The benefits of serviced apartments for both travellers and the buying community have been overlooked for far too long, largely due to a lack of awareness and education about the sector.
Corporate travel buyers are wasting hundreds of thousands of pounds a year on accommodation. This is according to research carried out by Marlin Apartments, provider of owner occupied serviced apartments in London.
Major corporate travel buyers managing accommodation for 100 travellers staying in London for 30 nights per year can save £277,350 per annum simply by switching from hotels to serviced apartments.
Marlin Apartments’ calculations show that corporate buyers – large and small – can save between 30 and 40 per cent on their accommodation costs by making the switch. Booking a four-star equivalent Marlin serviced apartment in central London, for example, can save buyers 37 per cent, or £92.45, per night.
“As well as being significantly more cost effective than equivalent hotel stays, serviced apartments offer corporate travellers all of the facilities and benefits they are used to from hotel accommodation, plus they offer corporate travellers the freedom to spend their down time as they please rather than being tied to the inflexibility of a hotel stay. Marlin Apartments, in particular, are also considerably more spacious than a hotel room with their own living rooms and fully-specced kitchens as well as a separate bedroom and bathroom,” commented Marlin Apartments’ managing director Susan Cully.
“The benefits of serviced apartments for both travellers and the buying community have been overlooked for far too long, largely due to a lack of awareness and education about the sector. But, through word of mouth and support from ASAP, the Association of Serviced Apartment Providers, buyers and travellers are becoming increasingly aware of the multiple benefits that they offer and the sector is finally getting the recognition it deserves.”
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