Weird. She said they only had 2 standard single rooms; and one of them was already booked.

Ah well: I don't mind being in a double lol.

I think this is going to be a right laugh :P

She was right - I've booked a single, booked it earlier this week. Limey's booked a double. So she still has a free single.

I spoke to them about it. They do have a single room left; but they don't like to book it out on a 2 day this far in advance; as that would leave them with no single rooms and could prevent someone staying, possibly for the full week.

Tis fine. I am happy with my double room :)

Aha. She booked the room for me this far in advance. But of course I was the first person to call. I bet she ends up booking it just for the weekend anyway - our B&B in Cardiff was booked out solely to JB fans the weekend we were there, and everyone was only staying 1 night or two.

You're right though, we can use your room as Party Central.
I promise not to cause too much damage to the antiques :)

I've only been skimming this thread, but are you saying that
1. you are single
2. you want to pay them for a single room
3. they have a single room and they want to sell it to someone
4. they won't sell you the single room because then they wouldn't be able to sell it to some other hypothetical, but nonexistent, person?

wtf?

*smiles*


They're a 'guest house' not a hotel; so they only have a limited number of rooms ( I think about 15). Those rooms are made up of a variety of types to suit a variety of needs: so they have 2 shared (no bathroom) standard single rooms, X amount of standard doubles, x amount of enhanced doubles, x amount of family rooms, x amount of en suite rooms etc.

If they book out both their single rooms, a year in advance, for 2 nights; they could end up losing out on a single room booking for a week. That person would go elsewhere. Given that there's no guarantee that we will actually show up, they could end up having done themselves out of a week long booking, and all they gain is the 10% cancellation fee.

Smaller bookings (like ours) are easy come easy go and tend to happen nearer the time (unless you're complete fangurls looking to see barrowman!) a week's holiday tends to be booked more in advance.

Seems reasonable to me :)

Small places like this will often do a favour if it works out differently - I got a double room in Cardiff instead of the single I was paying for because the room was free. You often get small upgrades like that.

Be-Bop has pencilled us in.

Yey....

wait....is that a euphemism?:P

I've never (ever) bought a ticket for anything eleven months in advance ... and here I have a ticket for Aladdin and SECC on 9th January 2011 in front of me :mg:. May be this should be in the "What did the Cellar do for you" thread :haha: ...

Mum & I are going to see JB in Oxford on 1 October. Whooop! Whoop!
Dads will probably give us a lift there, and we'll kip on the way home on the night bus.

I'll remember to bring my earplugs After all I had sex on the back seat of the top deck of a 180 [Oxford-Aylesbury bus] There was only an old couple at the front of the bus and it was with my bf of more than a year. Still!

Sorry I can't come to Glasgow. My maternal Granddad is from Glasgow.

Article including interview with JB for the launch of the panto.
YUMYUM.
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/j...hool-1.1026878

I saw that and thought of you ;)!

SG - I saw this and thought of you!!!