Oh no, flooded room! I hope your stuff was all right. Free champagne and desserts sounds excellent, though.
I've never really done the fancy-hotel thing; what makes one so much better than others? (Our family holidays growing up were a mixture of house swaps, holiday cottages, Center Parcs and Keycamp caravans, and as an adult I've mostly just done city-break holiday lets; I like having more space than one room, getting to get up when I like and eat breakfast in my pyjamas, and not have to interact with people. But people keep trying to persuade me that hotels are great.) I love the image of you and Richie as gods of the bus.
A holiday with just reading and dips in the pool sounds great; I hope you are nicely relaxed. (And I think Rob and Richie should get together to watch romcoms raptly.)
Stuff was okay, fortunately - only hotel property was wrecked :)
I do enjoy a caravan/cottage hotel, but a good hotel is bliss. There's something extremely soothing about abdicating all responsibility for anything more complicated than decided what to eat and getting dressed for dinner. Combined with having to just sit in the sun and read during the day it's very good for me. If service is bad or too personal though I get really freaked out, so I do have Standards and it can't be one of those tiny places, just leave me alone eeek etc.
It's not for everyone, mind you, and I couldn't have it as my only type of holiday but it's a great break when I need to escape from the world and all forms of responsibility.
I should try a good hotel at some point. I imagine you need a warm climate and a pool for it to really work. I do get a bit freaked out by the responsibility when on a city break (must go to all the museums! But must also relax! OH NO, what if I make the wrong decisions and it's all terrible?), so I can see the appeal of doing nothing. I just really like having my own space and not having to talk to people if I don't want to.
(Why am I weeks late in replying to this? Whoops.)
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I've never really done the fancy-hotel thing; what makes one so much better than others? (Our family holidays growing up were a mixture of house swaps, holiday cottages, Center Parcs and Keycamp caravans, and as an adult I've mostly just done city-break holiday lets; I like having more space than one room, getting to get up when I like and eat breakfast in my pyjamas, and not have to interact with people. But people keep trying to persuade me that hotels are great.) I love the image of you and Richie as gods of the bus.
A holiday with just reading and dips in the pool sounds great; I hope you are nicely relaxed. (And I think Rob and Richie should get together to watch romcoms raptly.)
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I do enjoy a caravan/cottage hotel, but a good hotel is bliss. There's something extremely soothing about abdicating all responsibility for anything more complicated than decided what to eat and getting dressed for dinner. Combined with having to just sit in the sun and read during the day it's very good for me. If service is bad or too personal though I get really freaked out, so I do have Standards and it can't be one of those tiny places, just leave me alone eeek etc.
It's not for everyone, mind you, and I couldn't have it as my only type of holiday but it's a great break when I need to escape from the world and all forms of responsibility.
No idea if that makes sense!
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(Why am I weeks late in replying to this? Whoops.)
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