18-07-2012, 11:26 AM
Perhaps we need to introduce some more recent facts into this discussion.
The evening meal is, in fact, £6.50 for a three-course meal for a child, £13.00 for an adult. The restaurant staff are accepting that all the players and anyone else in the same age range is a child. And the meals are very good, even if they are more attractive to adults than to children. Bar prices are another matter entirely, but nobody has to buy food at the bar.
Lunch is not going to be a packed affair: it will be more buffet style, where you pay for what you eat (don't know yet about price or quality). There will be hot food available (or so Peter Purland tells me) at both lunch-time and in the evening, as an alternative to the restaurant (where service is, shall we say, slow).
On the double bed issue, the hotel has now put an extra bed in each of the rooms where "triple" turned out to be two doubles, so there are no worries now on that score - and nobody had to share a bed last night.
Turning now to the real reason why we are all here, the first results are starting to come in:
U12 Bd 5: win for Euan
U14 Bd 5: loss for Fergus
U12 Bd 3: draw for Declan
The evening meal is, in fact, £6.50 for a three-course meal for a child, £13.00 for an adult. The restaurant staff are accepting that all the players and anyone else in the same age range is a child. And the meals are very good, even if they are more attractive to adults than to children. Bar prices are another matter entirely, but nobody has to buy food at the bar.
Lunch is not going to be a packed affair: it will be more buffet style, where you pay for what you eat (don't know yet about price or quality). There will be hot food available (or so Peter Purland tells me) at both lunch-time and in the evening, as an alternative to the restaurant (where service is, shall we say, slow).
On the double bed issue, the hotel has now put an extra bed in each of the rooms where "triple" turned out to be two doubles, so there are no worries now on that score - and nobody had to share a bed last night.
Turning now to the real reason why we are all here, the first results are starting to come in:
U12 Bd 5: win for Euan
U14 Bd 5: loss for Fergus
U12 Bd 3: draw for Declan