Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)As I was reading "101 Dirty Hot Hotel Stories" I couldn't stop thinking that I've chosen the wrong profession. Set to the backdrop of California, this collection of stories is wildly entertaining! California really has some freaks. I had no idea there was so much going on in the hospitality industry! The author's adventures as a concierge- from a squalid Motel 6 all the way up to a hip and super chic Sunset Hotel (The last 2 hotels aren't named, but I can only guess the Standard Hotel and The Mondrian)- resemble a Fellini movie: so grotesque and surreal. He's an observer but also at times the victim of bizarre situations involving crazy guests and celebrities alike.
I recommend this reading because of the humor, the wit and all the juicy details: it's Bukowski meets Perez Hilton and I can't wait for more Dirty Hot Hotel Stories!!
Click Here to see more reviews about: 101 Dirty Hot Hotel Stories
t's all true. A week ago, I m standing in the lobby of a chic hotel in downtown Los Angeles. I'm the concierge here. A gentleman that knows my name, approaches the desk and says he s been looking for me for some time now. He asks me to keep tabs on his girlfriend because he thinks she s a prostitute. I ask if he s ever paid her and he avoids the question, emails me her pic from his phone, hands me $100, promises to fix my teeth and runs off. A crazy dentist with too much money is the last thing I need right now, but par for the course at this hotel. I remember a dinner reservation I need to book for a nice couple and write down a little note before I m sidetracked again. I walk to a computer and plug in. The phone rings and I answer it. Somebody wants to know why their movies have been turned off. It s Tom Sizemore. I m shocked and put him on hold. I need to know what this girl looks like and make these reservations and maybe ask a manager what to do with Tom Sizemore. Before I can upload the picture of this hooker or load up open table to book a reservation, I m asked by a hotel guest if I sell cocaine. No, I don t. They ask where they can get some. I tell them to go look for pushers out in the street. In all the madness I think about all these funny little stories about all these hotels I ve worked in and all the interesting, dastardly, charming, beautiful, ugly and just plain nice people that I ve met. That biker gang from Barstow staying at the Motel 6 in Thousand Oaks, The time I was robbed by 2 young kids and a big gun in Venice Beach, the pimps and prostitutes begging to be let in down at the Stillwell hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, all the homeless in Santa Monica, late nights in a Burbank hotel with Tarantino fanatics, a traveling sex group that bought out the 10th floor at some sleek Hollywood Hotel, Brad Pitt and Spike Lee meeting for breakfast at the hotel restaurant and talking about their New Orleans housing projects, The Edge and Bono having lunch and an assistant front office manager almost breaks down when she can t shake his hand. A valet asks Daddy Yankee for an autograph, is denied, and the valet manager fires him before the car can be pulled out of the driveway, and how I love it. The phone at the desk rings and I can see it's Tom Sizemore, again. He must have hung up while I had my flashback. My manager is in a perpetual meeting and I m forced to make an executive call. I pick up the phone and ask Tom Sizemore if he has another way to pay for the incidentals or the room for that matter, because his 3rd party billing is up and we ve got to move on here. He tells me he ll get some more 3rd party billing and to turn on the movies for the time being. Someone walks up in front of me and stands there, It's the Dentist. Mr. Sizemore is explaining the screw up with the billing and that crazy dentist is asking me if I got the picture and who she s with and totally blowing my focus on Mr. Sizemore. I ask Mr. Sizemore if he can hold for another second, I explain to him that a man thinks he has a prostitute for a girlfriend and Tom laughs for a really long time, tells me to turn on the movies, have a manager call him back and hangs up. I turn on his movies. Tom's still got the magic
Click here for more information about 101 Dirty Hot Hotel Stories
No comments:
Post a Comment