Hilton’s Motto hotel brand arrives in Europe

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• BuildBackBetter says:

  24 Nov24 November 05:19

  Singapore airlines – isn’t it a reduction in capacity from MAN to IAH, rather than an increase in capacity from SIN to MAN?
  If anything, it’d be even more expensive to book a cash ticket now that it’s a direct route.

  • SamG says:

    24 Nov24 November 07:34

    It’s both. It used to be 4x weekly SIN-MAN-IAH. Now it’s 2x SIN-MAN and 3xweekly SIN-MAN-IAH. So Manchester gets an extra terminating flight and a flight it’s now not sharing with IAH through passengers (though they may allocate more seats for connecting passengers on the remaining 3 flights)

  • Sam says:

    24 Nov24 November 07:39

    It was direct and non-stop from Manchester? Do you think it ran MAN-IAH-SIN?

    It will be an increase in capacity although technically you could say it’s remained the same, but that’s assuming no-one flew on to Houston.

• BuildBackBetter says:

  24 Nov24 November 05:29

  Would it be more appropriate to use a semi colon in the title? Read it as Iberia launching Singapore route.

  • Rob says:

    24 Nov24 November 08:10

    We don’t use semi-colons in headings 🙂

    You’ll see that we also don’t put commas into numbers over 999 when the same headline contains a comma as part of punctuation.

    We do have a style guide …. (which also includes the fact that …. must be four dots, no more and no less).

    • sayling says:

      24 Nov24 November 09:18

      Ellipsis+ ?

    • Nick says:

      24 Nov24 November 09:21

      Why four, when a standard ellipsis is three?

      Would you ever be tempted to publish your style guide, like the Guardian? I’m particularly interested in the bit that allows Rhys to measure rooms in electricity meters, rather than the metre unit of measurement used everywhere else in the world 😄

      • Dubious says:

        24 Nov24 November 10:44

        Perhaps it is not just an ellipsis, but rather an ellipsis heading for a point.😉

        • Jim says:

          24 Nov24 November 21:36

          There are also some other idiosyncratic house rules, esp sp. – better to accept it for what it is, rather than worry about it.

• Michael C says:

  24 Nov24 November 05:33

  I’d certainly give that style of room a bash for the 3 of us (Moxy seem to be gradually increasing the number of this style for more than 2 people, too).

  • lumma says:

    24 Nov24 November 10:10

    Just stay in an Ibis budget then.

• Philondon says:

  24 Nov24 November 05:36

  The photo looks like an Ibis Budget setup.

  • Scott says:

    24 Nov24 November 06:00

    That’s what I thought, although a larger window.
    Will still probably cost towards £100/night, on average though, I’m betting 😉

    I’ve stayed a few times in the Ibis Budget at Salford Quays in Manchester.
    Quite often £40/night, so far cheaper than most Premier Inns that can be more than Hiltons in the Manchester area.
    Just a pain at present with half the car park closed off for building work, and impossible to find a space after 5pm (the hotel next door takes a lot of spaces). You have to park in a cheaper car park up the road, assuming you can get anywhere near the place due to roadworks.

    • Scott says:

      24 Nov24 November 06:04

      Looking at the website though, using one of the links, it seems to be a mixture of the Moxy and Ibis Budget brands.

    • lumma says:

      24 Nov24 November 10:13

      The negative about these Ibis budget rooms is that the bathrooms aren’t very private if you’re a mixed group of adults.

      Although they’re not a bad as a hotel I stayed in Vienna where shower was just open to the room.

• BJ says:

  24 Nov24 November 05:55

  Good to see Iberia back at EDI? Even in a limited fashion. For comparison I paid about £55 Easyjrt one way for the fare including priority boarding and cabin bag.

• BSI1978 says:

  24 Nov24 November 06:27

  Think there might be a Motto planned for Edinburgh in due course. Opening date TBC

  • His Holyness says:

    24 Nov24 November 06:43

    Add to that Manchester. Plus Wrocław and Gdańsk in Poland. Though after the Canopy in Warsaw.

• apbj says:

  24 Nov24 November 08:57

  Motto looks like a clever move, especially for weekend fun break destinations such as Edinburgh, Gdańsk, Prague etc. But it should also work well in parts of London; huge market in people wanting to stay together as a group but not in their own (often shared) home. The Moxy type places near ExCel are packed full at weekends with people just hanging out at the hotel.

• Andrew. says:

  24 Nov24 November 09:23

  18th June is a good start date for the Iberia flights. It comes just before the start of the Scottish school holidays.

  Although my nephew’s holidays don’t start until the beginning of July this year. In a bid to tackle deprivation, the Scottish Government has slashed summer holidays to just 5 weeks, with a week moved to October instead to give a fortnight.

  (In my mind squeezing 6 weeks worth of holiday bookings into 5 weeks will simply push up the prices and be very unhelpful for lower income families.)

  • JDB says:

    24 Nov24 November 12:43

    The majority of “lower income” families can’t afford passports, let alone contemplate foreign travel. They have rather more difficult issues to deal with than holiday prices or which lounge to visit.

  • Erico1875 says:

    24 Nov24 November 14:58

    Andrew.
    Check out Ryanair Prices from EDI to Costas etc start of July. ,£400 +

  • RussellH says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:12

    Does the government now determine school holiday dates?
    Last century, when I taught in Tayside / Perth + Kinross schools for 20 years there were significant differences between different parts of Tayside – Angus always had the first two weeks in October.

    I would agree that squeezing 6 weeks worth of holiday bookings into 5 weeks will push up prices. Many more travelling from NCL?

  • Michael C says:

    24 Nov24 November 15:14

    18 June is just a couple of days before Spanish school hols start – I imagine it’s more based on that!

    • TGLoyalty says:

      24 Nov24 November 18:38

      Don’t be silly what do a Spanish airlines care about Spaniards

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