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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tunnie on 01 September 2009, 20:28:51
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Anyone recommend a hotel near here? Shall be working in Osterley Park , and need a local hotel.
This one looks good:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=8
They are generally good and its very close to the job, but its only £30 a night, i can claim for £106, can anyone recommend a slightly better one? Maybe a pool? 8-)
Marriott ones are just outside my budget :(
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dont get too hung up on what you can claim for, ultimately you're still paying ;)
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Try useing an umbrella company, they will get you £75 a night (might be more for London)from the taxman even though you might only pay £30 a night ;)
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
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try the osterly hotel, right next to osterley park or the master rober which is just along the sane rd also
i used to attend grab a granny night at the osterley ;)
http://www.osterleyparkhotel.co.uk/index.htm
http://www.masterrobert.co.uk/
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
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Anyone recommend a hotel near here? Shall be working in Osterley Park , and need a local hotel.
This one looks good:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=8
They are generally good and its very close to the job, but its only £30 a night, i can claim for £106, can anyone recommend a slightly better one? Maybe a pool? 8-)
Marriott ones are just outside my budget :(
£69 a night
http://specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton_skyline/so.htm?ES=LPS_268_EN_SI_NAV_SPECIAL_OFFERS_LHR_NWE_EAME
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Anyone recommend a hotel near here? Shall be working in Osterley Park , and need a local hotel.
This one looks good:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=8
They are generally good and its very close to the job, but its only £30 a night, i can claim for £106, can anyone recommend a slightly better one? Maybe a pool? 8-)
Marriott ones are just outside my budget :(
£69 a night
http://specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton_skyline/so.htm?ES=LPS_268_EN_SI_NAV_SPECIAL_OFFERS_LHR_NWE_EAME
Rich, your a star i am loving that one! :-* :-*
That will do nicely! :y
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
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Anyone recommend a hotel near here? Shall be working in Osterley Park , and need a local hotel.
This one looks good:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=8
They are generally good and its very close to the job, but its only £30 a night, i can claim for £106, can anyone recommend a slightly better one? Maybe a pool? 8-)
Marriott ones are just outside my budget :(
£69 a night
http://specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton_skyline/so.htm?ES=LPS_268_EN_SI_NAV_SPECIAL_OFFERS_LHR_NWE_EAME
Rich, your a star i am loving that one! :-* :-*
That will do nicely! :y
its 10 mins from there and just one straight rd there and back, i did the refurb there about 10 yrs ago, its a nice place :y :y
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Anyone recommend a hotel near here? Shall be working in Osterley Park , and need a local hotel.
This one looks good:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/search_and_book/hotel_overview.php?hotel_id=8
They are generally good and its very close to the job, but its only £30 a night, i can claim for £106, can anyone recommend a slightly better one? Maybe a pool? 8-)
Marriott ones are just outside my budget :(
£69 a night
http://specialoffers.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton_skyline/so.htm?ES=LPS_268_EN_SI_NAV_SPECIAL_OFFERS_LHR_NWE_EAME
Rich, your a star i am loving that one! :-* :-*
That will do nicely! :y
its 10 mins from there and just one straight rd there and back, i did the refurb there about 10 yrs ago, its a nice place :y :y
Just around the corner from where i used to live when at uni too, i know the area, looks great from the pics :y
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
When I was an apprentice for GPO telephones, they called it subsistence allowance.
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
When I was an apprentice for GPO telephones, they called it subsistence allowance.
Now you mention it, I think it was called subsistence :y
Then when it changed to BT, the bean counters were short sighted enough to stop that, with the obvious results.
I left telephones in the mid 90s, so no idea what happens now.
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
When I was an apprentice for GPO telephones, they called it subsistence allowance.
Now you mention it, I think it was called subsistence :y
Then when it changed to BT, the bean counters were short sighted enough to stop that, with the obvious results.
I left telephones in the mid 90s, so no idea what happens now.
They dont need to go on courses now. BT just send a new phone in an envelope. :(
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
When I was an apprentice for GPO telephones, they called it subsistence allowance.
Now you mention it, I think it was called subsistence :y
Then when it changed to BT, the bean counters were short sighted enough to stop that, with the obvious results.
I left telephones in the mid 90s, so no idea what happens now.
They dont need to go on courses now. BT just send a new phone in an envelope. :(
True, all my phone related courses stopped in late 80s (apart from the multiskilling/UG one), but it was when they wanted us in other areas due to high fault rates - I wasn't going to stay away from home unless there was something in it for me ;)
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TB - yes but its on the credit card, which always gets paid off in full later. Expenses are paid in next months pay-roll so should not be a problem.
