Friday, December 11, 2009

Vienna Boys Choir flees Amsterdam's red-light district hotel

Shock Horror!
Vienna Boys Choir bosses were horrified when the world-famous choir turned up to stay at a hotel – and found it was in a seedy red-light district.

German media reported today (Weds) the choirboys pleaded with bosses to relocate them after realising the "Hotel Modern" was in the middle of Hanover’s infamous Steinertor district when they arrived for a performance at the Theater am Aegi.

The 25-strong choir eventually went instead to the "Queens Hotel" in the Kirchrode district.

Vienna Boys Choir president Walter Nettig confirmed the reports.

"The accommodation is booked by the organisers. Such an incident would not have happened back when I was a choir boy. We always stayed with host families on tour," he said.

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