Hotel Staff and Guest Relations

Have you ever stayed at a hotel on holiday where you spent far too much time interacting with the hotel staff? Yes? Well join the club pal, so has everybody else! So to celebrate this great British tradition of foreign diplomacy at the hotel pool bar, we’ve compiled a collection of some of the most heart wrenching and funny stories of friendship, love, camaraderie and even hatred, just to satisfy your thirst for hotel related horseplay.

We’ve scoured literally the whole pub for the most interesting and intriguing tales from Caribbean all inclusive complexes, Spanish apartments, Turkish gulets and Egyptian hotels. Prepare to laugh, to cry, to laugh a bit more and then perhaps make a cup of tea before you continue reading. We love telling our mates about our new Spanish best friend Eduardo (the waiter in the restaurant we went to every other night), and how he was in stitches at our ‘hilarious’ attempts at ordering in Spanish and the friendly banter when we called him Eddy and laughed at his tash. But don’t stop at telling your mates, we all want to hear it. Don’t we! Don’t we?

Not only are the life changing connections we make with our foreign brothers and sisters a source of enormous entertainment in the cold light of day, we inevitably also come back with hundreds of snaps of us posing with them like a prize teddy we won at the fairground. Even worse than saying you’ll email that boring couple you met around the pool, is the cringe-worthy promise of keeping in touch with Turkish Tolan the hotel gardener, a mistake that far too many of us make under that hot foreign sun. Read about other people’s misplaced loyalties here.