Housekeeping room attendants around the world are always looking for ways to entertain and “connect” with hotel guests to elevate the feeling of service. Since housekeeping staff often don’t meet the people that occupy the rooms they are cleaning, room attendants find innovative ways to remind guests that they are being taken care of. Of course it helps increase the tip as well!

Check out the additional service given to guests of Sri Lanka’s Tea Factory Hotel in Columbo.

Our chambermaid at The Tea Factory Hotel, Nuwara Eliya, decided to decorate our bed, using our clothes. And toilet rolls for heads!

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This is me in front of the windows in our room. We were on the 59th floor and had a panaramic view of the strip. The king sized bed, (which was the most comfortable I have ever slept on!), WAS FACING THIS VIEW! So I ended up spending a lot of time in it:)

Thanks to Christy for sending in this awesome bed view!

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Some dogs get all the luck. Especially when they check into a hotel that takes such good care of them that any guest would be envious!

Last month we featured Aurelia and Ducati lounging at the Westin Hotel in Portland with Eric, who sent in an image.

Check out these two high-flying pooches in action again, this time at Portland’s upscale Vintage Plaza Hotel.

Okay you’ve seen these two canines before. Aurelia and Ducati, our ex-racing greyhounds, were welcome at the dog friendly Vintage Plaza. The shenanigans started as soon as we checked in. The room had a doggy bag full of treats and toys for our hounds, including the stuffed dog buddy. “Dog bed?”, my precious hounds thought to themselves, “But where are you going to sleep, Dad?”

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The Veronica Residence in Bangkok is a funky little 41 room boutique hotel located in the city’s newest commercial, administration and entertainment zone on Rachadaphisek Road. The hotel is owned and run by Veronica, the daughter of a well-known hotelier in Bangkok.

HAHAHA … circle bed! Does this look like a love motel? It isn’t. The Hotel is owned by a lady called Veronica, the daughter of the owner of Chaophya Park Hotel. It’s called Veronica Residence located in Ratchadapisek Road … (5 minutes to MRT Sutthisan station, close to Sutthisan Police Station)

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Many old hotels are being renovated; this one, with its gold carpet, chenille bedspread and office lamps hasn’t gotten there yet.

Cutting-edge hotel designs and luxury guest amenities aren’t for everyone. Some guests prefer quaint hotels with a “quaint” room rate that offer an experience from a bygone era. The Calvert Hotel in Lewistown, Montana offers just such an experience.

Half of the hotel’s 45 rooms have private baths and color television. The other “22.5″ rooms have a bath down the hall. TV is, of course, available in the lobby. No telephones are available in guestrooms but a public phone and “answering phone” is available at front desk.

And if you feel passionate enough about a traditional Montana hotel experience, you can purchase the hotel for $330K.

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Ah yes, the glorious rollaway bed. The bedding of last choice for hotel guests around the world. With hotel brands putting such a focus on building a better bed, the gap between “plush sleep system” and “you get the cot” has grown even wider.

Brands like Starwood’s Westin Hotels & Resorts have attempted to improve the cot-bed experience by developing the Heavenly Rollaway, but no matter how much better it is than the old cot, the new cot is still, well, a cot. And it’s still the youngest, newest, loudest or least confrontational member of the hotel travel party that gets the pleasure of strapping in.

You’re with the family on vacation or visiting relatives, and you check into a hotel somewhere along the way. Lots of bodies in the room, one or two king-sized beds with only a rollaway bed or cot as the alternate choices for bedding.

Who get’s the sweet bed? In this case, clearly our little man with the blue gator shirt will be sleeping like a baby.

nelle snuggles up in one of our very comfortable beds

The Lloyd Hotel is a new Dutch hotel centrally situated in the fashionable heart
of Amsterdam’s Eastern Docklands Area. The hotel has a colourful and varied past that even includes a stint as a boy’s home for delinquents years ago.

We featured the Lloyd Hotel in a recent blog post here at HotelBedHQ.com.

Although our last story on the Lloyd might have been slightly less than flattering, we have to admit that the image above of Nelle cozying up in her bed looks really quite exquisite.

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Upscale hotel brands like Four Seasons pride themselves on their personalized service delivery and attention to detail. But what do housekeeping room attendants do when they find items in a guest’s room that require service far beyond what their extensive training has prepared them for?

Housekeeping staff are used to hotel guests leaving items in their guestroom upon check-out. Cell phone chargers, personal items, nudie magazines – room attendants have seen just about everything. Once in a while, guests leave “special” items behind on purpose, simply to mess with the staff.

Vancouver’s Four Seasons Hotel, home to upscale guests and the Hollywood set recently had a guest in house who was in Vancouver working on a commercial shoot. As it happens, this guest had a female mannequin prop in his room for the shoot, and he thought it would be fun to set her up in his guestroom bed and film the housekeeping staff’s reaction. The Four Seasons housekeeping team showed their usual attention to detail during service, with more than a few visitors arriving from departmental colleagues, security and management.

What ensued is featured in the video below, which was followed by a letter of apology to the hotel.

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“Through the years, hotel rooms have continued to boast more and more bells and whistles, but time and time again research demonstrates what a customer wants most out of their hotel stay is a luxuriously comfortable bed” said Gary Dollens, vice president operations, Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

And for those business trips when you’re in a cool new town away from your loved ones - Hyatt’s not-yet patented “chastity pillow”.

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We’ve all had to share a bed with a brother, sister or friend at some point in our “career” as a hotel guest. Maybe it was during a school trip, sporting event, family vacation…or a conference for work.

Regardless of the reason for your crowded hotel bed, you will appreciate the new strategy below for managing your platonic bed “partner”. Enjoy!