"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life."  Great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wasn't far off the truth with this pearl of wisdom. Married to an hotelier, I've been regaled with a few tales of the weird and wonderful antics of guests bunked-down in their 'home away from home.' Having worked in television for much of my career, strangely enough the two worlds aren't as different as you might think. The guest who turned up half-naked at reception covered in talcum powder springs to mind. (For the record it was at the hotel but with hindsight, it could've just as easily been the TV studios.) I digress... what I really want to know, is when it comes to hotels of the luxurious kind, what is it that provokes such extravagant and more often than you'd care to know, bizarre behavior?  … [Read more...]