We’ve provided serviced hotel accommodation for students and others since 1988. Paying weekly allows you to move out quickly if needed. Please tell us one week in advance.
Guests become licensees, not tenants. The Renters’ Rights Act doesn’t apply and there’s no formal contract. Licensees share their facilities with other guests and the landlord himself. Facilities include the kitchen, the dining room, the car park, cycle storage, the showers, the toilets, hot water, broadband, bedding, towels, toilet paper, fridges, the kitchen and its utensils.
You may request an evening meal for an additional fee. Your friend may sleep overnight in your room for a small charge. The landlord can enter your room to check its condition, make repairs or empty electric submeters. You’re welcome to move to a different room if you think it’s nicer.
The landlord can enter your room to check its condition, make simple repairs or empty the electric meter. Sometimes at reasonable notice, the landlord might need you to swap to a different room for bigger repairs or repainting.
Rules of the house
Pay your weekly hotel tariff every Monday for the week in advance in cash, not cheque or card or transfer.
Please tell us one week before you move out. Clean your room. Leave it undamaged.
Keep noise to a minimum, especially late at night. This is a comfortable and safe place to live. Let’s keep it that way.
Daytime guests must leave before midnight. Tell us in advance if your guest stays overnight, and pay a small fee.
You’re welcome to smoke cigarettes in your room. Use an ashtray. Open the window. NEVER SMOKE HASHISH!
You’re welcome to use the shared kitchen. Wash your dishes after use. Don’t wash your laundry in the kitchen.
Never use tape or tacks to fit posters in your room! Please use the wall-mounted notice boards provided.
If your car is in our car park, write your room number on a piece of paper inside your windscreen.
NEVER use toasters or candles in your bedroom. They set off the fire alarms.
Some guests need to return to their own city or country for a few weeks or months. We can store your bags free of charge in a locked room until you return.
Compulsory identity check
The law requires us to check your identity before you move in. It’s compulsory EVERYWHERE in the UK. Any landlord who doesn’t check your identity and keep a copy is breaking the law.
Gone are the simple high-trust days when you’d give us money in exchange for keys.
Every guest (including British nationals) must provide a copy of their passport, UK driving licence or equivalent. Foreign nationals must also provide their “Share Code”, issued by the Home Office.
How to do it
Very easy.
1. Book a room by emailing us from this website’s Contact page. We’ll confirm your booking, subject to your identity check. Next –
2. Photograph your passport or equivalent document. Add your name and your share code very clearly.
3. Send the image to us by emailing it to: idproof@happyhotel.org.uk. Nothing else is required.
Emailing your identity means we can check and store it in our records. This is compulsory in law. It’s illegal if we don’t do it.