75 for 3 bottles of water normal in london?

[anonymous-user]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/bu...

Wellesley Hotel charges businessman Edward Heaton £75 for three small bottles of water

i understand the cigar lounge is expensive but seems a bit of a pisstake for a 50 minimum charge..

[anonymous-user]

They've got to get a certain return per table per day/hour to make it worthwhile.
Serious businessman should know this!
I haven't read the article but I'd like to see if this guy has any premises with public access so I can turn up and have a meeting in his place, I'll bring my own water, I only want to use the benefit of his lighting, shelter and general ambience, he's already paid for that so he won't mind me borrowing it.

[anonymous-user]

Nah, it screams 'cheapskate' and suggests he's not particularly shrewd. Fair enough, we all make mistakes but we don't tend to go crying to the papers about it.

[anonymous-user]

Du1point8 said:

Cheapskate business man doesn't want to hire a meeting room, tries to impress clients by taking advantage of upmarket hotel instead.

Upmarket hotel don't like people like this business man using their expensive areas for business meetings instead of for their clientele, so charge minimum spend... He spends 1-2 hours talking business thinking he can do that for price of 3 small bottles of water.

Fool... Still probably cheaper than hiring a meeting room.

I guess they also do it to stop tourists hanging round all with a glass of tap water 'people watching' for celebs, etc.

Not sure he's as much a fool as those who think these prices are acceptable. Still, if you live in a toilet, you will get st upon.........