InterContinental London The O2 adds a £30 pool fee

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• qrfan says:

  26 Apr26 April 07:52

  Rhy can add this to his list of budget friendly leisure activities…

  • Mike says:

    26 Apr26 April 08:17

    I think Rhys head has been turned by mixing with the HFP London centric banker crowd – a little financial perspective has been missed recently.

    • Peter K says:

      26 Apr26 April 08:44

      Sadly, I agree.

      • Rob says:

        26 Apr26 April 09:00

        I will ensure he doesn’t get a pay rise next year 🙂

    • Charles Martel says:

      26 Apr26 April 12:25

      Can I suggest a weekend in the Ibis Marseille Saint Charles (not the Styles)? Rooms barely big enough for the bed, phone box sized toilet/shower rooms in a hotel that looks like its not seen much money spent on it since the 80s. Genuinely lovely staff though.

      NB: Not my choice of booking.

  • Rhys says:

    26 Apr26 April 08:48

    What are you on about 🙂

• Roberto says:

  26 Apr26 April 07:56

  When did the lounge at Southampton close? I used it last August.

• Tariq says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:02

  Urgh, booked on points here a few days ago for a stay in a couple weeks… grr

  • Rob says:

    26 Apr26 April 09:06

    You’re fine, you are grandfathered.

    • Tariq says:

      26 Apr26 April 13:27

      It seems so, phew! Likely to be my last stay here though if the policy stays in place.

      • John says:

        26 Apr26 April 19:35

        Make sure to tell them

• Capecam says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:05

  The world has gone mad – Love the hotel but will not return based on those pool charges- A notional charge to keep pool occupancy manageable – But £30 per person is crazy – What are they filling it with ? Krug ?

• Andrew says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:06

  Last week the jacuzzi and ice machine were broken. Towels and mess everywhere, no staff cleaning the place. So if it wasn’t already a hard sell…

• Ken says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:16

  Frankly mind boggling that anyone can describe £30 as modest.

  It’s accountant led idiocy (and I’m one of them). Someone will pat themselves on the back at the end of the year as a separate pool of income is totted up, but you never see the stays lost because people just think you are taking the piss. The hour limit just takes the biscuit.
  Yes pools are expensive to run and maintain, but if they thought they could have got enough heads in beds in that location without a pool, then they probably wouldn’t have had one at all.
  I’d struggle to see it being used much at weekends at all. The accountant solution to that will be to not open it at all over a weekend.

  • @mkcol says:

    26 Apr26 April 10:03

    I see what you did there 😂

    • Mark says:

      26 Apr26 April 12:01

      I think they’re taking the pis-cine.. 😂

• Allan says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:17

  They also have removed the choice of drinks or points for spire ambassadors (and presumably all levels), instead just giving points.

• Gordon says:

  26 Apr26 April 08:18

  “Many high end hotels – not this one, to be fair – have added a 5% ‘discretionary’ service charge to their room rates”

  Reading the article above. Has anyone stayed at a hotel on the vegas strip recently ,Their Nightly resort fees are $45….

  • Spurs drive me mad says:

    26 Apr26 April 08:29

    But resort fees are illegal in the UK. This is just a way off getting around that ban.

    • Gordon says:

      26 Apr26 April 08:47

      London being one of the last few capital cities in the world that are not allowed to charge resort fees or the like.It does not surprise me they are trying to get around this….I travel several times a year for Leisure and the majority of properties I have stayed at have a stealth charge.

      • Spurs drive me mad says:

        26 Apr26 April 10:00

        I agree with you Gordon, others can justify how ever they like but to me it’s a stealth charge and a variation on a resort fee.

  • Mark says:

    26 Apr26 April 12:15

    I have to say one thing I really like about hotels.com is that they include resort fees in the headline price, so I can compare on the basis on what it is actually going to cost. I’m hoping with this kind of behaviour they’ll exclude the pool from the list of hotel facilities or add it to the price if pool is included in the search criteria…. I suspect that may be wishful thinking, but at the very least make it clear there is an extra charge which it doesn’t currently.

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