Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon

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Author: Anonymous

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 320


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 taking two thousand pounds a week, to the concierge taking backhanders, to the vegetable supplier's book keeping double entry -everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. The hotel business is a licence for guests to steal - anything from bathrobes, loo seats (wooden and Victorian from the Savoy), pictures, fridges, ashtrays, teaspoons - even refilling the vodka bottle in the minibar with water. The hotel business is a licence for guests to behave badly - from rent boys and girls by the hour, to 800pounds on the telephone porn bills, 24,000pound room parties, office sex, drugs, dead sheep, splashing out on 5000pound 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 Johnnie Depp's parties, Princess Dianna's taste for champagne, Pamela Anderson's sexual gymnastics, The Wueen Mother's chips and Princ
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Anonymous

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 320


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 taking two thousand pounds a week, to the concierge taking backhanders, to the vegetable supplier's book keeping double entry -everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. The hotel business is a licence for guests to steal - anything from bathrobes, loo seats (wooden and Victorian from the Savoy), pictures, fridges, ashtrays, teaspoons - even refilling the vodka bottle in the minibar with water. The hotel business is a licence for guests to behave badly - from rent boys and girls by the hour, to 800pounds on the telephone porn bills, 24,000pound room parties, office sex, drugs, dead sheep, splashing out on 5000pound 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 Johnnie Depp's parties, Princess Dianna's taste for champagne, Pamela Anderson's sexual gymnastics, The Wueen Mother's chips and Princ