£60 is about average for a hotel like you describe in the area you describe... that would be "expensive" to someone like me who moved recently because her monthly rent was on the wrong side of £400 a month, and typically stays in 10-to-a-room dorms when she backpacks.
If you are travelling with a laptop, make backups of your data whenever you can. Send them to yourself on gmail, keep separate CD-R backups or something, so that if anything should happen to your laptop, you will at least have most of your data. An ex-housemate's friend once had his digital camera bag stolen at the airport just before he boarded the plane to come home, and lost the whole month's worth of digital photo data.