A hotel for the super rich and famous

I love the hotel manager with his clean cut look and everso slightly camp manner. Loved the look on his face when sampling the new sandwich containing peas!!! lol

My DS works in hospitality and takes pride in doing his job to the best of his ability. It really matters to him that things are done in the right way. I suspect that many of the staff we saw in that programme felt the same way. Given how detail driven the manager is I suspect that if any staff member didn't feel the same way they'd be out!

Grandmna70s, yes, you would wonder if the staff hate the guests wouldn't you, but they don't seem to. There was the young concierge who looked so smart in his suit and was proud of his job and ambitious to climb the ladder.
I was very impressed by the chambermaid who had once had a lot of money and possessions herself, but had lost it all and did not seem bitter at all -so dignified!
When I was young I worked in a 5 start hotel for a couple of years. It's a strange relationship - without having anywhere near the money yourself to stay in a fancy hotel, you become inured to the riches and lifestyle of the guests and begin to regard it as normal.

Jane10 I love Liberty’s, reminds me of my paternal Grandfather, he used to take me to Carnaby Street and we would wander round Liberty’s and the Galt toy shop. When I was slightly older 10/11 I was allowed to go and wander on my own, he worked in Carnaby Street (couldn’t imagine letting my GC our in their own in Soho now)

I loved the program about Liberty’s

I agree urmstonegran.
I love hotels. I always have. Mind you I've never stayed anywhere like the Corinthia. I enjoy watching programmes about them too. They're ideal people watching opportunities. Of course the editing is very important to remember. We're really only seeing a carefully manicured end product. The programme about the Corinthia is like one big advert for the place.
I loved the series about Liberties too. Wonder if it's by the same production company.

and if anyone follows my link and has won the £76m then I wouldn't mind afternoon tea at that hotel, just for the experience
Thank you

I think urmstongran has it about right. I don't agree with the view that people who inherrit are in any was different and certainly not superior to people that have earned or won their money. Philip Green (new money) does not appear to be very moral, Jacob Reece Mogg (old money) has recently shown himself to be disloyal and untrustworthy. J K Rowling (new money) seems pretty decent. Princess Anne (old money) also seems pretty decent.

I think the first thought of many people on winning the lottery would be to give much of it away.

Does anyone live in Boston or Skegness? Or visited there?
Have you lost your lottery ticket for 2nd November Euro Millions?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-46218876

If I win the lottery gillybob I’ll send you some ?
I always say ‘money makes NICE people nicer’. (Because they just would be!). And the reverse is probably true ... as in ‘money makes nasty people nastier’ - again because they can be like that (thinking Sir Philip Green here & others).

I was sure I had already answered you Annie but....there is no family member, distant or otherwise who would ever die and leave me money so it’s nothing I would ever need to trouble my conscience with .

I sampled the Anassa hotel in Cyprus ( Polis ) in 2009 with friends for afternoon tea-----fabulous ! Recommendable while staying at the resort.

Maryeliza, the media in general are only interested in headlines and sensational sound bites.
Have close friends who are in the “public eye” and what is written about them is often so distorted and more than not just wrong. Fortunately they are very grounded as are their immediate family and small group of close friends.
It is one of the reasons I try extremely hard not to critique public figures on here (I know that I have done so on a few occasions), but if I do I try to be fair and non-judgemental.

GG I had thought about asking if anyone else had experience of really close knowledge of something in real life and then its representation in the media. I have read newspaper coverage of situations I have been involved in sometimes over weeks and never ceased to be amazed at their coverage. Basically like TV it’s not about informing in a balanced way but in sensationalising which often meant missing the main point entirely. Context which is so often everything was for wimps clearly.

Maryeliza, totally agree, having been filmed over many hours (dear friend was participating in a televised challenge) what is aired is so out of context, more on editing room floor than on tv.

A few years ago I used to stay on business very regularly ( maybe 16-20) weeks a year in a hotel many of you would have heard of. On one visit a TV company was making one of these programmes- about 6 episodes I think. They were very keen for me to participate but as I didn’t come up on the down train I obviously refused. I knew what with cutting and editing that there would be little if no accuracy in the final programmes. I could be totally misrepresented as could even worse my company. A few months later I watched the series - to call it a travesty is mild. What you see in the final versions has all happened but in what context and what order and in reaction to what is the big unknown

gillybob not the lottery, inherited money , if some distant family member named you in their will you would have to choose between refusing it, giving it away or keeping it.

Would you choose keeping it or not?

You can be nice or nasty with or without money.

Ok money pays the bills, but does it bring health and happiness?

I’ve never known a big lottery winner but amongst my friends are those who’ve inherited - and in fact always had access to trust funds and family,y trusts without having to wait for the death of parents and who chose to work but never had to; then I have friends who are now seriously well off having built up very successful budimnesses without inheriting a money. They are all lovely and well mannered ( obvs as they are my friends)

I did say I was safe in the knowledge that it would NEVER happen so I won’t ever have to worry about hypocrisy Annie . Anyway if by any remote chance I won the lottery I would give most of it away . I couldn’t cope with millions £ . Just enough to pay my debts, retire modestly and pay my kids mortgages off would suit me just fine . What would a common Geordie girl like me do with £millions anyway ?

gillybob you are naughty, you critcise people who inherit money but you wouldn’t refuse it ?

I will never have the money to stay at that particular hotel, or any like it, but I have no objection to anyone spending their own wealth there.
The staff seemed happy btw.
Any programme about the running of a hotel is fascinating.

Then you have this terribly sad and tragic story of the two teenagers who've been suddenly left orphaned by losing both parents within 3 days of each other.
People from around their area and Liverpool have been so kind in sending in donations towards the funerals which will take place jointly on December 13th.
Funeral directors should waive their fees in this case. I know I would as an act of kindness and understanding towards these lovely children. It's made me cry.

The gufffasss or the kickass ?

The best way to find out is to mingle with those whose wealth has been a part of their lives and those who've acquired it. No comparison to me. I know who I'd choose.
You've only to weigh up some of the big winners of the lotto.

Indeed they can Maryeliza