15 Shocking Confessions From Hotel Employees
When you think of a hotel what kind of images come to mind? Do you think about vast beds draped in cool white linen? Maybe you long for the quietness of a hotel room; a place where you can just relax and call room service when you start to feel peckish? Perhaps you are just an exhausted mom who wouldn’t mind spending a little time in a place you didn’t have to constantly clean up. The point is that hotels are meant to appealing. They are designed to be a home away from home, right? Well after reading this list you might just feel differently.
Thanks to forums like Reddit we can finally get an insight into the minds of hotel workers and for this article we’ve decided to showcase their secret confessions. …show more content…
Now on the positive side working at such a hotel does mean that you stand a good chance of meeting famous people but is that necessarily a good thing?
One anonymous Reddit user recounted his experience of working at a five star hotel and wasn’t afraid to spill the beans about the famous people he got to meet such as Sandra Bullock, Jamie Fox and George W. Bush. But there was one celeb whose demands dwarfed anything he had ever seen before. The star in question? The queen of diva herself – Mariah Carey.
According to him Carey demanded that they empty five rooms for her hair and make up to be done in and another ten rooms for her hair and makeup people to stay in. She needed a further five rooms for her clothes plus another ten rooms for her security squad. She also demanded 15 humidifiers for her room, a door with no peep hole, and windows that were blacked out.
14 The Truth About The Bedding
Several hotel employees have confessed that the bedding in hotels is not as clean as you might think. I was always under the impression that the bedding is completely changed after each guest but apparently this is not the case in many …show more content…
You don’t want to hear people having sex do you? So why inflict it on others?
10 Don’t Be Rude To The Front Desk Staff
Now here is another top tip – do not, under any circumstances, annoy the person working at the front desk because they can and will make your stay miserable. These men and women often have to deal with rude and obnoxious people and they have their own ways of getting back at them.
One Whisper user confessed that if guests treat her badly she will “accidently” charge their credit card more than once for their stay while another said that he favourite way of retaliating was deactiving the guests key card just to inconvenience them.
Being polite isn’t just the decent thing to do it could also help you improve you stay. One front desk clerk said that if clients are nice he will upgrade them or throw in a few extras but if they are rude he’ll make sure they get a room next to the elevator with no view.
9 She Does What In The Rooms?!
Hotel staff have to deal with the worst side of humanity and sometimes you can’t blame them for trying to even the score a little bit, as unprofessional as that sounds. Dealing with rude, overentitled wealthy people all day long can be a bit of a trial but some hotel employees do take things a little too
When you think of a hotel what kind of images come to mind? Do you think about vast beds draped in cool white linen? Maybe you long for the quietness of a hotel room; a place where you can just relax and call room service when you start to feel peckish? Perhaps you are just an exhausted mom who wouldn’t mind spending a little time in a place you didn’t have to constantly clean up. The point is that hotels are meant to appealing. They are designed to be a home away from home, right? Well after reading this list you might just feel differently.
Thanks to forums like Reddit we can finally get an insight into the minds of hotel workers and for this article we’ve decided to showcase their secret confessions. …show more content…
Now on the positive side working at such a hotel does mean that you stand a good chance of meeting famous people but is that necessarily a good thing?
One anonymous Reddit user recounted his experience of working at a five star hotel and wasn’t afraid to spill the beans about the famous people he got to meet such as Sandra Bullock, Jamie Fox and George W. Bush. But there was one celeb whose demands dwarfed anything he had ever seen before. The star in question? The queen of diva herself – Mariah Carey.
According to him Carey demanded that they empty five rooms for her hair and make up to be done in and another ten rooms for her hair and makeup people to stay in. She needed a further five rooms for her clothes plus another ten rooms for her security squad. She also demanded 15 humidifiers for her room, a door with no peep hole, and windows that were blacked out.
14 The Truth About The Bedding
Several hotel employees have confessed that the bedding in hotels is not as clean as you might think. I was always under the impression that the bedding is completely changed after each guest but apparently this is not the case in many …show more content…
You don’t want to hear people having sex do you? So why inflict it on others?
10 Don’t Be Rude To The Front Desk Staff
Now here is another top tip – do not, under any circumstances, annoy the person working at the front desk because they can and will make your stay miserable. These men and women often have to deal with rude and obnoxious people and they have their own ways of getting back at them.
One Whisper user confessed that if guests treat her badly she will “accidently” charge their credit card more than once for their stay while another said that he favourite way of retaliating was deactiving the guests key card just to inconvenience them.
Being polite isn’t just the decent thing to do it could also help you improve you stay. One front desk clerk said that if clients are nice he will upgrade them or throw in a few extras but if they are rude he’ll make sure they get a room next to the elevator with no view.
9 She Does What In The Rooms?!
Hotel staff have to deal with the worst side of humanity and sometimes you can’t blame them for trying to even the score a little bit, as unprofessional as that sounds. Dealing with rude, overentitled wealthy people all day long can be a bit of a trial but some hotel employees do take things a little too