Not all hotels are comfortable with holding a convention focussed around sexuality.
I'm pretty sure that under the Sexual Orientation Regulations 2007, their 'comfort levels' are irrelevant: they have a legal obligation not to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. This is certainly the case with hotels which host weddings but refuse to do civil partnerships, or who try to refuse double rooms to gay couples.
Disability and health issues crop up again in a hotel situation - some people cannot manage to eat at set times, or have very specific dietary needs which the hotel may not be able or willing to meet.
I tend to get around this by carrying a toaster around with me to hotels and so on, and/or packing food I can eat which only requires you to add water. It's far from ideal, but it just about works.
I've never yet come across a hotel that isn't willing to meet even very complicated sets of dietary needs at their lunchtimes or dinnertimes, although they do occasionally screw up.
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Re: Interesting overview, but...
Date: 2008-08-13 04:04 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure that under the Sexual Orientation Regulations 2007, their 'comfort levels' are irrelevant: they have a legal obligation not to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. This is certainly the case with hotels which host weddings but refuse to do civil partnerships, or who try to refuse double rooms to gay couples.
Disability and health issues crop up again in a hotel situation - some people cannot manage to eat at set times, or have very specific dietary needs which the hotel may not be able or willing to meet.
I tend to get around this by carrying a toaster around with me to hotels and so on, and/or packing food I can eat which only requires you to add water. It's far from ideal, but it just about works.
I've never yet come across a hotel that isn't willing to meet even very complicated sets of dietary needs at their lunchtimes or dinnertimes, although they do occasionally screw up.