: Tue May 05, 2009 10:09 am  

Master Block wrote:

How can you say it was poorly organized and a load of rubbish and then say that you you didn't go!!

Lads on this forum told me ...

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:12 am  

Wires71 wrote:

Seriously I didnt hear one Scottish accent inside and the taxi driver didnt know the event was even on. I'm not sure the RFL can call it a success.

On the contrary fella, I spoke to numerous Scottish people who were very interested in how things went. They even know what games were on and when, though they did ask me what the scores were.

Thought I may have bumped into you since I was also staying at the Jury's Inn, but we were hardly there apart from sleeping!

: Tue May 05, 2009 10:44 am  

As a 'Drinker' I think I would have to say Cardiff. I couldn't tell you if it was any better in Scotland for families.

: Tue May 05, 2009 11:14 am  

wont be returning to edinburgh again this year could write a huge list of comparisons to cardiff and cardiff wins hands down everytime ! it is a good job weather was nice(ish) sun was shining but it wasnt very warm ! absolute load of rubbish and it was much more expensive than cardiff !

: Tue May 05, 2009 11:36 am  

mark_m wrote:

The Scottish weren't that friendly towards us particularly at 2am in the morning.

The only 'issue' I had with the locals was when I asked the barman if he could turn the TV over to Sky after the Liverpool/Newcastle game finished. The barman and a few of the locals had a few choice words to say.

Though to be fair, this was a few minutes before the Rangers/Hearts game kicked off!

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:13 pm  

Another thing, i went the shop last night with one of those dodgy looking Scottish notes to be told that not many places accept them, you don't get this when you go Cardiff.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:26 pm  

Inside Knowledge wrote:

Another thing, i went the shop last night with one of those dodgy looking Scottish notes to be told that not many places accept them, you don't get this when you go Cardiff.

Bank of Scotland bank notes are not Legal Tender in England and, as such, there is no compulsion for anyone to accept them in payment for a debt. However certain retailers, and all banks, will.

: Tue May 05, 2009 12:41 pm  

Wires71 wrote:

Bank of Scotland bank notes are not Legal Tender in England and, as such, there is no compulsion for anyone to accept them in payment for a debt. However certain retailers, and all banks, will.

Yea that's what i was told, ill keep in until next month and change it at the travel agent along with the rest of my money before i go Barcelona.

: Tue May 05, 2009 1:00 pm  

Thelonius wrote:

The only 'issue' I had with the locals was when I asked the barman if he could turn the TV over to Sky after the Liverpool/Newcastle game finished. The barman and a few of the locals had a few choice words to say.

Though to be fair, this was a few minutes before the Rangers/Hearts game kicked off!

We were watching Liverpool v Newcastle in the Walkabout bar, and it had Hudds v Celtic on there also.

However, the place had about 20 tv sets and only 3 were showing the Liverpool game and 3 were showing the Rugby League. The rest were showing stupid music videos or adverts for the pub.

Once the Liverpool game finished, we asked if they could put the Reading v Birmingham game on, as it was the last round of games in the Championship, but the bar staff said to me, "sorry, that's not once of the events we are showing".

Setanta Sports was still on as they had a game on after it (Glasgow Rangers v Hearts) and once this came on, they turned it off, and replaced the broadcast with more of these stupid adverts. We were quite surprised by this, what with Hearts being an Edinburgh club, so we decided to bugger off somewhere else that was showing the football.

Shocking behaviour by Walkabout. You wouldn't get that anywhere else; Cardiff, Manchester etc. Shows what they think of their paying customers. Something similar happened last year in Cardiff and the staff there were more than accommodating for us!

: Tue May 05, 2009 2:15 pm  

Inside Knowledge wrote:

Another thing, i went the shop last night with one of those dodgy looking Scottish notes to be told that not many places accept them, you don't get this when you go Cardiff.

I made a point of drawing 'funny beer vouchers' from the Edinburgh hole in the wall whilst I still had plenty of 'real beer vouchers' left to make sure that I only had real ones in my wallet when I came home.