Accomodation costs
Scroggs et al,
I am currently looking at accomodation in Bournemouth as I will be starting my CPL/IR in the next couple of months. There are various options available from basic B&B's, guesthouses, small/big hotels and living with families. If you leave it to the last minute then you might be able to swing a house share through something like the Gumtree website.
After looking at all of the above I am going for a room in a private house with a nice old duck and I understand a couple of other wannabees occupy the other rooms so hopefully I will have no shortage of drinking buddys. Price is £105 per week which includes all your meals. Nothing else to pay her and you get the full run of the place. The multi/CPL/IR will take me about 3 months as a cautious estimate so it will be 3 months of that plus the other indicidentals that crop up eg: beer money, meals out etc when you get cabin fever. This type of arrangement depends a lot on timing and being in the right place at the right time. You wouldn't expect to get something as cheap as this for attending say a 2 week brush up course. For that I know guys are getting rates of about £20-25 a night B&B.