24/03/2009 - UK hotel prices down as others rise
Figures show that the average price of a UK hotel room fell by 12% in the last three months of 2008, but accommodation at many popular overseas destinations increased.
According to Hotels.com, the average UK room price fell to £93 per night in the final quarter of last year compared with the same period in 2007.
But one night in a Swiss hotel rose on average by 22% to £120, while a night in a hotel in Greece also went up by 15% and in France prices rose by 11%.
In the UK, however, the average hotel room in London fell by 12% from £126 per night at the end of 2007 to £111 at the end of 2008, and in Edinburgh prices fell from £99 to £95.
The average cost of a night in a Belfast hotel dipped 17% to £83, but Cardiff bucked the trend with prices rising slightly from £87 at the end of 2007 to £93 at the end of last year.
Figure show that the most expensive city at the end of 2008 was Moscow, with rooms costing an average of £207 a night - a fall from the £220 it cost to stay in the Russian capital at the end of 2007.
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