Top 4 Places We Stayed At In The UK

[@midwestamericans3806]

This is from our trip that we took to the UK in June of 2022. A few months late but still wanted to share it with you all. Thank you all once again for helping make the trip possible and hoping that we will be able to go back sooner than later. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

[@davidheart8912]

Llandudno is said like this: Lan dud no.

[@davidheart8912]

If the London place was in your top 4, I dread to think what the last 2 were like that you didn't show us. i have seen better than that for the same price.

[@lorddaver5729]

Where is Edinbrough?

[@mikepxg6406]

I would love to sit and chat with you two. OK first.... old buildings in UK are subject to rules regarding what you can do to them. law prevents changes to a lot of old buildings even if you own them outright, so we don't lose our history that's why they are often like they are. it is often illegal to change too much and installing an elevator would definitely be a no go. It Looks like you stayed in private bed and Breakfast style accommodation, these are very different to hotels in UK. Also Toilets are like this throughout the world except North America so you are the odd ones out. Those heating radiators are in fact part of a central heating system it's just more efficient than yours. Thanks for the great fun videos. best wishes Mike UK.

[@brabusta]

It’s Edinburgh not Edinbrough! 😊

[@martinmorgan4215]

Your enthusiasm for the kettle made me laugh. Don't forget that it will take longer to boil with your 110v mains.

[@_starfiend]

But not by as much as you might think. Technology Connections did a brilliant YT vid back in about May '22 all about kettles in the US.

[@matthewb9621]

Id reccomend getting a 'SMEG' branded kettle. They are fairly expensive. But rather good. They look nice. They are ergonomucally pleasing. And if you like Red Dwarf, will make you chuckle as it has 'SMEG' eriþen in bild letters on it.

[@Charlieb82]

@@matthewb9621 smeg head 😝

[@marcwarren5985]

@@matthewb9621 those SMEG kettles clock in about £1.95 ph in the UK with the price rises

[@36814]

Anywhere outside London that first " hotel " would be considered a dive , a dump , a doss house . And for £110 a night you would expect a LOT more sophisticated and upscale room / facilities than you have there . But virtually EVERYTHING in London is a rip off .

[@Maria-js9ou]

they were in London for the jubilee, in june, it is to be expected that it would be more expensive than in a normal year

[@jamesxlennon]

For future reference: If you're staying in a hotel in the UK and you're in an old building, there most often won't be a lift. I wouldn't expect the hotel to tell you that because it's just kinda how things are in most countries that aren't the US or Canada. Old buildings don't have lifts and don't have the space to put in lifts, so you're gonna have to deal with stairs. EDIT: Don't buy a kettle in the US expecting it to boil like a Kettle in the UK. Your voltage is 120v instead of 240v so your kettle is going to boil REALLY slowly, unless you fork out for a super efficient "does stuff all fancy" kinda way. Might take some shopping around. Don't expect the average kettle over there to behave like the average kettle here!

[@littleannie390]

Hotels in London are very expensive. It is often best to stay at the cheaper chain hotels like Travelodge, Ibis or Premier Inns if you want modern facilities.

[@GaryHayward]

Those heaters-panel radiators, 12:00-have been around since about the 1960s in the UK as well as in continental Europe, and most homes have them, but they are *not* "old fashioned"; they are still what everyone wants and expects in homes, old and new. They are not quite the same as the ones that used to be installed in US homes, years ago: they ran on steam; ours run on hot water directly from a boiler-a hydronic system. And they're becoming more available in the US, commonly advertised as "European-style panel radiators", receiving very favourable reviews by people over there who have had them installed. One great thing about them is that, as the name indicates, they radiate a significant amount of heat, as well as convect it, so you can stand in front of one and it's like standing in front of a warm fire-great for warming yourself up when you get in from the cold outdoors. They're also great for draping damp laundry over to quickly dry it. "Central air" systems, common in the US, are *very* uncommon here (same applies to "baseboard", called "skirting board" in the UK, heaters, the finned variety a nightmare to dust and they and the concealed type require extensive runs in a room for adequate heat and they prevent furniture from being placed up against walls). I don't like them: the vents in every room allow not just warm air to circulate from room to room but also any particulates and odours, transmit sound and can be spied through-disturbance and privacy issues.

