- Christmas hasn’t started until ‘The Calcot’ puts on its lights. 
Every year there’s a huge fuss around Christmas lights in Reading, from mavericks upsetting neighbours to the official ‘lighting up’.  But for anyone coming into Reading from Junction 12, along the A4, the first big sign that Christmas is upon us is the lights on the Best Western Calcot Hotel.

This year they’ll be turned on as follows:
Date:    Friday November 16, 2007
Time:    4.30 pm (16:30)
Place:   Calcot Hotel, Bath Road Reading, RG31 7QN
Map:     http://www.calcothotel.co.uk/book.asp

Press photographers and reporters are invited to join us for mince pies and a drink as key staff line up for a photo as the lights illuminate.

This year at their Christmas events alone the hotel will :
- serve over 7,000 party goers with freshly prepared food, selected at the table
- prepare over 250 turkeys, 400 duck legs and 2400 sirloin steaks
- play over 4,4000 songs
- wash up over 30,000 plates
- open over 4,000 bottles of wine
- pour over 3000 pints of beer and lager
- prepare an additional 1,000 rooms to accommodate the extra stayovers
Contact:
Alison Buckley or Claire Thompson
Zed PR
+44 (0) 118 969 8966
Calcot@zedpr.co.uk