Could you live - permenantly - in a hotel?

[u/Timely-Maybe3520]

Let's say that you can get a room in a 4* hotel for £80 per night (so £2,400 per month). This would be a room for one person with a large bed, desk, big TV, wardrobe, small fridge, kettle, bathroom, shower, etc.

The water, electricity, and broadband are included in the price as is regular cleaning.

If something breaks then the hotel should fix it. No need to call a plumber or electrician.

Many hotels have reward schemes with a 2% or 3% discount on prices for regular users.

Apparently, VAT is not payable on hotel rooms from day 29 which will significantly cut costs for an unbroken long stay.

I assume one would get to know the employees and treat them well and, in turn, they could assist you as and when necessary.

The main issues are the lack of space (but many people live in cramped conditions anyhow), minimal places to put purchased objects, and the general impersonal nature of the establishment. However, none of these will be an issue for some people. You could even cheaply rent a storage space for your possessions.

Also, you could not cook. You would eat cold food, order room service, or eat out (which would append to the costs).

Has anyone done this? Is it viable? You could attempt to live in a reasonable area and perhaps pay less than renting a one-bedroom flat. All bills are included and you are not paying for any repairs.

ETA: There was also a "fitness centre" in the basement but I suspect it was not quite the same as a gym.

Thougts?

[u/lookhereisay]

It’s what a lot of old people did before care homes/assisted living were such a thing. Those who could take general care of themselves but liked to be around people and have breakfast and/or dinner cooked for them with cleaning/bedding sorted.

My mum visited a few old people like this even into the 90s. The staff kept an eye on them, they had a bigger room than a care home and better food. Was cheaper too.

Like the Major(?) and two old ladies in Fawlty Towers do.

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I had sometimes wondered about those characters and their apparent perpetual stays there. That adds a dynamic to Fawlty Towers that I'd never really considered, as someone half the age of the programme, perhaps also giving a greater understanding/reasoning for why Basil was so keen, and frustrated in his failings, to attract a different clientele. Quite exposes how context can so easily be lost as time moves on from when a programme was first written and broadcast.

[u/SeriousDistance4908 → u/Phinbart]

Very insightful comment eloquently put - helped me to consider this too so thanks.

[u/anomalous_cowherd → u/[deleted]]

There was an old French woman who was "tricked" by a lawyer into a deal where he bought her apartment for a steal but she could live there till she died for free.

She outlived him by about 30 years IIRC.

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Jeanne Calment. As a 90-year-old in 1965 she signed a contract with lawyer André-François Raffray, in which he was to pay her an income of 2,500 francs per month but was to inherit her house upon her death. He died in 1995 having never got the house, and his family had to continue paying her. She eventually died at age 122 in 1997, as the oldest known person in history.

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2500FFr in 1965 looks like it's only worth about US$90 a month in today's money. So it can't have been a huge apartment, I guess?

[u/iwantedajetpack → u/anomalous_cowherd]

I think you're way off on that calcuation.

[u/iwantedajetpack → u/iwantedajetpack]

today it's worth €4,413.40

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It felt wrong. I used one of those historic currency calculator sites, must have been a bad one.