[@sampeeps3371]

It always blows my mind how unfamiliar americans are with kettles.

[@davidmalarkey1302]

It blows my mind to how willfullly ignorant Americans are

[@meanbiters]

Its because of their useless 120 volt supply, they can’t have a 3.2 kw kettle so it takes forever for electric to heat up water

[@HyperDaveUK]

An unexpected bonus from your 2022 trip! I've never seen anyone check out the electrical cupboard of their accom in youtube videos before!

[@midwestamericans3806]

Lol well I work in construction so I was curious.

[@steven54511]

In my experience of travelling and staying in London (which is not a lot, admittedly), I suspect that they (the owners) do try to take advantage of tourists and overcharge for what's on offer. Of course, that's not to say that they all overcharge mind you - and naturally, the further you get away from London, generally the cheaper and mostly better accomodation is available.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

The London Hotel is in Chelsea a extremely expensive area,the building looks Georgian so the walls will be brick and solid so the piping will have been added over 100 years after it was built so its visible. Its lovely you got to stay in various ages of buildings. I used to live in a cottage thet was mentioned in the Domes Day Book which was created in 1086 (I think). There was the original part of the cottage, the dinning room was a barn, the stone at the bottom of the walls and the beams by the walls were closer together for pushing the hay down from what was now my brothers room. There was a Victorian bit which was the hall now but was the kitchen and bedroom above. There was also a modern large extension. Anyway we had Canada visitors who slept in my extremely old very beamed bedroom. In the morning we asked if they slept well, no they didn't. They were freaked out at how old the place was and that it existed long before there country. We should have put them in the modern end!!!

[@willswomble7274]

While you stayed in the older, learning how to spell and master grammar!

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

@@willswomble7274 iv had a life time of comments like yours, I'm 52 now and well DYSLEXIA.

[@GaryHayward]

BTW, the door of a front-loading washing machine is meant to be left open a little when you're not washing anything as this prevents mould on the rubber seal between the door and the drum, something I've heard a few US Americans complain about who didn't know to do this.

[@petersymonds4975]

Hello both. Glad to see you again. Liked the reviews, they seemed quite accurate. Llandudno grew when the railways started up. At the same time some rights were given to workers. They suddenly had leisure time and so a railway could bring them from the north and the Midlands to the seaside. The pier in Llandudno allowed pleasure steamers from Liverpool to dick and drop passengers off for several hours, or pick them up a few days later. Loads of seaside towns throughout the UK have piers. Not many have regularly operating boats, I can remember going from Bournemouth to the Isle Of Wight when I was a child, and from Penarth to Ilfracombe and Minehead a few years ago.

[@laguna3fase4]

I love the way you refer to the sea as the ocean. I guess where you live is several thousand miles away from either the Atlantic ocean or Pacific. We have seas before we get to the ocean, (unless you live in the West of Cornwall or North of Scotland. ) Llandudno will be the Irish Sea.

[@countrysidelivingadventure1283]

You appeared in my local paper recently after your visit to my town.

[@midwestamericans3806]

The Llandudno paper?

[@russcattell955i]

Just watched the London part, allowing for the building was likely built before domestic plumbing it is still a bit shabby. Hey that's London prices.

[@richt71]

Rooms with multiple double beds are rare in London and in many parts of the UK. Chelsea is a very expensive area of London, with apartments going for millions!

[@tedbriskett2962]

I never seen somebody so excited about seeing a kettle 😂

[@dianeehlen9794]

Sha red bathrooms! I didn’t know it was still possible to find those! It sounds like a Bed and Breakfast.

