FFP - well put!
Many is the time that a cheeky jug of sour, then a kebab on the strip was what I was looking forward to during a quick AKR trail rotation.
But instead it was a bus ride to the Episskopiana, then sodding awful dinner in the hotel - or a 20 min walk down the hill... You can keep that - and the early morning trip back to Akronelli!
But the most embarassing Hotac incident I recall was when a bunch of smelly trash-haulers still in their 15 hours-across-the-pond flying suits (or however long it those things to stagger across from Lyneham) turned up at the hotel we were staying in at Washington. The hotel staff invited them to take their slabs of UK beer and poly bag full of snaffled in-flights elesewhere.....
I can see BV and buoy15's points more and more clearly now....