ENGLISH HOTELS SIR,—Having read your paragraph in The Spectator on
Tourism with much interest may I point out one serious drawback our hotel keepers suffer from. In 1931 on a short motor trip in N.E. France every hotel, even in the small towns, seemed to have hot and cold water in every room and baths to nearly each room. In the one English hotel we stopped at on our return journey there was nothing of the kind. When asked why they were so behind the French, they told me that the French Government encouraged hotels to improve their accommodation ; whereas in England if they put in an extra bathroom or basin they had immediately to pay higher rates, which made improvement for small hotels almost impossible. You probably know all this but could you not start a crusade to get the hotels helped if they put in improvements instead of their having extra taxation imposed?—Yours faithfully,
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