[@hazelanderson1479]

I’m glad that you enjoyed your visit to the UK, and hope that you’ll return some day soon. Although I’ve never been brave enough to stay at an Airbnb, the accommodation seemed okay. If you don’t want to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest, you’d probably do better with a Travelodge or Premier Inn. Granted, you wouldn’t have private access to a washing machine, cooker, or microwave oven, but they do have lifts! By the way, who is the owner of The Dead Zone?! I love that book, and take it with me on long journeys to keep the spirits up!!

[@matc6221]

Your hotels got better, I liked the basement room one the most. That black kettle in the London room, looks like the exact one I have, especially if the water lights up blue on boil 😉. And yeah though button flush system's are a pain in the butt because they seem to be designed to wear out after a couple of years. I've had 3 new systems (you usually have to replace the whole internal mechanism even for a worn washer ). What happened to the old style flush handle? One would last a lifetime. Oh no now I sound like a grumpy old fart 😁

[@ethelmini]

The switches are exactly the same. It's only the bit you're pushing in instead of flicking up or down. Both are failsafe with the on position for the contacts highest so gravity turns them off if bits break off or melt. I'd call only two hotels (London & LLandudno). London probably being aimed at workers rather than tourists. Edinburgh was a tenement & would have originally been a family home. York was a converted basement that might have been rented, long term, as a flat before Air BnB. Hence the 2 big switches - the supply will have been split with another consumer unit in the house above. The full opening windows will be required by fire regulations for use as fire escapes, hopefully after the fire fighters have turned up with a ladder! Suggests they weren't purpose built hotels that would have multiple exits designed in internally. The toilet outlet is on the back because we don't often have the open space under properties that you do. It's as close as you can get to the U bend trap incorporated in the toilet, so it's more flexible for fitting options.

[@stuarthastie6374]

Chelsea is right on the flight path. Besr place ive stayed was in Clapnam south of the river.

[@HootMaRoot]

Our toilets are like that because the u bend as it holds water stops smells coming up from sewerage pipes, we have these u bends on all waste water items like sinks, toilets, baths and even where the water drains into from house gutters But I think the outside u bends are to stop rats/mice climbing in or out of drainage/soakaway systems

[@ethelmini]

I'm sure US bogs have U bends too. They'll exit through the floor because many American houses are built above ground level with all the services being accessible from underneath.

[@davidbirchall832]

Before you question the price of a room in Chelsea, Google property prices in the area...you will be appalled 🤣

[@jamesgraham814]

Glad you enjoyed Llandudno in my home country, Wales (I visit there often). I’m surprised there were no mixer taps though, everyone I know has them here! Keep up the great videos 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸 👍🏻

[@IceSparksGlacialhub_Creations]

lol your reaction with a kettle amused me there a must in the uk for coffee tea hot chocolate any hot drink really

[@Maria-js9ou]

Surprised to see that an AirBnb has a SMEG fridge! This fridge in York with a 1950s design is from an Italian brand, where the design is especially careful, and costs twice as much as a normal fridge from a good brand.

[@wilmaknickersfit]

I laughed at that bit! I would love to be able to afford a SMEG fridge!

[@amyw6808]

When we stay in London, we tend to go for premier inn as London hotels can be complete dives and you always know you’re safe with premier inn

[@matthewdale4135]

With regards to the switches, it comes from previous switches that were coloured red on top to show the switch is on rather than having a light. If the switch was used the same way as the US you would not see the red bit :)

[@michaelaudreson7761]

Worth looking at Premier Inn. They will charge rates based on demand so hotels in the centre are always going to be pricey but you can usually get a room in the suburbs for around £60 which will have a double bed and ensuite bathroom, and kettle! It wil take half an hour to get to the centre.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea we learned that and would use them in the future.

[@chrisward8323]

There is a utube American lady goes by the name of Love and London. She lives in London her channel gives ideas of where to stay in London and what to visit.

