Claridges sounds like a Casino in Atlantic City. Make note of the German Posh Homosexual manager and the two pretentious queens from New York who are regular guests at the hotel.
I remember watching a PBS special for Christmas in 2023, called 'Christmas at Claridges' (it was filmed in 2019, before the pandemic). It covered the six week period from mid-November - New Year's Day. I believe it was the same announcer and production company as this. Like this episode, it grew tiresome rather quickly.
I remember they followed a young man around who was new at the job as a bell-boy (IIRC he was struggling actor and took this job to survive). He was kinda cute but goofy.
One client was spending his first Christmas alone without 'mother' - he had to be in his 70s and 'mother' had died earlier in the year (IIRC, she made it past 100). The two of them would spend Christmas week at the hotel for as long as he could remember. Then there was another family of four, where the wife and two teen daughters were horrors during the holiday week.
No one - from the staff to the guests - were particularly interesting.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 23, 2025 2:35 AM |
Thank heavens I keep a flat in South Ken.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 23, 2025 2:58 AM |
The Claridges manager is a dreamboat!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 23, 2025 3:12 AM |