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Shamelessly copied from Alasdair Pink's thread on Snowheads.
Beautiful....
Hotel No. 1: Management at Aviemore Coylumbridge Hotel caused outrage when they suddenly sacked staff and kicked them out of their live-in accommodation asking them to leave immediately although many had nowhere else to go: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-hotel-slammed-after-firing-21722233
Hotel No.2: The nearby Old Bridge hotel offers free accommodation to those Colyumbridge staff affected: (Facebook link) https://tinyurl.com/t6lksj3
Quote: We’ve been hearing some news about local staff (from a well known hotel) facing immediate redundancy and homelessness.
We’ve had many cancellations in our bunkhouse here and if we can help you out, please drop us a line at sayhello@aviemore-bunkhouse.com.
There are beds here for you till you work out your next steps. Get in touch people. We gotcha x
I hope the coylumbridge one has massive issues and causes the management to get fired.
sadly it would be the workers that get it first
its really a bit of a shocker!
TBF, seems that Macdonald have stepped up too. Good on the Old Bridge Inn.
Bit of shame to tarnish the place so badly, I've got lots of fab memories of Coylumbridge when it was a Stakis back when I was a kid, and even being there 5 wish years ago when it was a Hilton and staying in a lodge with my own kids.
If I ever visit the Cairngorms again I know where I’m staying. That’s a class thing to do by the management of the Old Bridge.
OBI, Macdonald and various other hotels all offered rooms within hours of the letter appearing on local FB groups (I mentioned it in one of the other threads). Subway and the Winking Owl both offered food - I believe most of the affected staff were in the Winky for lunch yesterday, including meat from the local Baiiliefurth estate and fish from Profish in the high street. Various other individuals came forward to offer help too, from accommodation to food, moving assistance etc.
Nice to see community spirit in action.
FWIW the lodges are still owned and operated by Hilton. It's just the hotel that is Britannia.
Looks like they are trying to squirm out of the mess they have caused
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-51972372
Admin error my arse!
Britannia run some of the worst hotels in the country, sadly I know this from experience.
What giant_scum said. Worst hotel I've ever stayed in was the Britannia Airport Hotel at Wythenshawe. I'm astonished Britannia are still going and wish them a speedy demise.
Worst hotel I’ve ever stayed in was the Britannia Airport Hotel at Wythenshawe
+1. An absolute roach pit, their country house one just up the road was equally bad.
Knew of their lousy reputation but never stayed with them; now, never will.
As for 'admin error' - my arse.
They've been exposed.
Britannia have done similar in a couple of hotels in Blackpool - https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/coronavirus-blackpool-hotel-workers-lose-17956229 - although they do seem to be putting up NHS workers.
Wouldn't be surprised if him from spoons was a major shareholder TBH
Horrible hotel that Britannia Coylumbridge. Used to be a great place. We stayed for a long weekend in February this year. They only clean your room if you leave a “Please clean my room” card on your room door handle. There was no card in our room so we didn’t get our room cleaned the three days/nights we were there. We asked at reception for a card they had none.
Overall the place is not kept clean and the food is poor.
Britannia seem to be a low cost hotel operator. No investment do the minimum and use the hotels as a cash cow. In the long term this way of operating has no future when Travelodge & Premier Inn have a much better market offer.
The Premier Inn in Aviemore is very nice, and £45 a night, even when booked on the day.
As I found out last week after getting too cold packrafting and camping down the Spey and had to get some weird school bus back to the town!
Britannia hotels regularly pack out the list of ten worst hotels in the UK. Stayed in the one in Manchester and its appalling. They don't care (they really dont) and whatever it is it seems to be working as they've been around for a long time. I'd rather sleep under a hedge than set foot in one of their flea pits again
Was anyone at the Grundig 88/89 race for the epic food fight?
The Premier Inn in Aviemore is very nice, and £45 a night, even when booked on the day.
It's brand new, does look nice though. Coylumbridge Hotel is a shithole anyway, and the food is crap. Cairngorm Hotel was good last time I stayed - they sorted me out with a hot meal long after the kitchen shut following my very late arrival 👍
+1 on them being shitholes. Had to ask for different pillows at the Stockport one as the supplied ones were blood stained...
FWIW, I'm a wedding photographer and there are *loads* of brides on FB groups deciding not to book their weddings with this particular chain after hearing the news. Some because they have a decent moral compass and some because they fear the hotels will be bankrupt through bad pubicity.