4pm today: Get £30 luxury hotels in Oxford and Cambridge, plus $30 US deals

You may not have heard of Graduate Hotels. It is a boutique US chain which specialises in high end hotels in ‘University towns’ – which is basically marketing speak for attractive second tier cities with a high proportion of well educated professionals.

It has been expanding to the UK and now has two hotels.

• Graduate Cambridge is the fully renovated ex-DoubleTree hotel, which has a lovely position on the banks of the River Cam (a typical July Saturday night costs £300) – photo below

• Graduate Oxford is the rebanded and renovated The Randolph Hotel, which was previously part of Macdonald Hotels (a typical July Saturday night costs £400)

Book every hotel for £30 or $30

Graduate Hotels is running a heavily discounted Summer sale today. At noon US Eastern (5pm UK – but it seems to have gone live early at 4pm), you can book its US hotels for $30 and the Oxford and Cambridge hotels for £30.

Here’s the small print:

• book on the Graduate Hotels website at 5pm UK time (technically the sale runs for 30 hours but the rooms are unlikely to last long)

• use promo code SUMMER30

• book for a stay by 31st July

It isn’t clear how the £30 / $30 rooms are allocated. I would guess that 1-2 per night per hotel will be made available.

The US hotels, if you are planning a trip in June or July, are located in:

• Berkeley
• Bloomington
• Chapel Hill
• East Lansing
• Evanston
• Iowa City
• Knoxville
• New Haven
• Oxford (Mississippi)
• Seattle
• State College, Pennsylvania
• Tempe

You can find more details about the offer on the Graduate Hotels website here.

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