We were made to feel like criminals and branded 'gate crashers' for not knowing it was a ticket only event, even though this was not stated anywhere when we arrived or when we bought a round of drinks. We only wanted a few quiet drinks to celebrate the New Year.
I am over seven months pregnant and needed to sit down once we'd arrived - the only table that looked free was an 8-10 berth with only three half-empty bottles of Becks visible. Anyway, I really needed to sit down so we moved the bottles and did so. However, we were rudely told to move by a waitress as apparently others were sat there, and were then shoved into a far corner. This was not before being quizzed as to whether we had tickets that we knew nothing of and my Brother-in-Law spoken to like dirt, just for questioning where it stated that it was tickets only? Not the warmest welcome to say the least. We had done nothing wrong, I desperately needed to sit down and we all just wanted to relax with our drinks.
The owner was not present for any of this until right at the end when he told us to leave after we'd taken a seat where we were told we could, therefore cannot possibly comment on anything that happened before this point. As we're fairly local, we'd all visited several times before this particular evening, but after coming into contact with the rude, obnoxious, pretentious owners, we won't ever again. read more