"You used to be able to pay a dollar and go look downstairs on the boat and all this sort of stuff to help them raise money, and I made Mum and Dad drag me around".
For other distractions, simply look downstairs to the mall's cinema, bowling alley, day-spa, gym and late-night bars – plus, of course, all manner of shops selling anything you might have forgotten to pack.
I went for a look downstairs and saw the bartender light a fire in the pub's stone fireplace as locals began streaming in -- it was Friday night, after all.
What started as an explicitly British farmhouse look — downstairs gone upstairs — has become the international currency of aspiration: wooden-handled gardening tools, tarred jute twine, rough linen, open shelving, hand-thrown pottery, wildflowers, plenty of between-the-wars sunlight.
Most visitors, when I looked, headed downstairs.
I heard noise and then I went downstairs looking.
Then she scurried downstairs, looking for a second as if she had multiple eyes.
"I don't leave my lights on because I've got the Mandarin Oriental staff downstairs looking after the building".
I spotted Joe, breakfast show producer on BBC6 music, our cooler cousins who live downstairs, looking slightly ashen-faced and talking to Graham.
As I trudged downstairs looking for the hotel shuttle, a loudspeaker blared a jaunty Christmas song that was beginning to sound a lot like a cackle.
