Out Of The Mailbag: (Cautionary Story About Hotels)

Dear YWN readers,

This past Shabbos my wife, kids and I stayed at a hotel.

This well-known hotel is located in the Catskills and was advertised in a popular Jewish newspaper.

The caterer is someone we know slightly, and the mashgiach is well-known and respected in the hashgocho world.

My wife called the hotel to do some additional research, including asking if the guests were a mixed crowd (in our experiences with frum hotels the crowd usually includes litvish, chasidish, modern, ashkenaz, sfard, and so on).

The person who answered confirmed that the guests were mixed.

Once we actually got to the hotel we saw that there were non-frum guests as well.

In this case however we received the following surprises after Shabbos started:

4)There were candy machines in the lobby with kosher and what I am 99% sure was treif candy as well.

7)The Evening Meal (same deal as before with any mention of shalosh seudos or Shabbos) was fleishig.

8)There was no melava malka.