General Chat

I won't be going to Raffles Hotel but when I go The Ritz I will let you know what they are like there.

What were the staff like, when you were at Raffles, Rollo?

Well, Rollo, I am pretty sure that Raffles was included in the programme I saw.

We had coffee as well as drinks there before it had a makeover and when I saw it on telly after the makeover, I thought it was nicer in the 1980s and very different from the other hotels featured. It was the difference that made it special then.

Alas, I thought the makeover made it look more like the other hotels so I came to the conclusion that it will be the staff that make for greatness.

The staff members at Raffles were fantastic - even more so when they saw Dtr’s cabbage patch doll which seemed to fascinate them. We ended up with lots of treats, they went above and beyond …..

Gnddtr recently stayed in The Balmoral for a couple of nights for the rugby and she said it, too, was very nice. It’s a bit too much for our pensioner pockets now but you never know … one day …

I’m not sure whether I’ve seen it in the programme ‘The World’s Greatest Hotels’ (at least that was what the series was called, I think). It included The Balmoral in Edinburgh and, I think, Raffles in Singapore.

A very good programme, did anyone else watch it?

RTR, we intend to stay there for a couple of days, after all like my mum used to say " they don't put pockets in shrouds."

On tv tonight at 10:00, looks good, only £700 for a superior for 2 people, cheap as chips......... not.