Showing posts with label MOTELS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOTELS. Show all posts

Friday, 20 February 2009

COPTHORNE CRAP


Courtesy of the Govt, we stayed at the Copthorne Central last night. It was crap - You need to take out a mortgage to use the broadband. The bath hadn't been cleaned properly, It was hot and it was generally shabby the soap shelf was hanging off the wall. Now if it was $99 a night I wouldn't complain but it was $140 a night and $30 for a cooked breakfast which was frankly appalling. The bacon was wet, the eggs hard and the hash browns as limp as an 80 year old. To add to the misery we forgot our shampoo and conditioner and had to use that vile paint stripper they give you in in a bottle called conditioning shampoo. So now we are sitting in the ChCh Koru lounge with Phyllis Diller hair.

Oh and I pay for my Koruclub membership from my own pocket.

It's time that the government stopped using this chain and looked for better value accommodation.
Or negotiated a better price. We are a fan of motorlodges and motels. We think that the government should become a fan of them as well.

Saturday, 7 February 2009

MOTEL ASSOCIATION TAINTED BY LABOUR NANNY STATE

Motella is a relatively new blog but his latest post makes for interesting reading. It appears that after nine years of a nanny state the public has become conditioned to looking to regulation to solve problems.
It appears that the Motel Association of NZ wants to geat heavy with the ma's and pa's around the country offering B and B's and short term accomodation.
Motella is right - if this idea is instituted, then it will mean more fusspotting by local authorities. Shame on them. And good boy Motella for rooting out this silliness.