Tis The Season To Be........

[mushroom25]

enter your "season to be" word here ____________
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-46587353

it certainly isn't festive, or jolly, is it?

[cassa333]

Sadly they haven’t named the hotel (or chain) or the reason they have been cancelled.

If I owned a smallish hotel (which I don’t) I would be tempted to open just for this blokes booking.

[spathiphyllum]

cold

[mushroom25]

//Sadly they haven’t named the hotel (or chain) //

they've named both. (in the first non-bold paragraph under the picture). It's the Royal Hull Hotel, operated by the Britannia chain.

[naomi24]

//The reason for the cancellation is unclear. //

Unless there's illness or staff shortages, or some other reason the hotel can't function over Christmas, it makes no sense to cancel 14 rooms at short notice with no hope of re-booking them at short notice. 14 rooms is a lot of rooms. I can't see any hotelier deliberately throwing away business like that. I think there's more to this than meets the eye.

[emmie]

that is appalling, cancelled at the last minute and not given an explanation, seems something isn't right here at all.

[hereIam]

Poor souls, they would have been looking forward to that. Very odd.

[margarettom]

It says quite clearly that the booking was cancelled because of damage done by the same group to another hotel last year. Presumably the booking was accepted in good faith and they were later appraised as to the problems the previous year, so they decided to cancel it.
Before I condemn the hotel out of hand, I would like to know more about what happened at the other hotel.