Profiteering, it's just theft.

Oh, and I can’t really change hotel, because the other chains round that area want £100 per night, for a room that is no better than the £67. The food is of a better quality but after work I’m too hungry for quality. I want a MASSIVE steak, jacket spud and 4 greens for about £13. Not a 6 ounce mouthful steak, with a few boiled spuds and a dressing of cress (But presented beautifully) for £22.95.

Hell man!!

you pay way to much for all that stuff.

Me and the missus usually pay about £50 – £60 for room and brekkie and £7 – £8 each on a meal.

But then you got to add beer and JD and that blows the whole rest of the budget.

NO SHIRT, NO SHOES, NO SERVICE!

Y’all come back now, y’hear?

Prime rib, hung for at least a week.:)

The 32 ounce was a T bone, so it was probably only 28 ounces of meat. Yes, it was big, but it looked small ‘cos I was in Texas. Not even the whole USA is bigger than Texas! (If you’ve been there, you’ll get the joke here)
The cook in the cheap motel cooks a fillet, the chef in the posh hotel cooks a fillet. No difference except the price. I’ve done the both of them. Of course, fillet vs rump is going to give a different flavour, but that isn’t the comparison.

As for a rich in red meat diet….my red meat is only 4 times a week (That includes parts of the pig), plus some foul and some fish. Plenty of Veg. with every meal.

It’s not the £1.50, it’s the total principle.

As for the steak, in no way could the smaller steak be better

It could if the smallness of it meant it was a different cut: for example a fillet! Then the taste sometimes outweighs size. It is a delicate balance though – volume of meat vs flavour.

32oz steak never seen one big are they?

Even eating it rare with no sauces (I’m a steak tartare fan myself) does not protect you from the unpleasant consequences of a diet too rich in red meat.

For me it’s an acceptable risk, just like diving into the Pick & Mix at Wollies and hopping a Ryan 737 for a night of booze in Dublin.

32oz steak. What would be the point?

Moggy

….effectively an extra £1.50 going to the hotel chain…

…..how much better your health will be eating less food but better. 😉

Moggy

It’s not the £1.50, it’s the total principle.

As for the steak, in no way could the smaller steak be better, it probably got sliced off the same cow. Just because a fully qualified Chef is employed, rather than a cook, does not improve the flavour. Unless you count the sauces, which is a french trick to disguise horse and/or bad meat.
I eat steaks rare, with no sauces. 32 ouncer was my record, in Texas (Where else!).

Well my mortgage company didn’t pass on the last 1.5% interest rate cut…..costing me over £200 a month…

…now that is profiteering! 😡

I’m afraid you just have to make a stand for your principles and switch to the £100 a night one and console yourself with the thought of how much better your health will be eating less food but better. 😉

Nah. I have to admit I think reporting the hotel was a total waste of time and you could have spent that time doing something far more productive like sleeping. That said, I couldn’t agree more on the steak. I’m all for huge, proper steaks! Free internet is a plus as well, although that seems to be something you find much more in Europe because as usual, they’re just better than we are. Still, that doesn’t take much doing. Hell, I’ve found more free internet in Russia that I have in the UK!

Paul

I’d guess they are banking on the fact that, unlike yourself, not many people are going to be that bothered by what is effectively an extra £1.50 going to the hotel chain rather than the government.

I’m afraid you just have to make a stand for your principles and switch to the £100 a night one and console yourself with the thought of how much better your health will be eating less food but better. 😉

Moggy

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No, Brown shouldn’t be interested in the moaning of a hotel customer, but the reduction of VAT was intended to bring prices down, help with the credit crunch blah blah blah. I only wrote there because I don’t know who else would show the slightest interest either.
Are we in a nanny state? I thought it was a motherly dictatorship.

Oh, and I can’t really change hotel, because the other chains round that area want £100 per night, for a room that is no better than the £67. The food is of a better quality but after work I’m too hungry for quality. I want a MASSIVE steak, jacket spud and 4 greens for about £13. Not a 6 ounce mouthful steak, with a few boiled spuds and a dressing of cress (But presented beautifully) for £22.95.

I’ve grassed them up to the office of Gordon Brown, so I expect nothing will be done.

Well no, it won’t.

That’s because the Prime Minister’s Office have nothing whatsoever to do with complaints from disgruntled hotel customers.

If you bought a TV from Currys, would you take it back to M & S and demand a refund if it was faulty?

Anyway, I thought you were against all that namby-pamby pinko nanny state red tape? :p

Most! That’s life.