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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 16:51:04 GMT
Just had to go to reception at the Travelodge I’m at.
I know they are basic but you expect a working shower.
We now can’t shower after slogging around the town on foot all day until after we need to go out, as they are over running on a boiler upgrade or replacement and haven’t thought to tell us.
Apparently the original plan was to have the showers ready for five.
We checked in after paying for early check in at twelve! They won’t be ready until at least six and we need to leave as we have a table booked.
What is an appropriate level of refund request here?
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Post by Dougs on Apr 3, 2024 17:04:53 GMT
For any early check in fee, absolutely. And probably something extra for the hassle. Although obviously I'd just have a quick cold shower and get on with it (by which I mean moaning about it on the internets).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 17:08:50 GMT
For a tenner I may not bother. Was hoping we could get half our meal paid for tbh 😂
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Post by Dougs on Apr 3, 2024 17:10:28 GMT
Tenner is a couple of pints, is the way to look at it imo
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Post by dmukgr on Apr 3, 2024 17:36:04 GMT
Tenner is a couple of pints, is the way to look at it imo Oh for the days when that was true  |
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Post by dmukgr on Apr 3, 2024 17:37:07 GMT
For a tenner I may not bother. Was hoping we could get half our meal paid for tbh 😂 If you haven't booked breakfast they may throw that your way (assuming when you refer to a meal, it isn't in the travelodge), on top of the early check-in money, as that is a definate that they should do that. |
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 3, 2024 17:38:39 GMT
I'd definitely go for the early check-in fee, if nothing else. Free breakfast would be a bonus.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 3, 2024 18:13:00 GMT
Tenner is a couple of pints, is the way to look at it imo Oh for the days when that was true Well, I guess it depends what and where you drink! Even Fosters in my local is under a fiver. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2024 21:50:05 GMT
I’ll probably leave it. It still wasn’t working at 6.15, we were going to a nice restaraunt and call me old fashioned but I like to shower, aftershave, put an actual shirt on etc for a night like that and we’d been walking around all day in the same sweaty underwear.
It’s working now we’re back. Just don’t know why you’d schedule boiler replacements at a tourist hotspot in the school holidays!
I am going to post in random musings about the getting ready to go out thing as I was about to carry on but it’s not really a rant.
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Post by mrpon on Apr 4, 2024 8:46:30 GMT
Couldn't you just sink flannel it?  |
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Post by Dougs on Apr 4, 2024 9:54:23 GMT
Otherwise known as a squaddie wash!
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Post by dfunked on Apr 4, 2024 9:55:41 GMT
French shower ftw. Wet wipes and a spray of deodorant.
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Post by rhaegyr on Apr 4, 2024 9:58:45 GMT
Thought it was a student shower?
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Post by mikeck on Apr 4, 2024 10:31:10 GMT
Father-in-law calls it a granny wash - drives my missus crazy.
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Post by cubby on Apr 4, 2024 12:14:53 GMT
Against my better judgement I just tried applying for a nectar card. First time on Firefox I got as far as a memorable word and phone number and the website shit the bed, saying there was an error, no way to get any meaningful help with it.
So instead I tried registering via the app, got all the way to the end where it was asking if I wanted to get emails from businesses (I said no) and then it said there was an error again and couldn't progress. So I've basically given them loads of info (twice) for fuck all in return. Brilliant.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Apr 4, 2024 12:23:04 GMT
I have a Nector card, as a Sainsburys regular I can't do without it, have to say it's generally been a PITA whenever I need to change anything, my Sainsburys Smartshop app is tied to my old card, which had split so unable to use it any more and I could never access that account online, my Nector App is tied to my new card.
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Post by Danno on Apr 4, 2024 13:19:08 GMT
"Dear X,
Please close this one specific case. I will talk to my boss about the other 9 on Monday as he is currently on annual leave"
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"Dear Danno
I have closed all the cases asper[sp] your written instruction"
Fucking cretin 😬
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Apr 4, 2024 15:29:47 GMT
Really not a fan of how the pause button has been quietly retired across online media. If you hover over something in Netflix or Youtube, it automatically starts playing. If you start it and then pause it, it’ll go into sleep mode or chuck you back into the menu. Gotta keep consuming or those ads won’t get queued up, I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2024 17:10:47 GMT
I hate the screensaver mode on Youtube. I sent negative feedback on it awhile back and I feel like I’ve not gotten it in awhile.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 4, 2024 23:43:14 GMT
Just had to go to reception at the Travelodge I’m at. I know they are basic but you expect a working shower. We now can’t shower after slogging around the town on foot all day until after we need to go out, as they are over running on a boiler upgrade or replacement and haven’t thought to tell us. Apparently the original plan was to have the showers ready for five. We checked in after paying for early check in at twelve! They won’t be ready until at least six and we need to leave as we have a table booked. What is an appropriate level of refund request here?
