Worldwide hotel rooms for £1. Discussion Thread

meester

Agree with the second poster. This should be moved to the competitions section at best.

Nobjocki

Mac_Sami wrote: »

Eh???


Welcome to the world of marketing and publicity. Oh, I'm sorry - should all hotel businesses be crystal clear cut and instantly precise about their special deals? Or should they promote their special offer in a way that may attract more people? Business is business - I don't see the problem. If you don't like that particular deal, move on. Thousands of others already have without issue. Perhaps you need a counseller, I don't know.


So instead Martin should not publicise ANYTHING about it until he has the full details (which might be provided at the last minute by the hotels), and then listen to people complain the other way because there wasn't enough warning?


So? The chances of anyone getting a Hoxton Hotel was remote, which you just banged on about in quite a postiive manner!!!

Yes, I agree that the chances of cheap flights for the destinations related to this offer are restricted, and perhaps that part of the post is out of context and shouldn't be there. But, at the end of the day, you have a brain, !!!!ing use it and try the flight checker to find out the best deal you can get to one of these hotel locations - if it isn't good enough for you, then don't use it. Simple.


*sigh* that's hardly a comparison. By researching what flights are available, as well as whether you're free to go on holiday, you have a chance of getting a bargain hotel room if you book and beat the other people. It's not a lucky dip where everyone enters and then a few win - it's on a first come, first served basis. That is not a lottery.


And then you go comparing money saving tips to football, an industry where players are paid stupidly high amounts of money. You, sir, just scored the own goal.

Happy days!

A lemming in search of a cliff.

Lewie

Well, it said rooms were available for £1 INCLUDING breakfast.
This is my quote.

Special offer rate
129.00 GBP (per room/night)
Breakfast + 9.95 GBP (per person/night)
Room price:
516.00 GBP (per room)
Not including breakfast

It's a con.
You MAY get a room at the price advertised but don't hold your breath.
I shall not waste any more time on this.

Edinburghlass_2

and some people have but don't forget its not just MSE users who are trying to book one room out of only 1,000.

I gave it my best shot and wasn't successful but for those who got one, well done and I hope you enjoy your £1 a night stay.

Nobjocki

jetfighter wrote: »

Wow, I can't believe it but I got a £1 room :T at The Athenaeum Hotel (http://www.athenaeumhotel.com/) in Piccadilly for Friday 29th August. I'm shocked... that's the night for which we have been needing to get a hotel room in London as we are arriving back on the Eurostar very late that night and can't travel back up north until the next day. The hotel looks lovely too - very posh! I am used to Travelodges!

Thank you soooo much to Martin's Money Tips email!

I hope the rest of you had some success as well!

Just realised that's the 5* one mentioned in the original post... WOW!

Congratulations - it would appear you are one of the very few lucky ones to have actually got an advertised bargains.
So here is a simple question which follows on from the very first post I made after MSE originally posted this offer in the newsletter.
Is there anyone - amongst the highest ever recorded number of people using this site at 7.05pm tonight - been able to book a £1 hotel room and then follow it up by booking a cheap enough return flight to that destination to make the whole object of this exercise worthwhile.
Or - as I originally suggested - have we and Martin been conned by a very clever marketing campaign by a hotel booking site.
It seems to me there are a lot of very frustrated MSE users out there who wasted a lot of their time and for that I'm very sorry.
But I think it's a valuable lesson to be learned about the success of MSE - with so many people now using the site surely Martin has got to be a little more careful about which " offers " he chooses to publicise.
If you doubt me - have a look at the vagueness of the original newsletter.

Edinburghlass_2

As you've chosen to duplicate your post on this thread too, I'll just duplicate my post

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nobjocki
It seems to me there are a lot of very frustrated MSE users out there who wasted a lot of their time and for that I'm very sorry.
But I think it's a valuable lesson to be learned about the success of MSE - with so many people now using the site surely Martin has got to be a little more careful about which " offers " he chooses to publicise.
If you doubt me - have a look at the vagueness of the original newsletter.

Oh please don't patronise me by feeling sorry for me :rolleyes:

Along with most of the users who posted on here around 7.00, we had a bit of fun and for some they had success and well done to them and well done to MSE Jenny for posting the offer and yes well done to Martin for including it in the tip or I wouldn't have known about it.

Nobjocki

Unfortunately it's quite apparent that any negative comments I make about this topic are rapidly being shunted to the backwater that is the Site Feedback Resource Bar to a thread which has been viewed 16,000 times rather than the thread where most people involved in trying to get this offer have been going to which has been viewed 102,000 times.
For a site that believes in championing the rights of consumers you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

melancholly

point taken about moving the complaints, i can see that doesn't help the situation, but someone with the username 'nobjocki' telling other people to be ashamed of themselves seems a bit rich!

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Nobjocki wrote: »

have we and Martin been conned by a very clever marketing campaign by a hotel booking site...

surely Martin has got to be a little more careful about which " offers " he chooses to publicise.
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First post! I have to say that although I don't know the specifics of this case (I got it late), Nobjocki has a point - there's a fine line which may be difficult to navigate.

I think too much of these types of offers would be a turn off, afterall there are other sites for entering competitions and bargain/offer schemes. This site (and Martin) have set a high standard for itself, which I think this offer doesn't maintain - but that could be because of the way the marketing company dressed it up to seem like a bargain (as they would).

I'm not sure this one crosses the line but it certainly isn't far short. Maybe it should just be seperate section of the newsletter like 'short terms promotions' or 'offers and competitions' (IMO).

Sorry for wading in

Nobjocki

melancholly wrote: »

point taken about moving the complaints, i can see that doesn't help the situation, but someone with the username 'nobjocki' telling other people to be ashamed of themselves seems a bit rich!

I know - it was my wife's joke at the time of registration :rotfl:and it seemed like a good idea at the time !
Trouble is I've grown rather fond of it !