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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 Hotel Cambridge
  • 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:

  • 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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Comments (79)

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  • Born2sKydive says:

    Furious, set an alarm, then they decided to start it an hour earlier and now the site will not load. FUBAR is what I consider this.

  • jeremy i says:

    did people get a booking confirmation straight away? i booked an hour ago and mine hasnt come through

    • MKB says:

      Same here.

    • PL says:

      I have not got a confirmation email and no transaction on my CC but I did screenshot the confirmation just in case. I just went to the website to check if my confirmation is valid but the site appears to have crashed….

    • Nick Burch says:

      My booking confirmation came through an hour ago, almost 24 hours since I booked!

  • slidey says:

    That website is terrible, half the page seem to stop working randomly.

    June 27th is still available is anyone wants it at oxford lol

  • James Vickers says:

    I inputted payment details and went to submit but got a bad gateway error, could be my internet or their site but now can’t access their site, don’t know if that’s just me?

  • The real Swiss Tony says:

    Yep, so they’ve now crashed their own website. Think this is going to be a huge own goal, even worse than the £1 rate at the Hoxton hotel used to be!

  • mkcol says:

    What an awful website, almost as bad as the wallpaper in the Oxford bedrooms.

  • vol says:

    OK I have news. I was concerned that it hadn’t gone through, so I phoned the hotel – their website is so broken that it isn’t even taking payments. They’re having to take it manually, and email manually too. Not great. Their website has crashed too. Bad gateways and internal errors. Seems they weren’t ready for us hardcore travel bargain hunters! 😀

  • 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.

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