A luxury Parisian hotel has issued a grovelling apology to tennis legend Serena Williams after she and her family were turned away from its restaurant on Monday. Serena, 42, took to Twitter (X) on Monday night to accuse The Peninsula Hotel in Paris of refusing her and her children - Alexis Olympia Jr., 6, and Adira River, 11 months - a table in a seemingly empty restaurant.
She told her 10.3million followers: "Yikes @peninsulaparis I’ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first.
#Olympic2024." The Peninsula Hotel has now responded to the sports legend's angry tweet and have issued her with a grovelling apology. The apologetic tweet read: "Dear Mrs.
Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight. Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L’Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved." In another tweet, the hotel's Twitter account added: "We have always been honoured to welcome you and will always be to welcome you again.
The Peninsula Paris." In yet another turn of events, Maxime Mannevy, an employee at L'Oiseau Blanc, told Variety that Serena was "unrecognisable" when she arrived at the restaurant with another woman and a pram. The employee claimed: "When she came there were only two tables available and they had been reserved by clients of the hotel.
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