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

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• James Vickers says:

  25 May25 May 15:31

  Reviews aren’t amazing i notice.. maybe because of the price tag people are usually paying by the sounds of it

• Dominic Barrington says:

  25 May25 May 15:45

  Bit of a sad transition for the Randolph. Morse will be turning in his grave – as will his creator!

• MKB says:

  25 May25 May 16:06

  I was just able to make a booking in Oxford an hour ahead of when this sale is supposed to start. Price however was £36, not £30, so I’m guessing they were not including VAT in their marketing, which probably breaks a few ad regulations. Only the base category room was made available (in either double or accessible flavours).

  • bsuije says:

    25 May25 May 16:15

    Seems to work for Oxford but not Cambridge (yet?).

    • MKB says:

      25 May25 May 16:23

      While I have a confirmation number on the confirmation screen, no email has arrived. Wonder if they’ll try to cancel the booking, or if their systems are just very slow.

  • PL says:

    25 May25 May 16:19

    I have booked oxford too for the same price although no email confirmation yet. A great deal this one

• Corey says:

  25 May25 May 16:07

  Thanks for the heads up – secured four nights in Providence for June which I’ll be looking forward to. Looks to be up an hour early though as an FYI to anyone else interested

• Ashraj says:

  25 May25 May 16:29

  Bit of a waste that if Cambridge is already sold out one hour before !

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 16:48

    Cambridge is sold out. Oxford has a few dates left – lots more choice for single travellers as some dates only have single rooms remaining for the offer. We’ve booked Rhys in for Monday to try it out!

    • Matt says:

      25 May25 May 17:38

      The Randolph is very dog friendly if you have a dog Rhys bring him along!

• vol says:

  25 May25 May 16:31

  hi – where do I pop the promo code? Doesn’t seem to be a box for it, or did I miss this?

  • Nick Burch says:

    25 May25 May 16:38

    I couldn’t see it on the home page, but when on the results page you can hit Edit and then it shows

  • vol says:

    25 May25 May 16:50

    OK, so I solved this problem – only after payment, I received a booking reference, but I haven’t received a confirmation email, which is rather troubling. And now it’s saying ‘reservation not found’ when I go to search….

    • Nectar collector says:

      25 May25 May 16:54

      Same initially for me, but reservation found ok when I tried again

      • vol says:

        25 May25 May 16:57

        hmmm still nothing – did you get an email at least?

        • Nectar collector says:

          25 May25 May 17:11

          No, no email received yet….

    • Corey says:

      25 May25 May 16:57

      Same for me, ‘reservation not found’ when I try it… Hopefully just a slow system or something…

• Nick Burch says:

  25 May25 May 16:36

  Seems they went live at 4pm not 5!

  I was looking at Oxford, and the dates were vanishing as I searched… Snagged a Monday in July in the end for £36, will be fun to see what it’s like even if it’s basically next door

  • Sean C says:

    25 May25 May 16:47

    Ah, the one time I actually set an alarm, i tried earlier with no joy, nuts!

    • chris says:

      25 May25 May 16:50

      Same here – kinda disappointing

• ervo says:

  25 May25 May 16:47

  all booked up by the looks of things now

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 16:55

    Nonsense – Oxford there for 29/30/31 May, 1 June, 19 June, 27 June, 4 July, 5 July, 24-29 July, 31 July. Some of these dates only have single bedded rooms.

    • sammyj says:

      25 May25 May 17:02

      That would do, if it was even possible to get on to the site

    • The real Swiss Tony says:

      25 May25 May 17:02

      Yes according to the calendar, but when you click through on those dates it comes back saying the offer is sold out. I tried both for a single and double room.

      • Rob says:

        25 May25 May 17:09

        Odd. Had no problem booking for Rhys on 30th. Perhaps it is not updating in real time.

        • ginlover says:

          30 May30 May 20:30

          Just a note of thanks from me, my wife and our baby who are currently enjoying our stay in Oxford which we booked only because I read the article late on Wednesday! Thought we saw Rhys dining this evening so popped across with the intention of offering him and guest a drink as a way of thanks for all the work HFP do, only for it not to be him! That or it was him and he wanted to remain incognito! Cue awkward retreat back to the (£36) room! There’s a drink if you want it!

        • Rob says:

          30 May30 May 20:33

          It was him! He wouldn’t deliberately avoid you – he spontaneously took a group of readers out to lunch when he was in Belfast for a few hours recently.

        • Rhys says:

          30 May30 May 20:55

          More like they took me out to lunch!

        • Rhys says:

          30 May30 May 20:51

          I wasn’t in the hotel restaurant today…but I’ll be in at breakfast if you want to say hi at 9am 🙂

        • ginlover says:

          31 May31 May 20:50

          haha the guy did look surprised when I went up to him! I actually spotted the ‘real’ Rhys this morning whilst I was on a work call but didn’t get a chance to say hi! That drink will have to wait!

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