Swanky hotels!! (and also not)

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Martin: yup. Thread: The hotels I've stayed at have always been somewhere between the Low Budget Militia Hostel and the LifTVColourMoodRainbowLightinGoldTeethChairSkinnyWaitressEvilPuddingPl ace. I have no interesting hotel stories.

Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I am famous, I will only stay in swanky hotels, the more lethal the pudding the better.

jel --, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not merely common knowledge, Martin, but divinely approved.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

When my russian friend was over in London he stayed in a very swanky superposh expensive hotel. I stayed with him one night. I can't remember anything cuz I uh drank a bit too much. :-(

nathalie, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I stayed in a few hotels in former-Czechoslovakia that had a kind ov faded/seedy classiness about them. In the High Tatras area we stayed in a chalet, but ate at this incredible huge hotel, a five course meal, some of thee best food I haf ever tasted, a huge room lined w/mirrors, a pianist, and beautiful waitresses, one ov whom looked like claudia brucken. It cost thee equivalent ov three pounds fifty each.

Bad, is a more common experience, I'm afraid. In Cyprus I had the worst, in Nicosia, we stayed in this bloody awful place - the room was a larger room divided into 2, the partition was so thin we could hear thee occupant ov thee other half breathing, and the pages of his newspaper turning. Later that night some German soldiers who were doing the UN peacekeeper thang came in, pissed up & w/prostitutes. They fux0red in the hallway outside our room. You may be aware that Cyprus is split pretty much by religion - muslim in the turkish north. Xtian in the greek south. Nicosia is split, like old berlin, and the mortheners have mosques w/hugely powerful, but tinny & distorted PA systems. Massed mullahs @ thee crack ov dawn is quite thee alarm call. Mrs K-rad left a pot full of pee under the wardrobe. Our first choice, and somewhere that was actually recommended to us by thee principal of mrs k-rad's college out there was this upstairs thing which was clearly actually a BROTHEL! When we got to the top of the stairs there were all these oriental women dressed in red outfits lurking around. We turned around & went straight back out. I must honestly report that there was an air of seediness & saucy decadence which was not w/o some appeal...er....
We stayed at a technically worse place in Limmasol, but that did have its pluses - it was a fascinating place - a courtyard surrounded by bedrooms above a garage. Most of the dwellers were european & australian/NZ illegal workers. Thee toilet was a hole in the floor, from which emanated the worst smell EVER. What made it not too bad was the cost - 1 pound per night.

Norman Phay, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A friend once famously rang up room service at the Paramount Hotel and asked for a six-pack of Budweiser and an order of french fries. The Paramount is a "boutique" hotel like the W or the Tribeca/Soho Grand; its rooms are tiny and tony and designed to a tee.

Anyhow the grand total, before tip, for six Buds and some fries = $85. We proceeded to somehow get roaringly drunk off of the beer and ALL slept in his room (Mike's legs were sticking out of the closet) because we rationalized that we were taking money from the hotel that way, or something.

Tracer Hand, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark could you please expand on the concept of the "pudding bar"?

Nitsuh, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well actually it is a restaurant that does all courses BUT i. we only went in for pudding, because ii. it is (apparently) world-famous for pudding

mark s, Sunday, 7 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I got sent to Amsterdam for work last summer. I was staying in the same hotel as the person I was interviewing, so it was fairly swanky anyway. But when I saw my room ... the porter had been giving me (all short and scruffy from travelling) 'surely some mistake' looks. I felt a bit resentful (bloody ageism), until I saw the room. It was the bloody penthouse suite and the size of a small flat! It had a dinning room table and a lobby for guests to hang coats and carpet that your feet sank into. Then I realised that the mini bar was being paid for in with the room and spent a happy half hour bouncing on the bed drinking champagne and making high pitched noises.

Anna, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Pudding bar! Pudding bar!! Pudding bar!!! Last night we went for more, and then a i dreamt that my indigestion was an episode of buffy — or actually i think that it was buffy as a whole (i understood this in my dream but i am at a loss this morning)

mark s, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ha ha my work is talking about sending me away to be a regional representative and one of the places where I will be representing to the regions is PRESTONG and I should be staying in the swankiest hotel in Prestong all on company money YAAAAAAAAAY oh the glee and in fact joy. Sod you parents I'm in the POSH HOTEL tonight! Okay so it is only a Mariott. Chiz. Take me to the Sanderson.

Sarah, Monday, 8 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...
"Pudding bar"

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Your search - "budino bar" - did not match any documents.

gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 2 January 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

So there's this new place opened in London:

https://www.thened.com/

I do not appear to be the Ned in question. This has not stopped them from this, shall we say, somewhat salaciously named offer:

https://www.thened.com/winanight

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04:12 (six years ago) link


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