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This is aviation related, anyone on this route today, as the Red arrows have designated fly past zones on their way up to Buckingham Palace for a fly past for VE Day.
I will be at Colchester stadium to see them fly by, it’s always a great spectacle.
@Gordon, we’re just debating whether to try & get back to the ICPL lounge on the 7th floor to watch it from here!That would be a good choice, as the mall, palace and surrounding areas will be very busy, you should get a great view of the fly past from the ICPL.
Just had a two night stay at the Hyatt Regency Churchill London booked thru Amex with £75 credit and one category upgrade. Nice property; efficient checkin; we had booked room with club access and were supposedly upgraded to a room on 3rd floor with Garden view. Did not seem to be an upgrade but we were fine with the room.
Lounge breakfast was continental; decent offering of pastry/hot and cold drinks. Only hard boiled eggs though. Nice place to have breakfast. Evening drinks and canape; again a nice offering with alcoholic/non-alcoholic drinks with canapes/cakes etc. Rest of the day free coffee/tea/water etc.
We tried breakfast in the restaurant one morning. Lovely staff but food was a let down. Could not get omellette right in two tries, three waiters said there was no sourdough bread but assistant manager brought it (untoasted. who eats untoasted bread!!) Could not get strongtea even when brought twice supposedly extra strong. The fried eggs on the buffet were all burnt and it looked i was at one of those run down out of town hotels. Staff were plentiful and nice. Would be great if they were trained better.
The hotel staff did not care about the feedback
Need to go one step further. Take a bluetooth speaker with you and play it at high volume towards these people. If there’s some device that can amplify the sound towards a particular direction, even better.
Just go for the classics. “I love horses”, “Agadoo”, “The Chicken Song”, “The Birdy Song”, or if you are truly dark, “There’s no-one quite like Grandma”.
We tried breakfast in the restaurant one morning. Lovely staff but food was a let down. Could not get omellette right in two tries, three waiters said there was no sourdough bread but assistant manager brought it (untoasted. who eats untoasted bread!!) Could not get strongtea even when brought twice supposedly extra strong. The fried eggs on the buffet were all burnt and it looked i was at one of those run down out of town hotels. Staff were plentiful and nice. Would be great if they were trained better.
This is the problem I have with hotel breakfasts. Once a week I treat myself to a breakfast from the staff canteen at work. Their fried eggs are always absolutely perfectly cooked with no brown or crispy bits, bacon thick and tasty, black pudding well cooked but still soft, scrambled eggs made with fresh eggs, proper butcher’s sausages, hash browns crispy, mushrooms plentiful, tomatoes soft but still retain their form, and beans are Heinz. Everything with a swift turnover.
Then you go to even the best hotels and the stuff has been under a lamp since 6am.
The stately home just outside our town holds an Air Festival each year with Red Arrows and Memorial Flight.
Once I walked out of the front door and the Lancaster was flying really low across the road further down.We tried breakfast in the restaurant one morning. Lovely staff but food was a let down. Could not get omellette right in two tries, three waiters said there was no sourdough bread but assistant manager brought it (untoasted. who eats untoasted bread!!) Could not get strongtea even when brought twice supposedly extra strong. The fried eggs on the buffet were all burnt and it looked i was at one of those run down out of town hotels. Staff were plentiful and nice. Would be great if they were trained better.
This is the problem I have with hotel breakfasts. Once a week I treat myself to a breakfast from the staff canteen at work. Their fried eggs are always absolutely perfectly cooked with no brown or crispy bits, bacon thick and tasty, black pudding well cooked but still soft, scrambled eggs made with fresh eggs, proper butcher’s sausages, hash browns crispy, mushrooms plentiful, tomatoes soft but still retain their form, and beans are Heinz. Everything with a swift turnover.
Then you go to even the best hotels and the stuff has been under a lamp since 6am.
Exactly this. It is an essential truth that a typical “humble” work canteen or trading estate cafe will actually provide a far better cooked breakfast than 99% of hotel buffets, simply because they cook to order. If you order and hear from behind the counter the crack-sizzle of eggs starting 2 minutes later then all will be well. The only thing hotels (sometimes) do better is the coffee.
If I’m staying in a city hotel I sometimes google for nearby small cafe options to see if a better breakfast for 1/3 the price is available…
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What did the cabin crew say when you spoke to them?“Sorry, can you speak up ? I can’t hear you!
Haha, I walked right into that one!
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