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Discourteous Hotels: London Hotel Doesn't Like Soldiers

by amandak | September 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM | 0 Comments

It seems the politeness of the English doesn't extend to soldiers who want to stay the night at the Metro Hotel Woking near London, and we're a bit surprised.

This week the news came out that back in June, Corporal Tomos Stringer tried to check into the Metro Hotel while he was visiting a fellow soldier but he ended up sleeping in his car because the front desk told him the hotel had a "no military personnel" policy.

A spokesman said they'd had "some rather serious incidents" involving soldiers in the past, but then said the front desk clerk had made a mistake and apologized.

We're pretty curious, of course, about the "rather serious incidents", but we're also making a note not to wear any kind of uniform if we're trying to check in to a London hotel.