That's because generally business travellers have there accommodation paid for by their company, usually off ridiculous call off contracts.
There is one hotel I have found with no rooms this week - the Ramada - seriously its the easiest City I have known to book rooms
About time, rather than expecting any owners of the football club to build hotels, which was always a bizarre concept.
Just checked the next 14 days - only one day has fewer than 30 hotels with rooms. - everyone accuses me of not answering questions - well can one if the council friends please explain the need for a hotel. Italia you said its impossible to book in the week - more bollocks from you I see. I assume astute is trying to book a hotel in Coventry Rhode Island.
Just checked the next 14 days - only one day has fewer than 30 hotels with rooms. - everyone accuses me of not answering questions - well can one if the council friends please explain the need for a hotel. Italia you said its impossible to book in the week - more bollocks from you I see. I assume astute is trying to book a hotel in Coventry Rhode Island.
Grendel, I didn't see Italias comments and not sure if I always agree with what he writes. But let me tell you this...I work for one of the worlds largest hotel companies (and I'm not a cleaner....) and by and large, Tues/Weds, major chain hotels are 90-100% occupied. Yes, up to 14 nights out, you'll still have rooms.
Try booking a chain hotel on a Tuesday or Wednesday for that night and you might get a room. I gaurantee you'll pay twice as much as you normally would. Hotel pricing is very dynamic (like, can change hourly).
WM
Hotel pricing is in the same bracket as any travel pricing - it's a captive market when it comes to it, i.e. if you need to travel to London at short notice you'll have to pay for it, it doesn't really answer the point that it's generally easy to book a hotel in Coventry during the week. Like I said earlier, I have a number of colleagues who do, often at short notice. It's rare they don't get their first choice hotel.
The Ricoh apparently has struggled to win some conferences as there was not enough hotel space for delegates
Hotel pricing is in the same bracket as any travel pricing - it's a captive market when it comes to it, i.e. if you need to travel to London at short notice you'll have to pay for it, it doesn't really answer the point that it's generally easy to book a hotel in Coventry during the week. Like I said earlier, I have a number of colleagues who do, often at short notice. It's rare they don't get their first choice hotel.
Just checked the next 14 days - only one day has fewer than 30 hotels with rooms. - everyone accuses me of not answering questions - well can one if the council friends please explain the need for a hotel. Italia you said its impossible to book in the week - more bollocks from you I see. I assume astute is trying to book a hotel in Coventry Rhode Island.
The Ricoh apparently has struggled to win some conferences as there was not enough hotel space for delegates
Grendel, I didn't see Italias comments and not sure if I always agree with what he writes. But let me tell you this...I work for one of the worlds largest hotel companies (and I'm not a cleaner....) and by and large, Tues/Weds, major chain hotels are 90-100% occupied. Yes, up to 14 nights out, you'll still have rooms.
Try booking a chain hotel on a Tuesday or Wednesday for that night and you might get a room. I gaurantee you'll pay twice as much as you normally would. Hotel pricing is very dynamic (like, can change hourly).
WM
I never said you couldn't get a room. I said they cost more during the week in Coventry. But no.....you keep going on about vacancies
You'd think then that ACL would be investing in the hotel provision considering they've increased turnover by 100% in a year, according to what was published in the Telegraph a while ago.
My personal view is that Coventry City Council should use some of the designated 'Friargate' scheme as a conference centre and forget about the Arena, let it be a football stadium.
Try booking 200 rooms for a conference
FFS if we aren't arguing over SISU/ACL etc, we are arguing over hotels and hotel rooms. Still I suppose it makes a change to the usual rows.
Must remind myself to move away from the computer
Try booking 200 rooms for a conference
Up to 50% discount in 3 hotels this week - anyway we are talking corporate people they don't give a stuff its all pre booked by their travel department.
The Ricoh apparently has struggled to win some conferences as there was not enough hotel space for delegates
You'd think then that ACL would be investing in the hotel provision considering they've increased turnover by 100% in a year, according to what was published in the Telegraph a while ago.
My personal view is that Coventry City Council should use some of the designated 'Friargate' scheme as a conference centre and forget about the Arena, let it be a football stadium.
The Novotel which is pretty close to the Arena is usually available, i know this as it was a last resort for colleagues who couldn't get in at the Ramada or others nearer town.
If it was only 200 it would be very easy to book for such a smal quantity in Coventry.
So I take it by the massive interest in this topic no one actually thinks SISU have moved on and will build a new stadium.
24 pages now :claping hands:
Yeah. 10 in this hotel, 10 in that hotel, another 10 in that one................or 200 in one place on your doorstep. Would you book a place where your guests or colleagues can walk around the corner to their room or would you be happy sending them all over the place?
You say you earn over 100k a year doing an unskilled job. You don't have a clue about businesses and how they make money though do you?
Look....I think a combination of common sense + the abundance of real-time evidence gathered by Grendel here (too much time on your hands mate) pretty much proves that a "Series of hotels" on the outskirts of the city next to a Tesco & an empty stadium is a shit idea....
...Yes, there are always exceptions.....you know...the one night per decade Bruce Springsteen arrives in town....guess what....their may be a higher demand for rooms...
...but for Le*cester U21 games, mystic fucking meg or some tin-pot trade show about kitchen worktops.....I can't see them queueing off the M6...can you.
Erm... that'll be common sense backed by no evidence whatsoever and the "abundance of real time evidence" based on trying to book one room when there's nothing on at the Ricoh.
From my personal experience, I know of at least one big corporate, Argos, who use the Ricoh for annual conferences but have to dot delgates in rather poor hotels all over town. Similarly, we've had problems finding hotels on my side of town for family events when the NEC has something big on at the same time.
Let's not call it common sense, eh. Let's be honest and call it your opinion - whether it makes sense or not is up for debate.
Well you clearly don't have a clue because when the motor show was on that's exactly what you'd do. The NEC was always a logistical nightmare to book hotels. Senior guys you'd reserve the mail mason pretty easily with a long lead time but agency staff would always be spread over several hotels across the area.
Goodwood festival of speed is another disaster. Once haven holidays caravans were deployed. As I say why discuss something you know nothing about?
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