Need a cheap place to stay in London?

[Debaser]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4736109.stm

Am particularly loving the colour of the decor The room kinda reminds of those pods you can rent in Japan.

Still, it seems to have everything you require to get some shut eye....unless you require room for your nightly cat swinging.

[Chairman Bux]

"Crash pads"? There's talk of them introducing them in the north too: I read that Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester were being mooted as test-runs at one point, but I read the other day that Manchester's rather Victorian council have nixed the idea.

I've stayed in one briefly, on a stop-over, and they're ok for a night's sleeping but its very difficult to get up to any degree of trouble in a space that "big". And thats not for want of trying I might add.

[boudicca]

But could you hack one of those ORANGE rooms?

[Chairman Bux]

Debaser can always "hack" orange, can't you poppet?

[Thea]

I like it. They look useful.

[boudicca]

I like it. They look useful.

For easing the problem of overcrowded prisons...

[Thea]

Tsk! Failing that, I once found a nice palce - £16 a night, two sinks, fridge, draw full of forks, bed, telly that switched itsself on and off and a lift that didn't know the way to "down".
Most bargaintastic hotel ever methinks!

[boudicca]

Fcukin' hell! London? £16?

No cockroaches or anything?

Nice one!

[Rosalie]

Madame Thussauds is a great place to stay.

Only thing is, you have to stand *really* still if a security guard happens to find you.

[Thea]

Fcukin' hell! London? £16?

No cockroaches or anything?

Nice one!

Shockingly, no. Very clean. No suspicious stains in the shower, bed or on the walls.
Although there might have been some blue hairdye stains when I left - but i wouldn't know anything about that...

[canon docre]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4736109.stm

Am particularly loving the colour of the decor The room kinda reminds of those pods you can rent in Japan.

Still, it seems to have everything you require to get some shut eye....unless you require room for your nightly cat swinging.

Certainly better then where I stayed earlier this year in London. A tiny dark hole with no working heater (in February ) The coackroaches wished each other a good night on my blanket. As an extra came the shower curtain covered all over with blood stains. Probably the last unsatisfied customer was carried away in it. So I swallowed my comments and paid the 70 pounds.

Any recommandations for my next visit are welcomed.

[timsinister]

Saw this on the news; perfect idea, 'specially for desperate cross-country gig followers. How many partied-out goffs have spent painful evenings reclining on benches and napping in bus stations?
Too many!

[Ocean Moves]

Coming next : the 'Easy Terrace';
Like a normal terrace house in Britain,
but 10 times smaller, painted orange on the
inside, and actually affordable !

[Obviousman]

Way to orange... Whenever you open your eyes accidentally, you'll never be able to sleep anymore that night

Now, the easy-concern has had worse ideas, like the very orange cruiseship

[andymackem]

Madame Thussauds is a great place to stay.

Only thing is, you have to stand *really* still if a security guard happens to find you.

That was actually quite funny.

[Debaser]

Debaser can always "hack" orange, can't you poppet?

You wouldn't be able to see me .... just a seemingly dismembered yellow head... I tell you, orange is just the way forwards, you lot are all out of whack. Slowly but surely, you will all see the light



'poppet'

[Debaser]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4736109.stm

Am particularly loving the colour of the decor The room kinda reminds of those pods you can rent in Japan.

Still, it seems to have everything you require to get some shut eye....unless you require room for your nightly cat swinging.

Certainly better then where I stayed earlier this year in London. A tiny dark hole with no working heater (in February ) The coackroaches wished each other a good night on my blanket. As an extra came the shower curtain covered all over with blood stains. Probably the last unsatisfied customer was carried away in it. So I swallowed my comments and paid the 70 pounds.

Any recommandations for my next visit are welcomed.

Wasn't Hotel Eric in Wood Green, was it?? That place scarred me fer life...it's a pub tale and a half that one! Let me just say that you could rent rooms for the hour...

[emilystrange]

i have one.. 'uncle steve's house'
i have my key, bathroom, bedroom etc and come and go as i please.. although i have to help with the cooking sometimes

[andymackem]

I should be able to chip in with a horror hotel in Ulan Batur at this point, but I can't.

The great thing about travelling in places like that is the chance of staying in a luxury modern hotel suite for US$60. Air-con is a must. I dread to think what the US$4 hostels were like.

A shabbily converted boat in Krasnoyarsk was more challenging, but at least there was character amid the crap.

[eastmidswhizzkid]

"that was quite funny"

i thought so too.as long as it was meant as a joke...some of my best friends are waxworks

[Black Alice]

Saw this on the news; perfect idea, 'specially for desperate cross-country gig followers. How many partied-out goffs have spent painful evenings reclining on benches and napping in bus stations?
Too many!

Yep - I would have paid to sleep in one of those as opposed to Birmingham Airport when we went to see the Sisters at the NEC - and we weren't the only goths there because the trains stopped at something like 8.30 pm

[eastmidswhizzkid]

sleep is for wussies!though you should see how well i can pile up the zzzz's when the chemist's been shut for a few days.

[boudicca]

sleep is for wussies!though you should see how well i can pile up the zzzz's when the chemist's been shut for a few days.

You can only sleep in a chemists?

[culprit]

It looks like a clean version of the 'superior' cabins on the Amsterdam ferries.
never again

[boudicca]

It looks like a clean version of the 'superior' cabins on the Amsterdam ferries.
never again

Intriguing!