Weird hotel (room) question!!

Scuzi said "Are you one of these people that takes all the complimentary tea bags and coffee sachets home with you? Great, you'll save a good 6 pence there."
Its not about the money its about having convenient little sachets and different types of tea. I normally take all the hot choc ones as it tastes so much better then the home shop versions. When your out travailing little sachets of tea are very useful with a flask of hot water from the hotel.
 
mate its not like docklands is a mega rich super area in which you need a yaught to buy food.

Ibis? i gues you are staying near either at excel or the one closer to canary wharf? loads of cheap places to eat around there, espcially in poplar.

if your budget is less than a fiver for diner there are loads of chip shops etc.

save you having to lug a cooker around and potentially create the great fire of london V2.
 
Thanks for all the replies. :) I am attending a conference in the Excel Centre. I just thought of soup as it is easy, cheap and nutritious and I know about the extortionate food prices in the Excel Centre. I am less interested in travelling great distances for cheap(er) food but maybe that's my downfall.
 
If its the docklands Ibis I'm thinking of (north end of the blackwell tunnel) then there is a McDonalds just accross the road if you want something cheap. :p

If the room comes with an iron you could turn that upside down and use it as a hotplate! :p

PK!
 
Haha, iron hotplate sounds interesting. I was booked into the Ibis Docklands for a while but changed it to the Ibis Excel as it's a lot closer. :)
 
I'd imagine you'd get a more factually correct response if you actually called the hotel and asked them rather than asking a computer forum to somehow guess whether it's ok or not. I know it's a crazy idea but it might just work.
 
The health and safety mafia would get you I'm sure. I would guess all electrical equipment in use at the hotel is regularly PAT tested. Your hob wouldn't be so therefore wouldn't be allowed. If anything were to go seriously wrong can you afford to pay personally for the damage?

If the hotel room has a decent sized kettle what about "Boil in the bag food" - just keep the bag away from the kettle's heating element. Pot noodles and powdered soups are also good. With a bit of care you could probably poach an egg as well.

This thread has the potential to develop into a "gourmet cooking in a kettle" kind of thing.
 
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keeping with the original idea you could bring a rice steamer and sit it ontop of the kettle to steam some rice, dumplings, vegetables or maybe even catch a fish from the docks, pick some herbs and steam that.

or pretend to be one of the workmen who are currently extending the building and steal there tea
 
Pottsey said:
Scuzi said "Are you one of these people that takes all the complimentary tea bags and coffee sachets home with you? Great, you'll save a good 6 pence there."
Its not about the money its about having convenient little sachets and different types of tea. I normally take all the hot choc ones as it tastes so much better then the home shop versions. When your out travailing little sachets of tea are very useful with a flask of hot water from the hotel.
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I take them all just because I can.
 
I always take things from the Hotel, slippers, dressing gown, toiletries (spell) and any other funky things. Scandinavian Hotels have really cool stuff to "borrow".
 
jon86 said:
Hi.

I am going to be staying in a hotel room for a few days and I was wondering if I can bring my portable induction hob with me to heat up some soup? Would it be against the T&C's (staying in a Hotel Ibis) and if not, do you think there might be any 'heat' fire alarms in the room?

Bit of a strange question, I know. :)

Thanks.
Jon
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Are you an engineer? ;)
 
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