HotelChatter

Mariah Had a Vision...of a Perfect Bathroom
Mariah Carey insists on new toilet seats and gold faucets installed in her hotel suites, and flies in her own personal bed linens and enough of a certain kind of mineral water for her and her dog to bathe in each day. She also made Claridge’s Hotel in London install a fitness center next to her penthouse.

And the Dorchester Hotel thought it had it hard when all it needed to do was shlep her 23 suitcases around this past June. When she stayed at the Hotel de Paris in Monaco for the World Music Awards in 2008, Carey summoned superstar Chef Alain Ducasse to cook a private dinner and teach her how to make linguine with clam sauce…boy toy hubby Nick Cannon’s favorite.

Justin Is Bringing Disinfectant Back
We're known to be frequent hand sanitizers ourselves but it seems a little extreme that pop princeling Justin Timberlake insists someone go around every two hours disinfecting doorknobs. What’s more, Timberlake requires an entire floor to himself and his entourage…and that the floor’s air conditioning filters must be changed upon his arrival. Come to think of it, that one actually makes sense after some of the gross things we’ve seen our fellow travelers pull.

The teen idol also demands a private fitness studio, and a PlayStation. What, no books, JT? Taking a page from Barbra Streisand’s playbook, Timberlake’s staff forbids hotel staff to address him under any circumstances. Still, if a hotel meets this former ’N Syncer’s stringent code of conduct, he’s gracious enough to repay the favor by talking them up, as he did with London’s Claridge’s, Dorchester and the Mandarin Oriental in the London Evening Standard in October.

For When He Emerges From His Secret Underground Lair
Back in 2006, The Smoking Gun got its hands on Dick Cheney’s hotel room checklist from the 2004 presidential campaign. It reads like a laundry list of grumpy old man necessities.

Decaf coffee must be ready upon his arrival, along with cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite. If Mrs. Cheney is with him, there also needs to be sparkling water—either Calistoga or Perrier (maybe they call it “freedom water”). The VP also wants the room at a temperate 68 degrees (so much for the accepted belief that old people get cold).

Finally, and perhaps most tellingly, his rider asks that all televisions be tuned to Fox News! We can’t make this stuff up. At least he also asks for copies of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal every morning to keep things "fair and balanced." In a demonstration of ethics that we can’t really quibble with though, his staff must be notified of any hotel gifts left in his suite. To see the full list of Dick’s Demands, go here.

These are the best celebrity stories we came across when researching the behavior of the rich an famous this past week, but if you’ve got any more for us, we’re all ears!