To think it’s not sad to go for dinner at a fancy hotel used for filming?

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We are on holiday in Sicily and near a hotel used for filming of a famous tv show. It has a very well rated restaurant located in said fancy hotel.

I thought it might be fun to go for a nice dinner at the hotel. DP says it’s sad to only want to go somewhere because it was used for filming. He thinks it’s a bit sad really, especially because we couldn’t afford to stay at the hotel. He thinks it’s wannabe to go and snoop around a posh place where we could only afford dinner

What about all the restaurants that ‘Montalbano’ went to? 🤔

Of course it's not sad - but he is being very silly.

If you extend that idea, you would miss out on loads of National Trust properties (used in period dramas), never go to The Ritz or The Savoy (period dramas - again!), avoid some locations as they are used constantly (Cotswolds) etc.

Where does he draw the line? Not even West Drayton seems to be safe and that doesn't sound terribly romantic although there was an episode of The Sweeney filmed there some time ago. And Genevieve in 1953.

Not my sort of thing, but I don't see why not- and no it's not sad.

This is a perfectly normal thing to do. Your DH is weird

I had similar from a friend who refused to window shop at Fauchon, a famous food hall in Paris. He said it made him feel like a pauper longing for the lifestyle of the rich. I told him to get over himself

He’d hate me, OP; I went to Salzburg and stayed for three nights in the ‘The Sound of Music’ house…

He sounds miserable. LTB for someone rich, that'll learn him!

It's not sad at all... what's wrong with young and having some lovely food and a little snoop about I'm all for it .

Was it a hotel featured in Montalbano?

It’s a nice restaurant. What’s his problem???

Has anyone here ever playede a game called Fallout? lol the Awahnee hotel looks very much like one of the buildings in the game!

He's dead right.

Well, he sounds a barrel of laughs. 🙄
If it was me, I'd say "well, I really want to visit. Do you?"
If he doesn't, go anyway and enjoy yourself. Life's too short, seriously.

It’s just a bit of fun.

Don't go up the Belfry! Unless you're the opposite of a claustrophobe, if there is such a thing. Have a nice moules marinieres instead 😊

Did you mean that to come off as uber superior?

What on earth is wrong with seeing a place on TV or film and deciding you'd like to go there?

Eating at a hotel you aren't staying at is perfectly normal, the DH sounds like a right bundle of fun

calm down! I never said there was anything wrong with it, it’s just not something that would interest me

We did exactly this, it’s such fun and part of travelling and broadening your appreciation of things like architecture and cuisine to do just this. Hope you go/went and had fun.

Not quite as classy but we went to Belfast and had fish & chips in ‘Fionnulas’

It sounds like my absolute idea of fun. What is wrong with your DH? You're on holiday ffs. Go without him if you must and send him pics of every delicious morsel...

I work with someone who is quite Pass agg. I could not be married to one !

Did she smell of vinegar?

Did she smell of vinegar?