Hotel or Resort pre stay asks

[Anonymous]

I assume you do this to make yourself feel important and special. Has it worked?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP your family sounds so high maintenance and exhausting. I’m sure the hotel staff are relieved when you depart.

And why is that? The hotel resort ASK what they can do to give us a pleasant stay? We respond and test THEIR systems.

Best type of hotels are the ones that notice a nearly empty travel toothpaste while doing cleaning and leave a new tube WITHOUT BEING ASKED.

Please explain how we are a nightmare?

Imagine wanting a special dinner in an unknown city and arranging with the concierge for reservations for a great dinner?

Using their system to make a request is not demanding. We think it is great when they do and we don’t complain if they don’t do it.

But why are you “testing” their systems? You sound like a nightmare because you aren’t asking for things that will genuinely improve your stay.

They put the system into place when they ask what will improve my stay. Costs them nothing and they are well rewarded when they do
If they don’t honor such a request it shows me they don’t bother reading their own system.

But how does a picture of bacon improve your stay?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have you ever made a request prior to your arrival at your hotel or resort and it was honored? I’m talking on the luxury side not motel 6.

Four Seasons Disney had my kid’s name embroidered on a child size robe waiting in the room.

Another resort had a photo of cooked bacon next to the bed.

On another note, my kid left their iPad at a resort in Mexico and before it came home with someone we knew staying there, the staff photographed it all over the resort like the spa, the pool, the bar, the kitchen. It was so great.

I might get doing that with a beloved stuffed animal that was left behind but an iPad?

We didn’t ask, they just did it. It cost them nothing!

It did cost them time during which an employee wasn’t available to do actual work. But ok, they did it voluntarily.

The bacon picture is one of the most obnoxious things I have ever heard.

They are in the service business. That employee went above and beyond and the resort has received a ton of repeat business plus my referrals to others who ask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP your family sounds so high maintenance and exhausting. I’m sure the hotel staff are relieved when you depart.

And why is that? The hotel resort ASK what they can do to give us a pleasant stay? We respond and test THEIR systems.

Best type of hotels are the ones that notice a nearly empty travel toothpaste while doing cleaning and leave a new tube WITHOUT BEING ASKED.

Please explain how we are a nightmare?

Imagine wanting a special dinner in an unknown city and arranging with the concierge for reservations for a great dinner?

Using their system to make a request is not demanding. We think it is great when they do and we don’t complain if they don’t do it.

But why are you “testing” their systems? You sound like a nightmare because you aren’t asking for things that will genuinely improve your stay.

They put the system into place when they ask what will improve my stay. Costs them nothing and they are well rewarded when they do
If they don’t honor such a request it shows me they don’t bother reading their own system.

But how does a picture of bacon improve your stay?

You don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/05/10/Hotel-staff-accommodate-businessmans-bizarre-and-hilarious-special-requests/7471462896602/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP your family sounds so high maintenance and exhausting. I’m sure the hotel staff are relieved when you depart.

And why is that? The hotel resort ASK what they can do to give us a pleasant stay? We respond and test THEIR systems.

Best type of hotels are the ones that notice a nearly empty travel toothpaste while doing cleaning and leave a new tube WITHOUT BEING ASKED.

Please explain how we are a nightmare?

Imagine wanting a special dinner in an unknown city and arranging with the concierge for reservations for a great dinner?

Using their system to make a request is not demanding. We think it is great when they do and we don’t complain if they don’t do it.

But why are you “testing” their systems? You sound like a nightmare because you aren’t asking for things that will genuinely improve your stay.

They put the system into place when they ask what will improve my stay. Costs them nothing and they are well rewarded when they do
If they don’t honor such a request it shows me they don’t bother reading their own system.

But how does a picture of bacon improve your stay?

You don’t get it.

I know, that’s why I’m asking. I think you’re saying: you want to see whether hotels read their own systems so you test them with ludicrous requests and if they comply it shows that they DO read their own systems so you reward them and will return to their hotel. If they don’t, you think it shows they DON’T read their own systems and you will therefore not return to that hotel. So for you it’s a screening mechanism to… see if you want to go back?

My approach is to go to a nice hotel, ask for things I actually want and need, if I want and need them, and then decide if I want to go back, based on my whole experience including how well they responded to my requests, if any. I’m just not sure what the point of the testing is in your approach.

