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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)
Graduate Hotel Cambridge

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:

  • 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.


Hotel offers update – March 2023:

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Comments (80)

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  • Bigbaws says:

    Message for Oxford now says sold out…. It said the same at midday mind

    • Rob says:

      I have a room for Mon 30th showing on my screen. 29/30/31 May, 27 June, 31 July there.

  • Bawbags says:

    More have dropped

    • Rob says:

      Yes, Cambridge now widely available.

      The payment system is dead though ….

  • Aliks says:

    The weekend I wanted in Cambridge – 2nd July was already gone at 17:17 . .

  • Bawbags says:

    I called Cambridge after trying online abs booked over the phone

  • elguiri says:

    Also managed to net a stay via the phone, very efficient (well, next to doing it online). Cambridge seems to have quite a bit of availability still.

  • Stephen says:

    Cambridge has one Double and one King available for 5-6 June as only availability as of the time I type

    • Rob says:

      Sunday 29 May available for double and king, double for 1 June.

      EDIT: Thu/Fri this week there now too.

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    I see there’s one single room bookable on July 31st in Oxford still….

  • LucyF says:

    Any options still showing?

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