BATH PROFITS IN HOTELS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 14

BATH PROFITS IN HOTELS

TEN POUNDS -A WEEK Some hotels in Britain make £lO it ; week out of bath charges, and visitors’ have started a revolt. It is at veritable Baths War and it is being waged at holiday resorts in the North, the Sunday Chronicle learned recently. * At many places a shilling is clfcrged for a morning or night inside “dip’’ and sixpence for cold water slipper, baths in the bedroom. Holidaymakers maintain that baths should be includ-* ed in the weekly terms, and in some resorts have defied this “extra” by cancelling their rooms when informed that baths were chargeable. On the visitors* side it is declared .jjj that as a bath including water, towel v ./l. and soap costs only threepence, 300* f . per cent, is made regularly on the 4 bathroom shilling charge. Hotel and boarding-house keepers maintain thafe what they charge does not pay the , # overhead costs in installing new bathroom appliances. There is no reason for believing, however, that the visitors will win in one sense and lose in another, for some managements propose to get, « over the difficulty by including free "' baths in their taiiffs. but adding an v extra sum on the inclusive charges..