The mysterious case of the missing Post Hotel threads
 

Last year, I earned the eternal wrath of a cult devoted to Lake Louise's Post Hotel by posting a thread (Happy wife, happy life? Not at the Post Hotel) that dared suggest said establishment could do no wrong. Some months into its existence, the "post a reply" function on that thread ceased to exist.
Around that time, another contributor, Hugh Jass, posted a thread with the same title. I think he had a point or two he wanted to make, and as he could no longer make it on that thread his intention was to start it afresh. That thread was around for a very brief period then just disappeared. At the time I put this down to the possibility that this had happened because two threads with the same name caused confusion.
Then last week, another contributor posted a thread with, if not for the Post's clear and obvious infallibilty, would have been a reasonable gripe in that the Hotel could not pick up the phone to provide him with a simple explanation as to why he could not get a room on a certain side of the hotel.
That thread has also disappeared.
It has always been my understanding that the purpose of these threads is the free exchange of experiences of and impartial opinions about anything pertaining to travel. There are plenty of positive reports about the Post on this site, so it seems odd that any negative feedback suffers the technical glitches it does.

Is this the recent thread you were mentioning?

http://www.fodors.com/forums/
threadselect.jsp?fid=29&tid=34632542

Generally the editors only freeze or delete a thread if the posters begin getting nasty towards one another and your original thread had pretty much become a contest of insults when it was frozen - that's not a reflection on you, but on the general atmosphere of all the contributors to that thread.

I don't believe the editors are singling out posts about the Post Hotel - on the other boards, there are threads disappearing all the time (the lounge seems to get threads deleted on a weekly basis).

that is intriguing, I was following those threads.

Funnily enough, I just found out we are going to a wedding in October and the best hotel close to the reception is the Post hotel; I'll get to judge by myself what all the hoopla is about !!!

Type in "Post Hotel" in the "search this forum" box at the top of the screen. Isn't that your thread item at item 31.

Hi Craig,

No it's not.

Paul

Just copied the following from your thread today..it's still there!

After ten days’ solid skiing and snowboarding at Fernie in Feb/March of this year, my wife Esther and I were looking forward to kicking around the Post Hotel at Lake Louise, having a bit of a look around, basically not doing much of anything for a couple of days. A couple of solid sleeps in were an essential part of that plan.

Unfortunately, this was not to be. On the first morning, my wife was woken up at 5.30am with the day’s first light streaming through the window, This was because the hotel has paper-thin curtains, instead of the proper, block-out curtains that most hotels, even the Quality Inns and Motel 6’s of the world, seem to view as an entry-level requirement.

The hotel staff did move us onto the other side of the hotel, away from the morning light, into an upgraded room. This was all very good until it transpired that that side of the hotel faces the car park, which is lit up like Disneyland all night. Plus there is a very noisy train line on that side of the hotel. So while my wife wasn’t woken up at 5.30 the next morning, that was because she never got to sleep in the first place.

Craig,

I did try what you suggested,but when I hit number 31 after typing in Post Hotel, the corresponding thread was not any thread I had contributed to in any way. I never said mine had disappeared - mine was frozen so the post a reply mecahism no longer worked. Hugh Jass then posted a subsequent thread of the same title, presumably to keep the conversation alive, which he made me aware of via another thread I had posted. I could then not find Hugh's thread, and neither could Hugh, as it had simply disappeared. Then another contributor's thread - about The Post's seeming inability to answer a simple request for some information, also disappeared.

Cheers,
Paul