Carry On Abroad
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Palace Hotel
Come and join us at the brand new Palace Hotel, located in Elsbels along the Costa Bomm coast, it will be finished soon... we promise!
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| The Beautiful Palace Hotel, Elsbels |
Our luxury accommodation includes: private bathrooms (shared between only 2 rooms), balcony windows featuring no glass at all, what better way to let that warm breeze flow through, our wall to wall wardrobes have no backs allowing for extra space and easy access to the adjacent room, while our draws have no bottoms at all ensuring your underwear and other unmentionables are completely aired out. In our stylish bathrooms, our modern toilets flush upwards for that fresher than fresh sensation. You'll be so pleased with all our mod cons that you won't want to leave your room and why should you when we bring the beach straight to your sink? That's right, simply turn on the tap and sand will pour straight out! What Fun!
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| Private Bathrooms Shared Between Just Two Rooms |
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| Can't Get To The Beach? Not A Problem At The Palace Hotel Simply Turn On Your Tap |
Our evening meals are so authentic you'll feel you are located in one of the island's many beautiful restaurants, for starters try our Brown Bristol's Windsor soup but hurry supplies are limited. Our passionate chef makes the most of her beautiful, fully cock stove and offers a wide range of main courses, try our chippings, sausage and beans, not tempted? Then how about sausage and chippings, beans and sausage or chippings and beans...yum!
A gentle warning, on rare occasions our modern cock stove generates a high amount of smoke but please, don't be alarmed it will soon disperse and what ever you do, don't open the windows as mosquitoes have been known to be attracted to the smell.
Our mission at the Palace Hotel is to make your stay as comfortable and as pleasurable as possible, if you need any assistance simply pick up the phone and someone might even answer!
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| Room Servicings Our Friendly Staff Are Always Happy To Help |
Our trendy bar and lounge will help you forget all about your worries and relatives at home, with over friendly staff and no cost drinks, it is the perfect place to gossip about the other hotel guests and lose your inhibitions, in fact we know you'll love it so much you won't want to stagger back to your room! Now popular with middle aged mommies boys and frigid, uptight housewives.
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| Our Trendy Bar Is A Popular Feature With All Our Guests |
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| Relax In Stylish Surroundings Pretty Lady Not Included |
Your last night with us means it's nearly home time but don't worry we'll throw you a farewell party that's good enough to bring the house down! A generous buffet, party hats and balloons are also included.
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| Everyone Enjoys Our Farewell Parties |
So do come join us at the Palace Hotel it's location was chosen for the region's beautiful sunshine and sweeping views of the beach, mountains and the dried out river bed we are built upon.
Just read what are guests had to say about their stay at the Palace Hotel
Mr Vic & Mrs Cora Flange
There was no glass in our balcony windows and the ceiling leaked so bad we had to use an umbrella but some how we left more in love than when we arrived.
Mr Stanley & Mrs Evelyn Blunt
It was the worst hotel we ever stayed in, there was a man in our bathroom, we were cold in the night and there was no hot water, I must say however, I left a completely different woman and Stanley hasn't been so pleased in years!
Mr Eustace Tuttel
I can't remember much about the holiday at all, next year I'm going to Deal, Kent instead.
The Palace Hotel
Elsbels
Costa Bomm
Spain
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| Carry On Abroad |
As previously shown in an earlier blog entry for the film Carry On Nurse I am a fan of the Carry On film series, with it's comedic team causing mayhem wherever they go while dropping a mouthful of innuendos in their wake. This time I am whisking us back to 1972 and the 24th entry, Carry On Abroad.
England a nation of quiet, reserved, well mannered people, that is until we take a break from our tea sipping, scone making lives and go on holiday, it seems only then do we go completely bonkers, head for foreign shores and turn into sex craved, alcohol swigging neanderthals, leaving our fair isle safe from harm, it's quite a clever plan really! That is what the premise of Carry On Abroad would have you believe.
