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Not sure if anyone is on the FB 4IAB page but I read that some of these couples have got divorced over this show and some B&B's have lost business as well
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Are you really surprised by that? Some of them behave terribly, no wonder no-one then wants to book with them.
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Mike really loves the sound of his own voice, doesn't he? He kept on, and on, and on and on. I would have underpaid by the entire amount just because I would have to share my breathing space with that arrogant p**ck. You know what really annoyed me? How he never spoke to people. He spoke at them in this patronising, lecturing voice, as if implying that how dare these plebs have any criticism or thoughts on anything. I bet they cut half of his monologue out, or he would still be there, waffling on.
Don't know whether or not I agree with the winners, but at least it wasn't his majesty the gatehouse keeper. And just why was Karen always holding onto that handbag of her for the dear life? No-one else was sitting there clutching their luxurious bags. Or was she scared that those commoners were going to steal her precious handbag? |
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Mike's nasty turn did not surprise me at all, he's one of those who goes around convinced he's better than everyone else and when faced with the slightest criticism the mask slips. He's not a man's man, he's not a ladies man, he's a creep.
Pauline turned out to be the most irritating for me. Still banging on about that bloody sausage! truth is she wanted to carry on complaining about it while it went cold and Natasha robbed her of the chance to give the full gripe. I'd have walked out too - she was not a real guest anyway, she was a fellow contestant out to score points. |
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What I don't understand is that no one pulled Mike up on his behaviour towards the quiet couple (sorry..names escape me)...the way he spoke to them - he could see that he upset the woman and yet no one spoke up and said he was out of order?!!
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What I don't understand is that no one pulled Mike up on his behaviour towards the quiet couple (sorry..names escape me)...the way he spoke to them - he could see that he upset the woman and yet no one spoke up and said he was out of order?!!
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Probably didn't want to be the next ones in the firing line.
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I would love to book the castle for a long weekend but never until under new ownership. Don't participants realise this programme is free advertising for their business?
Did anyone see Fanny Craddock in Karen? http://youtu.be/VXfDhSFTI60http://youtu.be/VXfDhSFTI60 |
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Mike and Caron have got to be the most despicable pair ever on this show.he just thought he was superior to everyone and she was as rough as a gas house cinder,how they dare criticise others when they had appalling manners I don't know ,a thourghly nasty pair.
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I would love to book the castle for a long weekend but never until under new ownership. Don't participants realise this programme is free advertising for their business?
Did anyone see Fanny Craddock in Karen? http://youtu.be/VXfDhSFTI60http://youtu.be/VXfDhSFTI60 ![]() ![]()
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What I don't understand is that no one pulled Mike up on his behaviour towards the quiet couple (sorry..names escape me)...the way he spoke to them - he could see that he upset the woman and yet no one spoke up and said he was out of order?!!
Naive or more savvy than the rest? I say thank goodness for Jenny and Mike. They took a positive move against those two nasties by underpaying and making sure they didn't win. Whether it was tactical or not, in this case I don't care. I'm glad they lost and came last. No one was more deserved of last place than them. If they had won, they would have been even more insufferable. |
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Karens snobbiness really makes me laugh, i can well imagine her disowning her council estate relatives now she has married into a bit of money
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As you know people who have taken part Lucy, can you ask why they did it and whether they received recompense or perhaps the advertising was what they were given.
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I watched the first on your recommendation and will view the others over the weekend as I hate TV then, apart from Strictly.
The CDWM thread went, but there was a good one with the manager of Beautiful South who was a great person, a couple of weeks back. Lovely man. Can't remember who won, but on a good week, as it was, who cares? |
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£65 short
That is disgusting.Most women stand to put their makeup on well I do anyway, as my mirror is on my wall. Hardly 65.00 worth. I know a lot of people dont like them but really this is about the programme not likes or dislikes, the value for money in that area. Its like I said from the beginning how can you pitch a new B&B just starting out with the Castle is ridiculous. Perhaps when the proprietors of the Castle agreed to join they assumed they were pitching against the same sort of establishments which would make sense. CLIVE and Jenny for me were in it to win it. If they had taken off 10.00 for the stool, i think castle may have won .... As to power showers, some of these places dont have the pressure for them. IF no one else has complained in the years its been running perhaps AGAIN someone was making a fuss. The same as the green tea silly IMHO i take my own drinks, as I know a lot of these small B&B CANT afford to keep changing the drinks, and some are way out of date, and some taste of polish lol...... I think the scoring needs to be changed. Its all become ludicrous now. |
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I thought it was ludicrous. I cant say i like the people who run the B&B, BUT really 65.00 was way over the top. The only thing they had to moan about was a STOOL. There are mirrors in the bathroom to use for your makeup as well which was missed.
