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Monday smile: Top 3 craziest concierge requests

11 Jun 2018 - by The Editor
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  1. Shop till you drop. Isabelle Hogan, head concierge at The Mark Hotel, told Map Happy that when she was six month's pregnant she had to accompany a 16 year-old guest on a shopping spree. "Her dad had given her $100,000 (R 1,3 million) cash to go shopping. Because I had lived in Saudi Arabia myself and I was a woman the father asked me if I could go shopping with her for the day. So, we were in a stretch limo with her assistant who had the cash in a briefcase. We went from one store to the other and she was buying the same thing in different colours. We spent eight hours shopping.
  2. Drug dealer? Reddit user and concierge, UpUrsWBC posted, ”I get asked for drugs on average about once every 6 months. Do you want anyone on the hotel staff knowing you’re doing drugs in your room?”
  3. Pushing the bounds. Some guests have really pushed the concierge’s meet-all-requests promises to the bounds. One such request from Dustin Wrayat atWoodlands Resort near Houstonincluded: “Three red M&Ms on the counter. Not packages, just three single M&Ms. One for me, one for my girlfriend and one to split if we get hungry late at night. And a picture of bacon on the bed. I love pictures of bacon.”
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