"Good morning, what can I do for you today?"
they welcome us with a smile whatever time it is, they explain to us seven times where the zone of breakfasts They look for taxis for us, they reserve tables for us, they make an effort to make our stay memorable.
We talk about receptionists , those guardian angels of the lodgings whose motto is "see, hear and shut up" . This time, however, we managed to get them to talk, open your little hotel heart to us and tell us the stories more crazy who have lived while caring for us. And no, no matter how crazy they seem, they are not invented...
Be careful what you do in hotels...
THE BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE
"Once, in a 4-star beach hotel, the wife of a client went to the hotel across the street to spend the night for I don't know what reason. Taking advantage of this circumstance, the husband told me that he wanted company, if he could call a girl . I told her that he better go somewhere, and she said yes, it was a good idea; that way, if the woman changed her mind and came back, she wouldn't catch him. I called a taxi for him, and when he came back (within half an hour) he gave me a hug and 50 euros, and he told me that it had been the best night of his life ... and that if he saw his wife, tell him that she had gone out for a beer ".
ONLY THE ESSENTIALS
"4-star hotel in the center of Barcelona. A lady in her mid-fifties, Catalan, with La Vanguardia and her handbag, enters the buffet... and nothing more . She was so happy, naked, and she was surprised that they didn't let her have breakfast. In the end, she went up to the room, but her card had been deconfigured to enter, so back to reception naked..."
MISLEADING ADVERTISING
"I think the most surreal thing that happened to me was seeing how they put a Claims sheet because the curtains were not same color than the ones they had seen in the catalog".
"And tell me, how did you spend the night...?"
ZERO IN GEOGRAPHY
"I remember that, in a hotel in Fuerteventura where I worked, some English people arrived thinking that they had booked in Port Aventura... And I also remember others who asked me if the border with Morocco was very far..."
LIKE ONE MORE
"Working in a 5-star hotel on the beach, I experienced a surreal situation: we received a reservation through an 'agent' who informed us that his client was well known to the public (and yes, he was, well known and famous) As a special request, he requested to be treated like a normal customer . We agreed, so we had him waiting for a room until four in the afternoon on the day of check-in, we charged him on arrival and we set him to check out at twelve. As one more client, let's go. However, two days later we received a complaint from the 'agent' in which he told us that client X was very unhappy, because no one seemed to know who he was, because he was kept waiting and given 'common' treatment. ".
THIS IS HOW THE ACCOUNTS COME OUT
"One month in July, my former boss did not pay any of the workers in his three hotels (calculate: about 90 employees, at about 1,000 or 1,200 euros each). A few days after we did not receive the payment, his wife came hesitating that her dear husband had given her a new Porsche, that if we wanted to see it... no one came down to see it ".
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
"4-star hotel in the center of a city of more or less 90,000 inhabitants. A client, an intern by profession, very elegant and wealthy in appearance, used to come every few weeks, alone . She asked me for a piece of paper to write something important. Minutes later, she came back with the page full of signs and doodles, not a single letter or word; just scratches and her signature. She made me send it by fax to X Corte Inglés agency; she needed even the report that she had sent herself. And once it was complete, she would have me destroy it in the shredder, because it was so important. The room was left in a mess, with dye in the sink, nail polish on the sheets, cups and glasses overflowing with cigarette butts and dozens of bottles of Coca-Cola (he would order ten on the same day, and he never wanted what was removed). before or let the cleaning service in) . but she was nice ".
"Treat me like one more..."
FAILED CONVERSION
"4-star hotel in Barcelona; a French client asked me where she could exchange money, because she only had French euros..."
ORDER FIRST
"Some British girls invited me to have a threesome in the hotel pool. They went there, and asked me if they could take a bath. I told them no, because bathing is not allowed at night. They told me that, then, They would stay on the terrace, next to the pool. After a while, they called me; they were in the water, and they encouraged me to get in, telling me that we were going to have a great time while they kissed and touched each other. I replied that I had a partner and that I was working, and that either they were out of the pool in two minutes, or I would have to take action. they ignored me ".
SOMETIMES I SEE DEAD
"Once, spending the night in a hotel in Benalmádena Costa, a client told me that his room scared him, so he went down to the reception with a blanket and pillow and slept next to me ".
WHO IS WHO
"The most surreal thing that happened to me happened in 1998, when I worked in a 3-star beach aparthotel. We had a foreign couple in a room celebrating their honeymoon, and one morning they went out for a drive with the rental car Y they did not return . Around six in the afternoon, the Civil Guard contacted us to ask for information about them; they had been in a traffic accident, and both had died.
The next day, a woman called us from Germany, identifying herself as the wife of the man in the car. I told my partner: 'The dead woman is calling me on the phone!' We are stoned. 'Emm... umm... are you Mr. Tal's wife? Is her name Tal?' I asked. The data coincided, so we told him that he had to contact the Civil Guard. What happened was that her husband had come to Spain secretly with another girl , posing as her wife, with all her data. Imagine... the German consulate was already processing the death certificate..."