HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 203, 22 May 1919, Page 5

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

Sir,—l read in your columns of May |20.a letter signed "Traveller" referring to the hotel accommodation in Wellington. I will give you my experiences of. similar treatment by certain hotelkeepcrs in Wellington. Arriving in Wellington in the evening I went to a certain hotel for accommodation. I was informed they were "full up." Having a bad leg at the time, I was walking with a crutch. I begged of the landlady to give me a room, as I could not walk about owing to my bad - leg. After - almost going on my knees / and begging for accommodation she found ,me a room. I do not think there were six people staying in the hotel at tlio time, as only three or . four put in an appearance at breakfast time. Another experience was on arrival 'in Wellington i a short time ago. • I went to a certain , hotel for accommodation and <wa.9 told they wero "full up." The lady in the office told me there was only a small room nt the end of the passage, which I could have, and stated there was a good bed in it. I paid her for my dinner bed, arid breakfast in advance. Before having my dinner I went to tho room for a wash,, but found there were no conveni- ; enccs to have a wash in. The room was about 2ft. wider than the bedstead, and

the only'furniture in the room was tho

bedstead, witlta bed, of a sort, on it, and '* an Austrian cbair with no bottom to it. , No towel or washbasin, and a sowingmachine which took up practically all ,tho room, beside the bedstead. After looking -at tho room I went downstairs again, and saw the lady in the office, and told her the room would not suit mo and

I wished her to return the money whioh I had already paid her for tho accommodation; . She stated she could' not roturn

it aa it had been paid oyer to the "boas." I-told her I would call back later on slid get it. I .then left stud went up the street," and I got splendid, acoomihotlatiou at a temperanco. hotel without any faouble. I went back to the hotel to gflt ray. ;cash refunded, and the landlord, in a very bullying sort of a manner, askod me .what was the matter. I eaid "Nothing," only I wanted a return of. mv money. I told him there was nothing in the room, anil he said that I could go to the bathroonr'if I .wanted a wash. I know the hotel was not full at tie time, as a military officer arriving later got accommodation without any trouble. I think it is'timo the licensed victuallers took the matter in land, or do they want the public to patronise the temperanco. hotels ' instead ? Apologising if I am trespassing on your columns,—l am, eto., ANOTHER TRAVELLER, .