Usual chit chat amongst my Thursday walking pals yesterday.....one pal recently spent 5 days midweek (4 nights) walking solo along the Dales High Way.
Farmhouse B & B prices were £65 - £80. Mostly in a shabby single room. On the one occasion he couldn’t get a farmhouse B & B he paid £100 ( yes £100) midweek for B & B in a pub.
If I’d known I’d have driven the 56 miles there and back to pick him up and let him stay at my place ...
Another friend wanted two nights midweek with his daughters in a half decent hotel in Grasmere....a single occupancy room, the least expensive of all the options and non refundable, B & B was £419. Holy cow Batman.
I’ll keep on travelling overseas thank ewe very much......avoiding BA, Easyjet and TUI.
Both pre and post Covid I’ve walked the Southern Upland Way with friends, and whilst I appreciate that the accommodation en route of a National Trail is always going to be a premium price, I was really shocked at the poor value for money. If I had been travelling solo I’d have back packed the route, but that option wasn’t available on this occasion.
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