Torquay's Anchorage Hotel: The GOOD, The BAD, and The BREAKFAST | Is the chef called BASIL ?
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2023
- In today's video I stay overnight at the Anchorage Hotel in Babbacombe, Torquay.
I've got a budget deal from Booking.com - but will it be great value, or will I get what I have paid for?
I'll show you the good, the bad and the breakfast, which leaves me wondering if the chef is called BASIL!!
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What do you think about this hotel?
Was it good value in your opinion? Would you have eaten the breakfast?
Some parts of the breakfast for sure, but not the sausages, they remind me of ...cant say here 😂😂😂
@@GreenoEats I would have eaten the breakfast, but like you, I would prefer a better quality brekkie.
@@timspencer3348 wait for tomorrow’s video them fella 😉
@@jessicanippes1730 ha ha, probably best not to say 😂
"I was the only person in the queue in the check-in desk".
Thats what I call genius level! 😂😂
Ha ha, I guess 1 person can be a queue, like a really, really short queue??? 🤣🤣🤣
The Monty Python team including Cleese, visited Torquay in May 1970 to film sketches for their hugely popular TV cult series, Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It was whilst staying at the Gleneagles Hotel in Asheldon Road (sadly now demolished) that the team first encountered the hotel proprietor and retired naval officer, Donald Sinclair and his wife, Beatrice.
During their stay the Monty Python team experienced first-hand the eccentricities of Mr Sinclair. Most notably he berated Terry Gilliam for using his knife and fork incorrectly and threw Eric Idle’s bag over a wall believing it contained a bomb (which actually turned out to be a ticking alarm clock). As a result of Sinclair’s unconventional behaviour many of the Monty Python team bolted to the nearby comfortable surroundings of the Imperial Hotel. However, John Cleese decided to stay on and take notes and he invited his then wife, Connie Booth, who would become the co-writer of the series, to join him. This was to become the beginning of one of the most famous moments in British comedy history, with Donald and Beatrice Sinclair providing the inspiration for the iconic TV husband and wife characters.
Amazing how from one experience one of the greatest ever TV shows was born right!
The Breakfast room looked lovely,
It was a nice space to be honest, plenty of seating, nicely decorated
Those sausages are the stuff of nightmares I could only imagine the taste of them 🤮. Really enjoyed this little foodie detour mate.
They were the cheapest of the cheap. Dread to think what the meat content was (and what that meat actually was!). If you want to see a better breakfast then this afternoon’s video should be better for you. Appreciate the kind words about the foodie detour, hoping to do similar again somewhere else in the not too distant future!
We stayed in this hotel in 2014.We had a good time.
Thanks for your video
Best Wishes
Hazel
Glad you enjoyed your stay there (and the video 😊)
Faulty towers was filmed in Henley on Thames. Was an original hotel then burnt down and now on the ground is some bungalow. Great videos from greeno.
I didn’t know that! I assumed it was unlikely to have been filmed in Torquay as it would have been a bit out of the way back in the day, but didn’t know it was in Henley. Thanks for letting me know, and your kind comment!
Fawlty towers was a classic. There a video on RUclips about fawlty towers they use Torquay in the classic comedy. ruclips.net/video/ATTMLesoweY/видео.htmlsi=531T1VhThx4UTC16
One popular myth is that the hotel shown in the opening shot of Fawlty Towers was based in Torquay. It was in fact filmed outside the Wooburn Grange Country Club at Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. Unfortunately, in 1991 the building was badly damaged by fire and subsequently demolished with eight homes later being built on the site.
Love the Thumbnail 👌
Diolch my friend 😀
I havn't been to Torquay since 2018. I like weak coffee 🍵 so that's a bonus for me!!
It was the first time I had been to stay there since about 2010 I think. I need my coffee strong, although my missus has it even stronger than me, you could stand a spoon up in hers!
@@GreenoEats we are all at different ends of coffee scale!
Excellent upload, something different,
Great voice-over,
Thanks, it’s nice to mix things up on the channel time to time (although I have done a few chain hotel breakfast videos before). Enjoyable little trip to Torquay though, and still one more video to come tomorrow!
@@GreenoEats nice one,
Well see you tomorrow then,
Looks a interesting upload
Watching Now Greeno Sir,
Appreciate your support as always!
Great show was Fawlty Tower's, just pure class,init,
12 episodes of Crazy Mad Comedy, that sadly you just dont get today!!!
I haven’t watched it for about 10 years, I am sure like most shows from the 70s some of the humour has aged better than others. But John Cleese around that time was the absolute master. I expect if I watched it again now I would still be laughing my socks off!
Yep, 😂😂
You should have stayed room only and gone to Babbacombe centre to one of the cafes.
