Patsy Stoned

So...MM and I went out for dinner last night and decided to have a last drink at the Neos bar at the Address hotel.
MM looked at the wine list and decided to upgrade our wine to a particular favourite of hers and very lovely it was too

However when we got the bill, what MM thought said 395 actually said 595! Mind you they also charge 50+dhs for a small bottle of water!!
Then they turned the lights on 15mins into us opening the bottle and told us they close at 1am during Ramadan!!! We 'politely' told them that we were going to stay until we finished our wine

Madam Medusa

come on, i'm blonde...was bloody nice wine, mind...

MM, xx

seven seas

Lucky they didn't just call the poplice and let them deal with it.

Would have been another headline for Torygraph-readers to get hysterical over.

Patsy Stoned

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Shadya

Why the ??? If you had failed to leave when asked to do so, the manager would have been perfectly entitled to call the Police. Why do some Brits here think they are above the law?

The Dean

Of course, MM and Patsy are in no way suggesting that the restaurant was behaving in a cynical, money-grabbing manner by selling them a product they simply did not have time to consume........... and without warning them of the fact.

No hotel restaurant in Dubai would ever ever ever do such a deceitful thing..............

MacScot

Seconded.

In my restaurant in Melbourne, I always allowed customers to finish off their wine even after closing the doors. Often got involved and had a good impromptu conversation and more to finish off a good end to the night !

Madam Medusa

we don't think we are above the law, what a ridiculous thing to say...we would never refuse to leave if we'd been speifically asked to do so, the point was that we didn't really have enough time to enjoy the wine, and they should have told us when we ordered it that they were closing early...

MM, xx

Blue Cat

595 dhs!! I would have had a heart attack!

Patsy Stoned

Shadya, get off your high horse/brit bashing podium!! My point is exactly as others read it, it would have been nice if they had informed us that they would be closing in 15mins. As it was we stayed there until 2am enjoying the wine whilst we waited for everybody to leave, why stand in a Q for the lift when we could stay at the bar enjoying our wine!!

Blue Cat

you tell her Patsy! she is the Queen of Gloom and Doom!

Patsy Stoned

it was a lovely wine though

Blue Cat

I believe you

Patsy Stoned

Me too. I would sit with customers until the early hours, especially this 1 table who were ordering bottles of Dom with Hennesy XO chasers If it had been glasses of lager they would have been out the door. I never minded "lates" but my rule was "Top Shelf" only

Roadking

Cause some of us are?