An upside to the recession is that despite having our work travel budget slashed, a lot of the decent hotels have drastically dropped their prices. So via the power of Lastminute.com booked this gorgeous hotel in Liverpool city centre for the same price as the shitty Travelodge near Cambridge Mosh and I had the misfortune of spending the night in back in March.
In fact we have been staying in nicer hotels for less money than we were able to book before the economy went tits up.
And this was the view from my room: