RSSSay What?!? UK Hotel Bans Military?
J.J. Jackson | September 10, 2008
Something here just doesn’t smell right. I’ll present you the story and comment as we go along:
A hotel that refused an injured soldier a room, forcing him to spend the night in his car, was backed into issuing a grovelling apology yesterday after receiving a barrage of abusive phone calls.
The Metro Hotel, in Woking, Surrey, called the police as its phone lines were flooded with angry and threatening calls from the public.
The attack on the switchboards came after it emerged that Corporal Tomos Stringer, 24, had been told that it was company policy not to accept members of the Armed Forces.
Say what?!? Oh, this I have got to hear!
A soldier since the age of 16 and veteran of multiple tours in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan, Corporal Stringer had travelled to Surrey to help with funeral preparations for a friend killed in action.
The corporal, who was not in uniform, presented his warrant card when asked by the hotel for proof of identity. After being refused a room, he had to bed down in his car, with his wrist, broken during a convoy ambush, encased in plaster.
So where did this policy come from? The hotel claims that it wasn’t a policy they have:
After a resolute silence, the hotel, owned by a company called American Amusements, finally issued a statement: “The Metro Hotel, Woking, sincerely regrets any upset caused towards Corporal Stringer and his family . . . The hotel management has always had an open-door policy to all its visitors and guests, including members of the military and Armed Forces.” The receptionist had made a mistake, it added.
A “mistake”? That’s a pretty big understatement!
So, if this isn’t the hotel’s policy that leads to only one of two possible conclusions. Either someone, somewhere, but not in a position of real authority told this receptionist that she was not to rent rooms to the military OR the receptionist is an anti-soldier moonbat who thinks the military is just a bunch of baby killers out to rid the world of brown people.
Either way, someone had better be fired over this if the hotel has any sense of decency.
People were right to flood the hotel with complaints and honestly they are lucky that is all they got out of this little dust up.
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