Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Welcome to the WTF?

I guess Welcome to the Parker, the new show on Bravo, is like working at a real hotel. The show is getting better. All I know is some of the things you wouldn't think would really happen at a hotel of that caliber actually are the most true.

My favorite so far is there is a bellman/reception dude that leads a high-end travel agent (and her girlfriends which is totally believable that someone would cash in on every freebie they could get) who is checking out the hotel in order to sell is, this guy, he takes them to the wrong building and has major issues finding their room! I've seen that happen in a regular old rectangular hotel! My last hotel had no room #911 for telephone mishaps so it was renamed #920, right there between 909 and 913.

What's bullshit is in another scene, after exclaiming that she didn't know how to get back) this Travel Agent is made to wait for 30 minutes in the lobby for a Sales Manager to give her a tour. Fire that person please. But then hilariously true is that the Sales Manager walks in on not one but two occupied rooms! It really shouldn't happen. People get pissed about that kind of thing. The Travel Agent is like "Shit!" That's pretty mcuh the reaction.

So the Sales Manager decides to send her an amenity after other certain things go wrong for the TA. Now she decides to send an amenity? How about at check in, fuckin idiots.

Amenties are like the cool thing to do at a hotel, btw. I mean for us normal people that aren't used to spending $100 on a bottle of Moet. They are annoying because you have to coordinate the kitchen with front desk to make sure to deliver it after the room is ready (we never say clean or dirty, it's ready or not available) but before the guest arrives. It's more complicated than it should be. But the point is, high-end hotels who want to impress send their VIP's (as Miss TA was classified by the GM) amenties!

Oh, I'm not going to go on. But I will keep watching and commenting because it is entertaining. Damn producers stole my idea!

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