I booked the travelodge at Southwark for a city game. Arrived at London and headed for a few beers at Borough Market. Checked in later at about 10 pm and the receptionist says "can you sit over there and we will book you a taxi to Liverpool Street". "I am sorry I don't understand". "We are overbooked so have to transfer you". Apparently it is common practice that hotels overbook expecting some cancellations. ****ers.
When I was working around the Country we used to stay in hotels, always 4* because we was away from home and we should have home comforts. After a few months they put someone else on booking hotels for the jobs, bear in mind we had contracts for all the top supermarkets so there was thousands of jobs going on at a time. This new person decided to save some money for the company and make herself look good. She changed all bookings to go through one of these companies mentioned in the posts and it was a disaster. The accomodation was absolute ****, breakfasts likewise (in some we got a bacon buttie to take with us). After a while we got fed up with it and told the office we're not staying in **** anymore, change it or we're all going home. There was between 30 to 40 on each job so you can imagine one/two weeks hotel there was some money involved. After refusing a few times the girl was taken off bookings and it all went back to normal, they was paying out more in the new way with having to lose booking fees for cancelling the first hotels. There was ****, blood and all other bodily fluids on the walls of some rooms offered up.
Not been allowed to buy bread at Marks and Sparks Anlaby.The reason been it was still hot and may burn me but I could call back in around Ten minutes when it would be sufficiently cooled .
Is it only jars of beetroot you can't open? How about jam, pickled onions etc. What usually works for me is turning the jar upside down and tapping on a flat surface, or an elastic band around the rim of the lid to provide more grip.
We have used Airbnb 20+ times in several countries and are yet to have a problem. I guess we are lucky.
A few weeks ago I complained about the crap bar service in Kingston compared to other town pubs , decided to try again last night . 3 tiny female bar staff pottering about but again barely seemed to want to serve anyone . Anyway wife got a g&t in a PINT glass ffs! She said they’d ran out , it was only 7 o clock - nuts
A few years ago I went to a gig at City Hall and a woman at the bar ordered a bottle of wine. They filled a plastic pint glass and put the rest in another saying they couldn't serve 'glasses' made of glass or give out a bottle. The look on the womans face was priceless.
Update - Booking.com just asked me for a copy of the bill for the alternative hotel I had to book, maybe recovery action won't be required.
I was discussing this at the last home game with my mates. I was thinking of getting a Guinness Zero in a plastic glass and taking it to my seat in the South Stand then await for some jobsworth steward to tell me that I can’t drink alcohol in the stand. Cue the “discussion”.
Before the law was changed I tried to buy some alcohol free lager from a supermarket at around 10.30 on a Sunday morning. They refused me, saying I couldn’t buy alcohol at that time of day. I pointed out that the bottles said “alcohol free” but they pointed out the ingredients that said they contained approximately 0.01% alcohol.
The feral twat walking down Anlaby Road who threw his empty wrapper on the floor when he was literally 2 metres away from a bin.
