Am I missing something here? So Stelios Haji-Ioannou (the man behind the expensive yet marketed as cheap) easyjet has bought a heap of easy related domains. Including easyhotel and easypizza. This makes him an entrepreneur allegedly. A number of easyXXX websites state”We are currently investigating business opportunities in the XXX market.”
I could do that too but it doesn’t make me an entrepreneur! In fact ‘easyvalue’ is simply a rebranded kelkoo (luckily it’s the same brand colour).
I’m still wondering how people think easyjet is cheap though.
A quick search for a weekend in Amsterdam (leave friday around 7 and return sunday around the same time) reveals the price for easyjet ?401.96 and for bmi ?398.80 and for BA ?449.40 – hardly a cheap airline then – in fact more average priced I would say.
And as for ‘easyhotel’ who would really want to sleep in a bright orange room. Sorry Stelios but that’s taking branding too far.
Brighton Pride [London on Sea]
It was brighton pride this weekend. So a group of us travelled down on Friday night to make the most of the weekend. Allan, Jacs, Helen and I stayed at the Old Ship Hotel down on the seafront (and very nice it was too). We travelled down with Northy and whilst he went to Richie and Tara’s to settle in we checked in and got changed before meeting at a restaurant for more wine than food.
We then moved onto Dr Brightons for more drinks and meeting up with yet more people. It seemed like half of London was down already.
Saturday morning and we were up early for breakfast and to catch the start of the parade. It turns out (having compared photo’s) that Jan from work and I were stood really close but didn’t see each other.
After being shocked to see some mates int he parade (in the police section) we headed to the bar for some beers. I made a detour to boots for some essential medicine and then we all headed to Preston Park for festivities. This was when we realised all of London was in Brighton.
It was one of the hottest days of the year so far and with no breeze to speak of it became unbearably hot. I was abstaining from beers as I was still under the weather from the previous week.
Circus Circus was our stop en route to the park and from it with lots of opportunity for people watching as the crowds thronged to and from the park.
Many people were looking slightly worse for wear by 7pm when we headed to the hotel for a quick change and to a party at Andy Roo’s newly refurbished flat in Kemp Town.
After drinks and food we headed back into town along the promenade – the pier was open late too and it was busier down on the beach than we expected.
Sunday was a day of relaxing on the beach and then for a lazy long lunch at Due South before heading to the St James Street Party.
Lots of discussions about clubbing together and buying a house/flat down there again this trip! I’m sure we’ll have the same ones when we head up to Manchester Pride though too.
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