Thursday, 1 August 2013

Austria Fairytale Castles Wednesday 17 July 2013

I load the cases at 07:00 and after enjoying my breakfast we depart at 08:00.
Feel tired today as didn’t sleep well last night.
We drive back into Germany and once we reach Ulm I continue on the A7 towards Wurzburg and then join the A3.
We have a much better journey than on the way down having three stops and arriving at our hotel in Bruhl at 16:45.
The journey has been 50km longer but 2½ hours shorter!
Before dinner I join Barry and Jayne in the courtyard for a drink before dinner. The courtyard separates the bar and the restaurant with waiters/waitresses serving from both.
Between 17:30 and 18:30 it is happy hour with all drinks half price. Barry is already there having bought his drinks from the waiter serving the bar area and his drinks were half price. I sat down and the lady who serves in the restaurant took my order for three drinks. When she returned with them I paid her but they were all at the normal price. I queried this and was told that gthey had been poured from the restaurant bar and that is not half price. If I had asked the waiter to pour from the bar, they are next to one another, I would have happy hour price drinks. I didn’t find this happy at all!
The thing that annoyed me more than anything was the lady knows me, I have been to this hotel many times, and she didn’t bother to tell me they would be dearer. I was here last week and was given a free drink in the restaurant!

We ate our dinner outside in the courtyard and then afterwards there was some confusion about the tea and coffee after dinner. I had a voucher (which we use for the hotel booking and any extras) showing tea/coffee after dinner while the hotel one didn’t. In the end I said I will pay and put all the drinks on my room.



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