HotelChatter - Tag: Hotel Employees

New York: It's Probably Never A Good Idea To Sneak Up On A NYC Hotel Maid

ASchechter — 2012-02-08T10:54:13-05:00

The New York Times ran an interesting piece today on a contract reached between union members and the major NYC hotels that employ them. Among other tidbits, we learn that hotels will soon be providing employees with their own personal panic buttons.

The decision, clearly influenced by a certain scandal at Sofitel New York involving a certain IMF chief last year, is a sure victory for housekeepers and room-service waiters and waitresses everywhere.

As long as they don't get button-happy, of course, and start panicking every time a door slams shut. But still, the less we see of this kind of thing, the better.

New York: The Three-Minute Celebratory Dance At Sofitel. Or Was It Eight Seconds?

ASchechter — 2011-11-28T10:00:39-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/Hotel_Maid_Dominique_Strauss_Kahn_Sex_Assault_K9X4QEcrW_Xl.jpg" class="top">An in-depth article published by <a href="http://media.nybooks.com/strauss.html">The New York Review of Books</a> recently laid out DSK's every move on the morning of May 14, 2011. Now, several <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jviGPVYYNsByQddnE2bwITNi2BiA?docId=CNG.ffcdc4916f44ec647179f532cc18697e.111">news sources</a> are now trying to figure out the meaning (if any) of a three-minute celebratory dance performed by Sofitel employees immediately after their colleague, Nafissatou Diallo, gave her testimony to police. Um, what? Apparently, there is footage of hotel staffers high-fiving each other right after Diallo's sexual assault charges were made officialas if they had 'pulled off' some kind of premeditated plot. Though the hotel released a statement saying the dance only "lasted eight seconds," and that it had nothing to do with DSK whatsoever, it is still unclear

BANGKOK: Who Is The Magic Doorman?

ASchechter — 2011-11-03T11:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/1195422351496392571johnny_automatic_magician_doing_a_trick.svg.hi.png" class="top">If our recent coverage of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bangkok%20Hotels">Bangkok</a> hotel scene hadn't already whetted your appetite to visit the Land of Smiles yourself (perhaps you could time your trip to the opening of the future <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/9/9/93044/76337/hotels/A_Sexy_Skyscraper_for_the_Upcoming_W_Hotel_Bangkok">W Bangkok</a>?), then maybe this will get your travel wheels spinning. To the Four Seasons, that is. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/FOUR+SEASONS+BANGKOK/local/1906">Four Seasons Bangkok</a> has a special trick up their sleeve, in the form of what they call the "<a href="http://press.fourseasons.com/bangkok/hotel-team/narongsak-khamkaew.html">Magic Doorman</a>". Narongsak Khamkaew is a Bangkok-born doorman at the hotel who just so happens to be an amateur magician. Or is he an amateur magician who also happens to work at a hotel? We can't really be sure. Either way, he bought a David Copperfield

Dubai: The Ritz-Carlton Dubai Now Has a Hookah Sommelier on Staff

juliana — 2011-11-01T13:07:07-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/shishasommelier_rcdubai.jpg" class="top">If you've ever wanted to smoke a hookah but were afraid of looking like a novice, the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/THE+RITZ-CARLTON+INTL+FINANCE/local/4775">Ritz-Carlton Dubai International Finance Centre</a> now has an expert on hand to ensure that every puff you take is perfect.The Shisha Sommelier is a part of the hotel's Shisha Terrace. Shisha, also called hookah, is just smoking tobacco in a glass-based waterpipe but the Shisha sommelier is there to help guests choose the shisha flavor that will compliment their food and beverage or simply, their preference of tobacco flavor. So who is this man tasked with such a <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/cool hotel jobs">cool hotel job?</a> Sadek Zeineddine, a Lebanese national, who has worked in a food and beverage capacity in several

Laguna Beach: Best Hotel Job Perk: Montage Lagunas Sommelier Classes

EricRosen — 2011-10-17T15:00:01-05:00