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Diners at the next table must have had a completely different menu

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StuntNun · 14/03/2015 21:05

DH and I booked a luxury one-night stay in a hotel as our last chance holiday without the kids before our fourth is born next month. The deal was £160 for one night in the hotel, a four-course dinner and a cooked breakfast. When we got to the restaurant we were given a menu which was rather pedestrian but we made the best of it. DH had a bit of trouble as he is allergic to prawns and two of the four starters had prawns so he was limited to soup or melon. The main courses were nice enough if a bit boring and came with a side of potato wedges, boiled potatoes, steamed broccoli and steamed carrots. I was also quite annoyed that their 'four-course' menu had tea and coffee as one of the courses. Imagine my surprise when the people at the next table were brought prawn cocktail and pate starters (not on our menu), then for the main courses they were served scampi (also not on our menu) with chips, onion rings, mash and sautéed mushrooms. I feel cheated that there was a decent menu that we didn't know about and I said to DH that I wanted to check out and go home but he didn't want me to spoil our one night to ourselves. I just feel that I have wasted the money and we could have gone out to a really lovely restaurant and spent half the money without having to arrange overnight childcare for our kids. So tell me Mumsnet, WWYD?

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Evabeaversprotege · 09/04/2015 23:00

Oh, I'm sorry, I must have missed the memo forbidding us to post on threads after a certain date Hmm

I'll be sure to keep that in check now!

ElizabethHoover · 09/04/2015 23:03

its a bit stalkery!!

Evabeaversprotege · 09/04/2015 23:07

Hardly!!

'stalkery' Hmm would be if I followed the op about the boards...

I literally only read this thread tonight & it sounds similar to a place I stayed in recently,

I don't know why i'm wasting my time explaining anything though. I see you've not posted on the thread before, only to admonish me.

Is this really what mumsnet is about these days?

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