The Crown Hotel, Bawtry

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

https://youtu.be/GJb0Izry818

If you're racing at Doncaster, this is the place to stay.

[shiftwork2]

The little mug-off in the bedroom mirror was my favourite moment.  On my fourth rewatch so will report back.

[Marner and Me]

He really thinks he's in with those birds

[JamesTC]

En suite birds

[Fambo Number Mive]

I like how he salutes the camera with his little pot of cream

[Jockice]

I've been to Bawtry you know. It is exactly like that.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I always judge a hotel on the restaurant's chandelier, so glad they included that.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I once stayed at the Britannia in central Manchester, and when going for a post-gig pint in a hotel in the centre of manchester the first thing someone said to me when I put my order in at the bar was "you're not from round here are you?"

"no, that's why I'm in a hotel"

I mean, I've lived places where the local is a hotel bar, but you'd think in the middle of a fucking massive city, outsiders wouldn't be unusual.

[Icehaven]

Why is the TV facing away from the bed? Why is he eating pudding when the rest of the table are eating main courses? Why is the hotel only patronised by young women talking amongst themselves? Why does this exist?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Why is the TV facing away from the bed? Why is he eating pudding when the rest of the table are eating main courses? Why is the hotel only patronised by young women talking amongst themselves? Why does this exist?

For ladies who like a day at the races, gin and horrible old rich men.

[Fambo Number Mive]

As you can see, the bar area is always full of young women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxqYfMvEeiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfuokPp3ME

The hotel also seems to be very big on strawberries in drinks.

In fairness it looks like a very nice place to stay.

[honeychile]

Greg James has been taking the piss out of this for ages on Radio 1.

If there had been no overt way of dating it, i think i'd have guessed it came from 1991.

[Cuellar]

This is really horrible.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Greg James has been taking the piss out of this for ages on Radio 1.

If there had been no overt way of dating it, i think i'd have guessed it came from 1991.

Trying to find a really bleak youtube video from the late 80's/early 90's of a Pontins type place with some bloke who sounded like Jeff from Byker Grove, it was great.

[touchingcloth]

Is a bawtry where bawbags grow?

[Psybro]

As you can see, the bar area is always full of young women:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxqYfMvEeiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfuokPp3ME

The hotel also seems to be very big on strawberries in drinks.

In fairness it looks like a very nice place to stay.

I stayed here the night before my wedding and it was nice, there were no berry brown sex pests, and the hot breakfast was up there.

I wonder if this is one of those deliberately bad ads to get eyes on it, like the Government.

[badaids]

Trying to find a really bleak youtube video from the late 80's/early 90's of a Pontins type place with some bloke who sounded like Jeff from Byker Grove, it was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KwCY7AFyc0

Is it this one?  Bleak man.  The punters interviewed like it because it's not that much more than a caravan and the children can't play in the road.

There's that one with the Irish bloke in the pub that's both physically sickening and amusingly engrossing.

[Gurke and Hare]

I once stayed at the Britannia in central Manchester

You're still alive, so this is clearly untrue.

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KwCY7AFyc0

Is it this one?  Bleak man.  The punters interviewed like it because it's not that much more than a caravan and the children can't play in the road.

There's that one with the Irish bloke in the pub that's both physically sickening and amusingly engrossing.

That's the one! love the bit with the boats on the lake where the aerial shots show clear blue water then the ground shots show a green-brown swamp.

[Jockice]

Trying to find a really bleak youtube video from the late 80's/early 90's of a Pontins type place with some bloke who sounded like Jeff from Byker Grove, it was great.

I'm not joking here, when I was a kid I used to dream about going somewhere like this. As discussed on another thread not long ago, my parents just didn't do holidays so I had to wait until I was 15 for anything like a family holiday, That took place in a caravan park in Anstruther, with facilities not all that different (in fact in many cases markedly inferior) to those on offer here. I had a great time.

[Jockice]

Anstruther Holiday Village!! Shut since 2009. But it has its own Facebook page and everything. https://www.facebook.com/Anstruther-holiday-village-kids-630704127086048

I'd waited so long for a proper holiday with my folks (and various other relatives were involved as well. I somehow suspect it wasn't my mum and dad's idea but they just went along with it) I savoured every second of this.

[idunnosomename]

I once stayed at the Britannia in central Manchester, and when going for a post-gig pint in a hotel in the centre of manchester the first thing someone said to me when I put my order in at the bar was "you're not from round here are you?"

"no, that's why I'm in a hotel"

I mean, I've lived places where the local is a hotel bar, but you'd think in the middle of a fucking massive city, outsiders wouldn't be unusual.

oh man the britannia is so bad, even though it's an amazing building. bit like the grand in scarborough. never stayed in either tbh although I have considered it just for the bants

[Jockice]

I'm not joking here, when I was a kid I used to dream about going somewhere like this. As discussed on another thread not long ago, my parents just didn't do holidays so I had to wait until I was 15 for anything like a family holiday.

I was 14. I got this wrong last time too.

[Icehaven]

oh man the britannia is so bad, even though it's an amazing building. bit like the grand in scarborough. never stayed in either tbh although I have considered it just for the bants

The Brittania in Birmingham city centre is apparently one of the worst hotels in the country. Must be a Brittania thing.

[Paul Calf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KwCY7AFyc0

Is it this one?  Bleak man.  The punters interviewed like it because it's not that much more than a caravan and the children can't play in the road.

There's that one with the Irish bloke in the pub that's both physically sickening and amusingly engrossing.

I lost it here:



That poor fucking chicken. That's no dignity.

I'm seriously considering going vegetarian.

[Paul Calf]

Also, this comment:

Such great times stylish and beautiful. Not like now with crappy Britannia hotels running  Pontins into to the ground. So sad no care or respect for customers, filthy chalets, having to pay for electric,  chavvy clientele, rude staff. If I had the money I'd buy Pontins and return it to its former glory. Make all their sites half or full board and treat paying customers with the RESPECT and service they deserve. Pontins needs rescuing before it's too late and Britannia hotels wrecks what's left.

Paradise itself before those slithering serpents at Britannia Hotels slid into the garden and poisoned the watershed.

[buttgammon]

oh man the britannia is so bad, even though it's an amazing building. bit like the grand in scarborough. never stayed in either tbh although I have considered it just for the bants

Much as I love the rose windows, I've never even entertained staying there. The Midland is another beautiful Manchester building, but also a very good (if expensive) hotel.

[Fambo Number Mive]

"That ham's bigger than a football!"

It's got to feed a lot of people though, it's not like you get a ham the size of a football with each room.

[touchingcloth]

Also, this comment:

filthy chalets, having to pay for electric, chavvy clientele, rude staff.

Paradise itself before those slithering serpents at Britannia Hotels slid into the garden and poisoned the watershed.

For some reason I read this all as one bit, as if the person was forced to pay for chavvy clientele who were electric. It's almost a beautiful Ginsbergian bit of phrasing when read like that.

[imitationleather]

I have been to many Bang Face Weekenders at Pontins. It's very weird to be utterly wrecked in accommodation that was originally built for family holidays.