Hotel Residents Bars

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I never understand this. Why on earth do people feel the need to sit in a hotel lobby drunkenly downing pints of Smithwicks up til 5 or 6 in the morning.

I was at my cousin's wedding in May of last year in Portumna. It was a lovely affair. A beautiful ceremony and surprisingly a half-decent meal for the reception. I had a fantastic time chatting to some of my relations and letting them know how I was getting on in Frankfurt. Myself and my partner retired to bed fairly late, around 1am I think.

I was determined not to let the festivities interrupt my training regime, so rose at 0630 to go for a light 8k tempo session around the grounds of the hotel. The sight that greeted me in the lobby was nothing short of disgraceful. A bunch of slobs messily slurping down drinks. I went over and told them to cop on and go to bed. They could barely construct a coherent response. Slurring their words as they tried to justify their piggish actions.

Why on earth grown adults behave like that, I'll never know.

I could imagine you Argus striding down through the reception area in your freshly ironed black red and gold tracksuit,blonde hair flowing down your back Kraftwerk pumping through the headphones on your way to your Morgen Verfassung

I was at a wedding in a popular Midlands venue in the height of the hot summer last year and while our wedding was taking place in the main function room, there was also a lively enough private 21st party going on in the main bar. Naturally enough, in the time between the dinner finishing up and the band setting up, there was an over-lap of guests from the wedding into the bar (were actively encouraged to do so, and no complaints from the 21st contingent).

Anyway, wedding finished up at about 2AM and I was heading towards bed when I bumped into the night manager and chanced my arm by asking was there a resident's bar and he basically told me to tell the other wedding guests to hang around until the 21st crowd cleared and the bar staff cleaned up. Well after about 20 minutes hanging about the smoking area and me "guaranteeing" the wedding guests that the bar will be open for us in a second, lo and behold the lights of the bar turn back on and the doors swing open. Even had a spread of sandwiches and the works for us. Didn't get to bed till about 6AM.

But apparently it's common practise in this particular establishment, and wasn't just a once off gesture as a result of my legendary charm I will definitely host my wedding there if I ever oblige.

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I didn't feel sorry for the gluttons who had probably had double digits worth of drinks at that stage. It was more the poor 17 year old night porter who was fetching the drinks for these immature adults who didn't know when to call it a day.

As opposed to the grown up who can't let himself unwind for one night.

Live and let live. They think your weird and you think their weird.

The 17 year old member of staff , is well, a member of staff whose job it is, is too serve them.

ted1 wrote: »

That's rubbish, yes they can be shut down for serving and having none resudents

I'm sure legally they can, but realistically how is anyone going to go in and sort residents from non-residents? It's too much hassle, hence the loophole.

Put it another way: You never see lock-ins in the hotel based nightclubs, they just openly stay open all night. Other clubs on the same strip which are not part of hotels have to do the whole secretive "look like it's closed" stuff, shutters down, exit only through the back alleyway, etc.

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I had a fantastic time chatting to some of my relations and letting them know how I was getting on in Frankfurt. Myself and my partner retired to bed fairly late, around 1am I think.

I was determined not to let the festivities interrupt my training regime, so rose at 0630 to go for a light 8k tempo session around the grounds of the hotel.

This made me laugh