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The hotel business is a licence to print money - not only for the managers owners and shareholders but for the people who work there. From chambermaids' tips to doormen making £2 000 a week to the concierge taking backhanders - everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. The hotel business is a licence for the guests to steal - anything from fridges furniture plasma TVs carpets loo seats bathrobes ashtrays teaspoons - even re-filling the vodka bottle in the mini-bar with water. The hotel business is a licence for guests to behave badly - from rent boys and girls by the hour to £800 on telephone porn bills £24 000 room parties drugs dead sheep splashing out on £5 000 bottles of wine guests falling through windows naked guests drunken guests and guests who have to be sectioned. The hotel business is also a licence for celebrity to reign supreme - from Michael Jackson's Evian bath to Madonna's odd curtain fetish Kate Moss and Johnny Depp's parties Princess Diana's taste for oysters Pamela Anderson's sexual gymnastics the Queen Mother's chips and Prince Phillip's Silver Bullet cocktail. Hotel Babylon is a trawl through the highs and lows the extremes the tragedies the miseries the decadence and the debauchery of the ultimate service industry - where money not only talks but gets you the best room the best service and also entities you to behave in any way you please... ; "Makes shock revelation after shock revelation" - The Daily Mail ; "Five stars for excess... amusing and appalling" - The Daily Telegraph
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'Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.'All of the following is true.Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin.It's just another twenty-four hours in an expensive London hotel.
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BookDepository
Hotel Babylon : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780552151467 : : 04 Jul 2005 : All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous - someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London's luxury hotel industry.
- 0552151467
- 9780552151467
- Imogen Edwards-Jones
- 4 July 2005
- Corgi Books
- Paperback (Book)
- 352
- New edition
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