14 Hotel Guests Who Could Become the Champions of Unusual Requests (2025)

• Iwork inahotel, and one day afamily— agrandmother, grandfather and granddaughter ofabout 7years old— came tothe sea for acouple ofweeks.
  Aday before their departure, they bought alive chicken atthe market because the girl “really asked forit.” The child ran around the yard with the poor bird for 24hours, and when she had enough playing, the family decided toget rid ofit. After all, they have aplane totake the next day!
  They came tomewith the question ofhow tofind another home for the chicken. Iwas shocked. Itwas good that aneighbor had his own farm— wegave ittohim, the hen took the baby asher own. But this irresponsibility shockedme.©Overheard/ Ideer
• Iwork inahotel, and once wehad aguest who loved toask the most unexpected questions. “Where did you get the mattresses? And the pillows? How big are they?”— and soonabout every item inthe room. But that was half the trouble.
  Ifthe administrator didn’t know the answer, the man would release averbal hurricane onthem, and with such pressure that even the most experienced employees sometimes let atear fall.©Virsh/ Pikabu
• Iworked inahotel byariver that had adam. Aguest called totellus tocall the city and tell them to“shut itoff” because she wanted tosleep with the window open, but the dam was making too much noise.©Puffonstuff/ Reddit
• Worked front desk atahotel next toanairport. Abunch offlights were canceled, sowewere sold out.
  Guy came inlooking for aroom. SoasajokeI told him. “Unless you want tosleep inacloset, we’re sold out.” And hepaid me$50 and took our storage closet.©ulyn/ Reddit
• One time, aguest asked for “omelet without eggs.” The waiter was surprised, tosay the least, and asked what anewfangled dish this was. The answer was brilliant, “Just fry mesome tomatoes.” ©druidwoman/ Pikabu

• Season, morning, alot ofwork— all the maids, security guards and valets are indemand, the second receptionist hasn’t come out yet, and there isanendless stream ofcheck-outs and check-ins atregistration, plus it’s breakfast time.
  Atthat moment, aguest calls and demands tobring her sugar urgently. Iunderstand that absolutely everyone isbusy, soI offer her 2options: godown tothe reception desk (there isalways asupply ofsugar) herself orwait acouple ofminutes until the nearest maid gets free.
  Butno, she’s not happy with that. Itstarts toget crazy— she calls meevery 20seconds, and onthe fifth call she suddenly starts... singing asong about how she needs sugar. Itwas pretty surreal.©Virsh/ Pikabu
• Myuncle accompanies tourists abroad. Once, after ahard and active day, hegets acall from atourist from his group asking, “Doyou have pliers?” It’s 2o’clock inthe morning.
  Itturned out that she needed pliers because she had forgotten the code onher suitcase lock, and now she couldn’t change her clothes orwash herself. The tool she was looking for was never found, but the woman still came out inthe morning clean, happy and innew clothes.
  Itturned out that she had managed tobeat off the lock onthe suitcase with anantique radiator. Now that’s smart! ©Chamber 6/ Telegram
• Iwork abroad inawell-known hotel.2o’clock inthe morning, acall from the room, “You have everything here inthe old style ofthe 90s! This interior issoterrible thatI just can’t sleep!”
  The man seriously took the time todescribe tomeindetail how much the furniture and decor depressed him. What can Isay... it’s hard tobeanaesthete! ©Overheard/ Ideer
• Lord ofthe Rings convention— attendees dressed like Hobbits would call room service and try toorder inElvish, called housekeeping toget their cloaks dry-cleaned, would tape hair totheir feet and walk around the hotel barefoot.©******bees19/ Reddit
• Iworked atahotel built onpilings over abay, sothe hotel had amazing views. One time aguest called and said the sea lions and the waves were too loud for her nap and asked metomake the sea lions (intheir natural habitat) bequiet until after her nap.©Stephanie Macey/ Quora

• Ithink the weirdest thing thatI had happen while working inthe hotel business was whenI had apretty insane woman call and see ifwehad rooms available. The conversation went something like this.
  Her: “Hello, isyour hotel pet friendly?”
  Me: “Yes, weare actually one ofthe few pet friendly hotels inthe area.”
  Her: “Great, sowhat kind ofpets amI allowed tohave?”
  Me: “Well, Iguess any pet that isn’t going todestroy our room.”
  Her: “What about agoat?”
  Me: “Uhhh, well, Iguess that would beokay aslong asitdidn’t poop inthe room oreat our comforters.”
  Her: “Itisawell-behaved and trained goat.”
  Me: “Shouldn’t betoo much ofaproblem, then.”
  Her: “Great, and what about apet fee?”
  Me: “$30, but for agoat itmay beabit more expensive just toensure that the goat will not cause any damage. Anything elseI can help you with today?”
  Her: “What about 7goats?”
  That’s whenI casually carted her off toanother hotel inthe area that had astable attached.©fraudisokay/ Reddit
• When Iworked inreservations, aguest told meheneeded 2connecting rooms, one for him and one for his pet monkey because the monkey couldn’t sleep inthe same room ashim, that would beweird.©******bees19/ Reddit
• Working inahotel. Ispent from 05:30 to06:30 helping agentleman write out “Will You MarryMe?” inrocks inthe snow, sohecould walk tothe window with his girlfriend when she wokeup.©Unknown author/ Reddit
• Iwas once called uptosomeone’s room tostaple/superglue his black bowtie back together again; He’d managed totear itstraight inhalf. Ibrought aspare upinstead.©kunstlich/ Reddit

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