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Dh has suggested I have a night or two all to myself, tomorrow and Sat, where shall I go? I want solitude and FANTASTIC room service!

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 20:36

A 5 star hotel preferably. Can't be more than 2 ish hrs from London (I'm 40 mins to an hour from London)

My perfect place has a beach right outside the window but it's not essential, just highly desirable
Must have fab room service
Don't care about spas, I don't want a massage
I would quite like a bookshop nearby
I would like peace so they must have quiet ish rooms or good double glazing
Must have good service
Don't want to leave the country

Budget more or less irrelevant, don't mind spending some money (but no a penthouse, it's only me!)

All ideas welcome, thanks. Have Laterooms open in another window!

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Lauriefairycake · 13/12/2007 21:20

London.

Forget the beach.

Nice hotel, find the bookshops, trip round the Tate, afternoon tea at Fortnum's, Hyde Park where the giant ferris wheel is, Christmas market and huge ice rink. Matinee at the ballet or Mamma Mia's........

Even if you work there and live close by its much different with no agenda and no one else to please......

In this frost it will be lovely.

ImBarryScott · 13/12/2007 21:21

Blanch House in Brighton was lovely when we went last year. I think it's in the Mr. and Mrs. Smith guides, if that's the sort of thing you're after.

Heathcliffscathy · 13/12/2007 21:22

drakes in brighton.

very nice indeed.

Lauriefairycake · 13/12/2007 21:22

stay at Claridges or somewhere trendy if you don't want to pretend to be a lady of leisure - Jo Hansford salon just round corner so you can also pop in for a blow-dry

Saw Rod Stewart in there last time......

Now thats really put you off

mrslurkalot · 13/12/2007 21:23

Hotel du vin is gorgeous but as far as I know they don't have room service - amazing bathrooms though and probably easy access to bookshops!!!

NappiesGaloriaInExcelsis · 13/12/2007 21:23

dp took the 'secret room' option on lastminute.com this afternoon, to book a room in london for tonight and got the waldorf for £150 ! im sure its waaaaaaay more than that usually.

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:24

Ah yes, I knew there was a catch with hdv!
London prob quite a good idea...

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Heathcliffscathy · 13/12/2007 21:25

fuck it go to one aldwych and eat a andrew edmunds and meet me for a drink!!!!

Lauriefairycake · 13/12/2007 21:25

I stayed at the waldorf in a suite six years ago for £80 !!!!

It was lovely - tea in the Palm Court scrummy

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:25

I had wedding night to dh#1 in The Waldorf so er, no, wouldn't want to end up there! (not that we're not v amicably divorced and all that!) but yes, beety said those secret hotels are usually fab, will look at those.
Thanks Soph, is Drakes great? Wondering if I should save that for lurve

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:27

Soph we will most certainly do that one of these days!

I can imagine "who are you meeting madam?" "er, I don't know, Sophable?" "is that her?" "er, I don't know..."

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Heathcliffscathy · 13/12/2007 21:28

drakes: we had the WORST ROOM and it was great.

breakfast wasn't one aldwych but was very good and you can spit onto the beach. bar very good, good drinks list, and fuck me gingerman the restaurant downstairs is fabulous (which is where the roomservice comes from) and we are PICKY PICKY FUCKERS (axis at one aldwych was pretty dire, loved the hotel but would never eat there again).

Heathcliffscathy · 13/12/2007 21:29

very comfy beds at drakes, great bedlinen.

Pannacotta · 13/12/2007 21:29

Surely if you like the beach then it has to be Brighton not London?
I like the look of Drakes, have wanted to to there for yonks....
Now we have two small boys, no chance!

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:29

Oh SOPH, you went with One Aldwych on my recommendation iirc was it good ? Tell me if it wasn't! Although I think it was on past posts not in response to your post or something strange like that wasn't it?

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NappiesGaloriaInExcelsis · 13/12/2007 21:30

why does whatsit du vin not have room service?? thats rubbish. its part of the whole posh hotel thing, isnt it? is a major part for me anyway.

i stayed at the manumission motel once which was mad and decadent and fabulous... till irealised, that not only was there no room service, but no feckin food anywhere at all in the building. i wanted a nice fruit platter to eat in the jacuzzi in my room, but no. franco, the barman, was the only member of staff to be found and he was gurning like a monkey, as per, and totally unable to help. he let me rummage in the kitchen for myself to prove there was nowt... offered me the lonely pot of yogurt which was in the massive empty fridge. rubbish.

i have waffled. soz.

Heathcliffscathy · 13/12/2007 21:31

pmsl at ibitha reminiscing nappies...when we going out?

www, we LOVED IT. but the restaurant sucked. but the bar was phenomenal!!!

amytheearwaxbanisher · 13/12/2007 21:31

just wanted to say your dh sound lovely

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:36

Ts, I know, I whinged and whined at dh about my hard day 'off' and he suggested it. I really love him.

Pannacotta, yes, I like the look of Brighton but would like to go with dh I think and wander on the beach etc

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WideWebWitch · 13/12/2007 21:37

oh nappies that sounds terrible
Soph, glad you liked 1 aldwych, the bar is fab. I had a peach bellini there quite recently, twas fab
thank you amy, he is wonderful.

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NappiesGaloriaInExcelsis · 13/12/2007 21:37

will read thread and recommendations and book a night or two away for dp and i soon... soonest we can do is at least feb as is first time my mum can come down and look after the dc. we can get childcare, but to leave them for a w/end we would want my mum here (as well as the nanny to help her)

soph - well, am prob going out in b'mouth in jan sometime, so, feb? (feels far too ambitious to try to get away overnight more than once a month)

NappiesGaloriaInExcelsis · 13/12/2007 21:39

but actually soph (sorry WWW!) was thinking that you, drac and familles ought to come here sometime soonish.

moondog · 13/12/2007 21:45

I am still working on it WWW.
It is a toss-up between

1.) Working holiday for NT or summat,rebuilding stone walls (althoguh as dh points out I could do that for nowt for my immediate neighbour who is a farmer)

2.)Action week (either skiing or doing long walks-prob. with tweedy lesbian retired physios)

3.) Self indulgent spa type place (although I know that thich beauty 'therapists' would get on my nerves spouting guff.

Actually, i quite fancy a stay in one of those bracing thalassotherapy places.My sister went to one years ago when she lived in Biaaritz and is still traumatised by being hosed down stark naked in tiled room by brutal Eastern European in a white coat.

moondog · 13/12/2007 21:46

..and althoguh my dh is all for it, I see him so rarely that I would really rather go with him.

DaDingDaDongDaMerrilyOnHigh · 13/12/2007 21:47

Hmmm, suspicious.

Just kidding. Sounds like a top bloke. I want to take DW away in New Year; hadn't noticed this section, I'll be badgering you all for suggestions soon.

Sadly I don't have 1st hand knowledge of many 5* hotels www.

Have fun.