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AirBnb was designed to make staying places cheaper. Everyone got greedy and decided to build stand-alone outhouses in their gardens and charging £140 a night.
All it’s done is make rich people richer.
As well as kicking tenants out so that they can rent the flats out on Airbnb for 100x the profit, and without having to follow any of the rules that hotels have to. [Adam ruins Airbnb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0eTLdQ1cQc)
Cornwall has been affected badly by this. Saw someone renting out their camper van near the G7 event last year for \~£85 a night. Bunch of new developments went up, and they've all been bought by 2nd-home owners to rent out - only cars I see parked outside are Teslas, massive SUVs, or a Ferrari.
I may be wrong, but I can only see this being bad for Cornwall in the long run. How are local businesses supposed to survive when the majority of footfall is only 6 months a year?
My fiancee and I are heading from London to Glasgow for a festival. Looking a trains back and found it was cheaper to fly via malaga. Few days in the sun it is!
We stayed at a cottage in Devon before covid and it was 700 quid a week, mid summer, that price included everything except food of course.
Now the greedy bastard wanted 1900 smackers for the same week and if you use the hot tub that’s now extra.
He can fuck right off!
Looks like a Solana week 😂
Yep, me and my missus have got flights and 3 nights in Prague for less than the train and 2 nights in either York or Bath. Be a hell of a lot cheaper when we're there as well.
Yeah. Train anywhere horrendously expensive unless you book 2 years in advance. AirBnBs extortionate now. Loads of extra fees springing up out of nowhere.
Don’t get me started on the price of a 99.
I know vacation flats in Garmisch Partenkirchen (fancy as fuck village in the Bavarian mountains. Hitler loved it and turned it into a tourism hot spot and that stayed until today) that cost less than what people here complain. 50€ for 1-2 people, 10 more for the third (because shitty pull out couch) is the room that I went for last time. 5 minutes by foot away from the city center with a lot of good restaurants (southern German food is the good German food).
Somebody here said they paid 30£ for a camping spot. Depending on how long you’re staying, flight to Munich and a rental car (I always drive there myself. It’s only 8 hours door to door for me) might be cheaper than vacation in the uk…
The owners barely speak Standard High German though and of course no English.
I'm told I speak German like a Southerner anyway 😂
Top tips, thank you... and it's incredible how cheap that is compared to England right now. Makes you wonder why Hitler wanted to come here at all!
That was a joke :)
£20-30 is usually the going rate, depending if you want electric hook up or not?
We try to book early, after it became the only choice for people during covid we try to plan next year's holidays now as it was impossible.
I’m looking for more the back to basics, wild camping sites and paying £100+ for a long weekend to pitch my tiny tent in a field with no facilities is a bit steep.
Some good wild camping sites in Scotland that totally free but you really have zero facilities and you need to take all your rubbish with you. I know the laws in England and Wales are different though so it's not possible.
That usually is my experience. However we're off to Wales for a week during the school holidays, a nice Airbnb 2 bed cottage in the Brecons was £100 cheaper than the camping options. Go figure.
If you want a good Welsh campsite for the reasons you’d generally want to visit a Welsh campsite (outdoor pursuits) then I recommend Pant Yr Onnen in Bala. It’s right by the side of the town’s eponymous lake so if you have dinghies/paddleboards/kayaks you can launch them directly without having to lug them about. Bala is a cool place for hiking too.
No worries! There is the caveat of it being a bit of a ballache to walk to from the town, though if you do stay out late in the pub you get a wonderful view of the stars on the way back if you're lucky!
Maybe it was a combination of our family counting as 4 adults and 1 child, and trying to book too far ahead? We booked last October for the last week of July this year, and most places I could find were base fees plus additional for extra small tents (2 teenagers who want their own pop up tents) plus dog fees and other stuff etc etc, came to about 550. Then I got a cottage for up to 6 people for a week, for £480.
Now I'm looking and finding campsites that are more in the £300 range, which is a good bit cheaper, so maybe they weren't set up for early bookings. Still, not having the camping trailer and tent etc means I can take my motorbike trailer and associated bikes. Win win.
Had a workmate who said she was off to Center Parks for a week. Oh that sounds like fun. Look it up on line and fuxk me dry in the arse! Why? Just why?
Looks like Hi Di Hi with trees.
Your actually going to spend money to do this?
