Mornings and evenings are definitely the best times of the day ....
Graeme decided that it was 'High Noon' time today!
We've now been here a week, one night and the best part of 24 hours of which was spent in a lower grade room because of a leak in the wardrobe of our original one with only one apology - and that from the porter who was moving our cases between rooms.
I had also mentioned to Reception staff that that extractor fan in our bathroom (no natural ventilation) wasn't working because the innocuous-looking switch over the bath was broken and nothing was then done about it.
I went to Reception and asked to speak to the duty manager. They tried to put me off but I was adamant and said I would sit nearby and wait!
The manager duly came and listened to me: only a very junior employee had apologised for the room changes, they had promised us they would contact us around lunchtime the next day to give us a new room but hadn't. We only found out where we would be by asking again at Reception at around 4pm.
I finished off by saying that we had paid for 11 nights in a 'superior' double room with sea view to have to spend one of them in a much inferior room at the back with a view over the staff quarters and service areas and that we had never been offered any redress from the hotel for that.
I said that we had reported that the pull switch for the fan in our bathroom didn't work to which the manager replied to say that the extractor fan was automatic and that the pull switch over the bath was an emergency pull cord and not at all connected to the fan! I replied by saying that it clearly didn't work either as we had each pulled it many times and that nobody had come to investigate! Not only that but I pointed out that such pull cords were usually in red in public places.
I also mentioned that the switch itself was detached from the wall, potentially allowing water from the shower to short the circuit, that I had reported that but that, once again, nothing had been done about it.
The manager duly apologised and asked when we were leaving so watch this space! I'm assuming that the question about when we were leaving wasn't because they were now considering chucking us out sooner!
As the day drew to a close we were looking forward to a full lunar eclipse and, as it got dark it was clear that quite a few of the other guests were aware of it too.
Eventually we caught sight of the blood read moon. I was hoping that it would be a larger moon but our was high up in the sky so relatively smaller.
It seemed to improve over time, so see what you think -
Sunset in the west
And then the moon rose in the east
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