At Serviced City Pads, we have noticed over the last 2.5 years a growth in the requirement for what Martin Holt, the Sales Director at Serviced City Pads has termed Intermediate stays (estate agents in London have started to call them Short Lets). These are stays of between 6 weeks and 6 months, it may be for a group of project workers working away from home or a team of consultants staying in another city. Short stay corporate accommodation requirements: often business people working away for a night or so who either want to stay in a serviced apartment or a hotel who are happy to spend £100 per night. They may be in London for a couple of nights a week and then head back home or back to their office. In this case the apartments are fully serviced – usually once or twice a week – with linen and towels changed and the serviced apartment cleaned throughout.

The Intermediate stays that are required are normally required at prices lower than those offered by serviced apartment operators. However, the project team don’t want the hassle of on AST. A 6-12 month AST can, on the face of it be a very reasonably priced option but it is not a flexible option for the corporate client who will not want the hassle of setting up standing orders for electricity bills, telephones, broadband accounts and council tax. On the other hand, if they are going to stay in an apartment for 3 months then they are often happy enough to do their own cleaning and servicing.

This is where an Intermediate stay comes into it’s own. Intermediate stay apartments London are often provided to the market not by serviced apartment operators but by city centre letting agents or property developers. In this instance all bills for the property are covered within the rent. This is a turn key accommodation in London solution, effectively a serviced apartment without the servicing element. The prices that can be offered to the corporate client make the stay much more affordable and the client can retain the flexibility of not being tied to a 12 month contract. Bookings are usually made by the month with each month paid in advance. These fees are generally not refundable but include all bills such as wi-fo, electricity and water. Apartments for Intermediate stays are fully furnished to the same standards as you would expect hotels and serviced apartments in London and across the UK. 

Serviced City Pads now has a number of corporate clients who are making requests for these intermediate stays and would like to speak to more companies who have similar accommodation requirements.

At the same time, Serviced City Pads is keen to speak with more city centre letting agents across the UK to discuss how we can help provide better returns on their properties.  

If you are interested to learn more about Serviced City Pads and Intermediate stays in city centre apartments then call 0844 335 8866 and we will be delighted to discuss with you.

The title poses a genuine question. Is your business still booking hotel rooms for it’s employees who work away from home? Not only is this a genuine question, but the emphasis of the question is on the word “still”. It would be wrong to suggest that staying in a hotel is an out of date form of corporate accommodation. What is unusual is the lack of understanding amongst corporate accommodation bookers the opportunity to use serviced apartments. There seems to be a misconception that you can only book short stay apartments for months at a time. This is simply not the case. Serviced apartments can be booked from as little as 1 night, whether that is to stay in London or other UK cities.

At Serviced City Pads, we find that once a company has placed an employee in a serviced apartment, they usually book there again. It is the first step from booking a hotel in London (for example) to booking a London serviced apartment, that is the biggest step. It is much like procurement divisions who have only ever bought IBM computers or consumers who have always bought Hoover branded vacuum cleaners. A habit! This is a habit that needs to be broken (Dyson managed to break the strangelhold that Hoover had on the domestic cleaning market), and like many other industries the serviced apartment booking industry needs to educate the corporate customer that an apartment in London is a fantastic alternative to staying in a London serviced apartment. Amazingly, many of the people we speak to don’t even enjoy staying in a hotel. It’s just that habit again.

At Serviced City Pads, we actually feel that staying in a hotel in London for very short stays is the right option to go with (rather than book a corporate apartment in london). However, as soon as that stay becomes more than a couple of days you have to ask yourself would you rather be in a cramped hotel room or have the space and relaxed atmosphere of a serviced apartment. Once a stay is forecast to be 3 days or more, Serviced City Pads suggests that the comapny in question should then consider booking a London serviced apartment.

Serviced City Pads is a company that specialises in booking serviced apartments around the UK. We have developed relationships with many apartment operators around the UK to ensure that we find the perfect accommodation at competitive prices for our corporate clients who continue to book with us.

For more information us, please go to www.servicedcitypads.com and we will be delighted to discuss your business accommodation requirements and let you know why staying in a serviced apartment in London is a viable alternative to booking a London hotel room.

London may be a world-class city, but it also one of the most expensive places in the world. This means that looking for reasonably priced corporate accommodation in London can be a real headache.

But, clearly, London’s importance as the UK’s capital and an international commercial centre means that your organisation will probably do business in the city at some stage. And if you’re not based there, you’ll need somewhere for your staff to stay.

Sometimes the sheer choice of corporate accommodation around London can seem overwhelming! While there is an almost endless range of hotels, those at the cheaper end of the market can be of variable quality.

Serviced apartments offer your staff a home from home, and an excellent, spacious base from which to work or hold meetings. Your colleagues will be well-connected with Broadband and a direct-dial telephone.

When it comes to catering, serviced apartments can also save you money on both restaurant bills (especially important in a pricy city like London), and the cost of hiring a separate meeting room or buying food and drink for clients.

At Serviced City Pads, we’re a leading provider of this kind of corporate accommodation in London and across the UK. You can be assured of the quality of all our properties.

We have luxury serviced apartments across the capital, including in areas like Maida Vale, Canary Wharf and the City. With prices starting at £115 a night for a property sleeping two people, take a closer look at how our kind of corporate accommodation in London can save you money compared to hotels. Our rates include utility bills, council tax and broadband connections.

Get in touch today and find out more about how to save money next time you need corporate accommodation in London.