ENGLISH HOTELS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21647, 4 December 1935, Page 18

ENGLISH HOTELS

LACK OF MODERN*!! FACILITIES .*■ A TRAVELLER'S IMPRESTS ■ ■■■ * t . r ■ frIffCTTTO "Hotel accommodation in and , generally speaking tbnMMjfl England, badly needs said Mr Mark Armstrong in an JS|||| view yesterday. Ifr AnastmvV| returned from a visit to America and found hotel tion in the'latter country much IMB than in England. • Mr Armstrong said that hotels he stayed at in England :yaHM commendably clean, hut except ffMsiH few recently built houses •fpjgrPllMi all sadly lacking in the mbmMl necessary to make them hotels. In London he stayed aaaM popular, hotel, so popular IJmialgMH ing guests frequently had to he tegfWW away. Yet on his floor there' Wjß only two bathrooms for 20 peojdfe jjpßi was quite different from the «*Sg|fS| American hotel, where there-ffig|l§l bathroom to every one or twi'lMß sons. The hotels in America w«hhß| mirably furnished and very, eete&sm able, and contrary to popular' MBlg were most moderate in their tafllft One of the best hotels in the Biltmore, charged three 'atißHgM day for a room. "And," said MregMß strong, "it was a really 'coniftiPß^M

Mr Armstrong found that Meir land and New Zealanders enwfi very reputation in England. *w he thought it would be a pily to It was only necessary to mention one was a New Zealander was immediately in everybody j graces. A visit to Ascot convinced Mr 1 strong that the English racing ant) ties were far behind the colonial the provision of stand accomniaia The scene he said, was full o£ and movement, but the lack of a accommodation was most marked, of the most impressive sights he on his tour was the military tatU Aldershot, which he described as forgettable, and worth travelling a way to see.