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JANUARY 2010
Welcome to our very first Chase Lodge newsletter. First of all, Happy New Year, we’re looking forward to a whole new decade and all the wonderful things that may bring.
Last year, we had a lot of our regular customers come to stay and we were delighted to see each and every one of them (we’re also keen to see new customers too). It seems amazing that we have been here for 25 years with our anniversary coming up on March 21st - 25 years, oops! how did that happen?
As usual there have been many moving stories too numerous to list but there are a few that deserve a special mention:
As you probably know, we host many wedding receptions here so it seems unusual to mention one that happened in Miami Beach – but doesn’t our friend Gillian look beautiful in her wedding dress? Huge congratulations to Barbera, Alan, Gillian, Alex, Sammy and the whole family. We look forward to seeing you again and sharing the experience.
As usual, everybody cried at our christenings, including the staff. We’ll be breaking the tissues out this year too.
We were all very excited when Lenny Henry and Barry Rutter booked to stay here during their production Othello at the Rose Theatre (though Lenny ended up staying at his wife’s house instead, which we would too if were married to the lovely Dawn French). It was a terrific production, both men were great and it’s no wonder that it transferred straight to the West End.
Huge congratulations to our favourite Thai restaurant up the road. They beat off massive competition to win the Best Thai Restaurant in Britain award on Gordon Ramsay’s F-Word. And so they should, their spicy cinnamon quail is amazing.
Our Christmas lights drew in quite a few children, thinking we were Santa’s grotto.
Last but definitely not least, we were very privileged to help our friend Yvonne, in a very modest way, in her fight against breast cancer. We can now report that she has fully recovered and has come to work with us.
That’s it! Kind thoughts to you all.
Denise, Robert and all the staff at the Chase Lodge Hotel.