Tourists staying at Oxford Travelodge hotel have made some outrageous requests from asking for a degree to exclusive training sessions with the boat crew.
What standard of service do you expect from a Travelodge, nice clean sheets, good night sleep and a continental breakfast perhaps? It seems the tourists visiting Oxford have been expecting far more.
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Staff at the budget Oxford hotel have revealed some of the absurd requests made by its guests.
These are just some of the bizarre requests made by customers at the Oxford Travelodge hotel in the last year, some are outrageous!
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- Can you book me an exclusive training session with the boat crew?
- Can you arrange for me to have my strategy day at Blenheim Palace, I have colleagues over from Canada and this will impress them?
- Where can I purchase a degree?
- Can you arrange for a gondola and gondolier to take me and girlfriend down the River Thames and for a rainbow to appear at 16:16 when I plan to propose to my girlfriend?
- Can you call the Dean at the university and see if he can interview my daughter this afternoon as she is over for a few days from Hong Kong for her brother’s wedding?
- Can you arrange for my cat to visit Oxford University as I would like to take a VT to upload on my blog showcasing what a clever boy he is?
Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge Spokeswoman said: “Where possible, our hotel teams will go above and beyond to help customers as they relish a good challenge.
However, there are some requests beyond their control such as getting a raft of ducks to go to sleep, stopping the traffic on the M5, getting the Northern Lights to make an appearance and getting a herd of sheep as a sleep aid.”
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The bizarre requests are not just in Oxford, guests from across the country have been making absurd requests.
A customer from the Travelodge in Thurrock asked if they could arrange a unicorn pedal boat and a rainbow to be above the hotel at exactly 4.16 pm.
It only gets better, as a guest at Doncaster Lakside asked, for the staff to tell the ducks to go to sleep as they were keeping them awake.
Some requests are silly with a great example being from Bath Central. A guest asked for their room ceiling to be covered with a sky of candy floss clouds.
In Glasgow Central one person staying asked where they could see wild haggis.
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Some are a bit simpler and sweeter, as one guest in Mansfield just asked for a hug.
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