Last week I was down in London for the Business Startup exhibition at Olympia, with the rest of the FreeAgent team.
We didn't all stay in the same hotel, so on the morning of the second day we were comparing notes about the hotels where we'd stayed - and none of them provided fresh milk with the tea and coffee facilities in the bedrooms. It was always those little cartons of UHT.
Now those may be not too bad in coffee, but I think they taste horrible in tea. Particularly in my favourite Rooibos. (No, hotels never provide Rooibos teabags either. I take them with me - much to the disgust of some of my colleagues who can't see the point of tea without caffeine. Sorry Ed and David, it just tastes good, that's why I drink it :-) )
So I always take, or buy, a bottle of fresh milk when I'm staying in a hotel.
Then I've got the problem of keeping it cool. That's usually overcome by filling the bathroom washbasin with cold water and putting the milk bottle in there. And hoping that, if I'm staying more than one night, room service don't empty the basin and leave the milk to go off.
I honestly can't see why hotels can't provide little fridges just big enough to take a pint of milk, preferably containing a pint of milk, and get rid of the little cartons. Tea and coffee taste so much better when they're made with fresh milk instead of (yucky) UHT.
Come on Premier Inn (where I usually stay when I travel on business, unless I know of a good B&B), start a trend!
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This is the 1st time I've looked at your blog, so I might be saying something everybody else has already, but I've found that each country has a 'standard' item in its hotels.
ReplyDeleteFor fridges, it has to be Australia - even the cheapest B&Bs in Sydney have fridges in their rooms; in Britain it's tea & coffee making facilities; in North America it's a TV set - even the tiniest YMCA 'cubicle' I've stayed at in NYC had a TV set in it.
Hi there,
ReplyDeleteSorry it's taken me so long to answer your comment but it's only just come through the filters - why, I can't imagine!
You're right, even the cheapest places to stay in Britain have a kettle at least. I think we should take a leaf out of Australia's book then, if they always provide fridges there :-)
Thanks for your comment!
M