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Red Carnation Hotels Employs Snooty British Travel Columnist for Podcasts And We Love It

July 28, 2008 at 2:20 PM | by | Comments (0)

"Omg, that Roger Collis is hysterical! I totally hate toilet paper folded into a point too!"

Nothing turns us on more than a British accent, but what really gets us going is a person with a British accent talking about hotels. And if you want to drive us crazy, this person will be discussing "what I love to hate about hotel rooms."

Red Carnation Hotels must have read our Match.com profile, because they've enlisted Roger Collis, a travel columnist with the International Herald Tribune, to do just that, via a new podcast feature available on its web site.

There also are more service-y podcasts available, like an interview with a wedding planner and another with a spa manager discussing the needs of the "modern man," but we always gravitate towards things that will make us laugh versus something that might actually be educational. Sort of like choosing to read The Onion over the New York Times, which we do every morning.

Here, Collis discusses his dislike for things as specific as "toilet paper folded into a point and stuck with a gum label," as well as more general annoyances, like the absence of bidets (which he pronounces as "bee-day") before adding that "even the French have succumbed to the bemused crassness of Anglo-Saxtons." Oh, those Brits!

So RCH, you may have just won us over with this one. Plus, you got us thinking about what we loathe most about hotel rooms and we have to agree with Collis when he mentions "lavatory seats with sanitized plastic seats across them." Oh, the countless times we've raced to pee in the privacy of our hotel room only to be delayed by having to strip off plastic...

Got hotel room gripes? Share it with us in the comments below.

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