It just goes to show how limited our choice was of nice little local eateries that we’d end up having the buffet at the Sheraton. Sure, there are little places where you can get street food for next to nothing. That’s great for the backpackers but we were in the mood for something a bit more upmarket at the time. Anyway, we went to the Sheraton and on the face of it, the choice looked good enough for us to decide to stay. (Staying in the Hotel 1926, as we were, meant that we’d have a 20-minute trek into town otherwise.)
On closer inspection, there were so many things worryingly wrong that I even took the time to write a whole page of faults and subsequently discuss them with the duty manager. Seriously, the place was an accident waiting to happen. The standards of food hygiene were alarmingly low (non-existent?).
Some major faults I noticed included:
And a couple of other faults (from memory as I gave my list of notes to the duty manager to help her out – the list was that alarming! – and didn’t keep a copy myself):
So, all in all, it left a rather limited selection of what we considered OK to eat. It’s not that we’re all that fussy about things – “when in Rome…” and all that – but when a major international hotel is breaking every basic food hygiene rule in the book, it does rather put one off.
Overall rating: 0/5
Be afraid, be very afraid, if you’re going to eat here.
The hotel ceased to be part of the Sheraton group some time after our review and is now the Dorsett (sic).
Kay has been an expat for nearly 30 years. She set up the British Expat website back in early 2000, whilst living in London and missing the expat life. These days she spends much of her time lugging computers and cameras around the world. (Dave gets to deal with all the really heavy stuff.)
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