[@robharris8844U]

In London around £100 a night is pretty good to be truthful. As for the plumbing of course that was really to do with the age of the property, as many were built in Georgian and Victorian times and because of the bombing of London in WW2 many of the houses were rebuilt at the cheapest option ( Great Britain was bankrupted by the WW's ) as that was the quickest way to rehouse people. Many of them were terraced houses as that was the best for creating as many dwellings in a set area. They are compact and the replacing of them is ongoing. They will never be as big as US properties as unlike the US they are nearly always full brick/concrete construction as the UK does not have the space and brick is better insulation against wet weather and wind. In York,- that fridge is a SMEG make which are based on the US fifties style. The housing is generally the same right across the UK with slight differences due to updates incorporated into generally the same dimensions. Enjoy.

[@Chris_GY1]

Sinks are in the kitchen basins are in bathrooms or bedrooms. You called a heater a radiator, radiators are mounted on the wall. It’s a boiler not a water heater, some houses have a hot water tank in the airing cupboard which heats water in 30 minutes once a button is pressed I grew with this system.

[@MrSinclairn]

Very decent Edinburgh and York accommodation(incl. the old,trad. SMEG fridge😁),followed by Llandudno,but as for London,you could stays in,a lot worse for the same price!

[@IanDarley]

As a Brit, I have always thought it weird the way light switches are down for on here. All main breakers and switches for heavy equipment are up for on and down for off. This dates back to the old-fashioned 'knife' switches, they were always installed as up for on for safety reasons, because when they became loose they could fall down and turn something on by accident or electrocute somebody.

[@martintuck1551]

The switch has just been Installed upside down

[@Spank1973]

It's to make it easy to turn the light on in a dark room

[@IanDarley]

@@martintuck1551 No, light switches are intentionally installed with down for on in the UK, Australia, NZ, India and other commonwealth countries, despite this going against conventions for power breakers and other industrial switching.

[@willswomble7274]

Down for 'on' so you can get the light etc on quicker to me makes perfect sense!

[@welshgit]

@@willswomble7274 That's the exact same reason why industrial equipment is the other way around. If there is an emergency, and you need to switch something off quickly, down is the natural fast response.

[@raibeart1955]

The sink is for having a pee in when it’s freezing on the landing.😊 You can get hotel rooms much cheaper in the East End of london, and the tube is fairly regular if you wanted to tour the West End.All the best to you and yours. Rab

[@ColinRichardson]

13:27 - Two phases for the property the switches are Isolation switches. So you can safely open and change the Distribution Board (Breaker Box).. Otherwise, you have LIVE going in, and no way to safely replace the whole Distribution Board, as you would have LIVE wires going into it as you are trying to take it off the wall. To replace the first Isolator switches, you have to pull the 100amp "main fuse" for that phase, but you will notice they are metal cable tied in. Only the Electrical Network Operator is authorised to pull that fuse. Of course, Naughty DIYers or bad people do it with a simple pair of pliers. But that is them then taking their life into their own hands.

[@ColinRichardson]

PS: just to note, there is Single Insulated Wire exposed at the top of those isolator boxes.. That makes me uneasy.. I am assuming they were put in place with older regulations

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Ethan and Angela. I had been wondering about this side of your trip after your initial UK videos showed more of the places you stayed. I am no builder, but I did get professional help to do lot of the work in my house, so as to make it affordable by saving on the unskilled bits. I copied similar designs to the ones you showed, going off the generic style of the one I was renting opposite. I was thinking this when you showed the wallpaper. The rented house had the same pattern on one wall in the lounge, which felt so weird to see again on here. I enjoy you looking at the building and fittings. I also helped do some bits to earn my keep in Spain and got to see how their modern homes were different in the bricks and electric fittings and ratings. The UK filter kettle there had a habit of tripping the electric fuses if any moisture got on it. The ceramic bricks were hollow, so instead of all the chiseling solid brick for wiring, you could smash the surface to create a channel. They would have been a bit flimsy for the UK climate though. It made me wonder if different US states have different building regulations? Your country goes from Arctic to tropical and from desert to swamp.

[@midwestamericans3806]

We build mostly with wood so the wiring and plumbing just gets bored through the wood studs. They are usually 16 inches apart with dead space in between. Even with brick homes they are finished on the inside with wood studs. Commercial buildings used engineered metal studs but the rest is still the same.

