Re: Cambridge North car parking

From	Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk>
Newsgroups	cam.misc
Subject	Re: Cambridge North car parking
Date	2024-03-13 19:52 +0000
Organization	Roland Perry
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In message <ussibr$116h7$3@dont-email.me>, at 15:56:46 on Wed, 13 Mar 
2024, Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> remarked:
>On 13/03/2024 15:15, Roland Perry wrote:
>> In message <usseut$10f8s$1@dont-email.me>, at 14:58:40 on Wed, 13 Mar 
>>2024, Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> remarked:
>
>>
>>> Anyway, BA appear to offer some big discounts on hotels with flights 
>>>and I've spent far too long procrastinating over it.
>>  If they are offering such discounts it's probably because they've 
>>pre-booked too many hotel rooms, and need punters to fill them.
>
>Complicated by the fact that BA offer room-only deals and some of the 
>hotels charge an (non-optional) "amenities charge" per night on top of 
>the room price or have such a ridiculous number of room types and 
>different rates that it makes your head spin. I ended up phoning my 
>choice of hotel half an hour ago just be sure I knew what I was 
>getting: their fee does include $25 credit for breakfasts (not included 
>in the BA deal) plus wi-fi and some extra fruit (or something silly 
>like that).
>
>After flapping about adding and subtracting this-and-that and then 
>converting to pounds, I eventually confirmed to myself that I was 
>indeed saving quite a few hundred pounds for the six-night stay with 
>the BA deal.
>
>Thankfully, by the time I'd done that the price of the flight hadn't 
>increased by another few quid.
>
>This makes all the fuss over "off-peak vs super-off-peak", 
>fare-splitting, whether or not your Network Railcard covers this 
>journey (I didn't realise it was only for trains after 10am on most 
>days) and the hassle of trying to pay for parking in car park all look 
>rather like a walk in the park.

Only because you seem very unfamiliar with international travel. On the 
other hand, not understanding the 10am watershed is a bit basic when it 
comes to train travel.

-- 
Roland Perry

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            Re: Cambridge North car parking The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-08 08:57 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-03-12 20:35 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking Tim Ward <tim@brettward.co.uk> - 2024-03-13 20:13 +0000
                Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 06:48 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking Rupert Moss-Eccardt <nin@moss-eccardt.com> - 2024-03-14 17:55 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-17 09:15 +0000
                Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-17 12:33 +0000
                Re: Cambridge North car parking The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-18 09:48 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2024-03-18 20:45 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 14:40 +0000
                Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 16:25 +0000
                Re: Cambridge North car parking Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 17:01 +0000
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                Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 16:22 +0000
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