Memories of The Empress

All is forgiven

By Moristotle

My young family and I visited Vancouver Island, British Columbia’s, Empress Hotel in the early 1970s, so when I read this story about a hilariously comic incident there 17 years ago, my laughter was extra loud: “40 Sea Gulls Wrecked His Hotel Room. 17 Years Later, a Pepperoni Pardon” [Yonnette Joseph, NY Times, April 14].
    It wouldn’t be fair to readers not to point the story out to them. Enjoy! Excerpted opening:

Nick Burchill has been called “the worst hotel guest ever.”
    It isn’t because he left a suitcase filled with pepperoni in a hotel room in Canada in 2001.
    It’s because, as Mr. Burchill tells it, he left it next to an open window and about 40 sea gulls invaded the room, drawn by the smell of the cured meat.
    The ensuing chaos — and most likely the cleanup bill — got Mr. Burchill barred for life from the Fairmont Empress in Victoria, British Columbia, according to him and the hotel. [read more]

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