Get free afternoon tea at Marriott County Hall if you are called Elizabeth

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• Paul says:

  5 Apr5 April 10:59

  Hi Rob,

  In the article you mention a minimum of 2 nights for the IHG offer. The terms state “There is a fixed two (2) consecutive night length of stay for each Booking (shorter or longer stays are not permitted in this Promotion)”

  Just letting you know in case others don’t spot that (unless I am missing something?)

  Thanks

  • Andrew says:

    5 Apr5 April 11:22

    You’re correct I believe, as it also says this on the promotion webpage:

    “Simply book two rooms, for two nights (only) to get the cheapest room free upon check-in.”

• Nav says:

  5 Apr5 April 11:51

  Quick (off-topic) Q please for those of you who have travelled with babies…back off the excellent HfP article on travelling with Sing Air we have taken the plunge and booked a trip to SIN with our 4 month old at end of April. My wife is getting cold feet saying that our son will be too young to do a 13 hour flight. So the Q is how can I allay her concerns? How young is too young to fly long distance? And what is the youngest HfP readers have flown (10+ hours) with their toddlers? TIA!

  • Rob says:

    5 Apr5 April 11:54

    Your son is probably sleeping 18 hours per day at the moment anyway … the hum of an aircraft engine should encourage that and he’ll have his little bassinet bed. Wait until they start walking around …. then you get stressed 🙂

    • Nav says:

      5 Apr5 April 12:00

      Thanks Rob. Wish he was sleeping 18 hours a day…! What was the earliest you took your children on a long-haul flight?

      • Mr(s) Entitled says:

        5 Apr5 April 12:32

        We did lots on transatlantic flights with my girls when they were babies. Overnight flights in a bassinet were a dream. Once they become mobile the novelty of walking up and down the plane’s aisles for hours on end soon wears off for you, if not them. Travel now as much as you can.

      • Rob says:

        5 Apr5 April 14:05

        We took our son to Barbados at 12 months, I think that was his first long-haul trip. We took a longer break when our daughter was born, but only because we were running back and forth between the UK and Germany with her all the time anyway and it was no great shakes to stick to Europe for 18 months or so.

        It does get trickier later than 4 months, especially if you need to take baby milk from the UK. This is when places like the Middle East come into their own, where you can pop down to a Waitrose or Carrefour on the first day and get all the same stuff you’d have in the UK.

    • Michael C says:

      5 Apr5 April 12:03

      Totally agree with Rob – the 3-10 month stint it easy, then the screen-zombie age is easy. Only the bit in between to contend with!
      Taking our 13-month old by myself to GRU was a longggg trip…

  • memesweeper says:

    5 Apr5 April 12:12

    Babies are fairly easy long haul. I took my daughter back from San Fran alone when she was crawling age. No problems. It gets harder as they get older, not easier, IMO.

    • Nav says:

      5 Apr5 April 12:34

      Thanks all for the quick replies. Did anyone worry about them picking up colds and viruses? I know they are particularly susceptible at that age?

      • Qrfan says:

        5 Apr5 April 13:31

        What do you normally do at home? Presumably you go to lots of baby related activities that are not exactly sterile environments? It didn’t worry us. I’m sure our girls first cold came from a local play class.

      • Martin says:

        5 Apr5 April 14:41

        The age of 2 is the only time we had a problem, in his own seat he decided to have a hissy fit,
        We sat with a delayed take off for about an hour.
        As we took off he fell asleep and slept the rest of the flight.
        We could hear the usual grumbles from people saying he shouldn’t be allowed in business class.
        At least it was the one and only problem we had.

  • Richard E says:

    5 Apr5 April 12:58

    The ONLY bit of advice I ever give new parents is that around 4 months is a dream time to travel with them. On a flight they generally sleep, and can be comforted easily by nursing (esp for take off and landing). They don’t move on their own, and the ticket price is much lower. We took our son at 4 months from London > Japan > Singapore > Japan > London, and it was a great trip. At the destinations, baby was usually in an outward-facing carrier, meaning we could go everywhere we usually would.