The Flanges, yes you read that right, the Flanges, Vic and Cora are off on a four day package holiday to Elsbells on the Costa Bomm coast, arranged by Wundatours Travel Agency they along with saucepot Sandy, the sexually starved Stanley Blunt and his uptight, frigid wife Evelyn, mommies boy and alcoholic Eustace Tuttle, a couple of young ladies, Marge and her friend Lilly, a pair of young gentlemen, Nicholas and his gay friend Robin, Scottish loudmouth Bert Conway and 12 monks including, Brother Bernard who seems unsure on which path to take in life, all head for Palace Hotel under the watchful eye of courier Stuart Farquhar and his attractive assistant Moira Plunket. What they get when they arrive however is something far from pleasant, the hotel isn't even finished. Each guest is soon experiencing problems with their room and it's up to poor Pepe, the hotel manager, receptionist, waiter and customer service representative to sort things out, his mama is the cook and his son Georgio runs the bar and together the three of them make up the entire staff. The problems don't stop on an excursion to local village market where they end up in jail. Pepe throws a leaving party on the last night of their holiday and things soon go from bad to worse as the hotel literally falls apart during a thunderstorm, flooding the riverbed it is built upon.
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| Carry On Abroad The Gangs All Here Well Most Of Them Anyway |
Carry On Abroad is considered by many to be the last of the 'classic' Carry On films and along with the previous release of Carry On Matron it featured the highest amount of regular cast members, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Kenneth Conner, Peter Butterworth and Hattie Jacques all had roles in the film.
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| Elsbels! Joan Sims Doesn't Look Amused With All The Carrying's On |
With so many of the original actors and regulars Carry On Abroad pokes fun at something 'very British' in a similar vein to the first of the films in the series, how Carry on Sergeant, Nurse, Teacher and Constables made fun of British Institutions, Abroad makes light of our love of holidays and the seaside. Carry On films are often compaired to the 'end of the pier' cheeky, slightly rude fun often associated with holidays, think of those dirty postcards you often used to see, so what better location for the Carry On team to be whisked away to than on a sex starved holiday.
It would be the final appearance of Charles Hawtrey, sadly his drinking problem had become so bad he regularly appeared drunk during production and after 23 appearances was unofficially fired from any future productions, interestingly enough however in 1980 after the Carry On series had apparently ended following it's last two releases flopping at the box office the idea of producing a Carry On film spoofing the popular 'Dallas' tv series was thought up including Charles Hawtrey as a cast member, the idea was shelved however when the tv company demanded a royalty fee twenty times larger than the budget of the entire film.
Carry On Abroad was June Whitfield's second appearance in the series, 13 years after playing a hospital visitor in Carry On Nurse, when the film was first announced many of the actors including June wondered which exotic location it would be filmed at, it transpired that these exotic locations included Pinewoods Studios car park and Slough High Street, Elsbels indeed! The security block at Pinewoods Studios doubled as an airport in one scene while the filming of the coach making it's way down a dusty road towards the hotel was recorded in Bagshot, Surrey, this turned out to be Charles Hawtrey's final working day on a Carry On set and he is barely visible in the shot!
Carry On Abroad featured the Scottish comedian Jimmy Logan whose character is seen chasing Barbara Windsor throughout much of the film, he would also appear in the following instalment of the series, Carry On Girls. The actor John Clive appears as a gay character who appears to have a crush on his male friend, he had previously appeared in Carry On Henry but had had his scenes deleted, he would however appear in Carry On Dick two years later. The actor and singer David Kernan played the friend of John Clive who doesn't return his friend's advances, this would be his only appearance in a Carry On Film but had previously appeared in former Carry On Star Frankie Howard's Up Pompeii tv series and his film Up The Chastity Belt.
Filmed between 17th April - 26th May 1972 , the previous entry Carry On Matron was released during Carry On Abroad's production, it was also made whilst Sid James was starring in the sitcom Bless This House, indeed Sid James, Sally Geeson, Carole Hawkins, June Whitfield and Peter Butterworth all appeared in both Carry On Abroad and the film version of the sitcom Bless This House which was released just several months before, not surprising when you consider that the team behind the camera was basically the Carry On founding fathers, it was produced by Peter Rogers, directed by Gerald Thomas and the music was conducted by Eric Rogers.
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