OT (Very) Chicken in a Basket

[chris French]

They are generally ok, though we do prefer Premier Inn if available, and if the price is competitive. Though it's bit of a standing joke in our family that they never get the beds right (we are normally a family of 4, and they invariably don't do the kids beds, or only do one, or don't have all the bedding etc. :-) Invariably find the staff friendly and helpful.

We do have breakfast normally, it's not great but it's ok, and the kids like it, and even our awkward younger one will eat. And kids are free, so where else can you get an all you can eat breakfast for 4 for about £15?

My wife soemtimes stays in poshish places when at conferences. One she was at didn't have a kettle. Butt hen she found out they had them, but you just had to ask. Another one, they supplied free tea and coffee for the rooms she was in (though she didn't realise at first)

[The Medway Handyman]

Washed down with a bottle of Hirondelle?

[Bob Eager]

Liebfraumilch.

[Huge]

LOL, will do!

[Huge]

"It had a loyal and regular following ..."

Including, in the 70's, my wife and I.

[Huge]

Put it in a ziplok bag in your washing kit.

I stay in a Premier Inn in Sheffield regularly. It's a perfectly acceptable hotel.

[Huge]

After the Wushi Hotel in Xian, China, sleeping in a cave would be nice. The carpets were saturated with raw sewage. We slept in chairs in the lobby.

[Huge]

Umm, no. The whole point is that everything, although a Berni by description, is as nice as it is possible to make it. Twice cooked chips, Tournedos Rossini, Heston Blumenthal's gateau and so on. So we have *nice* wine.

[Huge]

Blue Nun/Black Tower.

(Which to my astonishment, you can still buy.)

[Andrew May]

Did that (sleeping in a cave, I mean) in Coober Pedy

[charles]

You buy a soap box: buy it at Boots - for instance/ I've used one for years since I tend to be allergic to the cheap and nasties provided by some hotels.

[Huge]

Yes, but they're *nice* caves!

[Sam Plusnet]

I used to go there in the (very) early 80s because they took Luncheon Vouchers. The firm I then worked for gave us around 60p in LVs per day - nice of them, but not much use in practice. I saved up enough to take the Wife to a Berni now & again & paid the bill with hundreds of the things. I remember tipping generously - but can't remember if it was in cash or LVs.

[Nightjar]

On 08/11/2013 15:45, Sam Plusnet wrote: ...

Four times the tax free allowance though, which I note was scrapped this year.

Colin Bignell

[Huge]

Blimey, now you mention it, we used to do the same. I'd completely forgotten about LVs! Wonder what happened to them?

[Google]

Abolished at the beginning of the 2013 tax year!!!!

[alan]

+1 When I went to the states I stayed in a motel with 1200 rooms and mine had a full kitchen en suite.

The one downside was the miles of corridors all fitted with nylon carpets. Judging by the size of spark when I touched the door handle I must have been fully charged every time I went back to my room.

[alan]

Better than Wimpy where ordering from the photos of the menu showing a oval steak plate full food resulted in an miniature plate with the under-size portions barely covering the surface.

[alan]

Chelmsford used have pubs that opened early morning on market days. From my ageing memory, I think they had to close in the afternoon and evening on the days they opened in the morning.

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 08 November 2013 18:17 alan wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Ah - WIMPY in Sutton - my first burger.

[The Medway Handyman]

Not your first Bender? :-)