Royal Bath Hotel
ROYAL BATH HOTEL: Private helipad
Operated by: 2000: The Royal Bath Hotel
Location: In town centre just NE of the pier
Landing area: Grass area 100x50m
A PERSONAL MEMORY
Many, many years ago, when at Art School at Bournemouth, on a Pre-Diploma course, a friend arranged for me to get a summer holiday job in the ROYAL BATH HOTEL. I was seventeen years old, so this would have been 1964. The jobs I had to do ranged from washing up to dispense barman, taking over as various people took their summer hoilday.
Two particular memories remain. The first being that the management deliberately downgraded the hotel from 'Five-Star' to 'Four-Star' as it was much more profitable. Indeed, when the manager of the only 'Five-Star' hotel arranged a reception for his daughters wedding - he decided to hold it at the ROYAL BATH!
The second being that I was fascinated by the manager of the Casino arriving for work in a metallic gold Aston Martin DB.5. (Metallic paint jobs were exceedingly rare in those days). One day I was tasked, in the afternoon, with delivering tea and sandwiches, (or something similar), and being a bit cheeky asked him how the Casino here compared to the Casino in Monte Carlo.
His answer astonished me. He considered Monte Carlo as being just a tourist trap, basically a non-runner, a joke of a Casino. The stakes played at the ROYAL BATH Casino in those days ranked amongst the highest in the world, a major player as it were. Hence, as the manager pulling the serious punters in, having a such a car.
I doubt this remains the case today? Or, do you know otherwise?
ON ANOTHER NOTE
Strange perhaps how life pans out. If somebody in those days had predicted that by 2016 I would be, after seventeen or more years of research, compiling a 'Guide' to British flying sites, I would most certainly have regarded them as being barking mad.
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