Knowing what I know now I would have to agree with you 🤣
Very little wrong with any of that. Clean and comfortable room with en suite and breakfast for what you paid is brilliant. I would happily stay there, a few decor issues never bother me as long as it's clean and everything works as it should. Shame the breakfast was a bit of a let down, if the toaster was quicker you could have had sliced tomato on toast, lovely. I'm at the Derby cricket ground Travelodge on Friday, having the evening meal there too. I've eaten there before and it was very good so fingers crossed. Not having breakfast as going to an Xmas market not far from Derby and there will be plenty of grub there.If Winchester is within striking distance they have a Xmas fair at the Cathedral until the end of the weekend which is supposed to be good.
Where’s the market you’re heading to then? I know they have a good one at Chatsworth House which isn’t too far from Derby right? I am planning to take Mrs Greeno and the kids to the Winchester market on Monday Dec 18th (it runs until Thurs 21st this year). We went last year and it was really nice, a great venue sat in the cathedral grounds.
As for the Anchorage Hotel, 100% agree that I have no qualms about the quality of the accommodation for the price (although I expect it’s a lot more pricey at more peak times). Would happily stay there agin, just maybe take breakfast elsewhere 😀
I stayed here back in 2005 & the food looks like it's improved slightly, the breakfast wasn't self service either.
That’s an improvement? Wow lol.
Stayed there last summer, good value i thought, the indian restaurant facing the park, was a winner.
I guess you paid a higher price during the summer months than I did out of season right? I didn’t come across that Indian restaurant, but if I am back in that part of the world again I will look out for it. Thanks for watching 😀
@@GreenoEats I think, it was just under 190, for two humans and a dog for a twin , you cant beat babbacombe in summer
@@milkmanofhumankindness5118 was that per night? Or for a weekend?
@@GreenoEats my mistake, was 110 on the friday, and 125 on the saturday she thinks
8:20 Oh Dear 😂😂😂
I didn’t feel the best for a good hour after that, should have given up on the cooked breakfast and got another bowl of muesli!
@@GreenoEats yep,
And the dodgy burger from the football match the night before init, 😉
@@davidjones6470 yeah probably… I dunno, the things us poor vloggers have to go through to make these videos 🤣🤣🤣
May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window?😚😊😁
Herds of Wildebeest sweeping majestically.... 😂😂😂
If like me you're a real Bacon lover Greeno... Iceland sells nice thick brand named Bacon at a great price my friend... Danish Select Rindless Unsmoked Back Bacon... A 2Kg Pack is only £12... That works out at roughly 4.4lb of quality Bacon at about £2.72 per lb. 🥓😋
2kg of decent bacon? That has me making Homer Simpson style noises…. Mmmmm, bacon 😀 Thanks for the tip!
@@GreenoEats 😂👍
£38 for a room and a Breakfast!!!!
Can't wait 2 see the Breakfast 😉
Should have been £50 remember before my discount. Of course £50 is still cheap enough!!
@@GreenoEats good point,
i live in torquay babbacombe nice in summer
I bet it’s a great place to be in the summer. I like living near the sea in winter too mind… fewer grockles around 🤣
Im staying in Blackpool atm in a Travelodge, having theire breakfasts lol.. your room looks nice 👍
Travelodge breakfasts can be a bit hit and miss in my experience, how is it in the Blackpool one? Hope the weather up there has been kind this week for you 😀
@@GreenoEats it was ok, I've had better but had worse, it fills a hole lol.. I hope weather stays ok I'm here till Friday 👍
I love cheap catering sausages 😊😊
They have their place if they are cooked well. These weren't lol!!
6:47 looks alright
But maybe,yes definitely they could do with better sausages,😮
Yes, they were definitely the cheapest of the cheap sausages. Which I was gutted about having had the cheapest of the cheap burgers at the football the night before 😂
@@GreenoEats yes 😃🤣🤣
Very picky
You think so? The sausages and bacon at the breakfast were exceptionally poor, would you have been happy with that?
@@GreenoEats Looking at the cheap price you would of paid and the even cheaper you did pay the sausages and bacon are the sacrifice you had to put up with. Location was good, room decent along with the choice of food you had at breakfast ... picky was about right.
In fairness, that didn't look like the best breakfast, but for £38 I guess a reasonable price.
Yeah, for the money I paid I can’t grumble (although it should be noted I paid around £12 below the normal cost). Probably a lot more expensive in peak season too.
Torquay is a disgrace these days!!!!
I finally moved away 1 year ago tomorrow and I haven’t been happier
Torquay is just full of druggies, the town is poor and only ever a few shops open
Babbacombe is better than town but if u had a good look Around u would think different
It’s far to expensive down there for what it is, I actually used to know the head chef at that hotel but he was forced to leave due to reasons I can’t say on here
Interesting to hear the view of a local. I think, like many seaside towns, there has been a slow decline over many years. Places like Blackpool, Weston-S-M etc. suffering the same. And for towns so reliant on the tourism/service industry for employment, housing and everything else is crazy expensive. Interesting to note about the chef, if he was a bit dodgy then I am glad he wasn’t cooking my breakfast 😂 I appreciate you taking the time to give some context to what’s going on in the town for me.