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

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• AirMax says:

  25 May25 May 11:15

  Great deal!

  £300 / £400 in July,, that’s almost Ibiza prices!

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 12:19

    Random IHG prices in London for Sat 2 July:

    Fitzroy – £476
    Indigo Leicester Square – £525
    HI Oxford Circus – £376
    Holiday Inn Express Earls Court – £333
    Holiday Inn Express Wandsworth FFS – £303
    Both InterCons sold out

    • sloth says:

      25 May25 May 12:29

      haha randomly picking middle Sat of Wimbledon…

      • Rui N. says:

        25 May25 May 12:33

        Does that exhibition tournament lead to any demand on London hotels?

        • sloth says:

          25 May25 May 12:41

          1 or 2 I believe, although maybe stronger supply this year with Boris’s place available for rent…

    • AirMax says:

      25 May25 May 12:30

      Wow it just be the Americans making the most of the weak £.

      The Holiday Inn Shepperton at 17k is where the value is

      • jeff77 says:

        25 May25 May 12:44

        Are Russians still visiting London?

        The ruble is at a 5 year high vs the pound despite “sanctions”.

        • Mr. AC says:

          25 May25 May 13:48

          Russians who were already in London are likely still here. Russian regular folks (tourists) are most certainly not visiting London – their Visa/MasterCard cards no longer work here, and currency controls mean they can’t exchange RUB for pounds in Russia, and I don’t think anyone wants their Roubles in the UK. The exchange rate is no longer tethered to reality, street rate in Moscow is vastly different from the official rate (but you can be jailed for buying FX).

        • will says:

          26 May26 May 09:21

          Pretty sure they could get their roubles into bitcoin/crypto and then spend on a pre pay card backed by crypto if they really wanted a foreign trip.

        • Mr. AC says:

          26 May26 May 10:32

          That requires being able to get a crypto card. I don’t think any are being issues if you have an address in Russia. I checked 4 – crypto.com, Binance, Coinbase, Wirex. None support Russia (and most other countries for that matter).

    • jeff77 says:

      25 May25 May 12:40

      If you’re going to compare prices of the Cambridge and Oxford hotels above, isn’t it better to compare, to er you know, Oxford and Cambridge.

      HI Cambridge is £163 on 2nd July, for example.

      All hotels in Oxford do look to be sold out on 2nd July but then so is the graduate one above.

      Bizarre comparison.

      • Rob says:

        25 May25 May 13:15

        It was a general response to the comment that Ibiza was cheaper than the UK for a break at that time.

        Other Oxford and Cambridge hotels will be cheaper, because they are crapper. University Arms Cambridge, probably the only hotel better than the Graduate, is £867 on 2nd July albeit standard rooms are sold out.

        • jeff77 says:

          25 May25 May 13:20

          There was no comment that Ibiza is cheaper than the U.K.

      • Rich says:

        25 May25 May 13:15

        Grand Prix weekend not far from Oxford!

• David says:

  25 May25 May 11:21

  Graduate Cambridge lobby looks tacky as …

  • David says:

    25 May25 May 11:23

    (the reception counter desk and sign behind is what I was referring to)

• MKB says:

  25 May25 May 11:55

  Website makes clear Oxford will not be available for stays on Fridays or Saturdays.

  • Nick says:

    25 May25 May 14:03

    Absolutely gutted doesn’t apply to the Oxford property on Friday and Saturday nights, was planning to go up there to visit a friend, this would have worked great at short notice, but can’t really justify the price of the next reasonable property at that time

• AirMax says:

  25 May25 May 12:07

  Some dates have a min stay requirement also

• Born2sKydive says:

  25 May25 May 12:23

  Roll on 5pm. Graduate Cambridge has a nice jacuzzi, steam, sauna and pool. Thx for the post Rob. 😎

• jeff77 says:

  25 May25 May 12:31

  Thanks for clarifying the meaning of university town! Would have never guessed 😂

• Peter K says:

  25 May25 May 13:09

  Had a look at the photos for Oxford. They seem to have the same photos for all the lower tiers of room types (which no doubt we’ll be the sale ones). So you’ve no idea what you’ll really get!

  • Nick says:

    25 May25 May 14:08

    For £30 in that hotel in Oxford you can’t complain! The right prices for those rooms are about £300/night! Can’t complain

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  25 May25 May 13:46

  Characetrising Seattle as a college town might be a stretch 😀

  Conversely, Chapel Hill, home of UNC, is as quintessential as they get, and fantastic. Direct flights AA to Raleigh-Durham from UK too.

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    25 May25 May 13:47

    *characterising

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