Earlier this year I won a 2 week holiday for 2 plus spending money, courtesy of my car insurance company.
On August 23rd me and my pal flew to Guernsey looking forward to sun, sand sea and the odd pint of falling down water :-)
We arrived, it was fine, sun shining a gentle breeze nary a cloud in the sky.
We checked in the hotel, I kid you not the single beds were so narrow they must have been measured for anorexic stick insects. So narrow that my pal fell out of bed on the first night and slept on the sofa for the rest of the holiday.
The hotel food was "meh", the waitstaff were double "meh" and the shower ran hot for about 10 mins after which it ran at -15 for the rest of the day. Despite our complaints sweet bugger all was done about this.
Food in Guernsey is so freaking expensive if it hadn't have been for the money I got we would have lived on chips and batter scraps for 2 weeks.
A crab salad was around £50 and don't ask about lobster prices.
WEATHER.
Out of 14 days we had 4 of decent weather, the rest of the time it either hissed down or was bloody blowing a gale and quite cold....I'm 66 and feel the cold, right in my bones innit?
It's safe to say that when I got home I hugged my double bed with a passion, wept tears of joy in the shower.
It's also safe to say that I doubt I'll ever visit Guernsey again, free or not
On August 23rd me and my pal flew to Guernsey looking forward to sun, sand sea and the odd pint of falling down water :-)
We arrived, it was fine, sun shining a gentle breeze nary a cloud in the sky.
We checked in the hotel, I kid you not the single beds were so narrow they must have been measured for anorexic stick insects. So narrow that my pal fell out of bed on the first night and slept on the sofa for the rest of the holiday.
The hotel food was "meh", the waitstaff were double "meh" and the shower ran hot for about 10 mins after which it ran at -15 for the rest of the day. Despite our complaints sweet bugger all was done about this.
Food in Guernsey is so freaking expensive if it hadn't have been for the money I got we would have lived on chips and batter scraps for 2 weeks.
A crab salad was around £50 and don't ask about lobster prices.
WEATHER.
Out of 14 days we had 4 of decent weather, the rest of the time it either hissed down or was bloody blowing a gale and quite cold....I'm 66 and feel the cold, right in my bones innit?
It's safe to say that when I got home I hugged my double bed with a passion, wept tears of joy in the shower.
It's also safe to say that I doubt I'll ever visit Guernsey again, free or not