Another con is the £29.00 rooms at Premier Inn's you used to see Lenny Henry TV ads. Yes they exist, there is maybe one room at the hotel. Premier Inns operate a bump policy as regards pricing.
I know this as I was booking for an SX forum ride out weekend and booking well in advance, 25 rooms we wanted they would not discount, there reasoning was as they are a budget hotel blah blah!! I argued that we had always used P Inns for the last 3 years so how about a bit of loyalty here, no these are the rules. You can do a block booking sir, okay how much will that be , FULL WHACK top rate, fuck that I said. It was time to teach P Inns a lesson. So we all booked
Premier Flex: If you book a Premier Flex rate you may choose whether to pay for your room in full at the time of booking or to pay on arrival. You will be able to amend or cancel your reservation up to 1pm on the day of arrival without charge.
As we started the booking process for two nights, because of increased demand for rooms the price went from £58.00 a night to £72.00 by the time the last lad booked(pay on arrival). We had agreed that on the Friday morning right up to two hours before arrival to cancel the lot.
We had already made a block discounted booking with Best Western just down the road a month before the meet. We did have a couple of lads join us on the meet and when they arrived we got talking about what we did with P Inns. One of the late joiners pointed out when he booked this Best Western he actually got a better deal that we did, okay it was only £7.00 over the weekend but it was £7.00 after all, come on here that is nearly 2&1/2 pints of beer money. We tackled the duty manager who was sympathetic but said he could do nothing about it. He did suggest he could bring it up on the Monday with the Hotel manager and see if we could get a refund. Best Western contacted us all individually and refunded back to our cards the £7.00 seeing as we had been ideal guests and as a gesture of good will. We have been back to that hotel again and got the best rate on the day.
Another one to watch out for is
www.booking.com.
This coming May we have a meet arranged for Charleville-Mezieres here in France. We have one by one booked for the IBIS hotel in Charleville. I am the only one from the group who lives in France so the lads thought as Lew attends the UK meets let's show loyalty and save him the long haul ride to the UK, it is still a 7 hour ride for me to get there mind lol. Anyway the blog on the website says book now and pay on arrival, free cancellation. I have duly booked and bang out goes the money from my account within 24 hours. I contacted the hotel and they said that they have changed their terms & conditions. I contacted
www.booking.com, I was asked if I would like to cancel or amend my booking? No I just want the same deal as my mates from the UK as their cards have not yet been debited, get this for a body swerve , as I had used my bank debit card and my mates had booked with Credit cards that is why they have not been charged. I suppose a bit of Karma at the end of the day as I really screwed over P Inns a while back lol. Still I have paid I Euro's and my mates will get hammered on the £ v € exchange rate by the greedy banks.
Roll on May looking forward to this one.
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