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British hotels are crap! (I'm ranting again)

 
 
smorgs
 
Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2005 09:37 am
Just come back from a supposed 4* hotel (Anglesey). It was bloody rubbish...hard bed (double - forgotten how small they are, it would be an insult to our American cousins) one dodgy blanket, no duvet, cold room, no minibar, 4 TV stations (one of them was in welsh, crap breakfast with burnt sausages and deep fried to a crisp mushrooms, no shower cap, and then to top it all off...

I promise you this is a real conversation:

Me to barman: "Can I have a bloody mary please?"

Barman: (who was, admittedly gorgeous, and looked like a young Tom Jones..with a very strong welsh accent) "What's one of them then?"

Me: "vodka, tomato juice and a dash of Worcestershire sauce"

Barman: "oh, someone asked me for one of them about two year ago - we don't have that sauce, not much call for it round 'ere"

Me: "I'll have a diet coke then"

Evil or Very Mad
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littlek
 
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Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2005 10:02 am
Maybe they were having a bad day?
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2005 10:09 am
Well yeah but it's a really damp cold.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2005 11:26 am
You should welcome some grimacing pain.It is good for the spirit.

All that luxury you seem to crave saps the character and renders you infantile.

The most expensive places in the UK throw buckets of cold water over you and lash you with birch twigs.Really stimulating that.

Lord Ellpus is an expert I gather.The upper classes always know best.
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the prince
 
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Reply Mon 24 Oct, 2005 01:38 am
I agree smorgs....."hospitality" in British hotels is an alien word !
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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 24 Oct, 2005 01:42 pm
Best hotel I stayed at?

Castell Drudreth - Portmeirion

Utterly fab! We even left a few things behind by accident (toys) and they posted them back to us! Now that's service.

Honestly, I'm not being whingy - they really are that bad!

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smorgs
 
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Reply Mon 24 Oct, 2005 01:44 pm
...not adult toys

before you start!

Adult Toys? Moi...as if...
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goodfielder
 
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Reply Mon 24 Oct, 2005 09:23 pm
I've had mixed experiences at hotels in Britain but for the main it was postive. I never met a Basil Fawlty (although that would have been funny). I did get in the caught between of a couple of French waiters in a restaurant in a hotel in Kent once. They were having a spat and we were in the middle of it. Meal was great, service was lousy but it was interesting Very Happy
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