Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Hotels.com asked hotels to detail some of their more outlandish room service requests It's common to use room service to order a burger or grilled cheese sandwich but Hotels.com asked 400 of its hotel partners around the world to name their weirdest or more extreme room service requests with surprising results.
Some of the requests made by hotel guests were normal but maybe the quantity or the way the food should be delivered was anything but. One hotel was asked to deliver 2 kilos of bananas via room service and another request was made for burnt toast. One customer asked for a bath tub to be filled with Evian water so their child could be bathed as purely as possible.
One person asked for fresh goat's milk and another request came in for a hot dog made from caviar. It follows then that some hotels have added room service features that cater to more unusual requests. The Milestone Hotel in London can arrange for a string trio or a solo harpist from the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform if you're staying in one of its suites and if you're staying at the Park Lane Hotel in New York, you can dial 5 from your in-room telephone to order from the caviar hotline.
In the W in Osaka, Japan, there is a 'whatever/whenever' service to call for literally anything. And the Sentinel Hotel in Portland offers a Very Important Pets service offering top groomers and acupuncturists for stressed out dogs. Indeed, pet pampering services have definitely seen an increase in demand across hotels worldwide.
Hotel room service has changed since the pandemic. Hotels are suffering from a labor shortage and as The Washington Post reported earlier this year, 24/7 room service is rare, as "nobody wants to work the overnight shift". Room service is also now in heavy competition to the ease and affordability by which hotel guests can simply order anything they want from a delivery app such as Uber Eats.
The 2024 list is a little different from the inaugural report that Hotels.com published one year ago. In that list, there were ten of the more unusual claims that hotels had received, with the top one being diet water: Diet water Melted ice cream Blowfish Boiled bottled water A cooked fish that the guest brought with them Cockle popcorn No-egg-white omelet Rice bowl for a dog Bison Eggless shakshuka It's worth noting though, that despite the occasional odd request, the number one requested room service item was a burger, accounting for almost half of all requests in the U.
S. and globally, the burger was also the number one requested item. Dentures And Animals Are Amongst The Most Bizarre Left-Behind Items Hotels.
com annual Hotel Insights report also listed the things that are most often left behind by travelers across hotels around the world. Unsurprisingly, a lot of the time these are telephone chargers, dirty washing, electronic adapters and toiletries. Rather more alarmingly, 10% of hotels surveyed said that they had found guests' dentures.
There were also more expensive possessions left behind including engagement rings, a Birkin bag, luxury watches and then the outright bizarre—a single tooth, leg casts, a pet lizard and a chick (both of whom were reunited with their owners). MORE FROM FORBES Editorial Standards Print Reprints & Permissions Join The Conversation One Community. Many Voices.
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