Survival in British Hotels

[Sysman]

What is it with this obession with "Service", particularly in this country (UK) ?

We somehow hold up the USA as a paragon of customer service, yet in my experience of USA hotels, the service borders on the sociopathic.

<snip>

*****

In an English hotel, of the traditional "don't give a flying fig variety", you can walk in, cough to make your presence known, get a key and slope off to your room for the next 2 days.

No one will bother you. No one will pester you. If you put the "Do not Disturb" sign on the door, then it will take about 12 days before anyone gets suspicious and wonders if you have died in a drug-fuelled haze.

When you check out, you pay and go, and that's it.

Good one. The English variation of the US theme comes with the small family run B&B where the owners latch on to the fact that you are running your own business and want to regale you with tales of their own business, exorbitant bank charges and all the rest. It can get a bit much.

[NickFitz]

Good one. The English variation of the US theme comes with the small family run B&B where the owners latch on to the fact that you are running your own business and want to regale you with tales of their own business, exorbitant bank charges and all the rest. It can get a bit much.

Tell them your business is people smuggling, forced prostitution, and extortion. That usually shuts them up.

[Sysman]

Tell them your business is people smuggling, forced prostitution, and extortion. That usually shuts them up.