[@andrewfolkard6347]

Wales place you went very nice area been before in the county hotel on sea front l. Massive seagull's and very windy at times

[@tamus41]

Personally, I thought the London and Edinburgh hotels were waaaay under par. Were they hotels or hostels? I would not have paid £100 per night. They were worth £40-50 pn. Tip for the future, if visiting the south east coast of Scotland, stay in Fife. Kirkcaldy is a scenic, 35 min train/car jourey to Edinburgh and Dundee, approx 2 hrs to Glasgow and great history all around. Hotels are a bit cheaper too.

[@midwestamericans3806]

They maybe were overpriced due to the jubilee? They were hotels and air bnb. We stayed in a couple hotels later and they were pretty standard but under $100.

[@wilmaknickersfit]

The Edinburgh place looked like a ex-council flat bought under the old right to buy rules. It looked like a holiday let to me e.g. Airbnb.

[@willswomble7274]

Not hotels, ABB, which have few if any rules, for cheapskate types!

[@mlee6050]

That bit not know looks like the isolator and meter before consumer unit that electric company own so best to not touch and what they control to lock power off from the home owner out the back I think as might be a U bend or something in back of toilet to try to stop if it comes back into toilet after flush

[@joyfulzero853]

Just one thing that gets me is you referring to the views of the "ocean". I know seawater is seawater but I think the only part of the UK that actually has an 'ocean view' would be the North coast of Northern Ireland and the Northern coast of Cornwall (off the top of my head). The rest is the North Sea, English Channel, Irish sea and Celtic Sea

[@tonys1636]

Defo budget places more AirBnB's than hotels. Budget hotels like Premier Inn or Travel Lodge would have been a better option. Often for less money per night out of city center from about £45 upwards per night per room. Booking online direct. Aimed at the business traveller market and family groups.

[@Maria-js9ou]

they were in London for the jubilee, in june, it is to be expected that it would be more expensive than in a normal year

[@MARC-p5w]

next time in the uk try travel lodge or premier inn

[@helenagreenwood2305]

The taps in the first room are separate taps - a mixer tap is one tap which releases both hot and cold water 👍 Central heating - it's normal to have individual settings on each radiator to control the temp in each room so you're not heating up rooms unnecessarily King Charles Coronation 👑 is May 6th come back for that there should be some events around the UK to celebrate it 🇬🇧

[@oakguard]

Light switches aren't always like this some people do just wire it the other way however we do it the way you found cause we've always done it like that plus some switches come with a red indicator in the on position

[@davidcook7887]

A kettle. It’s amazing. 😀

[@AnthonyValentine-vm1yc]

Noting all the quirky mundane foreign oddities when travelling is part of the experience. Us Brits when holidaying abroad to Europe all know to take a 2 pin electric adapter, cos their mains sockets only have 2 pins, not 3 as here in UK. Items I do not remove from suitcase after a trip are; 1 loo roll, travel elecy kettle, mosquito plug in thingy; oh and the missus, but she tends to escape.

[@RonSeymour1]

Chelsea is an expensive area. If you have an old house, you can gut it and completely modernise it, if permitted, and charge a fortune to rent it out. Or, you can do what this landlord has done, fitted it out to the bare minimum, charge a lesser rent and do away with all the modernisation costs. To be honest, it didn't look particularly clean either. You had the advantage of being based in a good area but you would have got far better accommodation by moving a few miles.

[@midwestamericans3806]

We only slept in it and pretty much stayed out as much as possible, it was a roof so can't complain about that for the money though not worth it. But they say its all about location.

[@jacquelinepearson2288]

Love that you are still compiling videos from your UK trip! I seem to remember that there was a teaser in a couple of the videos last year about the little flags left on doorsteps?

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea idk if well show that as it didn't turn out very well, we will explain it though.

[@GaryHayward]

The York basement flat and the Llandudno one were good; the others not so much.

[@TheTriadplus1]

You're lucky your window opened. Many hotel windows do not open so I always seek a place that has openable windows.

