Airport.

[mad_manx]

2 hours ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Paid £180 for Sofitel for one night room only couple of weeks ago

That's not too bad if it was  a few weeks ago  (  when school holidays started) .  

Hotel prices in London and Greater London areas are at least  30 % higher   ( more sometimes) compared to the prices  before covid  

I suppose its added costs + trying to make up for lost profits during covid  

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by mad_manx

[Andy Onchan]

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12450957/Airlines-cashing-add-costs-soar.html

[Omobono]

8 hours ago, mad_manx said:

That's not too bad if it was  a few weeks ago  (  when school holidays started) .  

Hotel prices in London and Greater London areas are at least  30 % higher   ( more sometimes) compared to the prices  before covid  

I suppose its added costs + trying to make up for lost profits during covid  

 

the hotel I usually use is full of asylum seekers , just off Russell Square  handy for anywhere in London and £90 a night with breakfast , 

[The Voice of Reason]

8 minutes ago, Omobono said:

the hotel I usually use is full of asylum seekers , just off Russell Square  handy for anywhere in London and £90 a night with breakfast , 

That can’t be right. A four star deluxe hotel in the middle of London for £90 a night!🙂

[Non-Believer]

[Amadeus]

16 hours ago, Albert Tatlock said:

The biggest war crime was when whoever it was that took out Hope Street chippy 😒

I told you this before: we were merely concerned about your unhealthy eating habits and decided to do something about it. 

[Banker]

Heathrow & Edinburgh flights cancelled due to uk ATC issues, must be chaos everywhere. Friends trying to change to boat £100 per foot passenger tomorrow, some boats full

[forestboy]

15 minutes ago, Banker said:

Heathrow & Edinburgh flights cancelled due to uk ATC issues, must be chaos everywhere. Friends trying to change to boat £100 per foot passenger tomorrow, some boats full

That is a rediculous cost. Steam Packet are racketeering and should be ashamed of themselves. 

[La Colombe]

5 minutes ago, forestboy said:

That is a rediculous cost. 

Absolutely bluedicrous. 

[Andy Onchan]

16 minutes ago, forestboy said:

That is a rediculous cost. Steam Packet are racketeering and should be ashamed of themselves. 

It's MGP fortnight, what do you expect? It's the same every year.

[forestboy]

5 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said:

It's MGP fortnight, what do you expect? It's the same every year.

It’s pure profiteering 😢

[Two-lane]

Is the Steam Packet like the airlines - a company out to make as much money as possible?

Or is it like the bus service - there to provide a service for the residents?

How would it be if bus ticket prices changed depending on how many passengers were being carried?

[Non-Believer]

This is how they will make the next dividend that the Treasury will relieve them of in the next Budget; there are a lot of Govt pensions that have been promised to be paid.

A couple of weeks ago people were praising the Steamie on these boards for posting an £11M profit - but this is the point, it didn't come from nowhere, passengers and IoM consumers stumped up to make it possible, sometimes by being raped in their fares. We can't have it both ways.

[Blade Runner]

2 hours ago, Banker said:

Heathrow & Edinburgh flights cancelled due to uk ATC issues, must be chaos everywhere. Friends trying to change to boat £100 per foot passenger tomorrow, some boats full

Give over man.

I call bullshit.

You don't have any friends, be honest Lad

[Roger Mexico]

3 hours ago, Banker said:

Heathrow & Edinburgh flights cancelled due to uk ATC issues, must be chaos everywhere. Friends trying to change to boat £100 per foot passenger tomorrow, some boats full

Nothing available on Liverpool, but Heysham is nowhere near £100:

I think £63.75 is the maximum foot passenger fare you can be charges as these are limited by the agreement and go up with RPI.  But pricing is very obscure and the fare structure is no longer laid out clearly as it used to be.