By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:49 EST, 28 February 2014 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 28 February 2014 An ‘eccentric’ hotelier has hit back after a scathing online reviewer who claims she ruined his romantic Valentine weekend wrote: ‘Basil Fawlty is the perfect host compared to this place’ Shirley Bothroyd, who worked as a top London barrister before taking over the seafront Bay Hotel in Teignmouth, Devon, a few months ago, dismissed large chunks of the review as exaggerated or not true - but conceded that about 50 per cent of it could be accurate.
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Reviewer claims romantic Valentine's weekend was ruined by drunken owner
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Teignmouth hotel owned by top London barrister Shirley Bothroyd
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Review describes her as ‘intoxicated, loud and swearing like a trooper’
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Proprietor claims she is ‘eccentric, extroverted and loud, even when sober’
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