Xmas Day Disaster

LadyDee

And I'm gonna guess OP would have been all sweetness and light if we'd all told her she should be getting a small fortune for her ruined day.

By the way OP, if you hate the idea of returning to the hotel for a free meal and free stay perhaps the unfortunate establishment will be happy for you to donate the meals/stay to some unfortunate soul from the North of England, who really did have a ruined Christmas.

p.s. This is my daughter's idea of a ruined Christmas on her side of the world: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3381014/Firefighters-leave-heartwarming-note-homeowner-save-going-flames-Christmas-Day-bushfires.html

meer53

Plenty of Leeds folk were flooded over Xmas, i bet someone would love a free meal and overnight stay. What i don't understand is why the OP waited 2 hours for food ? It was obvious from the start there was a problem, someone should have made a decision way before that. If you're not sat at a table with a starter within an hour of arriving, i'd be off.

Takeaway_Addict

meer53 wrote: »

Plenty of Leeds folk were flooded over Xmas, i bet someone would love a free meal and overnight stay. What i don't understand is why the OP waited 2 hours for food ? It was obvious from the start there was a problem, someone should have made a decision way before that. If you're not sat at a table with a starter within an hour of arriving, i'd be off.

On Christmas day, with no where else to go and no food at home....I doubt it.

JReacher1

meer53 wrote: »

Plenty of Leeds folk were flooded over Xmas, i bet someone would love a free meal and overnight stay. What i don't understand is why the OP waited 2 hours for food ? It was obvious from the start there was a problem, someone should have made a decision way before that. If you're not sat at a table with a starter within an hour of arriving, i'd be off.

They had probably already paid.

BykerSands

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

On Christmas day, with no where else to go and no food at home....I doubt it.

Ah no food at home, really?

peachyprice

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

On Christmas day, with no where else to go and no food at home....I doubt it.

Nowhere else to go? How about home?
No food in the house over the Christmas period? Nothing in for boxing day, or Sunday or bank holiday Monday? .......I doubt it.

ThumbRemote

peachyprice wrote: »

Nowhere else to go? How about home?
No food in the house over the Christmas period? Nothing in for boxing day, or Sunday or bank holiday Monday? .......I doubt it.

If they'd gone home and cobbled together something it would have taken even longer.

And then you'd be among other posters on here criticising them for leaving, not giving the venue chance to put it right, etc.

susancs

OP, I too think the offer of a full refund, free meal and hotel stay for 15 people is a generous offer, but can understand the reluctance of others in your party to use the hotel again.

I wonder, as the hotel is part of a chain, if you could ask for the meal and hotel stay to be arranged at another hotel in the chain. I expect OP that you live locally to the hotel you had arranged Chsristmas lunch in, so overnight stay in a local hotel would not be a treat, but a stay in another area might well be. Also I see Village hotels have a £20 room stay offer for Thurs, Fri and Sun night, which you could link in to the nights stay, so could be a lovely short break for the family. I have posted on the Uk holiday board that the Watford one is near London and a short drive to the Harry Potter studios as aposter on that board was looking for a cheaper hotel not too far from London.

Takeaway_Addict

peachyprice wrote: »

Nowhere else to go? How about home?
No food in the house over the Christmas period? Nothing in for boxing day, or Sunday or bank holiday Monday? .......I doubt it.

OK I'll rephrase, no Christmas food at home, it wasn't just a sunday lunch that could have been bought on the day and prepared later. It was a special meal on a special day that the chance of replicating was minimal so of course people wait in the hope of it being fulfilled.

BykerSands

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

OK I'll rephrase, no Christmas food at home, it wasn't just a sunday lunch that could have been bought on the day and prepared later. It was a special meal on a special day that the chance of replicating was minimal so of course people wait in the hope of it being fulfilled.

One minute you're in full support of a takeaway as loads are open, now you're making out its the meal of the year.

The op won't be back to time to move on and forget it like then.