RAF CLUB
Registered User **
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Botswana & Greece
Age: 68
Posts: 940
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Guys who know the RAF Club like it. Idiots who don't know it don't like it.
Stand by for a Latin scholar.
Gentleman Aviator
Allowing some artistic licence and using established phrases,
works quite well, as does
de gustibus non est disputandum
suum cuique
Last edited by teeteringhead; 28th May 2012 at 18:23.
What about the idiots who know it and don't like it - we count too!
Presumably their motto is "Veni, vidi scarperi"?
Jack (who has thoroughly enjoyed being a guest at the Club)
PS The third last word of Wrathmonk's Latin translation sounds splendidly descriptive ....
Presumably their motto is "Veni, vidi scarperi"?
Jack (who has thoroughly enjoyed being a guest at the Club)
PS The third last word of Wrathmonk's Latin translation sounds splendidly descriptive ....
Client of mine (Very nice lady) mentioned to me her father was an X Canberra Nav, did some 20 years from the mid 50's. She didn't think he was ever a member. She was interested in joining the Club.
Knowing the Club are looking to expand the membership , I phoned to ask what she need do.
Club: Well she can't join in her own right, but her father can join ( He must be late 70's), then after 2 years membership, he can apply for her to become a member!
I think she's now looking at the 'In and Out'. They are recruiting and you don't need be an X member of the forces! However, we are lunching at the Club soon and she is looking forward to it.
Seems a bit odd not to let in Service offspring ahead of Civil Servants.
Knowing the Club are looking to expand the membership , I phoned to ask what she need do.
Club: Well she can't join in her own right, but her father can join ( He must be late 70's), then after 2 years membership, he can apply for her to become a member!
I think she's now looking at the 'In and Out'. They are recruiting and you don't need be an X member of the forces! However, we are lunching at the Club soon and she is looking forward to it.
Seems a bit odd not to let in Service offspring ahead of Civil Servants.
Seems a bit odd not to let in Service offspring ahead of Civil Servants
Nice though your client might be, her father left the RAF almost 40 years ago having never been a Club member, apparently. Why should that give her any priority over a current MoD CS?
Don't think she'd appreciate being called a scaley brat old boy.
I think the thing is that she didn't know or realise that the club existed. Which I'd imagine could be true of a number of potential members out there.
She'd like to join the club, but cannot, thus the 'In and Out' offers a more attractive proposition.
I think the thing is that she didn't know or realise that the club existed. Which I'd imagine could be true of a number of potential members out there.
She'd like to join the club, but cannot, thus the 'In and Out' offers a more attractive proposition.
What, exactly, is the point of continuing this thread?
Those of us, who appreciate the Club, will continue to use it and the Trustees are working to ensure that its future is assured.
All those who continue to say how anachronistic the Club is, how it represents poor value for money and that they would never stay there are, or course entitled to their views.
Thank you for those views. Can you now please **** off to the ambience-laden Travelodge/Premier Inn and leave those of us who appreciate quality to enjoy our valued facility in peace?
Those of us, who appreciate the Club, will continue to use it and the Trustees are working to ensure that its future is assured.
All those who continue to say how anachronistic the Club is, how it represents poor value for money and that they would never stay there are, or course entitled to their views.
Thank you for those views. Can you now please **** off to the ambience-laden Travelodge/Premier Inn and leave those of us who appreciate quality to enjoy our valued facility in peace?
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Axminster Devon
Age: 83
Posts: 166
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
No room in the inn
It is probably forty five years since my station commander instructed his officers to stump up two-thirds of a day's pay for club membership. Inertia (OK - momentum) has dictated that I have paid ever since. I have yet to see a club bedroom.
Deep into old dufferdom, I left London in 1990. I have tried to book a room for a week night perhaps a dozen times since then, usually at about a month's notice. No luck.
I assume that there are regular users who book early and often. I wonder if there might not be a limited entitlement for every member, that would require such users to take a back seat while occasionals like me get a turn.
Deep into old dufferdom, I left London in 1990. I have tried to book a room for a week night perhaps a dozen times since then, usually at about a month's notice. No luck.
I assume that there are regular users who book early and often. I wonder if there might not be a limited entitlement for every member, that would require such users to take a back seat while occasionals like me get a turn.
'Block bookings'
As a member of an organisation which plans to hold an event at the Club later in the year, I received an e-mail recently, which included the following:
Personally, I don't think that 'block bookings' are very fair. Particularly when some have been made for people who aren't even Club members. Those Club members attending the event should certainly be capable of making their own bookings.
In 1979 I managed to book myself and a friend plus her mother into the Club when they'd been stranded thanks to the Laker DC-10 Skytrain grounding. I was told that normally only 1 guest was permitted, but that they would make an exception on this occasion.... Yet now it seems that people can make speculative 'block bookings' for non-members months in advance?
I have also reserved a block of RAF Club bedrooms (including two doubles) for long-distance travellers who are not members of the Club
In 1979 I managed to book myself and a friend plus her mother into the Club when they'd been stranded thanks to the Laker DC-10 Skytrain grounding. I was told that normally only 1 guest was permitted, but that they would make an exception on this occasion.... Yet now it seems that people can make speculative 'block bookings' for non-members months in advance?
Risbutler
Mrs LJ booked 3 weekends ago for a Monday night a week ago - no problem. I guess you're just unlucky? I've had about a 90-80% hit rate on securing a room, which is pretty good.
LJ
Mrs LJ booked 3 weekends ago for a Monday night a week ago - no problem. I guess you're just unlucky? I've had about a 90-80% hit rate on securing a room, which is pretty good.
LJ
Can you now please **** off to the ambience-laden Travelodge/Premier Inn and leave those of us who appreciate quality to enjoy our valued facility in peace?
) than in London; so your comparison is a little bit skewed?
rlsb
Having flown with you for a year or so, longer ago than either of us would care to remember, I know you to be a person of acuity, resourcefulness and persistence. I am amazed, therefore at your lack of successful bookings. I suspect that LJ is right: you have been spectacularly unlucky. Over an almost identical period in which I have made forty or fifty booking attempts, I have been unsuccessful only once - in December 2002 at three days' notice.
I trust that you are as comfortable in rural Somerset as I am in urban Hong Kong.
Having flown with you for a year or so, longer ago than either of us would care to remember, I know you to be a person of acuity, resourcefulness and persistence. I am amazed, therefore at your lack of successful bookings. I suspect that LJ is right: you have been spectacularly unlucky. Over an almost identical period in which I have made forty or fifty booking attempts, I have been unsuccessful only once - in December 2002 at three days' notice.
I trust that you are as comfortable in rural Somerset as I am in urban Hong Kong.
But land is a lot cheaper in Reading (
) than in London;
) than in London;
Last edited by Tankertrashnav; 3rd Jun 2012 at 16:43.
