With accommodations booked well in advance for Preakness weekend, there was practically nothing available.
From €240 a week, including guesthouse accommodation (book via website above).
For the best deals on accommodation, book direct, advises Malcolm Bell, chief executive of Visit Cornwall: "Many hotels, B&Bs and cottages offer guests an incentive to book direct rather than through a booking engine or agency.
One of its flagship sites, Hostelworld.com, has sold over 70 million beds and processed over 15 million customer bookings since inception, with customers posting over 2.7 million reviews of accommodation booked through the site.
"We have non-refundable accommodation booked in Paris, and now we will have to find somewhere to sleep tonight.
However, if the holiday destination is UK based, then cover will only be provided if there are two consecutive nights accommodation booked, she warns.
In Da Club rapper 50 Cent is fronting a new campaign to promote the "bling with no sting" of staying in budget accommodation booked through Hostelworld.
I am increasingly concerned that the biggest issue for recruitment and crucially retention is now the money in the pockets of students and their ability to pay for accommodation, books and food.
Many universities will also make bursaries available to a wider section of students than this and these are paid in cash or in kind (accommodation, books or a bike, perhaps) as universities try to tempt you.
I have a few weeks' accommodation booked but I was hoping to be a bit more spontaneous and didn't really intend to book much more until I get there, so that I have the freedom to do things on a whim.
