Hello and welcome to episode 220 of what most people think and I join you following, so

I'm recording on the Monday afternoon, following a mammostint on tour where I was pretty pleased

with myself because I had gigs in Cardiff, Swindon, Bristol and Exitr and I pitched up in a

travelodge just in Swindon, right? Travelodge in Swindon, it already sounds pretty sort of as

low as you can go in terms of sort of comfort, luxury and environment and then as I was checking in

to the travelodge there was a little sign saying that don't open the windows because pigeons might fly in

and you just think of the travelodge experience, how could they raise the bar again but they just find

ways of doing it and joining me this week to co-host is a man who will know plenty about life on the

road and budget hotels, it's Simon Evans. Simon, what sort of level do you invest in hotel-wise when

you're on the road? Well I generally just look on like booking.com or somewhere to see what's going

cheap around and if it is a travelodge that's fine but I've got to say the travelodge is not always

the most bargain level at the moment, is it? There's been a bit of a hike in there but quite often

three digits for travelodge which I do bulk out and it does depend obviously whether you are as

you say, stay in there for a few nights, I stayed in one in Oakhampton in Devon three nights just

before the pandemic came down, I remember it still and I thought, oh, Oakhampton, that sounds nice,

it was like a truck stop and it was just the most dismal but I felt like Alan Partridge you know

in his door but you know just like is this what my life has come to, they get to know you at the

subway, I mean to be honest, if you've got anything like half decent numbers on tour I think it

is probably worth investing in decent hotels but it's easy to say that in a podcast when the finger

hovers over the mouse, you know, when the finger hovers over the mouse, yeah that moment, I mean

I'll say this four nights, 260 all in for four nights so I felt pretty good, that's with

Wi-Fi, I mean the one thing it did say which I thought was fairly ambitious is in the lift,

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