Be careful who your guests are!

[harvyk]

I would have laughed my head off, ordered a martini and Savored the best dinner party story I would ever have for the rest of my life. I think some of the responses were a bit over the tip, it's not like anyone died.

So you'd have been happy with the coppers barging in to your hotel room under the assumption you're breaking the law? Or being questioned about who your with as you and your travelling companion does not fit the perfect idea in the hotel managers mind?

As for a dinner party story, absolutely...

 

[TonyHancock]

So you'd have been happy with the coppers barging in to your hotel room under the assumption you're breaking the law? Or being questioned about who your with as you and your travelling companion does not fit the perfect idea in the hotel managers mind?

As for a dinner party story, absolutely...

I can't answer for rechoboam but it would not have particularly bothered me. Everyone reacts in different ways, I can certainly understand why someone might be upset and offended.

 

[ncairns]

Definitely a good story to tell over a dinner conversation. But if the original poster on FT doesn't get the apology that he is looking for, then maybe he should post a negative review on TripAdvisor. Hotel managers generally take reviews on TA quite seriously and a negative review like that would probably destroy the hotel's reputation which may be sweet enough revenge for him. But then again being a Hilton hotel I think Paris has done that already!

 

[rechoboam]

Look if I were in Afghanistan, the cops were the Taliban and they were pointing AK-47s at me I would feel differently. But being questioned for a few minutes by UK police wouldn't alarm me. I mean I was taken aside by armed Eastern European police one winter's night because they thought I was a local black market currency changer. I'd been in the country two hours and didn't speak a word of the language! They were looking for a huge bag of greenbacks. I thought it was funny.

I've also had people barge into my hotel room before albeit after knocking. Once I recall staff responding to a phone call from me about room service. They turned the room upside down as though they were looking for an escaped pet or something. They were screaming the whole time although I think it was more out of some kind of panic than anger. To this day, I have no idea what it was about. And I didn't get my lunch. That was even funnier.

 

[Oneworldplus2]

I can't answer for rechoboam but it would not have particularly bothered me. Everyone reacts in different ways, I can certainly understand why someone might be upset and offended.

+1
Sounds like some people have grown up in a glass house or something.

 

[rechoboam]

+1
Sounds like some people have grown up in a glass house or something.

Who-me? Don't quite follow. Anyway I'm obviously aware that some people might be pretty upset about it, to the point of PTSD I guess, I'm just trying to paint it in a different light.

 

[drron]

Who-me? Don't quite follow. Anyway I'm obviously aware that some people might be pretty upset about it, to the point of PTSD I guess, I'm just trying to paint it in a different light.

No silly-he's agreeing with you.
However remember the OP is from the States-we dont call it LOTFAP for nothing.
And although I would dine out on the story for ages i would still expect the GM to apologise.

 

[JohnK]

And I thought the thread was going to be about some Flyertalk DO and the designated "party" rooms on Friday and/or Saturday nights. Guests coming and going all night.

Glad that is was a misunderstanding and all is OK now.

 

[rechoboam]

No silly-he's agreeing with you.
However remember the OP is from the States-we dont call it LOTFAP for nothing.
And although I would dine out on the story for ages i would still expect the GM to apologise.

I think I get it although "glass houses" means hypocrisy to me while I think the idea was actually "wrapped in cotton wool".