Accommodation & Sustenance
For long distance travel
Our work is physically demanding and often requires long/late hours. For distance driving we don’t risks on the road, and the provision of accommodation and food is very much appreciated.
1 night bed & breakfast is required if the travel time is...
Over 1 hour – if finished by midnight.
Over 45 minutes – if finished later than midnight
Over 30 minutes – if finished later than 2:00 am
(We use Google Maps for miles/travel time)
Over 3.5 hours travel time
We will need to travel and arrive the day before your booking, and travel home the day after, so it requires us to spend around 3 days away. This means we’re unable to take any other bookings the day before or after your event, so there is an additional £400.00 fee for each additional day to help compensate for this.
The reason we set the guide-time at 3.5 hours is because your event is very important to us. We feel that to travel on the day would risk traffic delays and tiredness before a long nights work. It is important to ensure that we are on time, fresh and on top form for your booking, and a decent nights kip, no travel stress and food is key to this!
Travel time: £25.00 per hour for every hour over 1 hour journey.
Sustenance: £15.00 each per day away
Over 6 hours or abroad
We’ve toured in Europe, and even as far as New Zealand, East Africa, New York, Scotland and the Isle of Wight! So please contact us to discuss travel options.
Accommodation requirements
We are very grateful for a good night’s sleep and food, but where realistically possible we like to support an independent B&B/hotel.
- 2 rooms
- Breakfast
- Parking
– Off-road/safe (we have expensive/rare kit)
– Height barriers – over 2.4m high (worth double-checking for London bookings!)
Notes:
Please be aware of hidden accommodation costs!
Although we prefer to avoid accommodation chains, we are aware that in some cases there’s no choice due to location and availability. We are still very grateful for your provision of accommodation. However, from experience we have found that the ‘chains’ (I won’t mention names!) often have some cheeky ‘hidden costs’ (such as parking). This often parking, and the cost of breakfast is often well over-priced for the quality. So for this we suggest that instead of your paying them, that you pay us a sustenance of £12.00 each and we’ll make our own arrangements at a local cafe (we’re quite partial to a village tea-room!).
Please send us a copy of accommodation receipts
Being on the road a lot has meant we’ve experienced all-sorts of ‘interesting’ accommodation (mostly lovely we’re glad to say!). However, we once arrived at a hotel our client had booked for us to find that they’d ‘sold’ our booking to a tourist offering more money, and it was too late for our us or our client to find and book anything else so we had a rather uncomfortable night in the van among our kit! (needless to say we all added ‘appropriate’ reviews for this hotel on Tripadvisor!). On another occasion our client had booked and paid for our stay in a hotel, but on arrival the hotel manager insisted that it hadn’t been paid for and attempted to charge us again, meaning that our client had the inconvenience of having to deal with the situation during the event.
The reason we recommend sending us copies of receipts is because we aim to have everything completed before the event, minimising the risk of any inconveniences during the event. We can resolve most issues that might arise ourselves without inconveniencing you, so that you are able to focus on far more important activities …like eating cup-cakes, drinking and dancing!
If you have any further questions, please feel very welcome to contact us.