EP - I am with an umbrella company, its £106 for inside M25, and about £80 ish outside
So why not make do with moderate comfort and pocket the rest :y
I'd love to but they demand receipts :(
I'm suprised, I stayed in some grotty holes at £22 a night and still claimed £75. Mine never asked for receipts
My old firm, British Telecom (as it was then) used to give us £53 a night for meals and board. They knew we stayed in £8 per night fleapits (yes, such places existed in Reading in around 1990 ;D). Or I just travelled every day if it wasn't that far, and still claimed the £53 (and used their fuel to travel every day ::)).
They started asking for receipts, so the engineers stopped volunteering to work in other areas.... :-X
When I was an apprentice for GPO telephones, they called it subsistence allowance.
Now you mention it, I think it was called subsistence :y
Then when it changed to BT, the bean counters were short sighted enough to stop that, with the obvious results.
I left telephones in the mid 90s, so no idea what happens now.
They dont need to go on courses now. BT just send a new phone in an envelope. :(
True, all my phone related courses stopped in late 80s (apart from the multiskilling/UG one), but it was when they wanted us in other areas due to high fault rates - I wasn't going to stay away from home unless there was something in it for me ;)
I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
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I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
Exchanges aside, sod all has changed, its still only a pair of wires at the end of the day....
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I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
Exchanges aside, sod all has changed, its still only a pair of wires at the end of the day....
Bet you've never seen a non-director exchange or an eyeball switchboard. ;D
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Sorry about your thread Tunnie :-[
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I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
Exchanges aside, sod all has changed, its still only a pair of wires at the end of the day....
Bet you've never seen a non-director exchange or an eyeball switchboard. ;D
Think so (Wasn't Leighton Buzzard one) and Yes
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I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
Exchanges aside, sod all has changed, its still only a pair of wires at the end of the day....
Bet you've never seen a non-director exchange or an eyeball switchboard. ;D
Think so (Wasn't Leighton Buzzard one) and Yes
What...with no uniselectors or anything? No dial tone. Just an operator waiting for you to pick your handset up. Those were the days ;D
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Anyway, back on topic.....
I stayed at the Holiday Inn M4 J4 and it was fine......
Got the £225 exec room for £85 but I know it can be done even cheaper.....
Lovely hotel and room immaculate......nowhere nice as the one we stayed in recently though...Holiday Inn Sokolniki, Moscow....bloody beautiful.......!!!
Looked like Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.......!!!
:y
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Anyway, back on topic.....
I stayed at the Holiday Inn M4 J4 and it was fine......
Got the £225 exec room for £85 but I know it can be done even cheaper.....
Lovely hotel and room immaculate......nowhere nice as the one we stayed in recently though...Holiday Inn Sokolniki, Moscow....bloody beautiful.......!!!
Looked like Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.......!!!
:y
What it had Tanks trying to drive into it and Helicopters blowing up on the roof!!! :D.
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The one richie posted up earlier looked good. Was close and had a pool. The one in the park as well looked great, so close!
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I did subs maintenance, UG, OH and exchange maintenance in......................1969/70 :-[
Exchanges aside, sod all has changed, its still only a pair of wires at the end of the day....
Quite ironic that they were effectively laying Cat5 since day one, especially as they didn't even know what Cat5 was back then.
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Anyway, back on topic.....
I stayed at the Holiday Inn M4 J4 and it was fine......
Got the £225 exec room for £85 but I know it can be done even cheaper.....
Lovely hotel and room immaculate......nowhere nice as the one we stayed in recently though...Holiday Inn Sokolniki, Moscow....bloody beautiful.......!!!
Looked like Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.......!!!
:y
What it had Tanks trying to drive into it and Helicopters blowing up on the roof!!! :D.
Not exactly....although there was an 8ft security perimeter fence and gas masks in every room.......!!!!
:y
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The one richie posted up earlier looked good. Was close and had a pool. The one in the park as well looked great, so close!
wether it still goes on or not but there was a side door call girl service a few years ago at the skyline, get a few american businessmen stay there. ;)
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The one richie posted up earlier looked good. Was close and had a pool. The one in the park as well looked great, so close!
wether it still goes on or not but there was a side door call girl service a few years ago at the skyline, get a few american businessmen stay there. ;)
Shhhh if Mother Tunnie finds out about that he won't be going. ;D