What can £1 get you in London? Two sips of a macchiato? A 36 second local call in a public telephone box? 27 seconds of a hot stone massage? 20 seconds parking in Park Lane? Or how about a ten person Ultimate Sleepover in London's coolest hotel?
Qbic Hotel London City is marking the launch of its rolling #QbicForAQuid sale by giving one person the chance to win the Ultimate Sleepover in London for them and nine friends for just £1. The prize includes an overnight stay in five double rooms at Qbic, including breakfast, together with cronuts and coffee at the local Rinkoffs bakery. In the evening, the winners will have complimentary tickets to the latest hotspot to open in Shoreditch – Blues Kitchen. All for just one pound.
This giveaway is to mark the launch of Qbic's rolling monthly promotion to give away hundreds of rooms for just £1. With up to five rooms available at the super low price every day, there is plenty of opportunity to snap up a stay for a bargain.
To be in with a chance of winning the Ultimate Sleepover entrants need to like the Qbic London Facebook page, enter their email address and share the Qbic banner with nine of their chosen friends. Those not lucky enough to win the ultimate sleepover will be automatically entered into the Qbic £1 sale. Normal prices at the hotel are from £69 per room per night, inclusive of free high-speed WiFi, but from April 2014, 100 rooms will be available for £1, for an hour every month. All the proceeds will go to the hotel's charity partners.
Qbic For A Quid: 1 night, 1 pound, 100 every month
The Qbic £1 one-hour sale is easy to enter via the hotel's social media channels or newsletter. Those who successfully make it through to the £1 booking engine can pick from a list of available dates for the following month. The £1 donation is made at check-in, when guests can choose which of Qbic's charity partners they wish to support (of course, everyone is more than welcome to donate a little extra to help boost the charities' takings!)
Those who don't secure a £1 room will still receive a special treat from Qbic, and are free to enter again next month.
The first batch of 100 rooms was released in the first week of April for stays in May. The promotion will run throughout 2014 and follow the same format.
To be in with a chance of seizing a £1 room, guest need to sign up for the Qbic e-newsletter via the website www.qbichotels.com or connect through the Qbic Facebook page Qbic London, or Twitter @QbicLondon following #QbicForAQuid. The release of the £1 rooms will be announced on these channels 24 hours prior to the start of the sale each month.
Honourable mention: Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel helps guests recognize Earth Month
As the world recognizes Earth Month 2014 in April and Earth Day on April 22, vacationers and business travellers at the Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel can participate in "Make a Green Choice," a sustainability program which allows guests to decline housekeeping in order to reduce water consumption, energy usage and helps the environment.
Each day a guest declines housekeeping service saves almost 40 gallons of water, enough electricity to run a laptop for 10 hours, 25,000 BTU's of natural gas and seven ounces of chemicals. Each guest decides how much to participate during one's stay.
Added incentive
Those who participate upon arrival at the hotel's front desk will receive a $5 food and beverage voucher or 500 Starpoints for each day housekeeping service is declined. Starpoints can be used toward free hotel room nights without blackout dates starting at just 2,000 points. They also can be used directly for travel with more than 350 airlines with no blackout dates.
The hotel's "Make a Green Choice" is available to any guest staying more than one night.
