please empty your brain below
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When I read about the hotel’s location yesterday, I immediately thought this was DG’s neighbourhood.
Greg S | 06.09.18 - 7:23 a.m. | #
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Be careful DG, they know where you live. Over the years you give reasonably precise measurements when you write about things that are very close to home. It would be possible to get a bearing on you by drawing circles and where they overlap, X marks the spot.
Ken | 06.09.18 - 7:30 a.m. | #
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Wow, how spooky.
Wish they'd taken more care over how they disposed of the Novichok afterwards, - did I hear they threw it in a bin of charity donations?
And that poor couple were the ones unfortunate enough to discover it.
Cornish Cockney | 06.09.18 - 8:35 a.m. | #
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And that guy with the (borrowed?) shopping trolley has got a lot of luggage. Or is he moving home?
Petras409 | 06.09.18 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Recent reviews on on Google:
"My mates mates Petrov and Ruslan asked me to pass this on.
Hotel is ok, we cleaned pretty thoroughly and didn't even open the perfume before leaving. Saved the vodka for the plane home"
"Ideal for short term assassination visit. No questions asked."
"Good enough stay but I have to deduct some stars as the presence of nerve agent caused me to fall into a coma for several weeks."
Terry | 06.09.18 - 8:53 a.m. | #
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I went past yesterday at around 1:20pm and they were filming a "policeman" who I thought was an actor. There was a police car opposite at the Co-Op garage. He looks possibly like the same person in DG's photo. I was amazed when I saw the news later as I know the hotel.
Half A Physicist | 06.09.18 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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DG, do you operate double standards? A few days ago you removed my comment that government runs planning legislation as well as it does Brexit, which frankly hardly seems contentious to me, and yet you have allowed 2 foully offensive comments this morning: @Petras409 [8.46am] and @Terry [8.53am]. Neither are amusing and both are in bad taste.
J. | 06.09.18 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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Hey DG, never delete J's comments, they're hilarious.
Martin | 06.09.18 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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I live at the other end of the street where the French au pair was murdered and burned by the ex-girlfriend of Mark Walton, so I can relate to your feelings of surreal disbelief.
daveid76 | 06.09.18 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Apart from the fact that the whole incident was a ludicrous false flag designed to demonise Russia, the actual writing about the hotel and the photos were quite interesting
Marty | 06.09.18 - 10:48 a.m. | #
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somebody got this review published yesterday on TripAdvisor! how long before TA take it down ?!
A Hotel to Die for;)
Room was small and basic but nothing to write home about. stayed in a single room with bath outside.Be careful when touching doors and surfaces as these are unclean. I took some anti bacterial wipes. Give it a miss:(
ADS | Homepage | 06.09.18 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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Jeez, £50 for a flop-out like that. Why would you.
Haven't these people heard of Premier Inn or Travelodge.
Or do they feel forced to seek out the kind of digs that figure in spook fiction.
pete c | 06.09.18 - 11:44 a.m. | #
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Presumably they'd heard so much about Bus Stop M that they just had to pay a visit while over here for work.
Ben | 06.09.18 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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Pete C
Most premier inn and Travelodge hotels in London are over £100 a night, sometimes over £200
Lumma | Homepage | 06.09.18 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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Why pick a hotel in Bow when traveling from Waterloo Station? Why not somewhere in the Lambeth area, with less opportunities to be seen on CCTV?
Why do two journeys to Salisbury when one would have done?
Here's a theory. They weren't supplied with the Novichok until the Saturday night. On the Saturday recce, when they would have been unfamiliar with Salisbury, it was better that they, and the hotel room, were 'clean' in case they were stopped for any reason. The dispenser was supplied by a third party on the Saturday night (maybe from one of the east coast ports, hence the choice of a hotel on a main road in East London). Knowing how deadly the poison was (and remembering the trail left by the Litvinyenko killers) the Novichok would have been in their possession for as little time as possible (hence discarding it in Salisbury).
RayL | 06.09.18 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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Courageous trip on a Sunday out of Waterloo. Must have been tricky to track them travelling by replacement bus and in the snow too.
Running_Correspondent | 06.09.18 - 12:48 p.m. | #
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Indeed, stories close to home... that school bomb hoax hacker was arrested in Watford.
Unclea Audrey | 06.09.18 - 1:29 p.m. | #
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I've passed by this hotel a good number of times too, and quite honestly a lethal nerve agent would be the least of my worries if I'd booked a room there. It's always looked pretty grim - though never as bad as the Cosmo Hotel Bloomsbury was, where I used to stay when coming up for a course at Birkbeck!
Mike Newman | Homepage | 06.09.18 - 3:16 p.m. | #
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@J
absolutely nothing foully offensive about my or Petras comments. i didn't even write mine...
Terry | 06.09.18 - 3:30 p.m. | #
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Can't get a room there now, bookings are chokka....
Yuri | 06.09.18 - 4:40 p.m. | #
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Chokka, Yuri ...
Would that be Novi-Chokka?
Robin Hood | 06.09.18 - 9:57 p.m. | #
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