    My only regret is that we didn’t know just how easy it would be, and plan to do more trips!

  • Jo says:

    5 Apr5 April 16:33

    I’m from sg and hv flown Lon-sin many times with my kids. Please travel as much as you can before they can walk. After that it all goes downhill. Good luck.

  • BuildBackBetter says:

    5 Apr5 April 18:27

    Travel as much as possible before they get curious and want to test whether every piece of the plane works.
    They are curious even less than 12 months, but they are more interested in milk.

  • John says:

    5 Apr5 April 19:03

    We did long haul when he was 4 months and baby was ok, used baby carrier.

    Then came covid so don’t really know what it would have been like.

    Did UK trips in the car which is different to flying.

    Now nearly 3 years and just went around mainland Europe, main problem is that he can only stay awake for 12 hours normally, but with the excitement and busier activities he can only last 10 hours.

    This means we can’t do stuff that’s too far from the hotel and/or he needs a nap, but he won’t do it and just falls asleep at inconvenient times, and he’s too heavy to carry for a long time. And not going to become the next McCanns so that means dinner at 5pm then stay in the room after that.

    Not sure how we are going to tackle long haul as he is extremely restless and won’t stay in a seat for more than 1 hour. But we need to go to Australia in (northern hemisphere) summer…for business and family reasons so too bad.

  • Letsfly says:

    5 Apr5 April 20:40

    We did Vietnam with a 5mth old. Return flight via Hong Kong NOT connecting flights so probably about 16hrs. Wasn’t a problem. Lots of sleeping and feeding and sleeping… same as at home basically!

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    5 Apr5 April 20:56

    As above – dead easy when they’re young, dead easy when they’re old enough to be mesmerised by Peppa Pig on a screen (which is fine by the way, let them get on with it – sitting on a long-haul plane is not the time to obsess about their educational needs or your parent-of-the-year credentials).

    The “difficult” age is when they are mobile but cannot be placated by screens. See the 2yo above….

• Olly says:

  5 Apr5 April 12:44

  It would be nice to find the origin of the Elizabeth afternoon tea deal anywhere online, specifically somewhere on a Marriott page to screenshot. I have tried to call the Library to check if middle names count and verify the price, but nobody is answering, as it varies from £49 to £69 per person, without bubbles! I want the certainty of what the bill is going to be before booking. Any ideas?

• Rich_A says:

  5 Apr5 April 13:35

  It only costs £42.44 to change your name by deed poll, and then free to replace your driving licence. Any takers?

  • Elizabeth (formerly known as Mark) says:

    5 Apr5 April 13:46

    Why not… 🙂

    • Lady London says:

      7 Apr7 April 16:50

      🙂

  • Olly says:

    5 Apr5 April 15:50

    @Rich_A, But then there is the cost of a new driving licence or passport…… not to mention a new dress, shoes etc

• Doommonger says:

  5 Apr5 April 17:03

  I rang Liz Hurley to see if she was free, unfortunately I am light of several million quid, and look like Barry from Eastenders….I’ll get me coat then.

• Tracey says:

  5 Apr5 April 18:50

  At around the age of 2 our youngest not only started to get (air) travel sick, but also emetophobia. A visit to our GP who said he would grow out of it in time, but for now we either become the family that never travels or we use drugs. A few trips with Valium in hand and he was cured. Controversial I know. He’s now on honeymoon, long haul with a connection and absolutely fine.

• milesandmordor says:

  5 Apr5 April 18:56

  The offer is only available to people whose legal name is ‘Elizabeth’ – not Liz, not Eliza, not Beth ( nor , presumably , Lilibet ) . So sadly no discount for Harry and Meghan if they take their kids along for a well earned treat.

  • Joe says:

    5 Apr5 April 19:36

    If you have two Elizabeth’s is it completely free?

    • Rob says:

      5 Apr5 April 23:18

      No!

• Pablo says:

  6 Apr6 April 06:50

  Marriott County Hall is running a promo for April full flex rate @ £200 per night so around half price the usual rate using promo code NPR.

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