The Beckhams will drive traffic to the hotel, and it is no extra cost to the hotel unless the hotel was full every night and they had to kick guests out to lodge the Beckhams.
A win-win.
And the rest of us chew our tongues with envy.

I've never stayed at the Bristol, but I've stayed at a few 'posh' hotels - Oh the misery !   Oh the tacky pomp !

An utter waste of money.

Becks himself doesn't seem so bad, it's 'Posh' (a misnomer if ever there was) who is a foolish trollop.

When they used to live in my vicinity, quite a few years ago now, you would occasionally see Becks out and about like an ordinary bloke. 'Posh' however insisted on making a big show of herself with a coterie of hangers-on and minders just to do the supermarket shop, of all things. As if she couldn't have sent someone else to do this chore, or at least done it without the attention seeking menagerie of followers. A worthless individual and emblematic of the 'chav lottery winner' style that she represents.

There was an article in today's Independent on Becks links to Qatar and the real reasons behind this act of charity. Oddly, I can't find it now, looks like its been pulled.

That was it, why couldn't I find it again?

Anyway, yeah, he's in the pocket of the Qataris and there's no real charity in the dealings whatsoever. Allegedly of course.