Hotel Babylon

 
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A luxury-hotel manager reveals what goes on behind closed doors...and sometimes, right out in the hallway.

The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous.

And we're not talking just loud all-night bashes...

The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows, $9,000 bottles of wine, astronomical telephone porn bills, bathtubs of Evian, and on more than one occasion, dead sheep. And every dirty word of it is true.

This is a trawl through the decadence and debauchery of the ultimate service industry - where money not only talks, but gets guests the best room, the best service, and also entitles them to behave in any way they please.

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  • Media: Paperback Book, 288 pages
  • Publisher: Blue Hen Trade (December 07, 2004)
  • ISBN-10: 042520135X
  • ISBN-13: 9780425201350
  • Dimensions: 5.12 x 7.87 x 0.87 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.45 lbs
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Customer Reviews

  • Rating Highly amusing  Oct 28, 2005 (7 of 7 found this helpful)

    I was given this book from a friend who promised me, that as a frequent traveler, I may never feel the same way about my journeys after reading it. Boy was she right!

    The novel moves very quickly and spans a 24 hour period in a five star hotel. Throughout the novel we are offered disturbing glimpses of what actually happens when people use a place as their home away from home. Believe me some of these glimpses are very distrubing!

    The novel also demonstrates how hotels make money, how they deal with needy and demanding clients, what happens when they overbook and how they deal with some of the more "delicate situations" which arise.

    Very fun and informative!

  • Rating A very funny read  Dec 28, 2004 (7 of 7 found this helpful)

    Terrific plane reading. Facile but entertaining tale of the underbelly of a 5-Star luxury hotel in London. Funny and sometimes outrageous.

  • Rating great stuff  Dec 1, 2004 (8 of 9 found this helpful)

    I really enjoyed this book. As someone who spends a lot of time travelling abroad and staying in five star hotels this is was a real eye-opener. The book is packed with great stories, anecdotes and loads of celebrity gossip and I found it hilarious, entertaining and the prefect thing to take on a long haul flight. I read it one sitting. I couldn't put it down. I liked the 24 hour format and I would recommend to anyone who is at all curious and who has a sense of humour.

  • Rating interesting insider view  Jun 18, 2007 (4 of 4 found this helpful)

    BBC had a popular TV drama series of the same name, which was based on this bk. The bk is divided into 24 chapters, one for each hour of the day, and discloses what happens inside a typical 5-star hotel. Quite interesting to know from the insiders' view.

  • Rating A fabulous read  Apr 4, 2005 (4 of 4 found this helpful)

    This is a wonderful book ! Not only is the subject - behind the scenes in a posh London hotel - fascinating in its own right, but it is brilliantly told. We follow the activities in the hotel hour by hour, from one dawn to the next, and in the course of the day and night we meet an amazing variety of people, the wealthy who patronise the hotel, and the shrewd who exist to indulge their every whim. But instead of being a dull plod, plod round the clock, we see it all through the eyes of a receptionist who knows everyone and sees everything, and who recounts it to us with a wealth of astonishing details and hair-raising (and often very funny !) anecdotes. I rarely read a book cover to cover at a single sitting, but this one I did - I haven't enjoyed a book so much in a long while. Imogen Edwards-Jones invites us to slip in through the back door to peek at an amazing private world that you'd never guess just by looking through the establishment's palatial front entrance. Give yourself a treat - buy this marvellous book !

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