How would you go about blagging a hotel stay?

These restrictions are based on your own conscience. You're an adult, if you believe you have an essential reason for staying in a hotel, then you do. Just be honest about it. If you don't believe you have a legitimate reason, then stay at home.

My guess is that this is a shaggy dog story where the OP will eventually "be forced to" reveal that he's supposedly ducking a SW knicker-sniffing inspection of the single mother he's shacked up with in D24. He will then revel in the outpourings of moral outrage of the righteous, happy in the knowledge that he's added another anecdote to the urban legends of the grasping underclass, his elevation to Proconsul in the ranks of YFG all-but assured.

Flippyfloppy wrote:

Our local hotel has built on a nice extension for a lovely little interrogation room for guests,where they can do anything, and I mean...anytning

How much?

Ah lads, they're hotel staff, not guards. They aren't obliged to ask, and even then they absolutely don't give a fk why you're there

In the highly unlikely event you are challenged, make up something remotely plausible. They're hardly going to ask for proof

pgj2015 wrote: »

Rightly so, they do things the right way.

Boorrrriiiinnnngggg!!

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Yeah, the action of obtaining something using persuasion or guile. Not the action of obtaining something by telling a fictional backstory, and then just paying for it like a normal person.

Man ain’t no blaggamuffin!
Man’s a booker!

Admittedly I thought the post was about getting a room for free from the title but the body of the post makes it clear that the blag here is to convince the hotel that he is allowed to have a room in spite of the Covid-19 hotel restrictions - that's still a blag even if it's not the one most were expecting.

Anyway, turns out he is probably allowed to have a room without needing to blag.

Hammer89 wrote: »

I need to stay somewhere for a night next week - and I do mean 'need' by the way - but I'm not an essential worker and nor am I flying anywhere.

I've heard anecdotal evidence of hotel staff not asking any questions to individual people booking in for a night, but I'd like a white lie to have as a back-up.

I do have legitimate reasons for needing to leave my rented accommodation but as I said, I don't know if it's enough to get me a room.

This isn't Orwell's 1984

Edgware wrote: »

An old pal of mine when staying down the country used get the girlfriend to ring the hotel, ask for him, and when told "he's not in his room. Can we leave a message for him?" the girlfriend would say "Yes please, as soon as he returns tell him to contact his office in the Irish Independent urgently"
For some reason they used get a few freebies

"Yes, definitely, thank you for explicitly mentioning the office he works in. Does he forget often?"