Hotel

[Globalti]

I'm not convinced the health and safety thing is necessarily bollocks. I've certainly stayed in hotel rooms where the only place to leave a bike would block access to the room door, and so block you in in an emergency. It might "only" be your own health and safety, and you might be willing to take responsibility for it, but the hotel cannot simply wash their hands of it.

Only across the door?

Wash their hands?

 

[oldwheels]

No problem with Premier Inn at Anderson Drive Aberdeen. They do know me as a regular customer tho'.
If no other storage I can take it to my room. They even gave me a ground floor reservation to make it easer.

 

[Tiger10]

I've had bikes in loads of hotel rooms

 

[srw]

Only across the door?

Wash their hands?

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A bath in a hotel room? Luxury.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ask them if they have secure storage for the bike that is accessible at the times you will need to get to it.

 

[mjr]

Yes Travelodge. Why not change to a hotel that will allow it. Or contact the manager or head office if it's a chain or franchise

As well as Travelodge and Premier Inn (but not "hub by Premier Inn" which ban bikes), I think most Best Western and many (spit) Wetherspoons hotels allow bikes. Independents in cycle-friendly areas like the Stuart House and Fairlight Lodge in King's Lynn also have secure bike stores. I think www.cyclistswelcome.co.uk might be a web listing site.

I do understand why some hotel's don't like it (health and safety bollocks withstanding). It's easy to make a mess of the room carpet, furniture, bedding etc from whatever muck and gunk is on the bike.

If you make a mess of a room, they can charge you for it. People don't need a bike to mess up a hotel room!

I'm not convinced the health and safety thing is necessarily bollocks. I've certainly stayed in hotel rooms where the only place to leave a bike would block access to the room door, and so block you in in an emergency. It might "only" be your own health and safety, and you might be willing to take responsibility for it, but the hotel cannot simply wash their hands of it.

I can't think how a room can be big enough for trolley suitcases without blocking anything but not big enough to put a bike in, which would have a smaller footprint than two large suitcases opened. Do such hotels ban big suitcases too?

But it should be fairly easy to find out if the health and safety thing is bollocks by asking them to explain why.

 

[nickyboy]

A bath in a hotel room? Luxury.

The hotel I'm at in the City has both a bath and a separate walk in shower. Sadly I don't have a bike with me

I'm using the bath to store luggage having read the advice on the "bed bugs" thread

 

[mjr]

The hotel I'm at in the City has both a bath and a separate walk in shower. Sadly I don't have a bike with me

You can rent them from the docks outside

 

[Freds Dad]

Book a separate room for your bike.

 

[srw]

I can't think how a room can be big enough for trolley suitcases without blocking anything but not big enough to put a bike in, which would have a smaller footprint than two large suitcases opened.

When you need to call for such an extreme example, you probably know you're digging a hole....

 

[mjr]

When you need to call for such an extreme example, you probably know you're digging a hole....

You think two people travelling with a max-hold-size trolley case each is extreme?

 

[AndyRM]

Which hotel is it? There might be secure storage nearby if they're adamant. If you're near a Metro station (and if you're in the city centre you have a choice of several) they now have lockable storage box things.

 

[Slick]

No problem with Premier Inn at Anderson Drive Aberdeen. They do know me as a regular customer tho'.
If no other storage I can take it to my room. They even gave me a ground floor reservation to make it easer.

Same with the one at the airport, in fact same with every premier inn I've been to in Birmingham and London.

 

[srw]

You think two people travelling with a max-hold-size trolley case each is extreme?

two large suitcases opened

I have highlighted the relevant word.

Most people close and stack their suitcases. Most cyclists don't carry the angle grinder they'd need to do the equivalent thing.