14 Hotel Guests Who Could Become the Champions of Unusual Requests

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Hotel service can sometimes work wonders, but some guests tend to test the staff’s patience. Someone asks for a more picturesque view from the window, someone expects a blanket laid “according to feng shui,” and someone even demands the moon from the sky. In this article, you’ll find the strangest and funniest requests that hotel staff received.

I work in a hotel, and one day a family — a grandmother, grandfather and granddaughter of about 7 years old — came to the sea for a couple of weeks.
A day before their departure, they bought a live chicken at the market because the girl “really asked for it.” The child ran around the yard with the poor bird for 24 hours, and when she had enough playing, the family decided to get rid of it. After all, they have a plane to take the next day!
They came to me with the question of how to find another home for the chicken. I was shocked. It was good that a neighbor had his own farm — we gave it to him, the hen took the baby as her own. But this irresponsibility shocked me. © Overheard / Ideer
I work in a hotel, and once we had a guest who loved to ask the most unexpected questions. “Where did you get the mattresses? And the pillows? How big are they?” — and so on about every item in the room. But that was half the trouble.
If the administrator didn’t know the answer, the man would release a verbal hurricane on them, and with such pressure that even the most experienced employees sometimes let a tear fall. © Virsh / Pikabu
I worked in a hotel by a river that had a dam. A guest called to tell us to call the city and tell them to “shut it off” because she wanted to sleep with the window open, but the dam was making too much noise. © Puffonstuff / Reddit
Worked front desk at a hotel next to an airport. A bunch of flights were canceled, so we were sold out.
Guy came in looking for a room. So as a joke I told him. “Unless you want to sleep in a closet, we’re sold out.” And he paid me $50 and took our storage closet. © ulyn / Reddit
One time, a guest asked for “omelet without eggs.” The waiter was surprised, to say the least, and asked what a newfangled dish this was. The answer was brilliant, “Just fry me some tomatoes.” © druidwoman / Pikabu

Season, morning, a lot of work — all the maids, security guards and valets are in demand, the second receptionist hasn’t come out yet, and there is an endless stream of check-outs and check-ins at registration, plus it’s breakfast time.
At that moment, a guest calls and demands to bring her sugar urgently. I understand that absolutely everyone is busy, so I offer her 2 options: go down to the reception desk (there is always a supply of sugar) herself or wait a couple of minutes until the nearest maid gets free.
But no, she’s not happy with that. It starts to get crazy — she calls me every 20 seconds, and on the fifth call she suddenly starts... singing a song about how she needs sugar. It was pretty surreal. © Virsh / Pikabu
My uncle accompanies tourists abroad. Once, after a hard and active day, he gets a call from a tourist from his group asking, “Do you have pliers?” It’s 2 o’clock in the morning.
It turned out that she needed pliers because she had forgotten the code on her suitcase lock, and now she couldn’t change her clothes or wash herself. The tool she was looking for was never found, but the woman still came out in the morning clean, happy and in new clothes.
It turned out that she had managed to beat off the lock on the suitcase with an antique radiator. Now that’s smart! © Chamber 6 / Telegram
I work abroad in a well-known hotel. 2 o’clock in the morning, a call from the room, “You have everything here in the old style of the 90s! This interior is so terrible that I just can’t sleep!”
The man seriously took the time to describe to me in detail how much the furniture and decor depressed him. What can I say... it’s hard to be an aesthete! © Overheard / Ideer
Lord of the Rings convention — attendees dressed like Hobbits would call room service and try to order in Elvish, called housekeeping to get their cloaks dry-cleaned, would tape hair to their feet and walk around the hotel barefoot. © ******bees19 / Reddit
I worked at a hotel built on pilings over a bay, so the hotel had amazing views. One time a guest called and said the sea lions and the waves were too loud for her nap and asked me to make the sea lions (in their natural habitat) be quiet until after her nap. © Stephanie Macey / Quora

I think the weirdest thing that I had happen while working in the hotel business was when I had a pretty insane woman call and see if we had rooms available. The conversation went something like this.
Her: “Hello, is your hotel pet friendly?”
Me: “Yes, we are actually one of the few pet friendly hotels in the area.”
Her: “Great, so what kind of pets am I allowed to have?”
Me: “Well, I guess any pet that isn’t going to destroy our room.”
Her: “What about a goat?”
Me: “Uhhh, well, I guess that would be okay as long as it didn’t poop in the room or eat our comforters.”
Her: “It is a well-behaved and trained goat.”
Me: “Shouldn’t be too much of a problem, then.”
Her: “Great, and what about a pet fee?”
Me: “$30, but for a goat it may be a bit more expensive just to ensure that the goat will not cause any damage. Anything else I can help you with today?”
Her: “What about 7 goats?”
That’s when I casually carted her off to another hotel in the area that had a stable attached. © fraudisokay / Reddit
When I worked in reservations, a guest told me he needed 2 connecting rooms, one for him and one for his pet monkey because the monkey couldn’t sleep in the same room as him, that would be weird. © ******bees19 / Reddit
Working in a hotel. I spent from 05:30 to 06:30 helping a gentleman write out “Will You Marry Me?” in rocks in the snow, so he could walk to the window with his girlfriend when she woke up. © Unknown author / Reddit
I was once called up to someone’s room to staple/superglue his black bowtie back together again; He’d managed to tear it straight in half. I brought a spare up instead. © kunstlich / Reddit