[@chrisshelley3027]

The UK is far enough north that in summer (and even more so in Scotland) it is classified as the sun not setting, you get used to it though some nights it's difficult to sleep, I can appreciate your frustration with this.

[@willswomble7274]

We in UK will have to alter the Earth's tilt for these morons next trip!

[@andyrutherford203]

Aggghhh that wiring is not to BS7671 standard very poor. how did it pass its inspection?

[@Evertonfootballclub-nk3kc]

Brilliant videos

[@daveofyorkshire301]

My toilet goes out the back straight into the external down pipe... You have to remember houses were built without inside toilets historically, so room was found inside for a toilet and external plumbing was created for the waste... It's easier routing it outside than in... My house for 3xample has no cellar and a concrete ground floor... It's not that easy to retro fit anything under those conditions, add the need to link up an entire neighbourhood you start to understand how retro fitting bathrooms and toilets was a logistical task requiring long-term consideration. I can't explain about new builds because I don't, and haven't lived in one.

[@stephenmitchell4098]

i just love the american fascination with british electrics!!! lol😀

[@gmdhargreaves]

The first place you mentioned was in Chelsea!! First off never stay in Chelsea, it’s super over priced and not that great a location! But if you were happy then fair play

[@midwestamericans3806]

Just didn't know the area all that well and just went with what we could get in that area.

[@oldman1734]

If you’re sharing a bathroom, then the place must be really cheap. In didn’t even know that such places existed now.

[@mikepxg6406]

The light switch is standard across Europe. US is the odd one out......

[@jacketrussell]

'Zero entry shower' AKA a wet room in the UK

[@willswomble7274]

Or does it mean zero gravity?

[@SMlFFY85]

That hotel compared to what you could have got for the same price or cheaper if you'd booked outside the centre of London. 😆

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Hello Guys, very interesting to see your reaction to British hotels !

[@midwestamericans3806]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@samsprrr3548]

The first one looks more like a b and b not a hotel ..the second looksike a normal 2 bedroom flat .the heating you talked about is central heating it's in 80% of homes.

[@timglennon6814]

You guys got ripped off with your hotel in Chelsea. I would of looked for a Premier Inn to stay in. I liked the fridge in the hotel in York.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea thats what we would do in the future.

[@craiggodard6419]

It's "Edinburgh" though I totally understand its hard to guess from how you say it

[@willswomble7274]

But if you visited even for the day, you would surely learn!

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

If you end up buying an electric kettle in the US, don't expect it to boil as quickly as they do in the UK. The much lower voltage in North America results in water taking three times as long to boil.

[@willswomble7274]

Why take a kettle (the cheapest small appliance) all the way to another continent, with 230 volts power supply and different standard plugs?

[@midwestamericans3806]

I found that out but its still better then a stovetop one.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

@@willswomble7274 It may surprise you to learn that US voltage kettles fitted with US standard plugs may be bought in the US. Somehow, the country's electronic industry has figured out how to do this. 🤭🙄

[@welshgit]

@@willswomble7274 ????

[@old.not.too.grumpy.]

£100 a night for a hotel room in London in the summer is very very cheep

[@sharonbunn2363]

That first place was filthy! I would've asked for my money back. I have worked in hotels and that is no better than a hostel.

[@82clive]

I watched all your holiday ( vacation ) videos & watched some from other USA Bloggers. The problem you face, is the measly leave allowance you get in the USA. After a long flight it is all too much of a whirl trying to see everything, and what with jet lag, it becomes counter-productive. If you can't get the tight B-st-rds to give you longer leave, I suggest restricting yourselves to one area.: London, the Isle of Wight, Wales or Scotland as examples. You don't waste so much time travelling around

[@willswomble7274]

Jeepers folks, it is in ultra expensive Chelsea for £30 each! What did you expect? Kensington Palace? It seems unbelievable value for the money even for a dosser's hostel, actually, but I'd rather pass and leave it for, say, Russian KGB hitmen carrying a very suspect 'perfume bottle'. All accommodation in the UK is covered by very strict laws and inspections regarding fire alarms, CO monitors, wiring etc, etc. If you somehow managed to find such a dodgy place, in one of the very swankiest of districts of one of the top three cities on Earth, you should have reported it in writing to the local authority or fire dept.

