So where are we and what's for Christmas dinner?

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So where are we and what\'s for Christmas dinner?

We are in very sunny Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) and miss our friends and family especially at this time of year. It doesn't seem to matter how many Christmas's we spend in the sun it still doesn't seem right and inflatable snowmen in a place that has never seen snow looks very out of place.

Christmas Dinner (evening) will be two fresh lobsters and assorted bits and pieces - all very lovely but not quite turkey and all the trimmings, its too hot for that.

Wherever you are have a great Christmas and a healthy and prosperous New Year aboard.

Paul & Lynne
 
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martinique at the mo, final member of immediate family due late this evening and then we're off to have christamas in Les Saintes. Bit blowy at the moment and from the wx we'll need two reefs to keep speed down in single figures tomorrow. Foie gras, steak, chocolate wil be consumed on xmas day.
 
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Marina San Sebastion, La Gomera, canaries. Couple of marine staff just knocked on the hull with xmas card and a baby live xmas tree. How cool is that? Seafood for din dins I think. And lots of Vino Tinto /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Feliz Navidad a todos
 
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Rio Dulce, Guatemala.
First time since going cruising that we have been in the same place for two Christmas's!

Lunch will be roast chicken,spuds even found brussel sprouts would you believe!

Final bottle of french champagne from the bilges and of course enough chocolate to sink the boat.

Merry Christmas where ever you are! Cheers.

www.gerryantics.blogspot.com
 
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We're in Gibraltar. pretty quiet here with cool cloudy weather.
Dinner's roast chicken with stiffing.

Merry Christmas
Rickf
S/V Calaloo
 
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Barcelona, warm and sunny, whole turkey din dins tomorrow, got a six bird roast for boxing day!
 
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St Malo, Bassin Vauban. Turkey, the works and Carrefour mutant Brussel sprouts. Christmas pudding and pickled onions courtesy of Tesco's Ipswich. Should be OK for a following wind Boxing Day /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Blue Max
Ocean 47
 
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been told i had to come back to uk to cook for 19 of SWMBO's family...
have a good xmas where ever you all are
Regards
Roy
 
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Well, we are planning Frankfurter (boiled sausages) sandwiches for Christmas lunch (and to try to keep warm)! We'll be sailing in the Solent - Forecast is (yet again) cloudy , 6 degrees C, easterly 15mph. Outlook getting even colder and wind strengthening.

Bit of a cheat going on here as we're not liveaboard, but would you be at those temperatures? Our hearts go out to those of you having to endure sunshine and exotic locations! Peace and plain sailing for you all in 2009.
 
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Up a mountain in the Austrian Tirol. Light snow today with sun and clear skies forecast for later. Off for a ski and a hot wine or two and then full Xmas dinner with all the trimmings prepared by our two excellent hotel chefs.....

It's a tough life in the mountains, you know.

Best wishes to all forumites.

Chas
 
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Happy X, Chas (et Julie - beaucoup de baisers).
On the farm, deepest Oxfordshire.
Sprouts, leeks in cheese sauce, roast parsnips, carrots, roasties, peas, yorkshire pud . . . surrounded by a multitude of family carnivores eating a 'normous turkey, sausages in blankets, etc etc /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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torpoint plymouth, v small turkey in the oven and dreaming of sunnier climes. got the imray carribean pilot for my prezzie!
 
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We're in Salinas, Puerto Rico and it's blowing a hooley. Roast chicken is in the oven as I type, potatoes and stuffing going in soon. Proper Christmas cake later. Sherry bottle open, wine to be opened. Bliss.
 
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The Talbot Hotel Ripley
By fax to 01483 211332
25th December 2008 Attention:- The General Manager

Dear Sir,

Summary
My wife and I had Christmas lunch today at the Talbot; I did not eat my turkey dinner and sent the plate back almost untouched. Despite complaining, we were charged the full price for this and no offer was made of any compensation for the food not eaten or the disappointment for a ruined meal on Christmas day.

