Jubilee weekend hotel costs shoot up

Families are facing price increases to stay in hotels over the Queen’s diamond jubilee bank holiday weekend – even in Scotland – it was revealed today.

Average four-night hotel prices in London for the jubilee weekend in early June are 54 per cent more than for a four-night stay in May 2012, with some establishments charging 223 per cent more, figures from bank group Santander showed.

Prices for the jubilee weekend were 28 per cent higher in Edinburgh hotel.

Based on a family of four staying four nights from 2 June, the figures showed that those splashing out on five-star accommodation in London would be paying an average of 81 per cent more than they would for a four-night stay starting on 12 May.

The jubilee increase for those staying in three-star hotels in London is 26 per cent.

Santander said the jubilee rises were far higher in London than for last year’s royal wedding period when it found a 26 per cent average rise in accommodation costs in the capital, with the highest rise being 113 per cent.