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Over the last five months of 2025, I’ve been traveling constantly, moving between cities, countries, and time zones, while working remotely wherever I land.
One thing I’ve genuinely loved during this period is working from cafés. There’s something special about discovering a city through its everyday places: the neighborhood coffee shop, the quiet corner table, the background noise of students studying, freelancers typing away, and spontaneous work meetings happening around you.
It’s a kind of energy you can’t really plan. You just step into it.
For 2026, I had planned to enroll in a full access membership at WeWork. As someone who travels often, it felt like the perfect solution:
A reliable workspace and stable Wi-Fi in different cities
Meeting rooms when needed
A professional environment without committing to a single location
In Peru, the All Access membership was S/645, which felt reasonable for the flexibility it offered, a great price for a self-employed, world-travelling professional.
Just as I was about to sign up, I noticed that things had shifted. Starting January 5th, the All Access Plus plan increased from S/645 to S/1,145 Peruvian soles, a 43% increase. At the same time, WeWork introduced a new structure to its memberships.
According to the information available on their website:
All Access Plus offers access to 450 locations worldwide, with 3 meeting room credits per month.
A new All Access Basic plan has been introduced, which includes access to 100 locations worldwide and 2 meeting room credits per month.
In London, the Basic plan includes locations such as:
26 Hatton Garden
3 Waterhouse Square
with access hours from 6:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.
For someone like me working with another country five hours behind London having access to a quiet, reliable space until around 8:00 p.m. is often essential.
At the same time, I’m not necessarily looking to explore multiple offices or rotate between locations every day. Most days, I simply need:
one calm space
good Wi-Fi
enough focus to be effective
so I can finish my work and continue discovering the city. From that perspective, while the Plus plan no longer feels aligned with my needs, the Basic All Access plan starts to sound more realistic, even with the higher fee. It’s less about having everything and more about having just enough. However, this doesnt change my surprise when I saw the 43% rise fee.
I don’t think the issue is the increase itself. Businesses evolve, costs change, and pricing strategies adapt. Differential pricing may simply no longer fit a global model.
For someone working for a Peruvian company, however, paying a fee similar to local UK coworking spaces naturally invites comparison. Especially when part of WeWork’s original appeal was the sense of value across countries, the idea that flexibility also considered different markets and realities.
Coworking spaces undeniably offer privacy and quiet things cafés don’t always provide. Yet flexibility, at least for me, also means being able to choose how much structure I actually need, depending on the day, the workload, and the city I’m in.
For now, cafés still play a big role in how I experience cities. They keep me connected to daily life, movement, and people. They make travel feel lived, not scheduled.
Not because coworking spaces aren’t valuable but because, right now, my creativity and focus thrive in places that feel alive, imperfect, and human. Even without the privacy I sometimes need, and even though I only discovered the second option days later searching on WeWork website, this feels like part of the journey: continuing to explore the city while carrying my laptop from café to café, looking for the ones the open later than 4pm. Still, the option of a coworking space remains there for the moments when privacy truly matters.
So I’ll keep my laptop, my coffee, and my curiosity with me. And I’ll keep working where the city happens with structure available whenever I truly need it.