You have misrepresented yourselves on your website, and what we were served and charged for did not match the description. I therefore expect a total refund of my VISA charge of £143.15

Your References:- Customer number C000236
Reservation number:- R001053

Details

Our booking was for 1200 and we arrived, promptly, five minutes ahead of the booking time as we had been told that you were very busy – not so.

We were expecting to eat a meal of the standard described on your website which says……

“Whether you join us for a shared or private Christmas party in our new Wisley Room, a Christmas meal throughout December in the restaurant or a gastronomic feast on Christmas Day, we promise sensational Michelin quality food, stunning surroundings and sensible prices!”

We were expecting a ‘gastronomic feast’ with ‘Michelin quality food’. What we were given was horribly different… I will only comment on the things that were clearly so far from basically acceptable that you should be ashamed of yourselves, but you can rest assured that your establishment’s food is as far from Michelin standard as I am from being the first man to walk on Mars. To sum up your food and presentation standard, I would say that it was more like a Debenhams self-service cafeteria; on a very bad day, right at the end of service.

The terrines were edible but streets away from Michelin. The brioche was horrid and only two miniscule slices – 1cm2 were supplied. We asked for bread rolls to accompany this (as one would expect in a basic restaurant, let alone a Michelin). We were told that you had no rolls other than a special bread and oil dish, for £3 per head, which we declined; we just wanted a bit of bread not another course.

The turkey dinner was revolting. Nauseating. The few pieces I tried coated my mouth with a foul grease – I don’t know if it was the gravy (which had been poured over the ENTIRE MEAL IN THE KITCHEN) or whether it was the meat having been soaking in grease. It was disgusting and inedible. The roast potatoes were revolting and burnt on the outsides. The ‘stuffing’ if that’s what it was, had the appearance of having been reheated more than once. The ‘chipolata’ appeared to have been incorrectly cooked with the bacon showing signs of incomplete cooking but in any case the chipolata combination was not something anyone looking for ‘Michelin food’ would put onto their forks, let alone into their mouths. The brussels were badly undercooked (I like crunch but these were undercooked and inedible) – I did not feel like sampling the other veg as clearly this was not an edible meal and I decided to complain. I was asked by the waiter if there was anything he could do and I said “probably not” so I sat there while my wife finished her dinner. While I sat there, no manager came to resolve the issue until much later, when the Maitre d’ (this was the fellow on station by the door, casually dressed in an open-necked shirt) who said that he would ‘inform the chef’. I wonder whether he did, or, if so, of what? We received no feedback.

We were out in the street by 1pm – one hour after entering your door for this “gastronomic feast on Christmas Day, we promise sensational Michelin quality food, stunning surroundings”

Sir, did you know that your website misrepresents your restaurant?

I could have made a scene at the time but I considered it bad form on Christmas Day to upset other diners. My argument is with you, not the other good ladies and gents who are simply enjoying Christmas.

I expect a full apology for our bad experience on Christmas Day and a full refund to my credit card VISA xxxxxxx 8655 I am very angry and upset about this – this is a case of gross misrepresentation.

I am very upset, very angry and very determined.

Yours faithfully,
 
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What a disappontment. My wife would call this "an expectation management problem"
Take it up with VISA and the best of luck!!
Forget the apology , just get on with the rest of your life. (unless you are looking for a duel with the manager!)
WE had lamb with chick peas in a Moroccan sauce in Alghero , Sardinia
 
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After that there is no 'rest of my life'. I shall spend every waking moment and every last bit of capital we have to bring the perpetrators to justice, preferably in chains, in tears, and to the scaffold for a public execution! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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I'm with you on this one. Go get the [--word removed--]the b word was removed by ybf.
This is the one day of the year when we are prepared to pay lots of money for a reasonable meal so anyone who rips us off should be crusified. In Lagos we had sunshine, swimming booze and lost of drinks. ‘Its a hard life‘.
 
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