Let's build a hotel !

Noah

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That Premier or Travelodge?

Premier - the places vary from month to month
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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Premier - the places vary from month to month
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Did a non flexible room for the wards annual piss up last Christmas, The venue in Manchester we were going to cancelled on us, not enough had booked that evening.
So just because I wasn't prepared lose the £64 I'd paid. Myself, along with 11 others had to go and try and make something of the evening.
I won't be doing that again in a hurry.
 

Tilly

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Tomorrow night is available for £55. The Holiday Inn up at Junc 13 is the same price.
Tomorrow night in the Vine Hotel is £52.
I've never stayed in The Vine, is it nice?

Fullofluvvies

The Smithfield apartments in Hanley managed to get a score of 92%

Without even being built yet

Reviews - utter bollocks
 

Wormella

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Tomorrow night is available for £55. The Holiday Inn up at Junc 13 is the same price.
Tomorrow night in the Vine Hotel is £52.
I've never stayed in The Vine, is it nice?

My parents used to stay at the Vine when they visited me at uni, it was always ok if I recall. I started once at the swan many moons ago and I remember it being very warm.
 

Withnail

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Many years ago, whilst researching something for someone prompted by a post 'pon here, there was a front page story in the Staffordshire Advertiser about a couple of German chaps who were staying in the Vine during the World Cup in '66.

That was pretty much the beginning and the end of the story - there were a couple of German chaps staying at the Vine whilst they enjoyed the first round of matches of the '66 World Cup. West Germany's group matches were at Villa Park. Stafford was close enough to it. That's why they were staying here. Maybe it was a slow news week.
 

staffordjas

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My parents used to stay at the Vine when they visited me at uni, it was always ok if I recall. I started once at the swan many moons ago and I remember it being very warm.
We were treated to a stay in The Swan a few years ago by hubbys works for his long service award. Had to sleep with the light on all night because I was scared of ghosts :lol:


Used to be a well used bus station down the side road by the Grot (Top of the World/Couture) in the early 70's . A free few minutes of mad passion within staggering distance in those days (as I was told .......)
 

BobClay

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PAH !!! …. when I had my old Volvo Estate I could (and did) sleep in the back of that for nowt. (Mind you, the traffic passing me off the hard shoulder of the M6 was a bit effing noisy.) :eek::teef:
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
PAH !!! …. when I had my old Volvo Estate I could (and did) sleep in the back of that for nowt. (Mind you, the traffic passing me off the hard shoulder of the M6 was a bit effing noisy.) :eek::teef:
I've been tempted do this, shove an airbed in the back of the car and drive to the coast, only problem I can forsee is a loo. At my age I get up a couple of times during the night to spend a penny or two.
 

BobClay

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Calls for careful siting. Fortunately if you're doing that up in Snowdonia, or the Lakes, the only danger you face is peeing on your foot while worrying about all the strange night noises coming out of the woods. I can't do it anymore, my old Volvo went to Valhalla, and sleeping in a Ford Fiesta is definitely a second choice to faffing about on Booking.com. (Or other similar websites.)
:buddy:
 

Cue

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There's an 'apartment' next door to Icon/Zanzibar/Top of the world (used to be the fancy dress shop) that you can rent by the hour! :bananafunk:

I once joked about how I bet they offer hourly rates. Didn’t actually think they would...

Just looked - £75 per night. Rip off, you can get a premier inn for less than that, I think!

When you’re blackout drunk after clubbing with whatever D-lister they’ve managed to rope into an event, and nobody else will admit you, I guess £75 is fairly appealing?
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
I once joked about how I bet they offer hourly rates. Didn’t actually think they would...



When you’re blackout drunk after clubbing with whatever D-lister they’ve managed to rope into an event, and nobody else will admit you, I guess £75 is fairly appealing?
I've only been drunk that bad once, my 16th birthday. Mum told me go to bed,
 

staffordjas

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PAH !!! …. when I had my old Volvo Estate I could (and did) sleep in the back of that for nowt. (Mind you, the traffic passing me off the hard shoulder of the M6 was a bit effing noisy.) :eek::teef:
I've been tempted do this, shove an airbed in the back of the car and drive to the coast, only problem I can forsee is a loo. At my age I get up a couple of times during the night to spend a penny or two.
We spent a week down in Newquay, and a few nights in Weston Super Mare on the way back in the first summer we met in 1979. Slept in my Vauxhall Viva , and a quick strip wash in the sinks of the public loos inbetween people using them :embarrass: It was either pay for B&B's or enjoy night times out , so the pillows and blankets in the back of my car won! Still got the photos of our makeshift hotel room :lol:
 

Gramaisc

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We spent a week down in Newquay, and a few nights in Weston Super Mare on the way back in the first summer we met in 1979. Slept in my Vauxhall Viva , and a quick strip wash in the sinks of the public loos inbetween people using them :embarrass: It was either pay for B&B's or enjoy night times out , so the pillows and blankets in the back of my car won! Still got the photos of our makeshift hotel room :lol:
Aren't you driving a Viva again now?

Time for a reenactment....
 

staffordjas

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Aren't you driving a Viva again now?

Time for a reenactment....
Same colour , but this newer version is a hell of a lot smaller... I like my comfort these days :D (Still wondering how , previous to my old Viva, we managed to spend nights in my little black 1963 mini :lol: )
 

Tumble weed

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120-bed Ibis Styles hotel coming to Stafford
By Jordan Reynolds | Stafford | Business | Published: 3 hours ago

A 120-bedroom hotel will be built in Stafford after its was approved by planning chiefs.

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An artist's impression showing how the hotel will look
The proposals will see an Ibis Styles hotel built on a vacant site on Hunters Row, north of the town centre.

The hotel will help provide local jobs, improve the night-time economy and increase tourism, according to the application.

It will see four full-time and 16 part-time jobs created.

It will also make use of “largely redundant” retail space. Several businesses have moved out of premises in the north end of the town centre in recent years, leaving a number of empty retail units.

Stafford business leaders and residents welcomed the plans when they first emerged.
That design didn't last long, I actually preferred that one, seemed to keep the character of the building at least , not a fan of the new designs released this morning, but it may change again.
 

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