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Live in a hotel?

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  • #32
    Benny_Cake
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    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    Is that you Alan Partridge?

    Sounds like Linton Travel Tavern to me alright.

    "Hello, reception, can you make pornography appear on my TV? ".


  • #33
    Seachmall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    • No lie-ins

    Why not?

    I always have a lie-in when in a hotel.


  • #34
    Dravokivich
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    What you're looking for OP is an old folks home, but for younger people.


  • #35
    nearyj
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    Parents stayed in a hotel for 6 weeks while their house was renovated. It worked out cheaper then renting an apartment/house for the same period. Having agreed a price, the hotel later tried to triple the price for a week due to a number of events which were occurring. They capitulated in the end.

    They both enjoyed the experience, though got homesick towards the end. As mentioned above, advantages included a restaurant and pub downstairs, Dublin city so they were much closer to work. The only drawback was living out of a case, and not having a kitchen. This drove my mother demented.

    I'd definitely like to do it myself but one of those where you wouldn't know what it's like until you give it a shot. As said above, consistent noise from neighbours would be frustrating.


  • #36
    CardBordWindow
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    What you're looking for OP is an old folks home, but for younger people.
    Or just a hotel that gives sponge baths!


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  • #37
    cosanostra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭cosanostra


    I know some students that stayed in the maldron in parnell sq for 100pw inc breakfast I think they had to sign up for a long term lease to get that rate


  • #38
    BraziliaNZ
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    It sucks. I've lived in them for weeks with work. Even in the really nice ones it gets weird after a while. The corridors with the doors seem endless and make me dizzy after a while so I start running down them to get to my room, freaks people out if they come out of their rooms.
    It gets very the Shiningesque and cabin feverish after a while and you end up at the hotel bar most nights getting tanked and trying to talk to the other lonely strangers.
    I've to do it again soon for 3 weeks, sigh. And you get fat from all the hotel food.


  • #39
    CardBordWindow
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    cosanostra wrote: »
    I know some students that stayed in the maldron in parnell sq for 100pw inc breakfast I think they had to sign up for a long term lease to get that rate
    Jaysus, that's fancy for students! Not a bad rate either!


  • #40
    Mauricmo
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    Professional gamblers do it in vegas and other such places. I love staying in hotels, but would probably go crazy after about a week.


  • #41
    CardBordWindow
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    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    It sucks. I've lived in them for weeks with work. Even in the really nice ones it gets weird after a while. The corridors with the doors seem endless and make me dizzy after a while so I start running down them to get to my room, freaks people out if they come out of their rooms.
    It gets very the Shiningesque and cabin feverish after a while and you end up at the hotel bar most nights getting tanked and trying to talk to the other lonely strangers.
    I've to do it again soon for 3 weeks, sigh. And you get fat from all the hotel food.
    Granted, if you're in a hotel in an area you don't know, that would be the case. But I'm suggesting staying in a hotel in your local area, so you could still meet up with friends, play your weekly 5-a-side, or whatever you normally do etc.


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  • #42
    Yahew
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    chughes wrote: »
    Closer to home I seem to remember reading that Ben Dunne Senior and wife and children lived in the Shelbourne (I Think).

    Rich people often stay in hotels.
    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Sure didn't Richard Harris 'live' in the Savoy in London.

    IIRC, some Hotels advertised rooms for sale a few years back. (circa £90,000)

    Celebs often stay in hotels, too. Leonard Cohen lived in a hotel, Patti Smith, Hendrix in London.
    Kintarō Hattori wrote: »
    In regards to some of the people who have lived in hotels (such as celebs, business people etc), they wouldn't be in a normal room. Most likely these people are renting suites/apartments within the hotel so it's a lot more space than most of us would ever have experienced in a hotel.

    Yes. It would be a suite - basically a furnished apartment with no kitchen. As for cooking, the rich don't. You can rent an apartment with a kitchen in London at £3k+ a month, and install a cook at £40k a year, and a cleaner at £10k, or stay in the savoy and use room service. Its clear to me why people reside in hotels, if they have the money.


  • #43
    MrJoeSoap
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    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    Is that you Alan Partridge?

    Living in a hotel would make you end up like this...


  • #44
    CardBordWindow
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    MrJoeSoap wrote: »
    Living in a hotel would make you end up like this...
    Is that such a bad thing? :p


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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    I stayed in The Suites hotel in Liverpool a few times, as the name suggests every room is a suite. Much better than a normal hotel room, separate living area, no kitchen. For a single chap or maybe a couple without kids living there wouldn't be bad at all I think. I've stayed in normal hotels for 6 week and 3 months stints and it's fairly grim, a normal hotel room doesn't cater for relaxing really.


  • #46
    Lapin
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    The late great Limerick born actor Richard Harris lived in The Savoy Hotel, London (slightly more than €29 per night).........


  • #47
    BBDBB
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    jester77 wrote: »
    Not a chance. The longest I've spent in a hotel is around 9 months and you just go mad. You leave in the morning and you will do everything possible not to return until it's time to sleep. I've stayed in a few hotels that had their own kitchenette but it's a rubbish alternative to a proper kitchen. Plus it's very annoying when you have company and the cleaner walks in!


    I think I saw that film:o


  • #48
    aujopimur
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    In the early 70's myself and a workmate spent several months in a Limerick hotel at a really cheap rate, compliments of the night porter who was partial to having his palm greased.


  • #49
    Lapin
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    Lapin wrote: »
    The late great Limerick born actor Richard Harris lived in The Savoy Hotel, London (slightly more than €29 per night).........

    So that link is fúcked.

    It told the story of the time Harris was strechered out of the hotel shortly before his death. He was in very poor health and barely concious, but as the paramedics carried him out via the restaurant, he sat up on the strecher and shouted to the diners in the room "IT WAS THE FOOD" !


  • #50
    Kosseegan
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    I kjnow a guy who did it years ago and also a family connection who was a bachelor and lived in a hotel permanently. Works fine for a single person who can afford it.


  • #51
    lucylu
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    The hotel is €29 per night in the current Low season mid -Nov to Easter. I would say that price would not stay the same all year round.


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  • #52
    RichieC
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    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    Is that you Alan Partridge?
    its a travel tavern!


  • #53
    Mike 1972
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    Yahew wrote: »
    Rich people often stay in hotels.

    Ive also heard of poor people in the States doing so.

    Although I strongly suspect the term ins more loosely aspplied over there and the "hotels" in question are glorified doss houses.


  • #54
    JONJO THE MISER
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    I know of one person here in Ireland who has lived in a hotel for the last 15 or so years.


  • #55
    OneArt
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    I don't think it'd be worth the financial hassle really. Unless living in a really cheap country, I can do my work from most places as long as there's Internet.

    As for the whole cabin fever etc. a few of my friends here live in studio apartments which are basically the same size as a hotel room, so I don't think it'd be too much of a bother. A friend of mine is moving out of hers in a few months so I'm going to move into it when she leaves. The way she keeps it, it pretty much looks like a hotel room. I can't wait! Dirt cheap rent and no housemates to deal with!


  • #56
    Bullchomper
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    Has anyone made a HERE'S JOHNNY! joke yet?


  • #57
    Lash_Alert
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    cosanostra wrote: »
    I know some students that stayed in the maldron in parnell sq for 100pw inc breakfast I think they had to sign up for a long term lease to get that rate


    Well thats a lie......


  • #58
    Gyalist
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    I lived for four years in a Dublin ciy centre hotel when I was a student. It was just five minutes from college so it suited me well.


  • #59
    previous user
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    Free shower curtains!


  • #60
    Thalia_26
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    Hotels are depressing ... well, most hotels.


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  • #61
    meoklmrk91
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    Gyalist wrote: »
    I lived for four years in a Dublin ciy centre hotel when I was a student. It was just five minutes from college so it suited me well.

    Hmm this thread has given me ideas, I want to study in ucd, but I am a country girl so the culture shock alone is enough without having to deal with housemates. I may see what kind of rates hotels are offering.


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