Requesting an extra pillow or packet of coffee is a normal request of hotel staff. Asking hotel employees to let your horse stay in your room – just weird.
Travelodge polled their hotel staff across 552 UK properties about the weirdest demands they received from guests in the last 12 months.
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When it came to the weather, one guest at Cardiff Central asked, “Can you arrange for it to snow tomorrow as I want a white wedding?”
Another guest at Convent Garden branch asked the staff: “Can you make sure the sunrises outside my bedroom window?”
Some guests had outrageous bath requests like:
“Can you fill my bath with fresh goat’s milk?” and “Can you fill my bath with different flavored scoops of ice cream as a birthday present for my wife’s 40th birthday?”
Car parking and arrival requests were also sometimes odd:
“Can I have a duvet to ‘tuck my Ferrari in’ outside? It doesn’t like the cold,” said one guest. Another asked, “What is the latitude and longitude of the hotel, we are coming by helicopter and need to land?”
Guests staying at Travelodge for weddings or engagements were not without their bizarre requests, too.
A guest at Windsor Central had a ‘royally’ large request: “Can you hold my place in the queue to Harry and Meghan’s wedding whilst I go to sleep tonight?”
Staff were also expected to control animals for an over-the-top engagement. “Can you arrange for the dolphins to be dancing at 9 p.m. – the same time that I will be proposing to my girlfriend?” asked one boyfriend of the Torquay branch.
A wedding guest at a Liverpool Travelodge even requested a musical performance from employees: “Can you please get four of your team members to dress up as the Beatles to perform at my friend’s wedding tonight as the band has canceled?”
Business travelers weren’t without their demands either.
One business guest asked: “Can you book me a water taxi to take me across the river as the traffic is bad this morning and I can’t be late for my meeting?”
Another requested, “Could you join a conference call to my New York office at midnight and take minutes?”
Perhaps the most bizarre demand involved good luck:
“Please, can you rename floor four ahead of my stay as it is an unlucky number in my culture and put 8 gold dragons into my room for good luck?”
Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge spokeswoman said: “With 19 million customers staying annually in our 553 UK Travelodge hotels across the length and breadth of the UK, our hotel teams receive thousands of unusual requests from business and leisure travelers.”
“Where possible, the teams will go above and beyond to help customers. They do like a good challenge.”
“However, there are some requests that they cannot help with, such as: arranging for it to snow and to ensure all traffic lights are green for a business executive so that he gets to his meeting on time.”