[@eddisstreet]

I've never heard of a place called Edinbrough

[@garyyeomans2369]

The place in london was cheap but minging. I liked the one in wales best.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea the one in Wales was nice.

[@annother3350]

did you buy a kettle?

[@betterhalf6868]

We did!

[@annother3350]

@@betterhalf6868 Do you use it?!

[@betterhalf6868]

@@annother3350 only just everyday 😋 although I usually use it to boil water for oatmeal for the kids and I

[@annother3350]

@@betterhalf6868 Apart from tea, I use it to boil up water quickly for when I'm cooking veg. Its so much quicker than waiting for a pan to boil👍

[@emmahowells8334]

So did you buy a kettle guys?.

[@midwestamericans3806]

I did yes!

[@emmahowells8334]

@@midwestamericans3806 Good, its such a normal thing in the UK, I guess we don't think anything of it, but I guess if you've ever had one, can be a help. 😊

[@jledgister]

The window was prob a 2 way it open out and down

[@wilmaknickersfit]

It looked like a tilt and turn window to me. My Mum had one when they first came out and she could never get the hang of it the whole time she lived in the house. My husband used to fix it every time we drove up to visit!

[@jeanniewarken5822]

They are what is known as fire escape windows.. so that you can exit via them in case of fire.. all households have to have fire escape windows installed on upper floors... its what you would call 'code'

[@rossshepherd9836]

It's crazy that a place like America, a place that I thought was so advanced and had everything when I was wee, don't even have kettles, at least not everywhere. It's like watching that KZbin channels where tribes try stuff from western countries. Americans, meet kettle.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Just appreciating new things.

[@rossshepherd9836]

@@midwestamericans3806, quite right, buddy. Quite right! Enjoy!

[@kronos2611]

The mis-spelling of Edinburgh amused me :)

[@Cayles764]

My house has "plumbing ok the walls" 😅

[@EnigmaStar153]

Welcome back 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@18pauljan]

You missed the best part of the UK Northumberland , and Newcastle is constantly in the top 3 of best Cities to visit in the UK

[@joyfulzero853]

Paying in central parts of London; you definitely don't get much for your money especially in the height of summer. I suppose as long as it's clean, quiet enough and a 'working' bathroom it's OK; having something gorgeous is going to put a big dent in your budget.

[@Dex586]

go to the beach its really nice there

[@neuralwarp]

Wow, that 1st place is a Dump. A college would need to upgrade it if it wanted to retain its students.

[@martintuck1551]

I love your positivity on the first hotel .... what a shit hole .. 110 a night Jesus.. you could of stayed in the Cambridge colleges for 100 a night .

[@sandrabutler8483]

None of those were hotels, Bed and Breakfast yes which are very different and Airbnb, our houses are smaller as many will be older than the States and people were shorter back when these were built, and also depending on what part of the UK it'll be very different costs of rent and utilities etc, I've been in the hospitality industry for over 40 years so I can only see things from a business perspective GDP and everything which goes with it, Chelsea is one of the most expensive areas in London and that was a townhouse, likely built in the 18th century as I'm guessing every one you stayed in, I doubt you stayed in anything from a last century

[@sc3pt1c4L]

Have you got a kettle now? That first place was a rip off for what it was.

[@midwestamericans3806]

I do have a kettle now! Its a lower as its 110v but faster then the stovetop.

[@jillhobson6128]

@@midwestamericans3806 Stove top? Do you mean a hob?

[@michelletrudgill4573]

Would have been cheaper to stay in a Travel lodge.

[@cazziefores2183]

The first hotel is shitty and definitely not even a typical 3,⭐.. You definitely paid for the location 👌🙄🇬🇧

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea we wanted to be close for the jubilee and didn't realize how nice the public transport was.

