BusterHot: The Club has moved with the times and I suspect that you would not recognise it from your experiences of over 30 years ago.
As I've pointed out on similar threads a year or so ago, I hosted my foreign Staff Course syndicate and their wives to afternoon tea in the Cowdrey Lounge. They were gob-smacked and subtley taook photos of everything and bemoaned the fact that none of them (save the Italian) had anything like this in their respective Home states. Even the dour German Luftwaffe Colonel appreciated the many homages to British Air Power that adorn the walls. He made a very telling comment: 'we are not allowed to celebrate courage and bravery - even today.'
Several of them have returned to London and I have fixed accommodation for them at the Club.
Soft power, I think it's called.
PS: LJ Yep - I've had some awful experiences at otherwise good hotels with misbehaving clientele.
Last edited by Whenurhappy; 25th May 2012 at 07:18.