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Something strange occurs to people as soon as they check in to a luxury hotel. Otherwise well mannered, decent folk cast their scruples aside as they spin through the revolving doors. Normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply. Everything you read in "Hotel Babylon" is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the characters, the highs, the lows, the drugs, the scams, the misery and the debauchery are exactly as experienced by Anonymous - someone who has spent his entire career working in some of the most luxurious hotels in London. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in the fictional Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into twenty-four hours. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend obscene amounts of money, the hotel makes obscene amounts of money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two-pound coin...
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" 'Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating' - Closer. 'Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch' - Metro"
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A journey through the entrails of the luxury hotel business
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback 2nd Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 308 pages. Item Type: Book. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No inscriptions. Edges slightly tanned. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ; Engineering, Industrial, Trade. ISBN: 0593053567. ISBN/EAN: 9780593053560. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 029122. Seller Inventory # 029122
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. The book on which the TV series is based. The hotel business is a licence to print money- not only for the managers, owners and shareholders, but for the people who work there. From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making 2,000 a week, to the concierge taking backhanders- everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. The hotel business is a licence for the guests to steal- anything from fridges, furniture, plasma TVs, carpets, loo seats, bathrobes, ashtrays, teaspoons- even refilling the vodka bottle in the mini- bar with water, or worse. The hotel business is a licence for guests to behave badly- from rent boys and girls by the hour, to 800 on telephone porn bills, 24,000 room parties, drugs, dead sheep, splashing out on 5,000 bottles of wine, guests falling through windows, naked guests, drunken guests and guests who have to be sectioned. The hotel business is also a licence for celebrity to reign supreme- from Michael Jackson's Evian bath to Madonna's odd curtain fetish, Kate Moss and Johnny Depp's parties, Princess Diana's taste for oysters, Pamela Andersen's sexual gymnastics, the Queen Mother's chips and Prince Philip's Silver Bullet cocktail. HOTEL BABYLON is a trawl through the highs and lows, the extremes, the tragedies, the miseries, the decadence and the debauchery of the ultimate service industry- where money not only talks, but gets you the best room, the best service, and also entitles you to behave in any way you please. Item Type: Book. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0593053567. ISBN/EAN: 9780593053560. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 001482. Seller Inventory # 001482
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Softcover. The hotel business is a licence to print money- not only for the managers, owners and shareholders, but for the people who work there. From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making Fair condition. Tanning, spine creases. Seller Inventory # 26378603
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Trade Paperback. 308 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Bantam, UK, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The hotel business is a licence to print money - not only for the managers, owners and shareholders, but for the people who work there. From chambermaids' tips, to doormen making #2,000 a week, to the concierge taking back handers, to the vegetable supplier's book keeping double entry - everyone in the hotel trade is on the make. The hotel business is a licence for the guests to steal - anything from bathrobes, loo seats (wooden and Victorian from the Savoy), pictures, fridges, ashtrays, teaspoons - even re-filling the vodka bottle in the mini bar with water. The hotel business is a licence for guests to behave badly - from rent boys and girls by the hour, to #800 on telephone porn bills, #24,000 room parties, office sex, drugs, dead sheep, splashing out on #5,000 bottles of wine, guests falling through windows, naked guests, drunken guests and guests who have to be sectioned. The hotel business is also a licence for celebrity to reign supreme - from Michael Jackson's Evian bath to Madonna's odd curtain fetish, Kate Moss and Johnny Depp's parties, Princess Diana's taste for champagne, Pamela Anderson's sexual gymnastics, The Queen Mother's chips and Prince Phillip's Silver Bullet cocktail. HOTEL BABYLON is a trawl through the highs and lows, the extremes, the tragedies, the miseries, the decadence and the debauchery of the ultimate service industry - where money not only talks, but gets you the best room, the best service, and also entitles you to behave in any way you please . *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Business, Finance & Marketing; ISBN: 0593053567. ISBN/EAN: 9780593053560. Inventory No: 19070015. Seller Inventory # 19070015