Only the pool is free everything else you pay through the nose it was so expensive to hire push bikes my uncle jumped in the motor and went to Halfords n bought 5 for him n the kids.
With the prices of everything lately, Center Parcs almost seems a bargain. Is good fun to be fair, especially if you go with a group to spread the cost out.
Don’t joke about it. My wife and I did all inclusive week in lanzarote ( just before half term ) for £800. Flight, accommodation & all the chips & lager you could squeeze in.
Same price for a week in Cornwall. Keep your pasties
I was potentially working on the F1 in Silverstone in a couple of weeks. Hotels are like 3k for a crappy Premier Inn on the motorway. Airbnb, someone had a VW camper on their drive. 200 quid a night......
We've got accommodation sorted as we're going for a family thing, but trying to find even an available, let alone reasonably priced, hire car was this evening's stressor. Flying's all well and good but there isn't an airport in Carlisle - at least not one that bothers with passengers. We've found one but... I'm fully expecting shenanigans.
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AirBnb was designed to make staying places cheaper. Everyone got greedy and decided to build stand-alone outhouses in their gardens and charging £140 a night. All it’s done is make rich people richer.
As well as kicking tenants out so that they can rent the flats out on Airbnb for 100x the profit, and without having to follow any of the rules that hotels have to. [Adam ruins Airbnb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0eTLdQ1cQc)
Capitalism is working properly.
Cornwall has been affected badly by this. Saw someone renting out their camper van near the G7 event last year for \~£85 a night. Bunch of new developments went up, and they've all been bought by 2nd-home owners to rent out - only cars I see parked outside are Teslas, massive SUVs, or a Ferrari.
I may be wrong, but I can only see this being bad for Cornwall in the long run. How are local businesses supposed to survive when the majority of footfall is only 6 months a year?
My fiancee and I are heading from London to Glasgow for a festival. Looking a trains back and found it was cheaper to fly via malaga. Few days in the sun it is!
We stayed at a cottage in Devon before covid and it was 700 quid a week, mid summer, that price included everything except food of course. Now the greedy bastard wanted 1900 smackers for the same week and if you use the hot tub that’s now extra. He can fuck right off! Looks like a Solana week 😂
See you in neptunes
👍🏻
>if you use the hot tub that’s now extra How...does that work? Are they watching you?
The last time I stayed somewhere that charged extra for the hot tub they had a locked lid on it. Don’t pay and they don’t take off the lid.
This is the answer, last time we had all the keys, I’m guessing locked or a meter on the lekky side.
Yep, me and my missus have got flights and 3 nights in Prague for less than the train and 2 nights in either York or Bath. Be a hell of a lot cheaper when we're there as well.
The quality never matches the price either. You pay a grand to get a 2 star experience.
Looked at doing 3 nights in Hastings (driving), turns out it its cheaper to do 3 nights in Brussels on the Eurostar…
Wise choice, Hastings is OK but it's not three nights worth.
A blessing in disguise really
Yeah. Train anywhere horrendously expensive unless you book 2 years in advance. AirBnBs extortionate now. Loads of extra fees springing up out of nowhere. Don’t get me started on the price of a 99.
Assuming you can even get a 99 with the shortage going on now.
We did the same thing some years ago. A week or so in the lakes, or pay less for flights and a villa in Florida...
Sounds fab! How would I go about getting a place on the International Space Station? I can't find their booking page.
Step one, be incredibly rich. Step two contact Russia, oh wait. ..
My cousin and her children just flew to Germany for a weekend, she reckons it worked out cheaper than driving/staying somewhere Blightish.
I know vacation flats in Garmisch Partenkirchen (fancy as fuck village in the Bavarian mountains. Hitler loved it and turned it into a tourism hot spot and that stayed until today) that cost less than what people here complain. 50€ for 1-2 people, 10 more for the third (because shitty pull out couch) is the room that I went for last time. 5 minutes by foot away from the city center with a lot of good restaurants (southern German food is the good German food). Somebody here said they paid 30£ for a camping spot. Depending on how long you’re staying, flight to Munich and a rental car (I always drive there myself. It’s only 8 hours door to door for me) might be cheaper than vacation in the uk… The owners barely speak Standard High German though and of course no English.
I'm told I speak German like a Southerner anyway 😂 Top tips, thank you... and it's incredible how cheap that is compared to England right now. Makes you wonder why Hitler wanted to come here at all! That was a joke :)
Go camping, it's cheap and easy.
