Good/bad hotels
Scotties post about his SF hotel being a money trap reminded me of some of the crappy hotels I've stayed in for work. They picked up the tab but I really hated having to pay extra for a breakfast and to have to get it myself!
Anyway, went to Berlin a few years back and stayed in two really cool hotels:
Propeller Island:
http://www.propeller-island.com/rooms_neu/room_detail/11/index.php
and art'otel:
http://www.artotels.com/hotels/gerbrart
Both very good. First one was very different!
Anyone else stayed there or in any other wacky hotel?
Anyway, went to Berlin a few years back and stayed in two really cool hotels:
Propeller Island:
http://www.propeller-island.com/rooms_neu/room_detail/11/index.php
and art'otel:
http://www.artotels.com/hotels/gerbrart
Both very good. First one was very different!
Anyone else stayed there or in any other wacky hotel?
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We were getting down to business and there was a bunch of crashing and banging sounds from the corridor but we paid no heed thinking it was workmen or something.
About 30 mins later..just as the 'train was arriving at Paddington', we heard a key in the door and it flew open, in poured the hotel manager, one or two of his people and about 4 cops...
My initial thought was 'Christ, all this for a bit on the side!' I jumped off my female companion and pulled some pants on while the manager and crew were saying things like 'oh damn, sorry' etc.
Turned out the room opposite and a few others had been robbed (that is what the banging was, them kicking in the door) and they thought our room was empty and was checking it out.
The cops asked me if I saw or heard anything and we told them about the banging etc...the cop wanted my name etc for a statement. I refused and nodded to my companion and said 'neither of us are supposed to be here'....anyway the cop was pretty insistent so I said here is my statement 'We didn't see or hear anything'.
The next morning the Hotel manager still charged us the full rate for the room..AND no breakfast...wtf.
So if you are staying in Coventry be sure to put the deadbolt on the door.
And make sure you are not having an illicit affair with beanz. The cad!
when i was in amsterdam they told us not to smoke dope in the room, but as soon as we walked in it stunk of ganja.
They were refurbishing it when we were there and all the roaches in the world had come out of their hidey holes to greet us.
One particularly amusing situation was sitting in the hotel dining room and my brother who had ordered a 'bean stew', and having eaten a good portion of it, lifted his spoon to reveal HALF a dead roach..... where the other half was was never discovered...
It was just a really boring hotel but it was clean and they had a bar downstairs, which I stayed in for quite a while, chatting crap to some fellows brits who happened to have missed the same connecting flight to the USA that I had.
Couldn't really complain too much as the airline put me up for the night, and I got my dinner and my breakfast included.
Was kind of pissed off though as that was my first time flying, and I ran into loads of slavver on my first flight.
Fixed.
Occasionally stayed in the Bonnington hotel in Bloomsbury, and I was trying to have a rest mid afternoon and it was really noisy with drills and hammers, and got 10% off of the bill, and that's it really.
Stayed here many moons back on an all expenses paid trip to do some coding and installation stuff for the Eastern Health Board in Ireland. It was well nice, and I got chatted up by a cute Spanish lass in the nightclub next door...didn't follow it through though as I'm no cad - that and a few years earlier me and some mates nearly got caught robbing a hotel in Coventry, that place was a proper knocking shop I can tell you...imagine if someone crashed in at the wrong moment...
Also, about 3 years ago, me and the missus stayed (all expenses paid again!) at a hotel in South Kensington...that was well posh! But buggered if I can remember what it was called.
But the nicest hotel I've ever stayed in was Witley Hall in Sheffield, where we got hitched. Absolutely wonderful place...Whitley Hall (the audio is shit though!) - The food alone is worth travelling to taste!
another time I was in blue water, and well I ate something there.. it was off.. stayed in a place in dartford with a girlfriend..ffs it was rough, but i couldn't face the journey back to london. it was a total dive, no wonder they wanted cash up front.
oh friends wedding in bristol a b&b in temple mead... another dump.. game coders wedding , so a few old skool coders etc were there. If I had known I could have got a lift to manc and saved a packet on train fair aggh!. (I had to go there after to see g/f)
I do tend to stick to premiere inn etc.. as they are basically cloned.. I stayed in about hhm 10 in various places and they the same, and not high end , but u know what your getting.
once I stayed in Wembley P.I.. but that **** from westlife? mc fadden? the one who married delta goodrum and has a load of kids with that kerry fugly woman.. anyways.. when I was getting re-aquanted with my girlfriend later that night .. a load of chavvy westlife fan scum were running up and down the coradoors thinking they were staying there.. like yer right .. the hilton is down the road..haha
id have left a letter of apology for the maid (on the bathroom mirror in my own filth)
So long as it's heart-felt...it's the thought that counts.
someone from the c64 UK demo group excess did something simular in a youth hostel.. except he left it in a kettle , maybe for a dare.. well thats what I was told by "mr trendy" someone fro knows of also.. but he is known to be a bit jackanory.