Friday, January 27, 2006
Holiday lets
New money, Marble Arch style!
I've just read an article in The Times describing how Marble Arch, one of London's tourist landmarks is to be let on a self catering basis for those wishing to use it as a base to tour central London from.
Suddenly it occurred to me that here is a source of income that we may be missing out on in South Tyneside.
Some colleges and Universities around the U.K. allow visitors to rent student accomodation outside of term time (generally during the summer months) and it provides additional revenue to the institution.
The students' residence at the Winterbottom Hall, annexed to South Tyneside College at the head of Westoe Village, currently offers accomodation to scholars during term time on a bed and breakfast basis, or bed and breakfast plus evening meal (taken in the hostel's dining room.) The rooms are furnished with basic essentials but are clean and warm, more importantly they are situated within a twenty minute walk of the town centre , the Leas, and the Sandhaven beach. These rooms could provide an ideal haven for those wishing to make short stay, cheap visits to South Shields and the surrounding areas in the summer.
It is becoming a fashionable and economic way for small families to enjoy short break holidays around the U.K. as this search on Google illustrates. London, as the nation's capital becomes so much more affordable if you decide to stay at the Halls of Residence in High Holborn, (just five minutes from Covent Garden and Shaftesbury Avenue) at prices from just over twenty pounds per head, per night.
Winterbottom Hall is not large enough to house all of our students, and many of them rent flats and houses throughout the town, which again, will be unused, or under occupied in the summer months. Perhaps the landlords could be persuaded to put together a joint plan to attract more summer visitors to the town, involving letting their accomodation at attractive rates to the short term visitor.
We should always be receptive to new or imaginative methods of raising revenue or controlling costs.......as they say at Tesco;
"every little helps".
Links
The Times, Marble Arch holiday flats
Dr. Winterbottom Hall of Residence
London out of term student accomodation
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