Cheap Hotel Packages UK

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Cheap Hotel Packages.

Our weekend family are on the mailing list for Choice Hotels and every now and again we receive a bargain deal. As an example, a bank holiday weekend in a big old hotel in Redditch, a Quality Hotel and part of the same group. £250 for four days and four nights including dinner, bed and breakfast, and a packed lunch. The restaurant food was excellent, a good hearty breakfast and the packed lunch comprised a sandwich, apple, crisps, chocolate bar, biscuit or cake and soft drink.

So, the all inclusive deal saved us at least £60 per day in food. Certainly a candidate for the UK's cheapest hotel. ... Unless you know different?

Let's take a look at advertised bargain hotel rate. If it advertises £45 per night, read the small print, it is likely to be per person - pp pn or pppn per person per night. If the cost is per room, then it is likely to be in large print because they are a bargain. Room only means just that, no breakfast.

If the room is free on the proviso that you eat at least one meal in their restaurant, ask to see the menu relating to that deal. The best deals are when there is no other menu than their standard menu. This means that you are not eating at inflated prices to subsidise your free room.

There are clubs that you buy a book of hotel vouchers. The cost for the book covers all the hotel rooms. Caveats vary so before parting with money for a book of vouchers look at all the small print. Call a hotel and ask if they accept such vouchers and what the deal really is. If you are on a tight budget, there's nothing worse than being presented with a hefty bill upon departure because you ordered from the wrong menu or accepted the kind offer of a newspaper.