We have all been there, it is 8pm and we are in the dining room of our hotel trying to eat inconspicuously whilst reading a book, a magazine, or the menu.  Frankly, we are trying to do anything which does not scream I am dining alone. Whilst we may offer a mutually empathetic look to another female diner,  random guy at the bar, it’s a Tuesday night and we’re just not interested!

As the evening goes on we have managed to make it through our main course on our phones,  anything to break the monotony of our ‘table for one’ situation.  This is then followed by a decision as to whether we want dessert, or just a coffee before we go up to our room.  After all we have an early start the next day, and we really do need to  have that last read through our presentation notes.

Whilst this may seem familiar to those of us who have travelled extensively on business, it never seems to surprise me how liberating a night in a hotel on our own can actually be.  So what if we’re on our own , there are advantages, such as room service, a turned down bed and the luxury of using our Decleor body scrub in a bath tub we do not have to clean.  When we look at the overnight stay in this way , it is seen as a benefit, a luxury, the ever elusive ‘alone time’ with our laptops.  So instead of dreading ‘dinner for one’ embrace this time as dinner cooked for ‘one’.

There are some moments where it is all about you….

Paloma