penpal
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Well, once again I put pen to paper to comment on the boat show. I tend to park in Hythe Marina where I have my boat and catch the Hythe Ferry. Normally you can walk around the corner from the ferry terminal and enter through the side gate. For some reason this year the organiser decided to only let special guests through here, and made us walk all the way around adding nearly half a mile to the trip. At the same time they turned my family around they actually prevented a man on an electric scooter from going in, one of those modern types of wheel chairs. He followed us around to the entrance but I have no idea how he was going to negotiate the bridges acros the road.
Well, once in, you have all the familiar faces year after year, selling the same stuff. We walked around the marina and I stopped at the Hardy. I have never seen such disinterested sales people as the Hardy saleman. This year I walked down the finger to look through the window, literally inches from the salesman who loked at his feet the entire time and did not even say hello! A couple of years ago i wanted to have a look around and the sales lady said by appointment only and walked off to get a cup of tea. I guess i do not look the sort to afford one! It does make you wonder how on earth this country stays in business with such disinterested staff. If my staff did this I would never have any customers.
Certainly you would not see this in America, where they would make you welcome and sow the seeds of a potential sale sometime in the future.
Once again there were few places to sit, thank you to MDL for their hospitality, although only jelly beans were on offer, this does not go well with wine!
My wife was hungry but one place we stopped they wanted £4 for a sandwich, I suggested we eat elsewhere.
having paid 3 x £16 plus £15 for the ferry for the three of us, I have come to the conclusion that this is not worth the money, any savings on odd bits of chandlery are countered by the cost of entrance and the exhaustion of the endless walk.
Perhaps all the chandleries should form their own trade show, free entry and come and buy all you can carry, free parking, and a place to sit and rest from all that buying!!
Well, once in, you have all the familiar faces year after year, selling the same stuff. We walked around the marina and I stopped at the Hardy. I have never seen such disinterested sales people as the Hardy saleman. This year I walked down the finger to look through the window, literally inches from the salesman who loked at his feet the entire time and did not even say hello! A couple of years ago i wanted to have a look around and the sales lady said by appointment only and walked off to get a cup of tea. I guess i do not look the sort to afford one! It does make you wonder how on earth this country stays in business with such disinterested staff. If my staff did this I would never have any customers.
Certainly you would not see this in America, where they would make you welcome and sow the seeds of a potential sale sometime in the future.
Once again there were few places to sit, thank you to MDL for their hospitality, although only jelly beans were on offer, this does not go well with wine!
My wife was hungry but one place we stopped they wanted £4 for a sandwich, I suggested we eat elsewhere.
having paid 3 x £16 plus £15 for the ferry for the three of us, I have come to the conclusion that this is not worth the money, any savings on odd bits of chandlery are countered by the cost of entrance and the exhaustion of the endless walk.
Perhaps all the chandleries should form their own trade show, free entry and come and buy all you can carry, free parking, and a place to sit and rest from all that buying!!
for a 42ftr.
