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Alan B'stard

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My work was in advanced discussions with this crowd. The hotels are ok quality, albeit cramped. They are after all a 32ft shipping container.

 

All the grubbing in the room are under the double bed. They can be built (2 storey) in three days for 134 people.

 

They currently have in at the global concentration camp, sorry - energy park in Nigg.

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I stayed in an Yo! Hotel at Schipol once. It was compact, but clean and well appreciated. I had 17 hours in Amsterdam after a flight fuck-up - the room cost about 60 Euro which probably saved me a couple of grand at the rate I was spending money at the casino there.

 

Are shipping containers not usually 20ft or 40ft?

Edit to add - once stayed in a smaller room than that for 3 nights with Slinky in Slovenia. Fuck me, never again. That bloke's bowel expulsions are the stuff of legend. When you're in a room that isn't much bigger than the toilet, it's like getting the full 5-D experience.

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  • 5 weeks later...

 

The first image of a plan to transform an Aberdeen landmark into a 98-bedroom hotel have been revealed.

The former Esslemont and Macintosh building on Union Street could be converted into a hotel and restaurant seven years after the popular department store closed.
Developers Castlecall also plan to remove the building's granite extension and replace it with a four-storey glass structure.
E&M closed its doors after in 2007 134 years, and plans to turn the building into a 97-room hotel and shops were approved in 2008.
But the development was not taken forward and part of the building was converted into a Jamie’s Italian restaurant in February 2013.
Dustin Macdonald, chairman of Aberdeen's City Centre Community Council, said: "We are glad to see something finally being done with the former E&M building after sitting empty for far too long.
"We have still to look at the details of the application but feel that the inclusion of a restaurant on the ground floor will be a good asset to Union Street.
"We have no objections in principle to it being a hotel but need to look at the detail of the design and how the logistics would work for the development."
A decision on the plans is expected later this year.

 

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Marcliffe rumours have been doing the rounds for a couple of years now, especially since the redevelopment of a property on Bailieswells Road, Bieldside belonging to a certain Mr S Milne...

 

 

Detailed planning permission is being sought for a major housing development on the site of Aberdeen's iconic Marcliffe Hotel.

The five-star hotel - a popular venue for wedding receptions and functions - has been at its North Deeside Road venue since 1993.

Housebuilder Stewart Milne wants to demolish the hotel and create 189 properties.

The owner, Stewart Spence, is retiring, and sold the site.

Meanwhile, the former Victoria Road Primary School in Torry has been earmarked for redevelopment.

Barratt has submitted a proposal of application notice with Aberdeen City Council to build more than 50 homes at the site.

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Travel lodge in Bucksburn.

 

About as shite as it gets.

 

Had a relative coming up and rather than having the inconvenience of her darkening my door planned to put her in the cheap shitty establishment.

 

Came in at over 300 brick for two nights.

 

Na, yer a right like.

 

Would it be cruelty to put her in the Brittania??

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Belmont Bar, ahhhhh - what a place on a Saturday night.

 

Up there with The Windmill Bar and Waterfront (Claire's Bar) in terms of tremendous boozers around the City Centre. R.I.P.

 

There's a distinct lack of shitty (but charming) boozers in Aberdeen these days.

 

Wasn't like this when I was young.

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Came in around the same price.

 

They were punting out rooms for 29 quid at one point and even then you felt hard done by.

 

 

Britannia would make a cracking Fawlty Towers type hotel these days. Get in a Bazil Fawlty lookalike to run the place, employ a Spanish waiter and have some old hag from nearby to play the role of Cybil.

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