Most women stand to put their makeup on well I do anyway, as my mirror is on my wall. Hardly 65.00 worth. I know a lot of people dont like them but really this is about the programme not likes or dislikes, the value for money in that area. Its like I said from the beginning how can you pitch a new B&B just starting out with the Castle is ridiculous. Perhaps when the proprietors of the Castle agreed to join they assumed they were pitching against the same sort of establishments which would make sense. CLIVE and Jenny for me were in it to win it. If they had taken off 10.00 for the stool, i think castle may have won .... As to power showers, some of these places dont have the pressure for them. IF no one else has complained in the years its been running perhaps AGAIN someone was making a fuss. The same as the green tea silly IMHO i take my own drinks, as I know a lot of these small B&B CANT afford to keep changing the drinks, and some are way out of date, and some taste of polish lol...... I think the scoring needs to be changed. Its all become ludicrous now. I too was very surprised by the £65 underpayment. I too thought that was unreasonable. I couldn't stand Mike & Karen, but their place was a higher standard, and therefore deserved a higher price. The dressing table stool was a silly thing to make a fuss about. Mention it, and knock off £5 maybe. But hotels, in my experience, never seem to get a lot of these things right. The other half constantly moans that there is no plug anywhere near where the kettle and coffee are located; the hairdryer cannot be plugged in near a mirror etc. We have a moan, but do we complain? No. These things are not big enough to be a deal breaker. As to green tea. That was ludicrous too. Every hotel/B&B has different brands/items. Some have hot chocolate; some don't. Again, not anything to make a fuss about. Like Lucy, when I used to travel a lot in my job, I carried a supply of my own drinks. These small points are starting to detract big time from the programme, which is getting on my nerves now. |
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While the £65.00 underpayment was rather silly - I applaud Jenny and Clive for doing it as it certainly wiped the smug smiles off Mike and Karen's faces.
They bullied and intimidated all the others into paying the full or nearly full amount for their rooms, while sneering about them behind their backs, but Clive seemed to have caught on to them and ensured that they didn't win! There was much about the castle which meant that for me it shouldn't win - not least the ghastly owners. I thought that the other three places were pretty much of a muchness - and for me there wasn't much to choose between them, although I'd have liked to see Clive and Jenny win over the almost as horrible Tash (Mike of Old Lodge was OK). |
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How many times did we need to see the "Undercooked" sausage?
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While the £65.00 underpayment was rather silly - I applaud Jenny and Clive for doing it as it certainly wiped the smug smiles off Mike and Karen's faces.
They bullied and intimidated all the others into paying the full or nearly full amount for their rooms, while sneering about them behind their backs, but Clive seemed to have caught on to them and ensured that they didn't win! There was much about the castle which meant that for me it shouldn't win - not least the ghastly owners. I thought that the other three places were pretty much of a muchness - and for me there wasn't much to choose between them, although I'd have liked to see Clive and Jenny win over the almost as horrible Tash (Mike of Old Lodge was OK). I agree with Lucy's post. Jenny and Clive were missing the point completely. Using their own place as a Ben hmark for payment is just stupid when one of the places is a luxury place like a castle. The two places just don't compare. It was interesting that other competitors also though Clive and jenny were deliberately paying low in an attempt to win. |
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"Castle"? No, a lodge or gatehouse!
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How many times did we need to see the "Undercooked" sausage?
![]() Lucy didn't make anywhere near the fuss over her raw banger that Pauline wanted to make over hers that arrived on a plate. About the nonsense regarding the stool; you can be certain Jenny does not sit down at a dressing table at home to put her slap on, most of us women stand up at the bathroom mirror. But just because there was a dressing table in their room she pointedly wanted to sit at it, like it was some kind of novelty treat for her and there being no stool ruined the whole stay for her. I bet if there'd been a guest security safe in the room she'd have wanted to put her comb in it just for the novelty of using it. At the 'castle' - I'd have objected at Mike sitting in the same room at breakfast time, he was there to watch and listen to the others, no other reason. There was something in doing that which really bugged me. |
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At the 'castle' - I'd have objected at Mike sitting in the same room at breakfast time, he was there to watch and listen to the others, no other reason. There was something in doing that which really bugged me.
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...................I too was very surprised by the £65 underpayment. I too thought that was unreasonable. ..................
On that basis, is there any ordinary B&B, anywhere in the UK, worth more than about £80 a night? and while it may have been a "castle", it's still really an ordinary B&B. So I think the amount they paid (was it £120?) was actually very generous. |
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But the payment isn't supposed to be about underpaying or overpaying the asking price, it should be about how much people think the stay is worth. Ideally, participants shouldn't even know the room price, but obviously they could find out if they wanted to.
On that basis, is there any ordinary B&B, anywhere in the UK, worth more than about £80 a night? and while it may have been a "castle", it's still really an ordinary B&B. So I think the amount they paid (was it £120?) was actually very generous. The four properties were not a direct comparison by any stretch of the imagination, but when are they ever? |
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Bath Lodge is a Hotel so shouldn't be directly compared to a B&B. But was it worth £200 a night? I doubt it myself.
And on one level stool or no stool is petty, but then again if you're charging 200 quid it should be outstanding in everyway. As I mentioned upthread, owners really should try using the rooms themselves as customers don't always point out the deficits. Though a decent host shouldn't use that as a Basil Fawlty style fob off "well no-one has ever complained before!" |
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