Imagine if you care to, the following sight, you hand over the plastic, aka your credit card, to a charming woman who says "thank you", she takes an imprint of it, just in case you do a runner, somebody takes your luggage and shows you to your bedroom. Where to your absolute astonishment, the bath is beside the bed.
Hello? Where are the rest of the usual occupants of a bathroom? Is the basin on the other side of the bed and is the lavatory tucked away neatly at the bottom of the bed, it might be hidden in a vast armchair and all you, Dear Readers, need to do, is to lift the cushioned lid and sit down.. forgive us whilst she chokes with laughter.
Presumably not, it doesn't tell us in the review, so it must be that the basin, lavatory and shower are in another room, would this be the 'basinroom', seeing as the bath isn't in it?
The source of such amusement is from todays' Evening Standard, page 49, it's the HOTEL REVIEW of a place called THYME, near Cirencester, in Gloucestershire. Where the double rooms start at £260.00 per night.. this price includes breakfast. The review is by Cathy Hawker.
And we knows exactly the sort of bath tub they have used and, oh lordy, she hates these baths with a passion! First of all, you have to be reallyreally long legged (she is) but not everyone has long legs, and so how do they swing their short little legs over those high sides? Then they're quite long, so the baths take a lot of water to get to a decent height, and the water gets cold waiting for this level to be achieved.
And people always stick them in the middle of the room.. ugh.. cold. But this takes the biscuit.. why would you want to be splashing around with your duck or sponge in water in your bedroom?
Huh, I mean, in times long gone by, the reason people had this shaped baths (which weren't plumbed in) on the floor in your bedroom or another room was because you had NO proper bathroom and those times have been gone for at least sixty years.. and this is the cruncher for her.. WHO wants to sleep in a bedroom that is as warm as a bathroom should be?
Thank you but "no, thank you", she likes a cosy bathroom (even large bathrooms can be cosy if properly fitted out), which has heated towel rails positioned very close by to the bath and shower, an extractor fan that whips the steam out of the room so her hair doesn't go dead straight, with 'proper' lighting for make-up and a decent magnifying mirror.
And she likes a proper shower cubicle that has both an overhead system and a hand held one as well.. with a non-slip floor. Proper hard soaps.. none of that dreadful stuff with SLS in it, thank you. Mind you, I don't know why she wants soap as she always travels with her own which doesn't contain this filthy chemical.
Good sized proper bath towels in several different sizes, several flannels, a spare bathmat and a glass. Plus another glass or china mug for her toothbrush.. she's spoilt.. working at the Savoy Hotel for the Savoy Group (as it used to be) did that.
But perhaps 'Thyme' only has long legged people staying, the type of person who want to play with their duck or sponge and chat to the person who is sharing this room and paying from £260.00 per night, is vat at 20% included, I wonder? Probably not but breakfast is.. oh goodie!
I think we'll pass but it's made her laugh.. it's good to laugh on chillybilly days, good really any time.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 18th, 2016.
PostScript: On the Fulham Road there are a couple of bathroom showroom, she passes them at least four times a week and regularly four times a week, she silently squeals with laughter at the thought of poor short-legged folk refusing to admit that, actually, what they really want is a 'proper' bath and not one of these 'fashionable' must-haves!
Hello? Where are the rest of the usual occupants of a bathroom? Is the basin on the other side of the bed and is the lavatory tucked away neatly at the bottom of the bed, it might be hidden in a vast armchair and all you, Dear Readers, need to do, is to lift the cushioned lid and sit down.. forgive us whilst she chokes with laughter.
Presumably not, it doesn't tell us in the review, so it must be that the basin, lavatory and shower are in another room, would this be the 'basinroom', seeing as the bath isn't in it?
The source of such amusement is from todays' Evening Standard, page 49, it's the HOTEL REVIEW of a place called THYME, near Cirencester, in Gloucestershire. Where the double rooms start at £260.00 per night.. this price includes breakfast. The review is by Cathy Hawker.
And we knows exactly the sort of bath tub they have used and, oh lordy, she hates these baths with a passion! First of all, you have to be reallyreally long legged (she is) but not everyone has long legs, and so how do they swing their short little legs over those high sides? Then they're quite long, so the baths take a lot of water to get to a decent height, and the water gets cold waiting for this level to be achieved.
And people always stick them in the middle of the room.. ugh.. cold. But this takes the biscuit.. why would you want to be splashing around with your duck or sponge in water in your bedroom?
Huh, I mean, in times long gone by, the reason people had this shaped baths (which weren't plumbed in) on the floor in your bedroom or another room was because you had NO proper bathroom and those times have been gone for at least sixty years.. and this is the cruncher for her.. WHO wants to sleep in a bedroom that is as warm as a bathroom should be?
Thank you but "no, thank you", she likes a cosy bathroom (even large bathrooms can be cosy if properly fitted out), which has heated towel rails positioned very close by to the bath and shower, an extractor fan that whips the steam out of the room so her hair doesn't go dead straight, with 'proper' lighting for make-up and a decent magnifying mirror.
And she likes a proper shower cubicle that has both an overhead system and a hand held one as well.. with a non-slip floor. Proper hard soaps.. none of that dreadful stuff with SLS in it, thank you. Mind you, I don't know why she wants soap as she always travels with her own which doesn't contain this filthy chemical.
Good sized proper bath towels in several different sizes, several flannels, a spare bathmat and a glass. Plus another glass or china mug for her toothbrush.. she's spoilt.. working at the Savoy Hotel for the Savoy Group (as it used to be) did that.
But perhaps 'Thyme' only has long legged people staying, the type of person who want to play with their duck or sponge and chat to the person who is sharing this room and paying from £260.00 per night, is vat at 20% included, I wonder? Probably not but breakfast is.. oh goodie!
I think we'll pass but it's made her laugh.. it's good to laugh on chillybilly days, good really any time.
GeeGee Parrot.
January 18th, 2016.
PostScript: On the Fulham Road there are a couple of bathroom showroom, she passes them at least four times a week and regularly four times a week, she silently squeals with laughter at the thought of poor short-legged folk refusing to admit that, actually, what they really want is a 'proper' bath and not one of these 'fashionable' must-haves!
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