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Discourteous Hotels: London Hotel Doesn't Like Soldiers

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.