Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
wildone63 said:
Why will some hotels and b&b's not accept a booking of less than 2 or 3 nights?
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.Evoluzione said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
No they don't, they aren't allowed to take anything from the body or the coffin.Interestingly Pacemakers have to be removed beforehand though, I wonder what people who believe in afterlife think to that.....
singlecoil said:
Evoluzione said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
No they don't, they aren't allowed to take anything from the body or the coffin.Interestingly Pacemakers have to be removed beforehand though, I wonder what people who believe in afterlife think to that.....
That would have been one for the archives if you'd slipped, grabbed a plastic handle which came off in your hand and the whole lot hit the deck.
Einion Yrth said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
Yes they do remove fittings
Do they give them back to the undertakers, sell them on eBay...?SpeckledJim said:
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.
So if I want to book a room for one night say a Wednesday for example,and someone else has booked the room for the preceeding Monday and Tuesday,and another person has booked the room for the following Thursday and Friday nights then the hotel would rather turn my custom away than have all the "faff"?Strange way of doing buisness
wildone63 said:
SpeckledJim said:
Because all the faff associated with your visit is before and as you arrive, and as and after you leave. They may have decided the faff is not worth it for £100, but is worth it for £200 (or whatever). The middle of your visit is very low-maintenance for the B&B - thats their easy money.
So if I want to book a room for one night say a Wednesday for example,and someone else has booked the room for the preceeding Monday and Tuesday,and another person has booked the room for the following Thursday and Friday nights then the hotel would rather turn my custom away than have all the "faff"?Strange way of doing buisness
Most hotels and even B&B have more than one room.
Say the other room was empty on the Wednesday night too.
If they took single night bookings then both could get booked up and lose them any weekly custom that was looking to include that Wednesday in their week.
That risk isn't worth it for just one night of income but is OK if you have two nights income out of it.
This is particularly acute over a weekend - for many there is enough demand over weekends for two nights' stay that they don't mind missing the odd time when a one-nighter would have been all they could get.
Once you get to bigger hotels who almost always have an empty room - you will see them accept single night stays since they will only very rarely miss the week-long bookings as they have that available capacity.
Or they go for dynamic rules whereby as soon as a particular date gets popular they enforce multi-night stays to maximise revenue.
That said, as the date approaches you can often get them (hotels and B&Bs) to bend the rules for you as it becomes clear that the mythical week-long booking looks unlikely to appear.
You can tell its been a quiet day in the office and here's another...
Why is "normal" Whole, Skimmed and Semi Skimmed Milk sold in plastic Pint unit bottles (with litre equivalent printed on the label as you'd expect), but Filtered milk e.g. Cravendale sold in Litre unit plastic bottles?
Why is "normal" Whole, Skimmed and Semi Skimmed Milk sold in plastic Pint unit bottles (with litre equivalent printed on the label as you'd expect), but Filtered milk e.g. Cravendale sold in Litre unit plastic bottles?
Funkycoldribena said:
Why dont I mind doing the dishwasher but wouldnt dream of using the washing machine when they do pretty much the same sort of thing?and why isnt there a window in the dishwasher?
There is a certain amount of skill involved in correctly loading a dishwasher. It's the kitchen equivalent of Tetris, and one can derive great satisfaction from optimising the packing. Certain groups in the population lack the spacial awareness to do it properly, and the faculties to understand why it matters. Washing machines are designed for them.
As to a window on a dishwasher - do you really want to see grease and gravy being flung around at high speed ?
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