Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
The Right to Care is broad brush, the factor that may apply is why the delayed departure, avoiding the overnight, doesn't work. So let's say you are going for a business meeting and that the delayed option would miss the start of the meeting. You would not have booked the travel originally if that was the outcome. If you therefore have to travel earlier for the purposes of the trip AND that requires an overnight stay, then Right to Care applies.
The expectation is that it's two to a room, but if that's not viable then it can be per person. Two work colleagues would not be expected to share, for example. Even if the £200 is the guideline, you would be best to keep it sensible, not least because BA may initially decline to pay it and you then have to escalate it to see the reimbursement.
We're catching an afternoon LH flight from FRA so the evening flight on the original day of travel is simply not an option. We can send BA the LH tickets to prove why we have no other viable option than overnighting. I realise the same day connection had some risk but obviously this isn't irrops on the day of travel (which was the risk I calculated I was happy to take).
The airport Hilton is pricing up just under £200 on our dates with marriott quite a bit higher. We are travelling with 3x bikes so it's extremely awkward luggage and we would need multiple large taxis to transfer to a non terminal hotel. So again, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that to be reimbursed. We could share rooms, it's not ideal but I think 2x rooms between the 3 of us is probably a reasonable compromise.