I must have spun this one before, but....
In 2005, there was the International Fleet Review - someone had invited half the world's brass to come and party down in Portsmouth, and decided that this would be achieved by chucking out all the livers in for a couple of weeks and putting them in hotels. At this point I was living in transit accom in the East Annex - except that I was a permanent liver in (working in the dockyard) and there wasn't anywhere else. There were about 30 of us in the leper colony, sharing one functioning shower between all of us and with paint peeling off in great sheets - the record in the heads was a strip over a foot wide and about 3 foot long which just dangled for over 12 months....
Anyway, 1SL decided he'd come down and tour the Portsmouth accommodation so he could decide which Admiral was going to be put where. The cabins in the old bit were duly assigned (amid much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the two-and-a-halfs/three ringers billeted there. As I remember it he literally got half way across the "bridge" to the leper colony before saying something like "I've seen enough", turning on his heel and leaving. Our notice to move was rescinded shortly afterwards. We just weren't allowed to use the coffee room, dining room, or bar for a week or so. So, you know, any of the facilities except our beds. Good enough for lieutenants, not good enough for visitors...
Slightly sorry to see the place go (stand fast the EA), the corridor of admirals has been noted, but I spent far too much time and salary in the blind eye bar with pints of HSB and playing snooker. On the other hand, the buzz I've heard is that this is going to see the ONA coming back....