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Just sitting here thinking and I suddenly remembered. . .

I had moored for the night outside a certain hotel. In the morning I popped in to see if I could get a paper. I was greeted cordially by a head waiter who ushered me to a table. I opted for a full English and Coffee.
At no time was I asked if I was a guest and I didn't volunteer the facts.
Having finished my grub I asked if it was possible to fill my flask with coffee for my journey. They indicated the Coffee Urn and said "help yourself"
This I did filling two flasks with excellent coffee. I have to admit I did feel guilty but the Coffee was great and went a long way to making me feel less guilty.
 
In a friends Fleur de Lys moored outside the hotel immediately below Tower Bridge overnight. Nobody came to shoo us off - great place to moor overnight.
 
We arrived late one evening at a marina after the staff had gone for the evening, the tide times dictated our time of arrival. Spent a lovely evening in the marina hooked up and filled the water tank and made full use of the facilities.

The following morning to catch the tide we had to leave early, well before the staff came back for the day.

Felt guilty for a while but soon got over it :)
 
rosssavage said:
Is that outside the Guomon Tower Hotel?

Isn't the gate to the pier locked though? No way off for some nosh...
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Inside of the pier, you can moor there to wait for St Kats lock or overnight, dont think the gate is locked I have only spent a short time there, gets a bit bumpy though.
 
Not boaty but another hotel story, was staying in a huge hotel in Australia after a hard days work, walked in asked for my key, they handed it over and I went up to the room. Poured myself a stiff drink from the mini bar, opened a packet of nuts and crashed on the freshly made up bed :) . Then looking around the room I didn't recognise any of the luggage or clothes, **** this wasn't my room! Realised I had asked for room 1225 instead of 1125! All the floors look the same and rooms in the same places. Got out ASAP and went down to tell reception they had given me the wrong key, didn't mention the drink from the minibar though :nonchalance:
 
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Not boaty, but successfully cheeky. Went to the front front of a very long night club queue in Dublin in the 90's with the wife and announced that we were on the MTV guest list. Whisked straight to the VIP lounge:D
 
byron said:
Just sitting here thinking and I suddenly remembered. . .

I had moored for the night outside a certain hotel. In the morning I popped in to see if I could get a paper. I was greeted cordially by a head waiter who ushered me to a table. I opted for a full English and Coffee.
At no time was I asked if I was a guest and I didn't volunteer the facts.
Having finished my grub I asked if it was possible to fill my flask with coffee for my journey. They indicated the Coffee Urn and said "help yourself"
This I did filling two flasks with excellent coffee. I have to admit I did feel guilty but the Coffee was great and went a long way to making me feel less guilty.
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Hmm hotel stories. In the good old days you had a little brown box on top of a very deep telly. It had 4 clunky buttons, 1 for romcom, 2 for Disney, 3 and 4 for Debbie does Dallas type films.

I used to travel a lot with a team, and as engineers we soon realised that there was a row of dip switches inside the box, usually set to room no -1 in binary. So you just reset them to a room on a floor that the hotel didn't have and wayhay free porn!

Once the manager travelled with us and when he checked out he had to explain watching Debbie 18 times :)
 
Elessar said:
I used to travel a lot with a team, and as engineers we soon realised that there was a row of dip switches inside the box, usually set to room no -1 in binary. So you just reset them to a room on a floor that the hotel didn't have and wayhay free porn!
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Elessar, not a good idea to try that at any hotel that flight crew stayed. Everyone knew the trick, so by law of averages once a month you had some indignant complaining to do come check out time as someone had dialled in your room!
 
Accidental and non boaty.

I boarded an underground train in London holding a 1.2Mtr aluminium extrusion. It had white LED lights in a slot along its length. It was an engineering sample which I was taking to a meeting and this was in the summer and the tube was busy and hot. Oddly another passenger got up and insisted I have his seat. I was wary of his motives but was very glad of the seat so took it. Only after I sat down, (still wearing my sunglasses from above ground), did I realise he thought I was blind.
 
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