THE LODGE

 Looks like both  my daughter and son are moving home its nice to move on sometimes it changes your luck and circle of friends its amazing how many different and diverse people we meet had over the last twenty years .Must be great to be famous and have a lot of famous neighbours make a good book .

We have cancelled the Hello Fresh order for next week think we will have a fortnight off before going back every week is a bit too much like the diversity of cooking my own shop bought food half the enjoyment is shopping .

 SATURDAY - Cooked a full English breakfast before we set off in the afternoon to the Chevin Park Hotel  just outside Otley.We got there just after four Went to check in whilst Helen waited in the car with the dogs .There was someone complaining about her lodge she was not happy the receptionist went to get some one senior to sort it out , she said to me her lodge had not been cleaned properly and she didn't think the bed and towels had been changed .We got booked in , The receptionist  asked for payment I told him it was paid for he looked confused I showed him the voucher we had he said the system need updating and told us not to worry , we got the card swipe key and made our way to our lodge for the night .

It was a big lodge dived into three our neighbours where young and had a barbecue going they where drinking and our dogs started barking .The lodge was damp and had a smell I put the radiator on and made a drink .We put the tv on Netflix came up but couldn't connect I checked my signal on my phone no signal and no available wifi , checked the shower not been cleaned properly , checked the bed the duvet was not the right size for the bed .We could hear the guest from each cabin through the walls .

You couldn't watch the tv from the bed it was out of view we had booked dinner for seven thirty , we took the dogs for a walk round there was a wedding on the kids were running riot and messing around on one of the golf type buggy car which looked dangerous totally unsupervised we walked round the lake but could only go so far it was blocked of by a big wedding tent I guess for the guest dinner etc .We went back to our lodge and made another coffee.

Went fr dinner was shown to a table and given menus people where coughing all over the place and not even covering their mouth up whilst doing so , someone at other table close by also started to bought then a different table it is not what we expected it didn't seem sensible to sit there and stay we told the waitress we was not bothering with dinner and went back to the lodge the room still smelt musty  and damp Helen also said the bed was damp we decided to leave we landed the car and the dogs and left we later checked the online reviews they was not good .