How many hotels in Great Britain outside London provide a
bathroom attached to every bedroom and a system of steam-heating capable of being regulated by the guest, as is to be found in almost every American hotel ? Do our hotel proprietors study the requirements of their patrons sufficiently ? How many British hotels provide the visitor with an appetizing selection of fresh and stewed fruit for breakfast with plentiful supplies of cream, and with a varied selection of cereal foods ? Is not the local hotel-keeper's idea of a suitable summer breakfast menu too frequently nothing but porridge and bacon and eggs ? How many British hotels in the tourist season make a practice of placing iced water on the table for all meals, breakfast included, without waiting for the guest to ask ? These matters may seem too trivial for attention, and yet they make all the difference to the comfort of the transatlantic tourist. In this connexion it may be noted that the Manchester City Council has agreed to sell a central site to a syndicate which proposes to erect on it "one of the largest and most luxuriously equipped hotels in Europe."
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