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Here's how to savour each moment and TRULY experience the riches of the world - from a man who cherishes life in the slow lane Slow down and wise up: You'll get more from your travels if you don't rush. After a goodish breakfast - despite tasteless bacon and overcooked eggs - we take a walk in the grounds and decide that we've enjoyed our stay far more than we ever thought we would. The table of celebratory women is subdued. Most of the main courses cost £22 and if you want the 8oz fillet, then it will swallow £28 worth of your allowance.īut we eat well and everyone seems to be having a fine time, especially a table of women celebrating a birthday. We are given £30 each to spend on food, which I thought would pretty much cover us for two courses.

She looks almost identical to Abbey Clancy, but it can't be her because we've just seen her on Strictly.īe warned about this dinner, bed and breakfast lark.

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We are seated next to a young couple and I'm sure he's a professional footballer. It can't get much better than that,' I proffer. I make for the spa to do some lengths in the indoor pool, pausing briefly at the desk where you book treatments. It has a big sleigh bed, plantation shutters, a delightful French dresser, taupe walls and a huge bathroom with separate shower. Our room is far more comfortable than we expect. Since then, various buildings have been added sympathetically in clapper-board style, including the Clock Tower suite, where the charity dinner will be held. It was built in 1868 as a summer house for a wealthy family and then bought by a man who bred Shetland ponies. Then we notice more white dressing gowns sitting at the bar. Then, a man in black tie walks past, accompanied by two women in fluffy white dressing gowns.

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We've had a wedding, two baby showers, a charity dinner is about to start, plus all the regular check-ins.' 'How has your day been?' asks a young man on reception. Suffice to say that we're not best disposed to Rowhill Grange Hotel and Utopia Spa by the time we turn off the M25 (rather too close to the Dartford Tunnel for comfort) on a blustery Saturday night.

'That must be due to availability,' I'm told. Something else that gets us off on the wrong foot is that at 1pm I'm quoted £238 for two people for dinner bed and breakfast, but when I call back 15 minutes later, having discussed it with my wife-who-shall-be-named, the rate has gone up to £258. 'So we can welcome you both by name,' she says. Rowhill Grange: No Utopia, but better than our man under cover had anticipatedīut I don't want to leave it there.

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