Insurance and displaced family stays in Stratford-upon-Avon
Insurance accommodation in Stratford-upon-Avon
Whole homes in Stratford-upon-Avon for families out of their house after a fire, a flood or an escape of water. Pets considered, schools taken into account, and the insurer invoiced directly.
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The short answer
Alternative accommodation in Stratford-upon-Avon while your home is unusable.
If a fire, a flood or an escape of water has made your house unliveable, your policy almost certainly pays for somewhere else while it is repaired. That is called alternative accommodation, and it is what we provide in Stratford-upon-Avon: a whole furnished house or apartment, for as long as the works take, with the bills included and the invoice going to the insurer or the loss adjuster rather than to you. We deal with adjusters regularly and we know what they need in writing. Stratford is a town rather than a city, so a central property is genuinely central: everything is a walk.
Called a few different things
You will see this called several things and they all mean the same. Insurance accommodation Stratford-upon-Avon, alternative accommodation, displaced family accommodation, emergency accommodation, temporary accommodation after a flood or fire, loss of use accommodation, or simply what the policy calls alternative accommodation. If a loss adjuster has asked you to find somewhere, this is the page.
What the first week is actually like
Two hotel rooms, a microwave and the school run, for four months.
That is what usually happens first, and it is nobody's fault: the insurer needs somewhere immediately and a hotel is what is available at nine at night. It stops working within about a fortnight. A family needs a kitchen, separate bedrooms, somewhere to put the things that were salvaged and a school run that has not doubled. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Staying near your own life in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Flood claims are a local subject
The Avon rises most winters and the low ground beside it goes under: the Recreation Ground, the riverside car parks, the gardens by the canal basin. Property set well back from the water is a different proposition to property on it. If you are out of your home because of water, that geography is probably already familiar, and it is worth applying to wherever you move next.
Staying inside the same school run
What usually decides these moves is not the house, it is whether the children reach the same school each morning without a long detour. Stratford is compact enough that most of it sits inside one school run, which is the quiet advantage of a small town. Warwickshire is also one of the counties that kept its grammar schools, so where a family lands relative to them matters.
The residential town behind the visitor one
Most people only ever see the few streets between the birthplace and the theatre. Behind them the town is ordinary and residential, with gardens, driveways and room for two cars. For a family out of their own home, with their own furniture in storage, that is the relevant Stratford, and it is a good deal quieter than the town in the photographs.
A claim takes longer than you think
Fire and escape of water claims run into months rather than weeks, and the date you are given at the outset is usually the optimistic one. Plan for the longer version: somewhere the family can properly settle, space for whatever was salvaged, parking that works without a permit argument. Moving twice in the middle of a claim is the thing worth some effort to avoid.
Keeping a family's week normal
What holds a displaced household together is the ordinary things carrying on. Stratford is good for that. The Recreation Ground across the water takes a football, the parks are close, the leisure centre sits near the river, and clubs and swimming run as usual. The town is small enough that children keep the same friends even when the address has changed.
A claim that runs through winter
Water damage tends to start in the cold months, so a temporary stay often covers the darkest part of the year in a town that goes quiet. That cuts both ways. Parking is easy, the streets are calm and the school routine is undisturbed. The evenings are long, though, and there is less happening than the summer version of this place would suggest.
The weeks the town closes streets
A few dates take the centre over completely. The Mop Fair in October fills the town centre streets with a funfair and shuts the roads around it. Race days at the course on the Luddington Road bring their own traffic. Summer weekends do it quietly and constantly. None of that is a problem for a household that knows it is coming.
Two cars, a dog, and deliveries
The things that really decide a long stay are unglamorous. Whether two cars fit off the road. Whether a dog has somewhere to walk that is not a tourist path. Whether a lorry can reach the door when replacement furniture turns up. Away from the middle, houses here generally manage all three. In the oldest streets near the theatres, none of it is certain.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Stratford-upon-Avon stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
Message reservations rather than booking online, and tell us the postcode you have come out of and which school or work you need to stay near. We will tell you honestly what we have close to it and what we do not, and we will deal with the adjuster directly from there.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Stratford-upon-Avon questions
What people ask about staying in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Which part of Stratford-upon-Avon should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the town centre, the riverside and the streets around the theatres. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close.
Can I park in Stratford-upon-Avon?
Parking is the one genuinely awkward thing about Stratford. The town centre car parks fill with visitors from mid morning in summer, the one way system is unforgiving, and a property with its own space is worth considerably more here than the same property in a city.
How easy is it to get around Stratford-upon-Avon without a car?
Birmingham is fifty minutes by train, the M40 puts Oxford at an hour and London at two, and the Cotswolds start immediately south.
What is there to do in Stratford-upon-Avon on a day off?
The theatres, the river and the town itself fill an evening, and the Cotswolds, Warwick, Leamington and the National Trust properties nearby fill a weekend. On a long stay the surrounding area matters more than the town, because you will have seen the town by week two.
Questions we get asked
What families and adjusters ask us.
Will the insurer pay you directly?
In almost every case, yes. We invoice the insurer or the loss adjuster on their terms, with the dates, the address and the claim reference, so you are not putting months of accommodation on a credit card and waiting to be reimbursed. Give us the adjuster's details and we will take it from there.
How long can we stay?
As long as the works take. Claims like this commonly run three to nine months and we would rather book you for the realistic length than move you twice. If the schedule slips, which it usually does, extending is a message.
Can we bring the dog?
Some properties take pets and some do not, so ask early rather than at the end. It is one of the most common reasons a hotel stops working for a family and one of the easiest things for us to solve if we know at the start.
We need to stay in the same school catchment.
Tell us the school and the postcode rather than the city. That is the constraint that actually decides this, and we would rather say we have nothing close enough than put you somewhere that adds forty minutes to every morning.
Check availability
Tell us the postcode you have come out of.
Message reservations with the postcode, how many of you there are and whether there is a pet, and we will tell you straight away what we have near you.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213