Overnight trips

[PeterY]

Although I haven't done any rail trips this year, when searching for a location for an hotel, it always needs to be as close as possible to a railway station. I do tend to go for Premier Inn but not always.

 

[_toommm_]

Easyhotel is a very budget-oriented hotel but one that I do find myself coming back to. They've got a good dozen with most based in city centres all over the UK, so naturally close to train stations. If I'm in London for the night I'll pretty much always stay at the Heathrow one, which is pretty close to Hayes and Harlington station.

If I'm in Edinburgh, I'll always stay in CODE Pod hostel. It's a pod-based system so you get privacy compared to other hostels, and it's always remarkably clean. Plus you get a free breakfast too IIRC.

 

[curly42]

I miss the old days of dossing in a Mk.1 compo.

 

[Bletchleyite]

If I'm in Edinburgh, I'll always stay in CODE Pod hostel. It's a pod-based system so you get privacy compared to other hostels, and it's always remarkably clean. Plus you get a free breakfast too IIRC.

For Edinburgh I'd go for Motel One, which despite the name is really quite good and a model of Germanic efficiency. There are also others in the UK.

 

[trainophile]

What do people know about all the OYO hotels that are springing up all over the place, often in hotels that seemingly used to be independent?

I stayed in one once in Aberdeen as it was by far the cheapest place around for my dates, but it certainly wasn’t the Ritz.

Do they operate as some sort of franchise?

 

[Howardh]

I often get the price of a hotel on a booking site, and then go to the hotel's website to see what they can offer. These days I like the free cancellation that those booking sites offer, there's usually a fiver or so per night added on to the price for that security; I prefer that than a direct booking but with cancellation fees.