Harrods

The English service industry are renowned for being surly,rude and unhelpful. However, my experiences so far had been anything but. Then there was Harrods.

Harrods is certainly a lovely building. They had some very cool interior decorating and it all looks very posh. Plus there was some interesting history to do with them having the first escalators etc....

The security was a bit overkill. Worse even than the airport. If I hadn't been inclined to blow the place up, the stupid security measures might have pushed me to it. For whatever preposterous reason, one was not allowed to carry one's backpack on ones back. Anything larger than a handbag had to be carried by the straps. You weren't even allowed to hold it in front of you. If I was a thief, I would think great. Easier access to my bag. But anyway.

We were there to have an English afternoon tea i.e. scones, jam and lashings of cream. We got the scones and the jam but for some reason our clotted cream never arrived. We made enquiries and our waitress made all the right noises about getting us some cream. So we waited. No cream.

We made further enquiries about the cream, but this time we made sure we directed our enquiries to the manager only to be informed that we were given butter instead of cream.!!! I was unimpressed and made it as clear as I was able to about my state of being unimpressed. Whereby we were assured that an attempt to find some cream would ensue. Some time later, we were informed that happily, some cream and been sent for and would be coming very soon.

Well, you can imagine how we felt to see our much awaited cream, sail right past us and be delivered to another table. Finally finally after yet further "enquiries" were made, the cream arrived and sad to say, it wasn't really that nice.

To add further insult to injury, I think it made me sick. Luckily I didn't need to use the "bag", cos I couldn't find it. But I did need to use the facilities. So, tourists beware.