In Brussels!!!

[AtW]

Metro is a bit tuliplike - certainly worse than London's, bought some snacks and drinks at shop on the train station and did not get offered a bag to carry them

Train ticket machine did not like 1 euro coins

No jacuzzi in my hotel room, I'll be asking for a refund!!!

[Mich the Tester]

Oh by the way AtW, if you go to Trulli’s they won’t let you in if you’re wearing a shellsuit and a fake Rolex (in fact not even a real Rolex as it's a sign of being arriviste); they don’t like that kind of thing. They're from Turin; they have class.

[AtW]

I don't wear any watch.

[Mich the Tester]

I don't wear any watch.

But you don't deny wearing a shellsuit.

[sasguru]

FFS don't send AtW to Trulli's. People would stare as the Belgies are not as polite/don't tolerate eccentrics/have not as much aplomb as Brits.

[shaunbhoy]

FFS don't send AtW to Trulli's. People would stare as the Belgies are not as polite/don't tolerate eccentrics/have not as much aplomb as Brits.

Yeah but be fair sas, what did you expect, walking in there in your Village People costume?

[Sysman]

FFS AtW, the EU HQ is in Brussels because the food is so bloody good. You don't think that overpaid civil servants, bankers and international tax lawyers are going to set up shop above a kebab vendor in bloody Swindon do you?

Spot on.

And after experiencing an Ibis or two your remarks on those are correct; I have avoided them like the plague ever since.

A family run hotel will probably have a much better restaurant as well.

[darmstadt]

Spot on.

And after experiencing an Ibis or two your remarks on those are correct; I have avoided them like the plague ever since.

A family run hotel will probably have a much better restaurant as well.

I've been staying in the Ibis here since February and its actually quite good, very friendly staff, quite rooms and an underground carpark which you can only access by driving your car into a lift, and the price is pretty good (they even find me a room even when apparently fully booked out.) The one in Köln center on the other hand, its not too bad but like the one I stayed in in Bonn all of last year has this bloody airduct in the room and you can hear whats going on in every room above and below you. Lucky that Ibis hotels have spare towels which I used to plug up this duct.

I stay also in family hotels and some of them are right tulip. One I stayed in right in the center of Bonn had no lift and my room seemed to be someones apartment right up the top in the attic with a staircase that would make Everest look easy and I won't talk about the one in Amsterdam or the couple in the UK...

[MrMark]

It's gone very quiet!

[MarillionFan]

It's gone very quiet!

I reckon he's tied up in just his stained white y-fronts, hanging from a wall, large red ball gag in his mouth and a gimp mask struggling against the rope and wondering why the hell he choose a pre-op transexual hooker from the Ukraine last night after a couple of beers!!