain and boast they have a hotel room in signapore for £1 will never go - the thrifty on here get carried away and buy something as it is cheap regardless if they want it or use it or need it.

Meanwhile great awareness for the site with those less likely to be battering the site at 7pm on the dot to get a room are more likely to use the site at some point or at least be aware.

A great piece of PR all in all.

And good luck bargain hunters!!

(takes cover!)

MSE_Martin

Thanks for the comments.

MSE is about saving people money. This is a fun deal, which gives people the opportunity to get a room. While there is a lottery element, by being on time and prepared you massively up the odds of getting a room. Those on offer are in London and Paris and other European capitals and thus are in easy reach of people via cheap flights.

The nature of the e-mail being sent on a Tue, means I couldn’t hold it, and had to go early. I would prefer to tell people about the possibility with a warning to use their own judgement; than to ignore it. The same argument could’ve applied to including the one day 21% off Ikea sale last week before it was confirmed. Yet to keep people prepared is part of my remit; and last week 100,000s appreciated it.


If you don’t like it, sorry, I do take your point on board and listen to feedback, though in this case I disagree with you.

I must admit in a normal week, this wouldn’t have been my top one-line tip in the email. Yet the two others we had planned, both fell through late in the day; so this one got promoted. That’s just the nature of a topical weekly e-mail, I believe many people will enjoy knowing about the £1 hotels and find it fun, even if they don’t go for it themselves.

Martin

steadynerve

I think Nobjocki had a valid point and also think Martin is wrong to move the discussion of this to another place (see early posting from Martin for link). I think Nobjocki's points and the responses are valid reading for users considering to respond to the offer at 7pm tonight. Martin's site is very useful and I'm a big fan and he is also great at promoting the site part of this is through emphasising honest values. However a major flaw in my opinion is that he doesn't address is the true time taken to invest in an offer versus the chance of being rewarded for your time invested. If he addressed this his site would genuinely be user centred in my opinion. I think Nobjocki's points come down to the fact that this one of those offers where the time and commitment to be online at 7pm and try for the offer are not necessarily being well spent . I don't critise Martin for including the offer but I do think he should have some system ( not sure how this would work - any thoughts maybe like a star rating) to weigh up the value of an offer not just financially but in terms of chances of success and time spent applying.
When an offer is unlimted, great value, easy to apply for it is a great offer. When the chances of success are very slim it is much less of an offer. Sadly at the moment these two offers are promoted by Martin in a similar way. Lets have better signposting to the true value of offers. What do you think Martin - i'm sure you know that time is also money?