Originally Posted by
Raffles
No, you just couldn't find it. Boris made a high profile announcement before his election that he would refuse to travel in Ken's way and would cut back on travel expenses.
But guess what? Boris HAS stuck with Ken's booking in the £400 per night Hyatt. He claims it would be 'inconvenient' to stay elsewhere. Judge from this what you want.
Do you know that Ken's original booking hasn't been pared back in any way? Do you have Ken's original booking to hand, and the details of the current one? Where does this "£400 per night" figure come from? The original Mail article uses that figure, saying that "rooms start at £400 per night" but I did a dummy reservation and the first quote I got was for £188 per night. I dare say rooms for the Olympics may well have cost £400 per night and upwards, but clearly the Mail has no idea how much Boris's room actually cost or how much Ken's original booking cost.
If the Daily Mail article, which seems to be the basis for most of this thread, is correct, then he cancelled "expensive hotel suites" that were originally booked, but is following advice to stay at the same hotel for security reasons. These two facts are actually quite compatible.
Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
Still I come back to the main question - how do we know. Someone told us. How do we know that they did not make it all up, or the whole thing has been lost in press hyperbole.
I don't know - and quite honestly I don't care - what I do care bout is people being really rather nasty about an incident based entirely on hearsay and gossip.
^^ Given the contempt which most people on this board normally have for the Mail, I find it amazing than there is such a long thread based on speculation invented by the Daily Mail with the remaining details made up by the posters themselves.