Books

Average customer rating:

The secret is out
Ideal for the business traveller...
Fun even if you're not in the hotel business
great
Could you work in a hotel?

Hotel Babylon
Imogen Edwards-Jones
Manufacturer: Blue Hen Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Travel | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Travel Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Fashion Babylon
Air Babylon
Turning the Tables : Restaurants from the Inside Out
Inside the Minds: The Hotel Business - Industry Leaders from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, Orient-Express Hotels, Relais & Chateaux Association & More ... the Hospitality Industry (Inside the Minds)
Tuscany for Beginners: A Novel

ASIN: 042520135X

Book Description

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.

Customer Reviews:

The secret is out.......2007-03-31

A must-read for anyone who has ever worked for a luxury hotel, or just stayed in one. I've been in the industry for 6 years with 4 different luxury properties, and the stories and characters are as real to me as the people I've met in my daily life. The book is funny and gives the reader a true picture of what goes on within the four walls of the top hotels all over the world. Not all is as perfect as it may appear on the surface.

Ideal for the business traveller..........2007-02-06

I am a business traveller, and I spend most of time in Hotels around the world. More than once I have wondered what really happens behind those beautiful facades that you find in many of the best Hotels. This books talks about the real people in the Hotel industry, the games they play, the screw ups and the simple day to day.
Imogen writes the stories in a way that sometimes is difficult to know what is better, to laugh or to cry...but one way or the other you will feel the emotion and never look at a Hotel room the same way again...

Fun even if you're not in the hotel business.......2007-02-04

Even though my only connection with the hotel business is as an occupant, I enjoyed this book. It managed to be both informing and funny at the same time. I laughed out loud more than once.

great.......2006-11-14

I am working in hotels for a long time now an I found this book hilarious!great reading with real life stories

Could you work in a hotel?.......2006-09-24

Nah I couldn't. And if you've ever had any ideas, I suggest you read this book first - you might well & truly change your mind. Imogen Edward-Jones writes alongside an annoymous ex (or current) hotel worker, and manages to condense the goings on into 24 hours. Each chapter is a different hour (6-7, 7-8 etc), and you're literally whisked along, into the world of hotels.

This was so popular here in the UK, that it was made into a TV series starring the lovely Max Beesley. I didn't see it, but there's another series airing in January.

What I love about this book, is that you can read it in no time. It's quick, easy and simple. And you'll learn some amazing things about hotels whilst reading it. How they manage to charge the prices they do for rooms, what really goes on behind the scenes, what the staff really say behind your back, amongst other things. Hotel Babylon is a real eye opener. Quickly following it is Air Babylon & Fashion Babylon.

I think Imogen Edward-Jones is onto a sure thing here, although I was slightly disappointed by Air Babylon. Hotel Babylon is definitely one to read first, you won't be disappointed!

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Action & Adventure | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1600962424
Release Date: 2006-07-06

Book Description

The Grand Babylon Hotel is an exclusive London establishment, and American millionaire Theodore Racksole, visiting the hotel with his spirited 23-year-old daughter Nella, decides to buy the place. What he hasn't counted on is having to deal with a criminal conspiracy whose purposes are not at all clear, and events take an unexpected turn as Theodore and Nella play detective. Replete with evil villains, physical dangers, and secret passages, The Grand Babylon Hotel is a mesmerizing thriller that will be enjoyed by mystery lovers everywhere. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1419164473

Average customer rating:

THE GRAND BABYLON HOTEL
BENNET
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000RZ8GGI

The Grand Babylon Hotel (Charnwood Library)

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel (Charnwood Library)
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Ulverscroft Large Print
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Literary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Classic Books Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Action & Adventure | Genre Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1600967655

Book Description

The Grand Babylon Hotel is an exclusive London establishment, and American millionaire Theodore Racksole, visiting the hotel with his spirited 23-year-old daughter Nella, decides to buy the place. What he hasn\'t counted on is having to deal with a criminal conspiracy whose purposes are not at all clear, and events take an unexpected turn as Theodore and Nella play detective. Replete with evil villains, physical dangers, and secret passages, The Grand Babylon Hotel is a mesmerizing thriller that will be enjoyed by mystery lovers everywhere. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: IndyPublish.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1421914174

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: IndyPublish.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

jp-unknown2 | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 1404305912

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Echo Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Contemporary | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 1846376742

Book Description

Enoch Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867-March 27, 1931). He was born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, one of six towns in the area known as the Potteries where many of his novels were set.

Average customer rating:

The Grand Babylon Hotel
Arnold Bennett
Manufacturer: Hard Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1406954179
Release Date: 2006-11-03

Books:

Books