Guest Houses

Guest houses are one possible alternative for those looking for the cheapest accommodation at home and abroad. Guest houses have always been popular with younger travellers looking for cheap city-centre hotels in Europe, but a new generation of bright trendy hostels and bright contemporary budget hotels has increasingly left guest houses for the impecunious or the unprepared! Nevertheless, cheap guest houses are sometimes the only alternative in the more unremarkable of provincial towns and villages or in situations where the only alternative is prohibitively expensive!

 

Nowadays, many will find cheap guest houses at best uninspiring or at worst depressing! It is still common to find guest houses with shared bathrooms and alarmingly thin walls! Guests may also find the guest house experience too close to living in the owner’s private house! In fact finding a room in a cheap guest house abroad can be surprisingly difficult since many rooms are occupied by students, migrant workers or long term residents. Not for nothing are many cheap guest houses in Spain known as residencias. In general a good cheap 2 star hotel or budget hotel will offer considerable more privacy and comfort for little extra expense. New-generation motels have provided an economical alternative to cheap guest houses for those travelling by car. Use our online search to find cheap hotels in Europe.

 

Guest houses in the UK are something of a dying breed. With many travellers and holidaymakers assuming guest houses leave something to be desired, most cheap hotels strive for 2 star or B&B hotel status. The description bed and breakfast hotel or budget hotel tends to avoid associations with chilly living rooms and draconian landladies! To be fair, you can still find good UK guest houses in the more traditional resorts. Those hoping to find cheap guest houses in countries like Greece and Turkey are far better served by our top 1 star and 2 star hotel bargains, which include plenty of attractive, small-scale, family-run accommodation. You are very unlikely to want a guest house in popular beach holiday destinations like Egypt or Turkey, where even luxury hotels are remarkably cheap! The same is obviously true foe exotic destinations like Tunisia, Goa, Morocco, Gambia and the Caribbean! Our online search has details of good cheap hotels worldwide.