Book London’s KFC-themed pop-up hotel at 11am on Wednesday

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• William says:

  11 Aug11 August 07:41

  KFC is revolting.

• David says:

  11 Aug11 August 07:48

  And the rate does NOT include breakfast…

  • JDB says:

    11 Aug11 August 07:56

    Just as well given the quality of their cuisine. It can’t be a coincidence that they sell their food in a bucket.

• Neil Spellings says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:00

  Interesting that it includes £100 worth of KFC but is restricted to two adults..can two people physically consume £100-worth of KFC?! (and still be alive afterwards!)

  • John says:

    11 Aug11 August 08:09

    Is there a clause that you can’t take it away

  • Dubious says:

    11 Aug11 August 08:55

    Lunch, Dinner and Breakfast??

    • Neil Spellings says:

      11 Aug11 August 09:18

      Nope. “All transactions must take place on the day of arrival prior to 10.30pm.”

• numpty says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:06

  Think i would rather stay in the Tunnocks caravan at Drimsynie Estate, far classier…

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:39

  Rob’s brain: “30 seconds to cut/paste a press release and photo? And just think of the comments we’ll get! Yeah, I’ll do it!”.

  • Rob says:

    11 Aug11 August 08:43

    I am up in North Yorkshire with no wi-fi and marginal mobile, so this was a gift 🙂

    • Tony1 says:

      11 Aug11 August 12:41

      You are doing well to get any mobile signal out on the moors.

      Enjoy the Premier Inn. Avoid the Travel Lodge.

      • Rob says:

        11 Aug11 August 13:02

        At me Mam’s ‘ouse.

• Oh! Matron! says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:53

  So many snobs on here 🙁 You won’t eat this, but you will eat Foie Gras…..

  • Dubious says:

    11 Aug11 August 08:56

    It’s not about snobbery…if this had been about a Gregg’s Sausage Roll themed room the comments would have been a lot different…

    • sloth says:

      11 Aug11 August 09:35

      with sausage roll duvet

      • John says:

        11 Aug11 August 15:32

        HFPigs in blankets

        • Lady London says:

          11 Aug11 August 17:33

          Oh, yes!! yes!! yes !!

• BlueThroughCrimp says:

  11 Aug11 August 08:58

  A staycation is staying at home.
  A holiday in the UK is a holiday…

  • J says:

    11 Aug11 August 11:25

    ‘The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner’s dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948. It is the largest English-language dictionary from Oxford University Press aimed at a non-native audience. Users with a more linguistic interest, requiring etymologies or copious references, usually prefer the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, or indeed the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary, or other dictionaries aimed at speakers of English with native-level competence.’

  • J says:

    11 Aug11 August 14:22

    I doubt anyone would argue that ‘staycation’ wasn’t a subset of ‘holiday’… But a staycation is clearly either a holiday at home or a holiday within ones own country. For some reason, every time it’s used in the latter context, there’s someone who doesn’t understand that.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:26

      So you don’t like dictionary definitions now. Lol.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:28

      And all very well posting links when what I wrote isn’t wrong either.

    • J says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:39

      Like I said staycation is a subset of holiday. So a holiday in the UK is both a holiday and a staycation. Not hard to understand.

      Obviously if your original post was there for a reason other than to suggest that a holiday in the UK could not be defined as a staycation – then, I don’t get why you would have said it, but, yes, I misunderstood what you were getting at…

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:44

      What I posted wasn’t hard to understand, but you, for some reason, went off on one.

      I’m really sure why anyone would get upset by calling a holiday a holiday so upset in the first place. Puzzling.

      Are you in marketing and like fancy buzz words?

    • J says:

      11 Aug11 August 14:52

      I don’t mind anyone calling a holiday a holiday – and if the original article had called it such, I wouldn’t have felt any need to say “No, it should be a staycation”, because clearly either is valid., But I read your comment as you refuted the idea that a staycation could be defined as a holiday within your own country. Every time the word staycation is used in that context on HfP, someone feels the need to jump in and correct it, without bothering to fact check first.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 15:03

      You call it what you like J.
      It’s a ridiculous and vague description of a holiday in your own country.

      People use it, but it’s similar to those restaurants that use mini shopping trolleys to put food in.

    • J says:

      11 Aug11 August 15:08

      Personally I’d call it a holiday, and always have.

      Don’t think I’ve ever been to restaurant and ordered food that wasn’t served on a plate or board… Is that really a common thing or something made up for clickbait?

      • Rob says:

        11 Aug11 August 15:21

        It’s a London thing, mainly for chips.

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 15:22

      Boards are equally as bad.

      You should search for We Want Plates for an entry in to the world of a pint of chips, brunch on a shovel and desserts with cream on a slate!

      Perhaps you’d understand my cynicism for such rebranded things. 🙂

    • J says:

      11 Aug11 August 15:47

      Oh how I wish I hadn’t looked! Some of those are close to putting me off ever eating out again 😀

    • BlueThroughCrimp says:

      11 Aug11 August 15:49

      Sorry, J!

  • Toaster says:

    11 Aug11 August 17:14

    I concur, staycation is at home, if you are away fron home it is a holiday. People who live in USA can travel thousands of miles for a holiday in the USA, to call that a staycation is ridiculous.
    I wonder if the usage of staycation has changed during lockdown?

    • Tony says:

      11 Aug11 August 18:34

      Iirc, common usage of staycation in the uk at least started around the financial crisis of 07/08. It meant just that – stay at home, not be working and doing things as a series of day trips with one eye on conserving cash.

      Perhaps Covid has changed this as so many people over the last 18 months have been at home, not working and presumably going out doing stuff, whilst keeping an eye on the price tag. So you can’t really say you’ve been on a staycation for 18 months, when actually you’ve been on furlough.

• Andrew says:

  11 Aug11 August 09:11

  Nothing will ever beat the “Mrs Merton” themed room that the Marriott V&A used to have in Manchester.

  Doilies everywhere, picture of “Malcolm” by the bed, old style phone, and a life size poster of Mrs Merton hugging Peter Stringfellow at the end of the bed.

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