The Fridays Tour 2013 with added poll

[theclaud]

It never occured to me to check the reviews of the Travelodge. They're prefab hotels by numbers and all much of a muchness so how bad can it be?

'Zactly. Travelodges are never very exciting, but they are clean and you can take your bike into your room.

 

[wanda2010]

I've been assured by the hotel they have a secure luggage room the bike can stay in as they handle cyclists all the time. We will see.

 

[srw]

It never occured to me to check the reviews of the Travelodge. They're prefab hotels by numbers and all much of a muchness so how bad can it be?

If memory serves, the bad reviews were partly the bog-standard complaints about cheap hotels and partly complaints about other guests - parties of pissed-up yoof rampaging about the place after getting back from the fleshpits of a naval port before getting a ferry.

 

[CharlieB]

Earplugs.

 

[ianmac62]

Spent last night in a Travelodge in central Edinburgh (Waterloo Place at the Waverley Station end of Princes Street if anyone knows the area) and it was perfect.

 

[mmmmartin]

parties of ****ed-up yoof rampaging about the place after getting back from the fleshpits of a naval port before getting a ferry.

I suspect a large-calibre conversation might persuade them to calm down.

 

[wanda2010]

You could have told me all this BEFORE I booked the IBIS!

I'm going to assume the IBIS and Travelodge are twins, separated at birth. If I'm wrong I'll be asleep on the ferry going over.

 

[AKA Bob]

9am Portsmouth Ferry booked but have decided to travel down on the morning rather than sample the high jinx in the Ibis!

 

[wanda2010]

Coward!

 

[StuAff]

You'll need a (very) early start Titus- check in time is minimum 45 minutes before departure. If you're not driving, that means a train arriving in Pompey 8ish. And all the ones down for that time are slow.

 

[AKA Bob]

I am being decadent and taking my car! Driving down shouldn't be too much of a problem at that time in the morning! Before you ask the spare seat has already been nabbed! Though with a rear bike rack it might be possible to have a third occupant as long as Brittany Ferries is willing to change the booking?

 

[StuartG]

I am being decadent and taking my car! Driving down shouldn't be too much of a problem at that time in the morning! Before you ask the spare seat has already been nabbed! Though with a rear bike rack it might be possible to have a third occupant as long as Brittany Ferries is willing to change the booking?

Any chance of you taking a bag for us as we will be cycling ... ?

 

[AKA Bob]

There might be a lucrative sideline here!

 

[StuartG]

There might be a lucrative sideline here!

Bonus if you tell the nice policeman you packed the bag yourself

 

[mmmmartin]

I thought, here in the dog days in winter and the dark and incessant rain, I would unashamedly bump this thread, to remind you all that we have this to look forward to.

That's all.