In the last 3 years of semi-regular overnights in London the HBC has only once managed to find me a room in the club - the rest of the time it was full or the remaining rooms were over the cap rate.
I do fear for the future of the club; what will happen to it when the current generation of, ahem, bed-blockers, dies out? Surely they should be laying the foundations now by having a number of rooms set aside for overnight stays by serving officers? If not, many of my generation will forego its' charms and seek cheaper accommodation elsewhere. Plus, the generation that currently dominate proceedings come from a time when the RAF was 4 or 5 times bigger than it is now (or will be). I'm afraid that the numbers for the club just don't add up...a black hole in membership revenue is coming and they must modernise and adapt to survive it.