Do they still give the crew a €30 allowance for crew meals for the 3 of them for the whole tour?
If you're referring to the "crew box" kept onboard, then yes. But that's really just to be packed with "emergency" items in case we're really stuck.
In reality, we get crew meals thrown in as standard from quite a few of our main catering suppliers. Plus daily per diems for each crew member, depending on contract and location, but average around £35-40 per day.
What we found is they do 17/13 rosters but you stay sometimes longer due to ops needs.
17/13 correct. Travel on Day 1 and Day 17 so 15 days flying in between. Once in the last 12 months been asked to extend one day at the end of rotation. However, quite often get home one day early provided the replacement crew member has arrived. Also some times on standby at home, full pay but no per diems.
Hotels are just low class to average what I heard and in general lots of working.
Except for minor cities without chain hotels, the lowest class is normally Holiday Inn or equivalent (and I've seen even the likes of Netjets, and Emirates, are staying in Holiday Inn's these days....). Quite often Hilton/Radisson Blu, sometimes even better if you get lucky.