Travelodge has shared some of the bizarre requests that its business customers have asked whilst staying in one of the Company’s 513 hotels in the last 12 months.
Between them, Travelodge hotel teams receive more than 200,000 strange requests every year and this year’s list of revelations includes a rise in requests from business customers seeking help to prepare for their important meetings and presentations.
They include:
- A business customer who was staying at Docklands Travelodge who asked the hotel team if he could practice his board presentation in Mandarin to the hotel team prior to a meeting.
- The hotel receptionist at Luton Travelodge received a call from a PA to see if her boss could be dropped off by helicopter in the hotel car-park.
- The hotel manager at Liverpool Exchange Street Travelodge was asked by one customer if she could take minutes during a conference call he was having with his team in the US at midnight.
- A gentleman staying at Edinburgh Central Travelodge asked the hotel manager if he could borrow his suit for the morning as he had a job interview and he forgot his suit at home.
- A customer who was staying at Liverpool Central The Strand Travelodge who asked the hotel receptionist if he could use her voice for the company’s automated telephone system.
- A business customer in Glasgow Central who asked the hotel manager to ring their boss and say the hotel had lost hard copies of a presentation, when he was to blame.
Requests from leisure customers have included have included the hotel team at Stafford Travelodge being asked by a customer “Does my pet jaguar count as a cat in your pet policy?” as well as a customer at Newcastle Central who asked “Can you tell me how many stars are in the sky tonight?”
Listed below are 20 of the most bizarre requests asked by Travelodge business customers.
Bizarre Request / question
- Edinburgh Central – Can I borrow your suit as I have a big job interview and I have left my suit at home?
- London Docklands – Can I practice my board presentation in Mandarin to the hotel team?
- London Docklands – Could I borrow a team member’s uniform for a meeting?
- London Bank – Please could you make sure these numbers add up in my company report?
- Luton – Can my boss be dropped by helicopter in the hotel car-park?
- Liverpool Exchange St – an you please take minutes during a conference call I have with my US team at midnight?
- Glasgow Central – Can you ring my boss and explain I’ve lost hard copies of the presentation. Can you say it was the cleaner’s fault even though it wasn’t?
- Edinburgh Central Waterloo Place – Could you get about 20 guests together so that I can rehearse a business pitch?
- Liverpool Central The Strand – Can I use your voice for my company’s voicemail systems?
- Brighton Central – Can I borrow your socks for a meeting?
- Cambridge Newmarket Road – Could you set up a room, including a bed, for a brainstorm involving ten people that we are holding?
- Cambridge Central – Could I borrow a team member for a day, to act as a driver?
- Ipswich Beacon Hill – Can you help me set up a website? I really like your website – did you design it?
- Leeds Central Vicar Lane – Can you phone in sick for me?
- Manchester Central Arena – We have just won a big contract, could put up a pop-up stand with the company logo in my bosses room?
- Manchester Salford Quays – Can I borrow an iPhone from someone? I need to look a bit more savvy and professional.
- Manchester Central – Could proofread this 200 page report ahead of a meeting I have this afternoon?
- Newcastle Airport – We are a person short for a new business pitch, could we borrow one of your team? Don’t worry, we’ll let them know what to say.
- York Central – Do you know where I can buy a laptop? I broke mine yesterday.
- York Central – Can I have two or three members of staff to help show off some product designs I’m presenting tomorrow?
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