Staying in €500pn hotel

[Angrysadluxury]

Would rather be at home with my cats than in this wanky hotel with my DP. Hate these over-priced places. Just finished a 6 course meal with paired wines. €110 each. Couldn’t finish, we were too full.

Sat across from my partner basically sat in silence or some inane chat about whether he should ‘expand’ the suitcase for the way home. I’m F38, he’s M54. He’s obsessed with “treating himself” and “having the best”. We’ve been together 5 years. Both from working class families but now he’s on 400K salary just acts like an entitled prick. He can switch from normal down to earth guy to a wanker in short space of time.
We have been frosty for 24 hours after some ridiculous argument. Just want to go home!

Where can we all go for this menu ?

I have a big birthday coming up in the near future and could persuade dd to join me for this meal - my treat.

However we'll prob stay at home as too many responsibilities for a night away or book into a dog friendly travel lodge :)

Yes, me and my DP don't get out often but 110pp for dinner at a nice restaurant is not over priced.

Have you got the ick OP?

Go home and stop ruining his nice holiday!

You sound like a horribly inverted snob, moaning about having nice things and opportunities, while there are hard-working people with real problems, needing to visit food banks etc. Ridiculous.

I went here last month: https://www.ristoranteadhoc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/menu-deg-ingl-2025-sito.pdf
€95 for 4 courses, wine, bread and bottled water. I love tasting menus.

Sounds amazing. I think you need to look deep if something like this is making you miserable, life is too short.

Stealth bragging.

You can in fact, not with the wine flight though

These sorts of dinners leave you really stuffed in a horrid way. I’ve pit on horrendous amounts of weight doing these with my DH and have now started to massively push back and insist on simpler meals

is the issue that your partner is not really tuning into what you would like to do? How you like to / have previously lived?

he sounds very proud of his success but now wants to enjoy those fruits and you have a different idea of what that could look like

You also sound a bit chippy and that you perhaps feel you don’t belong there with that mention of working class

Surely this is why you're with him though? I'm not sure why else you'd be in a relationship with someone so much older than you with such different values.

So he’s worked hard and likes to treat himself and you slag him off about it?

The poor hotel and dinner are blameless. You need to break up and move on.

A 6 course meal with paired wines for €110 is extremely reasonable, would love to know where that is (missing tbe point of tbe thread but am intrigued!)

Sounds to me like your relationship isn’t worth pursuing. Free him up so he can treat someone who appreciates it.

Bloody hell. You realise some people can bearly afford to eat?

So you’re with the wrong person, you clearly don’t love him and he’s too old for you… leave?

We stayed in a very posh hotel in London for a big birthday a few years ago. Apart from the view, I would have been just as happy in a Holiday Inn.

Sounds as if you need to go to the divorce solicitor on the way home

Would you rather a flat-roofed pub?

Haha I was thinking the same thing😂

Some really harsh responses. It sounds like OPs DH has changed as he’s earned more and she doesn’t like who he’s become.

And everyone declaring you absolutely can’t get a tasting menu with wine flight for that money - how could you possibly know? Sure it’s not standard but it’s in euros, that’s a lot of restaurants, it’s conceivable that one could be priced at that level.

This isn't about the hotel !

{mention:Stickortwigs}@Stickortwigs,she's only been with him 5 years. I doubt much has changed in that time. There's much I can read into the dynamic wry the age gap. Basically just sounds like she's lost interest so everything is annoying her.

Where is this place with the cheap tasting menu, I want to go?

Do you enjoy the lifestyle otherwise?

Yup,
You are in the hotel room for about an hour in the evening and an hour in the morning, approx.
The rest of the time you are asleep, or out for the evening, or at breakfast.
So really, paying over the top for the room is a waste of money.