[Anonymous]

When a hotel puts a space for pre stay requests in the app or online, are they bothering to read it? It is NEVER about a photo of bacon. If they are missing the little things, the “frivolous” requests as some people put it, what bigger things are they missing? Why have a space for special requests if you are not going to bother to read them.

[Anonymous]

No. When I travel I try to fly under the radar as much as possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP your family sounds so high maintenance and exhausting. I’m sure the hotel staff are relieved when you depart.

And why is that? The hotel resort ASK what they can do to give us a pleasant stay? We respond and test THEIR systems.

Best type of hotels are the ones that notice a nearly empty travel toothpaste while doing cleaning and leave a new tube WITHOUT BEING ASKED.

Please explain how we are a nightmare?

Imagine wanting a special dinner in an unknown city and arranging with the concierge for reservations for a great dinner?

Using their system to make a request is not demanding. We think it is great when they do and we don’t complain if they don’t do it.

Look, I get that you pay a lot of money and their job is to provide you, the guest, with a great experience. But your argument is the same argument that a group of 14 year old boys would use to ask their waiter at Olive Garden for endless breadsticks and taking one bite of each of them. And the way you are responding to posters telling you that your behavior is unwarranted and obnoxious, is exactly the way many 14 year olds would respond. You didn’t actually get any pleasure besides knowing that people followed your orders, and it was a waste of time for the staff. You also run the risk that making requests that you find whimsical are being interpreted by your kids as carte blanche for behaving like entitled jerks. There’s an equal chance that they are embarrassed and will one day post on dcum about the terrible behavior of their parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The reason I ask not demand a photo of cooked bacon 🥓 is specifically to test their check-in apps or online that have a random box that asks if the can do anything to make your hotel stay special.

I never expect it but if you are going to have a place to fill in Freeform something, then maybe they should actually read it.

And I love bacon!

So annoying. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should

This reminds me of the ridiculous things celebrities put on their riders. And that celebrities feel the need to put something outlandish on there to feel special. I’m sure that guest services had a great opinion of the bacon family and restrained themselves from mocking them behind their backs. I have a friend who used to manage the four seasons in hk, and the stories of entitled people were nauseating.

The point of the Van Halen infamous “no brown M&Ms” rider was to make sure the promoter was actually reading the contract with regard to the more important things (load-bearing capacity of the stage, etc). If they saw brown M&Ms, they knew they had to check out everything else more carefully.

https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9I

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason I ask not demand a photo of cooked bacon 🥓 is specifically to test their check-in apps or online that have a random box that asks if the can do anything to make your hotel stay special.

I never expect it but if you are going to have a place to fill in Freeform something, then maybe they should actually read it.

And I love bacon!

So annoying. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should

This reminds me of the ridiculous things celebrities put on their riders. And that celebrities feel the need to put something outlandish on there to feel special. I’m sure that guest services had a great opinion of the bacon family and restrained themselves from mocking them behind their backs. I have a friend who used to manage the four seasons in hk, and the stories of entitled people were nauseating.

The point of the Van Halen infamous “no brown M&Ms” rider was to make sure the promoter was actually reading the contract with regard to the more important things (load-bearing capacity of the stage, etc). If they saw brown M&Ms, they knew they had to check out everything else more carefully.

https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9I

Yes, we all know this. But what is less clear is why the OP feels the need to do this. What very important things is she worried the hotel will overlook if they also overlook the bacon picture request?

[Anonymous]

OP is power-tripping and just plain crass. I would bet she is the generous 5% tipper who takes up a table with her girlfriends for an entire night. Thinks she's well-received, but actually reviled because she's entitled and abusive to service workers.

[Anonymous]

This might be one of the most obnoxious things I've ever read here. SMH. OP must be a peach IRL. 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason I ask not demand a photo of cooked bacon 🥓 is specifically to test their check-in apps or online that have a random box that asks if the can do anything to make your hotel stay special.

I never expect it but if you are going to have a place to fill in Freeform something, then maybe they should actually read it.

And I love bacon!

I’d have thought you had a few screws loose.

[Anonymous]

The bacon PP is an awful human being.

I have only done this twice. Once was to connect with the concierge to order some special flowers for MIL, who was traveling with us. The other was when I was arriving in the morning and needed to get to a funeral that afternoon — I asked about early check-in so I could have somewhere to change. I think they also made a note in my record, because no one at the front desk ever chirped about whether I was “having a great stay” or not.