[@magepaster65]

The first hotel looked bloody awful. I wouldn't have stayed there personally.

[@midwestamericans3806]

The pictures online looked better!

[@vickster5815]

Hi guys, unfortunately London is ridiculously expensive, you'll get a better hotel for you money outside London x

[@1954real]

I hope if you come back you consider Bed & Breakfast ( B&Bs)there better than you may think. Check ou "Four in a Bed" on KZbin.

[@DayVid2.0]

I hope the spelling of Edinburgh at 5:22 was a joke....

[@Magpie_Media]

Rough

[@betterhalf6868]

That was a total mistake. As it is I'd have to take down the vid. Edit it right then spend 3 hours uploading it again and publishing it all over again... I think I'll just have to take the blame for that one this time

[@DayVid2.0]

@@betterhalf6868 I think you could get away with saying it's a deliberate mistake to make light of the fact that it is very often mispronounced 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Great video anyway.

[@FrankSui_]

An electric kettle won’t work as fast in the US as it would in the UK, as the voltage there is only 120V versus 240V here. So an electric kettle in the US won’t be that much faster than a hob kettle. You guys invented electricity which the world is grateful for, but the downside of being the first to have something is you don’t get to perfect it as much.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Yea I heard we just have older infrastructure and haven't updated it as much as the price and time would be great, also the phrase if its not broken dont fix it im sure applies.

[@FrankSui_]

@@midwestamericans3806 Definitely. America’s innovative spirit is amazing though! Just thought I’d mention the electric voltage so that if you haven’t bought a kettle already you can save that money! Love your channel, and so glad you enjoyed your UK trip! 😀

[@nathanaelsadgrove]

From the video I'd rate: London 1.5/5 Edinburgh 4/5 York 4.5/5 Llandudno 3.5/5

[@midwestamericans3806]

I would agree with those!

[@iAdz1505]

imo you overpaid a tad. Chelsea is super insane ridiculous expensive, you'd have been better off staying around Paddington for balance of price and location in my experience

[@jeanniewarken5822]

Bloomsbury has some reasonable priced hotels so walking distace from Covent Garden and Soho.. also cheaper hotels south of the river.. still easy access to rest of London and Southbank is very interesting anyway.... but that chelsea hotel was pretty awfull... there are a lot like that....as others have said... premier inn or travellodge have all onsuite bathrooms and are a consistent good standard... most london hotel rooms are small (obviously space constraine).. everything is smaller in uk... lot of people.. not much land.

[@fookdatchit]

Heathrow (also know as death row) has planes taking off and landing every 40 seconds during the hours of 5am to 11pm to keep up capacity, because it is in competition with other European airports as the main hub for Europe. Also London is served by 6 airports, so one is never far away from the noise of a jet engine.

[@willswomble7274]

It is one of the very busiest airports on Earth, it is how people get to one of the most important world destinations! Loudness is monitored strictly, modern high bypass fan jets are much quieter nowadays and the flights are very restricted overnight.

[@Savingforlife]

I often travel in uk. In my opinion york was the better one. I wouldnt of entertained the london or edinburgh ones. Well below the average b and b or hotel for uk. But understand you were on a budget. I would of been embarrassed to rent them off to you. What are these folks like asking this amount of money. But the main thing is you got to enjoy your stay

[@midwestamericans3806]

Probably just know what tourist will pay and charge as much as they can.

[@laguna3fase4]

We English pronounce Wales as "Way-ls while your pronunciation sounds like "Wells". JUST SAYING 😁

[@laguna3fase4]

Of course if you are Welsh it's pronounced Cymru ( anglisized to CUM RY )

[@deborahconner2006]

Wow you would have been better off in a hotel like premier inn that hotel looks awful. I live close to London and would definitely not stay somewhere like that. They look like someone just rented out their house. They are definitely not hotels.

[@garymc3519]

The Edinburgh place is very, very, very basic. Doesn't look like one of the nicer districts.

[@wilmaknickersfit]

It looked an old right to buy flat to me. It was basic but OK and a million times better than the London place.