I’ve seen my local zone 3 Travelodge offering a room for £209 recently, so this isn’t shocking.
Most people in the UK on an average income could afford a £1000 hotel room if they made it their priority for a holiday – the typical 2 adults 2 kids 2 weeks family holiday is £5000 for comparison.
£1000 is really not very much money when you have a joint income of £65K+ like the average couple, and plenty of us are childless so not struggling for disposable income.
Some people occasionally like a little bit of luxury, and fair enough that the economy supplies these opportunities if there is demand there.
Who are you trying to convince with these “having some money is bad” articles? Some people who work hard for a living have different priorities to you and aspire to better holidays than Pontins.
Let’s put an end to the myth that these kind of hotels are a sign of the economic health of the city. If anything it’s the reverse.
This is an 80s-Donald-Trump ethos of conspicuous display of wealth, and I don’t see the same enchanmenet with it in a lot of other cities with as many billionaires as London.
Well, maybe in Dubai.
I’d like to know why Sadiq Khan’s supposedly left-wing administration is giving the planning permission to these kind of outfits to set up.
There are whole swathes of the city now, even public plazas, which are only affordable to millionaires. My houehold income is in the top 2% bracket of the nation and there are literally entire complexes that I find unaffordable. Clothes shops selling jumpers with no price label which turn out to cost £400. I’d literally have to have some kind of footballer’s salary to even think about that.
It’s extremely crass and such a contrast to the the good taste of English-born professionals you find there. It looks like foreign money and in particular the Gulf States. And interesting that Khan’s administration keeps giving the green light.
Almost as if we had incredibly high inflation in the past year pushing all prices up.
These kind of places cost the equivalent of pennies for the super rich, but are completely unaffordable for normal people.
Just another implication on the pile that the rich have way too much money and don’t know what to do with it.
Not just London. Going to Japan soon and our average room per night is a grand.
Maybe if the rich continue to waste their money on overpriced hotel rooms that money will eventually end up in the pockets of those who work for the hotel. I doubt it though.
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I’ve seen my local zone 3 Travelodge offering a room for £209 recently, so this isn’t shocking.
Most people in the UK on an average income could afford a £1000 hotel room if they made it their priority for a holiday – the typical 2 adults 2 kids 2 weeks family holiday is £5000 for comparison.
£1000 is really not very much money when you have a joint income of £65K+ like the average couple, and plenty of us are childless so not struggling for disposable income.
Some people occasionally like a little bit of luxury, and fair enough that the economy supplies these opportunities if there is demand there.
Who are you trying to convince with these “having some money is bad” articles? Some people who work hard for a living have different priorities to you and aspire to better holidays than Pontins.
Let’s put an end to the myth that these kind of hotels are a sign of the economic health of the city. If anything it’s the reverse.
This is an 80s-Donald-Trump ethos of conspicuous display of wealth, and I don’t see the same enchanmenet with it in a lot of other cities with as many billionaires as London.
Well, maybe in Dubai.
I’d like to know why Sadiq Khan’s supposedly left-wing administration is giving the planning permission to these kind of outfits to set up.
There are whole swathes of the city now, even public plazas, which are only affordable to millionaires. My houehold income is in the top 2% bracket of the nation and there are literally entire complexes that I find unaffordable. Clothes shops selling jumpers with no price label which turn out to cost £400. I’d literally have to have some kind of footballer’s salary to even think about that.
It’s extremely crass and such a contrast to the the good taste of English-born professionals you find there. It looks like foreign money and in particular the Gulf States. And interesting that Khan’s administration keeps giving the green light.
Almost as if we had incredibly high inflation in the past year pushing all prices up.
These kind of places cost the equivalent of pennies for the super rich, but are completely unaffordable for normal people.
Just another implication on the pile that the rich have way too much money and don’t know what to do with it.
Not just London. Going to Japan soon and our average room per night is a grand.
Maybe if the rich continue to waste their money on overpriced hotel rooms that money will eventually end up in the pockets of those who work for the hotel. I doubt it though.