Hotel Babylon |
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Author:
Imogen Edwards-Jones
By Blue Hen Trade
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List Price: $14.00
Our Price: $5.94
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Product Description
A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors...and sometimes, right out in the hallway.
The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous.
And we're not talking just loud all-night bashes...
The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows, $9,000 bottles of wine, astronomical telephone porn bills, bathtubs of Evian, and on more than one occasion, dead sheep. And every dirty word of it is true.
This is a trawl through the decadence and debauchery of the ultimate service industry - where money not only talks, but gets guests the best room, the best service, and also entitles them to behave in any way they please.
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Didn't grab me enough, 2008-05-18
I only listen to audio stories. This I gave up after 1 cd. Narrator was quite good but the story ok but not good enough to keep me concentrating on it I would day dream off. Good audio stories within 5 minutes they are action pacted and you don't even want to get out of the car at the end of your trip as you can't leave the story. Hotel Babylon was not one.
interesting insider view, 2007-06-18
BBC had a popular TV drama series of the same name, which was based on this bk. The bk is divided into 24 chapters, one for each hour of the day, and discloses what happens inside a typical 5-star hotel. Quite interesting to know from the insiders' view.
The secret is out, 2007-03-31
A must-read for anyone who has ever worked for a luxury hotel, or just stayed in one. I've been in the industry for 6 years with 4 different luxury properties, and the stories and characters are as real to me as the people I've met in my daily life. The book is funny and gives the reader a true picture of what goes on within the four walls of the top hotels all over the world. Not all is as perfect as it may appear on the surface.
Ideal for the business traveller..., 2007-02-05
I am a business traveller, and I spend most of time in Hotels around the world. More than once I have wondered what really happens behind those beautiful facades that you find in many of the best Hotels. This book talks about the real people in the Hotel industry, the games they play, the screw ups and the simple day to day.
Imogen writes the stories in a way that sometimes is difficult to know what is better, to laugh or to cry...but one way or the other you will feel the emotion and never look at a Hotel room the same way again...
Fun even if you're not in the hotel business, 2007-02-04
Even though my only connection with the hotel business is as an occupant, I enjoyed this book. It managed to be both informing and funny at the same time. I laughed out loud more than once.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.95068
EAN: 9780425201350
ISBN: 042520135X
Label: Blue Hen Trade
Manufacturer: Blue Hen Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2004-12-07
Publisher: Blue Hen Trade
Studio: Blue Hen Trade |
