http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-24T04:45:23Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/7/5/23959/15672 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6929/crazyhotelworkers2.jpg" class="top"> <p>The passive-aggressive mob we know as the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers"><b>Crazy Hotel Workers</b></a> is always giving us useful tips on how to be a significantly-less-annoying hotel guest. We can only assume that if we take note of some of these rants and do our part to irritate the staff less, we'll probably get better service &#151; so here are some of their recent pearls of wisdom to absorb and take to heart:<p>&#183; When you see a deal for pets (or the hotel staff ask if you've got a pet with you) don't ask if <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/hotel_workers/3311174.html">your husband/child counts as a pet</a>. Apparently they've heard it before. And it wasn't even that funny the first time.<br>&#183; Don't ring down to amandak 2009-07-09T08:50:57-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/1/20/01748/4810 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/hairdryerhotel.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>Don't ask a hotel staffer to blow-out your hair for you.</i><p>Our favorite inside line to what hotel staff are really thinking we check in, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers"><b>Crazy Hotel Workers</b></a> blog, still has hotel staff doing what they do best: whining about bizarre guests, trying to stay awake on night shifts and wondering if they should get out of the hotel industry. But there's extra-weird stuff going on this month, and it's all about hair.<p>The hair theme started calmly enough, when one Crazy Hotel Worker had a call from a one-armed guest to come up to her room to help her <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/hotel_workers/2954989.html">put her hair in a ponytail</a>. Not an everyday request, but we can live with it.<p>Things amandak 2009-01-22T13:25:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/7/30/85510/7716 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/Balcony_Sign.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers"><b>Crazy Hotel Workers</b></a> stay sane by whining about their life as hotel staff on their huge livejournal site and we never tire of reading it.<p>This week they mused about the warning signs one hotel is having to put up on new balconies, after a guest climbed on to the railing cables and broke a couple of them. Other Crazy Hotel Workers chimed in with a few good suggestions for the signage, like "Idiots cannot fly or land on their feet". But we think this sign might get the message across more succinctly than the rest:<blockquote><p> Do not climb on the railings of the balconies. If you choose to do so and fall, the hotel staff will amandak 2008-07-30T09:33:53-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/13/55432/4811 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/chwkeychain.png" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We haven't checked in with our favorite <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers"><b>Crazy Hotel Workers</b></a> for a while, but now along with their blog they've got a website and a bunch of merchandise. But it's still the blog we love the best: recent entries feature guests like the Blonde Marlboro-Scented Wannabe Stripper Girl, those who demand the manager special or pretend to be AAA members when they're not, and a guest nicknamed the Dog Whistler who, yep, whistles to get the attention of the hotel staff.</p><p>If you know your own crazy hotel worker, then check their merchandise page for some cool stuff. Our favorite is the Crazy Hotel Workers key chain, which comes with your choice of "room number" between 1 amandak 2008-02-13T13:00:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/9/18/8526/37909 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/chw.png" class="imgborder"/>Over at our favorite collection of rants and weird stories from <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Crazy%20Hotel%20Workers"><b>Crazy Hotel Workers</b></a>, there are more than a few stories of guests who do annoying, strange or quite unthinkable things. <p>One of the funniest this week involves the guest who called to say that the hotel didn't actually exist, and the conversation went something like this:</p><blockquote><p>Him: I have a reservation there. I'm in Alamosa right now but your hotel isn't here. There isn't an Alamosa Inn.<br> Me: ...Um. We're right on Main Street.<br> Him: I'm on the Main Street. There IS no Alamosa Inn.<br> Me: ...Where on Main Street are you?<br> Him: <strong>(Continues to insist that we don't exist)</strong><br> Me: <strong>(Starts to believe him)</strong></blockquote></p><p>Some minutes amandak 2007-09-18T09:02:51-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/