LTNman
I recall those postings and in fairness to SEN they were budget travellers who flatly refused to pay for accommodation, being a seaside town Southend is packed with moderately priced guest houses and similar but if people refuse to dip their hands in their pockets what is one supposed to do.
These days I'm a hotelier selling budget priced rooms on a 'room only' basis, all the time I get "Does it include a free breakfast?", "Can we use your restaurant kitchen to cook our own food?", "Can we borrow cups, plates, knives and forks etc?" ... I've had enough of them by now and those women, quite wrongly, presumed that SEN would provide them with free overnight accommodation and I for one had no sympathy with them.