Decent B & B / Hotel in Brighton - Any suggestions?

[Mastiff]

We are on a Stag night 17th August - the "youngsters" are staying in some hovel elswhere but the "olduns" - us 3 or 4 - are looking for somewhere half sensible to get heads down for a few hours on Saturday night after a few beers and a decent breakfast on Sunday morning.

Anyone with any suggestions?

Any/all help appreciated.

[steedy27]

Recently stayed at The Granville on the seafront, was really good and has a BBQ food place underneath which has great food and also serves breakfast for the hotel.

[tescorank]

I suggest not being so choosy on a Saturday night as you actually need somewhere to stay, i suggest you look on booking.com for this sat and will see 0 guest houses (lots do 3 nights min) , even 2* hotels are £200 a night for this saturday night, last Saturday afternoon I watched a normal £80 a weekday night hotel advertised at 4pm at £400 a room..

I have a friend who operates a basic guest house on a well trodden tourist route that any rooms not pre sold on a fri/sat will rub his hands together and have a game of "room roulette" and puts the prices up by £20 an hour so 7pm is £140, 8pm £160 9pm £180 and yes 1am is £260 as he knows most of the time people come back with there tails between their legs and are desperate after searching elsewhere.

talk about price gouging ! enjoy your stay and welcome to Skidrow-on-Sea.

Edited by tescorank on Thursday 25th July 07:26

[Mastiff]

tescorank said:

I suggest not being so choosy on a Saturday night as you actually need somewhere to stay, i suggest you look on booking.com for this sat and will see 0 guest houses (lots do 3 nights min) , even 2* hotels are £200 a night for this saturday night, last Saturday afternoon I watched a normal £80 a weekday night hotel advertised at 4pm at £400 a room..

I have a friend who operates a basic guest house on a well trodden tourist route that any rooms not pre sold on a fri/sat will rub his hands together and have a game of "room roulette" and puts the prices up by £20 an hour so 7pm is £140, 8pm £160 9pm £180 and yes 1am is £260 as he knows most of the time people come back with there tails between their legs and are desperate after searching elsewhere.

talk about price gouging ! enjoy your stay and welcome to Skidrow-on-Sea.

Never a truer post on Pistonheads - what a stupidly difficult task this has been.

I've actually given up. No-one will take single night bookings at the weekend, even the Premier Inn ask £200.00 + for a room and want you to take it for two nights (admittedly, they only carge you £80.00 + for the 2nd night, but Jeez).

I was going to try and wing it on the day - hoping that somewhere will have a room available but after reading the above post I shan't bother, so thanks mate.

I only live in Old Woking and I could get a cab back for that sort of money!