What (cheapish) hard flooring for occasionally used rooms?

[Mont Blanc]

I'm refurbishing a guest room annex in my house and will be needing flooring soon. It's a studio apartment type space with bathroom.

I've been burned previously buying that LVT/Click Vinyl flooring stuff. It has performed really badly in a couple of places and I'll be binning it.

This is a space that will likely be used a couple of times per year, and for only a few days at a time, if that. So it just needs to look reasonably nice and be suitable for use in a bathroom. It doesn't need to be all singing all dancing mega durable for years of high traffic.

Yes, I know... I'm asking for something that is relatively cheap and will be half decent, but there must be something that people feel is a reasonably priced and reliable flooring?

[dhutch]

Tiles? Major advantage is they can't swell and fail we wet in bathrooms even if you buy the cheapest in the land.

Edited by dhutch on Thursday 27th March 13:38

[Mont Blanc]

dhutch said:

Tiles?

I like tiles, but I suspect they are the more expensive option compared to some kind of other artificial hard flooring product (vinyl/laminate etc).

The floors are all wood/floorboards so I guess that would also require significant preparation to stop any movement or cracking in the tiles? A friend of mine had his bathroom floor tiled for the first time (over floorboards) and a few tiles have cracked after a couple of years due to movement (and the floor was allegedly prepared properly beforehand).

The space I'm looking to cover is quite large, about 9m long and 5m wide, so that would be quite some amount of preparation for tiles?