Had my own hotel issues this week. I've stayed at EasyHotel branches before in various places and always found them clean and well managed, so when I did my sudden London trip this week I expected more of the same.
Unfortunately, when I booked with them this time, some of their London branches were marked as being under refurbishment, and I cannot under any circumstances be dealing with another episode of The Hotel Half-Built, and the bullshit that entailed, so I booked the cheapest one that wasn't under going a refurb.
I wish I'd read the TripAdvisor reviews on it first, because the complaints there were all pretty much entirely accurate. The South Kensington one isn't anywhere near up to the standards of modernity, hygiene and basic comfort as all the others I've been in.
I didn't care that it was windowless and smaller than some jail cells. I was actually looking forward to not having to piss about with black-out curtains that never quite manage to fully black-out.
I did, however, care about:
- The big and obviously not recent rust patches around the shower door
- The fact that it took nearly ten minutes for the water to reach a temperature above that which would have caused immediate testicle ascension
- The mattress being on top of a wooden box that seemed to be unlevel to the point I felt like I was constantly sliding to the left
- And the fact that from where I was I could hear what I at first thought was the fan in someone elses' bathroom running loudly the whole time I was there, but after reading the other reviews have now deduced that it was probably an air-con unit running nearby in the building.
- Air-con which was controlled entirely by the person at reception, as the rooms didn't have individual controls. Again, in a windowless room.
Biggest issue though, was the wall between me and the room next door being so thin you could have heard cheeks clapping. Wouldn't have been so much of a problem if the guy next door didn't sound like he was a North Korean drill instructor barking orders at something or someone only he could see, every half hour like clockwork, for the whole first night.
Second night was slightly more bearable as the room next door was unoccupied.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 6, 2024 8:45:10 GMT
I very often go for an 8-12 mile walk on the weekend mornings. During this walk I'll often get breakfast somewhere (which usually negates the benefits of the walk, I admit).
Went to get a bacon sandwich today, and very clearly and for no sauce. But after getting the sandwich the bread, especially where the knife was used to cut the sandwich in half, was saturated with ketchup.
I absolutely detest ketchup.
Is it too hard for the fucking staff to clean the work surfaces and knives?
Too much to just pick off so had to bin the fucking sandwich.
Wont be going there again.
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Post by Syrette on Apr 6, 2024 9:10:33 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 6, 2024 9:12:33 GMT
I'd already walked off and didn't want to backtrack. I'm too stubborn for my own good.
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Post by apollo on Apr 6, 2024 9:29:14 GMT
I really hate when your order a burger and you say no tomato slice or gherkins/pickles they idiots will put it in there. Ruins the burger even when scrap the slop out. I know someone that is obessed with gherkins or pickles in burgers and gives me crap for not liking them (in his man child brain, he can't understand not liking something he likes)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2024 10:35:38 GMT
As I demonstrated earlier, the majority of people do not like kicking up a fuss about stuff, it’s baked into the British character innit (presuming Hickman is British sorry). But yeah that provides potentially a bit of worry about cross contamination in general doesn’t it. Always remember a sandwich van I used to use the bloke would just wipe his hands on an apron in between orders. It’s a wonder I didn’t die. |
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Post by Danno on Apr 6, 2024 10:41:41 GMT
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Post by Syrette on Apr 6, 2024 12:03:46 GMT
I think you'd be safe staying at the Ritz or the Savoy. |
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Post by Danno on Apr 6, 2024 13:13:23 GMT
I think you'd be safe staying at the Ritz or the Savoy. Spiders with monocles. No thank you. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 15, 2024 14:26:36 GMT
I really bloody hate websites that make you sign up or enter all your information just to find the shipping cost!
half the time I'm just going to say screw it and not even bother, and most of the rest of the time I'm gonna enter junk info just to get to the shipping costs.
And then, if by some miracle I still want to buy it, I have to go back and enter the proper information.
You don't need to know my name, email, phone number and exact address to tell me how much it'll cost!
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Apr 15, 2024 14:46:35 GMT
Yea that really gets my goat too, when everyone else has a delivery costs page somewhere on the website.
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