So you book a hotel room and you pay the nightly rate, but what do you expect for your money? Do you expect your room serviced every day? I certainly do, unless I choose not to have it serviced. I expect clean towels, bins emptied and beds made, but do you remember when your room, […]
I want to talk about Disney Springs. What is Disney Spring you may ask? Well, it is a retail area near Disney World., It houses, shops, restaurants and some entertainment venues. There a lot of free parking. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a place to replace the Magic Kingdom of Disney World or pretend
What do you think about tipping? It has suddenly become very costly. Do you remember when you tipped for good service, in the UK and when on holiday? These days, in many restaurants pre-add a service charge of 12% or 15%, a recommended tip used to be 10%, so what has changed? I have even
You are going travelling, a road trip, a beach holiday, city break whatever, what prep do you do? Do you plan for the airport? Pre-book a hotel for the night before or transport to the airport? Do you self-drive and book pre-book parking? Or maybe you just get the Tube or train to the airport.
It’s wonderful to be so familiar with a hotel that all the staff know you, even if you don’t know them! We started to stay at the Kimpton after the pandemic, as our hotel of choice previously was Crowne Plaza, Blackfriars, and that didn’t reopen, after the pandemic. The first couple of stays were very
Well what a few days and how something you expect to be excellent, turns out not as expected. We went to the theatre at Milton Keynes to see And Then There Were None, having been to this theatre before and using a wheelchair space we didn’t anticipate any issues – how wrong could you be!
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When you book a room what do you expect? Do you expect the rooms to all be pretty similar in size and furniture? Rooms vary between hotels so much, we have stayed in a tiny room in London, not much bigger than a broom cupboard but in the same hotel chain less than a mile
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I can’t get over the price of eating out. Is it just me, or have prices increased to crazy amounts? With Valentine’s Day approaching I was checking out menus and prices. First of all, I found my local go to restaurant is charging £80 per person, which with drinks and service charge you can say
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How long should it take to be able to book a show, even if you have to ask a question? Between Christmas and New Year I spotted something we would like to go and see, at a venue we hadn’t been to before. The listing showed tickets and Accessible tickets but it wasn’t clear what
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Well it is has been a slow and interesting start to the year. The New Year started slowly, as both of us have been ill, so what should have been a busy January has turned into a quiet one. When you have things you like and do them every year, you look forward to them.
