How low can a company get

[Sirius]

This makes my blood boil

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7596798.stm

A soldier home on leave after being injured in Afghanistan was refused a room by a hotel when he showed his military ID card at reception.

[injuneer]

Disgraceful! The hotel in question should be boycotted.

[mentalis]

Originally Posted by injuneer

Disgraceful! The hotel in question should be boycotted.

Maybe he should organise a small friendly (in the loosest possible terms) fire incident. I am sure some of his mates have access to a tank...

[RizzyKing]

Absolutely disgusting and that hotel and it's owner's should be totally and utterly ashamed of that policy and should immediately issue both an apology and a retraction of that policy. I think it says a lot about the guy that he quietly withdrew rather then made the stink i sure as hell would have done wish him well and safe return from his current deployment and when he gets back he meets the vast vast majority of us that hold him and all our service personnel in the highest regard.

[TheDaddy]

Metro Hotel in Woking.

Names and shames

management policy not to accept military personnel.

In which case it's my policy never to stay there, years ago we rightly came down hard on hotel that desplayed signs saying 'no Irish' 'no blacks' etc shame no one thought to include the military

The Metro Hotel is owned by a company called American Amusements Ltd

Presumably they aren't actually an American company, if they are perhaps they should try and enforce this policy 'back home' and see what happens

[v0id]

Maybe they've had trouble from servicemen staying there in the past and don't want to take the risk, they can be a right roudy bunch

Also, he wasn't in uniform, so why did he show his military ID?

[Caff]

Originally Posted by v0id

Maybe they've had trouble from servicemen staying there in the past and don't want to take the risk, they can be a right roudy bunch

I was thinking that myself...

but if that was the case then surely the hotel's policy should reflect ''single sex' parties of say more than 2 people?; even if just to distinguish themselves from other hotels who openly welcome, for example, stag and hen parties.

[dev]

Originally Posted by scuzz

I was thinking that myself...

but if that was the case then surely the hotel's policy should reflect ''single sex' parties of say more than 2 people?; even if just to distinguish themselves from other hotels who openly welcome, for example, stag and hen parties.

if its the case of previous troublesome activities involving military people, why should they include everyone rather than just the offending group?

[Charlie_Bubble]

I disagree with the way the hotel handled this, but I do know that there used to be(Not sure if it is still in effect) a ban on all soldiers coming into towns such as Guildford and Woking, due to the fact that years ago they used to get large groups of off duty squaddies coming into towns near Aldershot and picking fights with locals and generally smashing up the towns regularly. Could be some kind of hang-up on this rule.

[v0id]

There's was no need for him to show his military ID, I bet he wanted to try and scab a discount and it backfired on him

[Damien]

Originally Posted by v0id

Maybe they've had trouble from servicemen staying there in the past and don't want to take the risk, they can be a right roudy bunch

Also, he wasn't in uniform, so why did he show his military ID?

Actually yeah Why show his ID at all?*

Maybe they required proof of identity and his card was what he used?

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by dev

if its the case of previous troublesome activities involving military people, why should they include everyone rather than just the offending group?

Aldershot used to be the Army's biggest base and was known as the home of the British Army. After repeated trouble from groups of off-duty soldiers at night time, there was a ban on any of them going into surrounding towns off-duty. This hotel is also over the towns biggest nightclubs and the entrance is on the street in town with the most pubs on it, which doesn't help matters. You can say, don't ban them all, just the troublemakers, but when your local town is smashed up every Friday and Saturday night by ****ed up squaddies, you might get a bit annoyed after a while too.

[dev]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Aldershot used to be the Army's biggest base and was known as the home of the British Army. After repeated trouble from groups of off-duty soldiers at night time, there was a ban on any of them going into surrounding towns off-duty. This hotel is also over the towns biggest nightclubs and the entrance is on the street in town with the most pubs on it, which doesn't help matters. You can say, don't ban them all, just the troublemakers, but when your local town is smashed up every Friday and Saturday night by ****ed up squaddies, you might get a bit annoyed after a while too.

the post i quoted was suggesting ban all parties not just servicemen...

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by dev

the post i quoted was suggesting ban all parties not just servicemen...

Apologies, I was aiming at scuzz.

[injuneer]

The armed forces minister is demanding an explanation from the hotel now, they blame the duty receptionist!