QUIRKY WORLD ... Nice hotel, but waiter is too handsome
Travel search engine Skyscanner quizzed 400 international hotel workers to draw up a list of the top 10 unusual grumbles and diva-like demands.
Other complaints included sheets being too white, ice cream being too cold, the bath being too big, and no steak on a vegetarian menu.
One customer asked for a discount after his sleep was disturbed by his snoring girlfriend, while another asked for a refund as his dog had had an unhappy stay.
Staff in a hotel in London’s Mayfair were taken aback when a client bemoaned the lack of an ocean view.
Equally eyebrow raising are some of the requests, including one for a dead mouse. One guest asked for a bowl of crocodile soup, another for a bath of honey, while one hungry punter demanded 15 cucumbers a day.
Among the most unusual complaints revealed by hotel staff included that a waiter was too handsome and a mother of a groom wasn’t given the honeymoon suite.
There were also requests for the toilet to be filled with mineral water and for the right legs only of a chicken.
A club at an elite US university has dropped its sponsorship of a satanic Mass after it drew widespread condemnation from academic and religious leaders.
The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club was backing the event planned at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but was criticised by the Archdiocese of Boston and the university’s president.
After a rethink, the club said a Cambridge restaurant and nightclub would not host the black Mass as planned, and no other location had offered a venue.
The group said event organiser Satanic Temple will stage its ceremony at an undisclosed location.
A restaurant is tapping into the craze for food selfies by becoming the world’s first diner where customers pay for their meal by taking a picture of it.
Diners who visit The Picture House in Soho, launched by food brand Birds Eye, have to settle the bill by taking a picture on Instagram and uploading it onto their social networks using the hashtag #BirdsEyeInspirations.
A meal complete with iPads. Now that's what I'm talking about #BirdsEyeInspirations #ThePictureHouse #fdbloggers pic.twitter.com/kDWmKEfDJ1
— Loriley Sessions (@lorileysesh) May 13, 2014
The pop-up diner has been set up after research revealed that more than half (52%) of British people regularly take photos of their meals, and will open its doors to hungry punters keen to snap their grub today.
A Scottish secondhand exchange is replacing the pound with virtual currency Bitcoin for three days in one of its stores, making it the first retail outlet in the UK to let customers receive the virtual coins for products.
CeX, the high street chain that buys, sells, and exchanges technological and electronic products, is switching from the pound to digital currency Bitcoin exclusively in its store in the Sauchiehall area of Glasgow.
While using Bitcoin to buy products is becoming increasingly common in stores and online in the UK, CeX will be the first outlet to pay out in the currency, meaning customers can earn the currency for the first time, by selling goods. Several pubs as well as some taxi companies around the UK have begun to accept the currency as a means of paying for goods.
Wartime helmets and gas masks should be banned from classrooms because they pose a health and safety risk to pupils and teachers, a watchdog has warned.
The historical items are inappropriate for youngsters and school staff to handle or wear as they may contain traces of asbestos, according to updated advice drawn up by the Health and Safety Executive.
Schools often use these types of relics in history lessons to teach pupils about the conflicts, and the new information comes as events begin taking place around the country to mark the start of the First World War a century ago.
The HSE’s document warns that schools which have items of war memorabilia that are suspected to contain asbestos should stop using them, double bag them in plastic and tape them shut.
A man was arrested after he drove to a Louisiana state police headquarters to file an accident report — while he was drunk
Officers said Patrick Ruffner, 31, called state police saying his vehicle was struck by a hit-and-run driver. He was told to come to Troop A’s offices to fill out a crash report.
When Ruffner got out of his 4x4, an officer smelled alcohol and gave him field sobriety and breath tests. He was charged with driving on a suspended licence and driving while intoxicated.
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