Homophobia at the Premier Inn

SavingSassy

Mrs Ryan.... If you worked for Premier Lodge 9 years ago, then you would know that Premier Lodge was NOT Premier Inn and was actually owned by the Spirit Pub company.

I don't know of any hotel chain that would have put a 'ban' on same sex couples in rooms 9 years ago! Ridiculous!

veyrongirl

When I worked for them, also blocked by the firewall were churches, military establishments and government departments. Quite an pain for wedding and pass out parades

rustyboy21

iclayt wrote: »

As a lesbian myself I literally cannot believe you think this is homophobia. This is obviously in place to protect children etc from accidentally coming across things they should not see at that age. Presumably these were shared computers in the foyer or in other public areas of the hotel. Why would they want to risk someone accessing lesbian !!!!!! in view of everyone else?

Internet access is not provided by Premier Inn either, they have a separate company. When I had trouble connecting to WiFi there the reception staff put me through to the WiFi company call centre for help.

Your update to your website couldn't have waited until you got home, after taking your partner for a night away for her birthday? She's so lucky, btw. "Just off to do some admin babe, brb".

Here is actual homophobia which I experienced in a hotel:

At check in, staff were friendly, and we received an apology that we had been given a double instead of a twin. We said that's what we booked, it's correct - and their attitude changed entirely.
The power in our room was not working and they refused to move us to another room saying they were fully booked and it was a problem with the whole upper floor of the hotel. When we said that's obviously not the case, next door has their TV on and we've just seen someone coming out of their room with lights on, the reception staff giggled and suggested we think of other ways to pass the time. We went out, and when we got back had to get ready for bed in the dark by the lights of our mobiles. Call me paranoid but I still wonder if they managed to do this on purpose somehow.
At breakfast the next day, the waitress openly stared at us and said quite loudly "I don't want to serve them", pulling a face when her boss made her, slamming down our food and hot drinks and scuttling away.
I was in tears by this point and we asked to see the duty manager, who just about managed to say "I'm sorry you feel this way".
Checking out at the desk, as we walked away the receptionists muttered between themselves, and we definitely heard the work "gross".

We're just a normal couple. We're not touchy-feely in public, we could have been two friends on a night away, but because they knew we were a couple we were treated disrespectfully and differently and it still upsets me to this day, a few years later.

We complained, but it was an independent hotel (which we had booked as a treat, more expensive than the premier inn and other chains) and the manager simply offered an apology, a promise that better staff training would be put in place, and the offer of a discount on another night's stay, which we rejected, and left the matter at that, because all I wanted was for the night to have never happened and that's not something he could manage.

On the other hand, when we stay in a Premier Inn we are treated with the utmost respect, not a flicker when we check into a double room, and it's now our first choice of budget hotel.

Get a grip, OP.

As a Gay man myself and have had the same partner for 21 years, both myself and you are in more of a position to comment on the OP's post, a lot more than a few ' try and be a do gooders' who post on here a lot, and how it could effect us. I totally agree with your post iclayt.


OP get a life and stop complaining about things which have been put in place, to


a. Stop children being able to access pornographic or harmful material.
b. Stop Premier Inn from having numerous complaints from Parents that their child has been able to access said material.


At the end of the day, We do not have a 'Right' to have access to internet capability, when staying in a hotel. It is a benefit, but not a must. The access is ran by an outside company, not PI, so it most likely wont have anything to do with PI how the filter is set.


OP if you want to access your website when staying away from home then I would suggest staying in a Best western, Holiday Inn, Village Hotel etc who offer open access to all material, included in your room rate.

Either that or buy a PAYG wifi dongle which you can set up to watch whatever you want.


OP, if you were complaining about being given separate rooms from your partner or not getting rooms at all, or were sent away as you were a Gay couple then ok I would be on your side, but this, sorry as I and others have said Get a life and stop trying to create a fuss with the 'Gay' card which gives us all a bad name ! Maybe Peter Tatchell may put you up next time you are in London.

MothballsWallet

Emphasis is mine:

RuthnJasper wrote: »

Be thankful that we aren't in North Korea,China, Russia or a Middle East country or similar. If you were, suddenly not being able to look up a social site in a hotel room really would not seem like much of a problem any more.
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As someone who has recently been to Russia and used free Wi-Fi in hotels and an Ikea (don't start, my wife has an Ikea Family card and we had a nice meal there), I didn't encounter any problems accessing email, YouTube or Twitter.

MothballsWallet

keyser666 wrote: »

Its amazing what you find if you actually go looking for it

Welcome to the wonders of the Deep Web :rotfl:

BJV

Ok I have tried to read everything.


I do not think any one would disagree that making the internet safe for children has to be a must. I am not gay. I am me and I do not want to see pictures of any sexuality being displayed to my under 10 year olds no matter what if it heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian.


The hotel has a set of rules that they have to abide by and now and again because these rules have to cover so much there will be legitimate websites which are affected.


I understand the frustration, we all live in a want it get it now world so yes being told or not being able to do something would annoy me but I would much rather that than children be exposed.


Not to informative sites ( please notice not saying specific sexuality because hate to say don't really care about a persons sexuality that it up to them and makes no difference to me) which could help but to the horrible nasty sites that some wackos have. There are some very misguided people in our world and they will try to cheat search engines that there sexually explicit site is ok.


Sorry I would rather the systems we have now than none at all.

RuthnJasper

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Emphasis is mine:

As someone who has recently been to Russia and used free Wi-Fi in hotels and an Ikea (don't start, my wife has an Ikea Family card and we had a nice meal there), I didn't encounter any problems accessing email, YouTube or Twitter.

Ah, that's good to know. My parents had other, less pleasant, experiences of Russia, but they were very closely involved with Byelorussia (now Belarus), so that's perhaps why.

Nothing wrong with Ikea; god bless the Swedes.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Exactly. The same way many websites block the use of the well known town S!!!!horpe.

No it does not block Scunthorpe

gik

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

No it does not block Scunthorpe

There is no colour changing cheating in this Scunthorpe!

OlliesDad

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

No it does not block Scu[COLOR]n[COLOR]thorpe[COLOR]

gik wrote: »

There is no colour changing cheating in this Scunt[FONT]horpe!

There are lots of ways around it.