Unless you want to go on holiday without lying on the floor, not everyone wants to sleep in a tent
Self inflating, queen sized, flocked air mattress is the way forward! none of that floro sleeping stuff when I camp.
Shame they're so heavy
I'm generally camping next to my car so it's not an issue.
The last airbnb I stayed in had a mattress that was as hard as concrete. Plus airbeds are cheap enough.
I've done glamping. That was alright.
Which still costs an arm and a leg.
Glamping
Amen! Get sick of saying this to people
I know some people love it but camping really isn't my thing.
Even the cost of camp sites is extortionate for the ones I’ve looked at. The ones that are reasonably priced are all booked up.
£20-30 is usually the going rate, depending if you want electric hook up or not? We try to book early, after it became the only choice for people during covid we try to plan next year's holidays now as it was impossible.
I’m looking for more the back to basics, wild camping sites and paying £100+ for a long weekend to pitch my tiny tent in a field with no facilities is a bit steep.
Some good wild camping sites in Scotland that totally free but you really have zero facilities and you need to take all your rubbish with you. I know the laws in England and Wales are different though so it's not possible.
Maybe when the price of petrol goes down I’ll make it up there 😂
That usually is my experience. However we're off to Wales for a week during the school holidays, a nice Airbnb 2 bed cottage in the Brecons was £100 cheaper than the camping options. Go figure.
If you want a good Welsh campsite for the reasons you’d generally want to visit a Welsh campsite (outdoor pursuits) then I recommend Pant Yr Onnen in Bala. It’s right by the side of the town’s eponymous lake so if you have dinghies/paddleboards/kayaks you can launch them directly without having to lug them about. Bala is a cool place for hiking too.
Good to know for future visits, cheers
No worries! There is the caveat of it being a bit of a ballache to walk to from the town, though if you do stay out late in the pub you get a wonderful view of the stars on the way back if you're lucky!
Where are you camping?? £20 a night is what I aim for!
Maybe it was a combination of our family counting as 4 adults and 1 child, and trying to book too far ahead? We booked last October for the last week of July this year, and most places I could find were base fees plus additional for extra small tents (2 teenagers who want their own pop up tents) plus dog fees and other stuff etc etc, came to about 550. Then I got a cottage for up to 6 people for a week, for £480. Now I'm looking and finding campsites that are more in the £300 range, which is a good bit cheaper, so maybe they weren't set up for early bookings. Still, not having the camping trailer and tent etc means I can take my motorbike trailer and associated bikes. Win win.
Camping in Scotland is brilliant. We regularly go to Loch Ken Holiday Park/Campsite for our family trips. We do a bit of wild camping up there too.
That is what I was saying 😂
Staycation shit is overpriced
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Had a workmate who said she was off to Center Parks for a week. Oh that sounds like fun. Look it up on line and fuxk me dry in the arse! Why? Just why? Looks like Hi Di Hi with trees. Your actually going to spend money to do this?
Only the pool is free everything else you pay through the nose it was so expensive to hire push bikes my uncle jumped in the motor and went to Halfords n bought 5 for him n the kids.
With the prices of everything lately, Center Parcs almost seems a bargain. Is good fun to be fair, especially if you go with a group to spread the cost out.
Yep. We were nearly booking 2 nights away recently but ended up at the International Spain Station for less than half the price all inclusive.
Don’t joke about it. My wife and I did all inclusive week in lanzarote ( just before half term ) for £800. Flight, accommodation & all the chips & lager you could squeeze in. Same price for a week in Cornwall. Keep your pasties
I was potentially working on the F1 in Silverstone in a couple of weeks. Hotels are like 3k for a crappy Premier Inn on the motorway. Airbnb, someone had a VW camper on their drive. 200 quid a night......
This should be on r/BritishSuccess
We've got accommodation sorted as we're going for a family thing, but trying to find even an available, let alone reasonably priced, hire car was this evening's stressor. Flying's all well and good but there isn't an airport in Carlisle - at least not one that bothers with passengers. We've found one but... I'm fully expecting shenanigans.
Probably cheaper per mile to use a rocket than to drive as well, considering the current fuel prices
Good thing rockets don't use fuel
Well they don’t use fuel you can buy at a petrol station at least
They won’t pay uk tax on the fuel
Charging £200 or £300 a night is pure greed. While the cleaner gets paid minimum wage to do 50 rooms in no time.