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Checking In With the Hotel Chain for the Cheap-o

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 40A Guildford Street, Luton, United Kingdom, LU1 2PA

by jennm | May 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM | 4 Comments

It's been a while since we last took a look at easyHotel, the European lodging chain for the incredibly frugal-minded.

The nearly three-year-old chain now has properties throughout London, as well as Budapest, Basel and Zurich. Its latest hotel opens today in Luton, featuring special opening rates of $39.45.

Before you rush to book that darling rate, remember the adage that "you get what you pay for." In this case, the attractive price at this 58-room hotel in Luton's city center does not include use of a TV, towel changes, Internet access or housekeeping services--all things that require you pony up anywhere between $2 and $20 to use.

It's all part of the master plan by the singularly monikered Stelios, easyHotel's chairman, to appeal to the cost-conscious--fine, we'll just say it: cheap--traveler. With the launch of easyHotel Heathrow later this summer, the company will continue to focus on establishing hotels near airports, with more properties appearing throughout Europe and the Middle East in 2009.

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  1. AndrewC

    HotelChatter Contributing Editor
    May 2, 2008 at 3:47 PM




    Re: Checking In With the Hotel

    so does that mean that if i dont pay for housekeeping, the person who gets the room after me will get a dirty room?

  1. jennm

    HotelChatter Editor
    May 5, 2008 at 10:19 AM




    Re: Checking In With the Hotel Chain for the Cheap

    yes! so mind where you throw your snot rags.

    but in all seriousness, the housekeeping charge is for guests who stay more than one night.

  1. femmefatale

    HotelChatter Contributing Editor
    May 5, 2008 at 4:43 PM




    Re: Checking In With the Hotel Chain for the Cheap

    These places look like a good deal at first glance, but only if your first glance is at the basic price....

    After you've added on the kind of 'extras' which are considered normal in civilised countries, you'll ending up paying the same, if not more, as a room in an ordinary hotel.

    And as a punishment for your stinginess, you'll have to spend the night in a coffin-sized orange+grey monstrosity of a prison cell. In a building filled with other stingy bastards.

    If you can't afford to stay anywhere better than an easyHotel, stay at home and work your socks off until you can...

  1. femmefatale

    HotelChatter Contributing Editor
    May 5, 2008 at 4:45 PM




    Re: Checking In With the Hotel Chain for the Cheap

    PS. The only reason to stay in Luton is if you're flying out early the next day, because the city itself is a dump.

    In which case, you'll get the same amount of sleep and a better level of service if you sleep on the benches at Luton airport. And you won't have to pay to have your bins emptied.

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