The Ten Most Unusual Hotel Guest Amenities

Nuff said. Here goes:

1. According to José Balido, president of www.Go-Lo.net, the most unusual hotel amenity he’s come across showed up at the W Hotel in Mexico City.  “The shower was large enough to fit you and ten of your closest friends, and featured a hammock strung across from side to side,” he says.
2. Martha DiSario of the Bay Area says that a stay at the Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach features a bagpiper who appears at dusk every night.  “He first shows up in the distance, and then wanders over the dunes to perform on the outdoor patio,” she says.  “It’s very dramatic to see him come over the moors.”
3. According to one visitor, The Drake Hotel in Toronto has a very unique room service menu:  Instead of food, each room contains a menu of sex toys that can be delivered to your room.
   

   Your horse can sleep easy at the South Point Resort in Las Vegas

4. The South Point Resort in Las Vegas is home to the only full-scale equestrian center attached to a resort.  Book a reservation, and you’ll have a place for both you and your horse to sleep…though not in the same room.
5. The boutique chain Provenance Hotels offers Spiritual Menus in every room.  Guests can choose which book of faith that they would like to read for their bedtime reading.  Or, they can ask for all of them to be delivered to the room.
6. At the Captain Lord Mansion in Kennebunkport, Maine, guests receive trial sizes of POO-POURRI,  a fun bathroom spray toilet bowl deoderizer/sanitizer to help keep the air smelling fresh.  The package is enscribed with “Spritz the bowl before you go and no one else will ever know”.
7. The Roosevelt Hotel in LA sets a prescription pill bottle on the nightstand each evening at turndown service.  Though you may initially find it hard to believe they encourage guests to partake in illegal activity, the truth is that the bottle is actually filled with M&Ms.
8. The Boulders Resort in Carefree, Arizona, provides guests with soap that resembles the ancient boulders or rocks that are the resort’s namesake.  They come in three distinctive essences: herbal, citrus, and acacia honey.  Plus, they’re 3-1/2 ounces, not the measly ounce most hotels offered.
9. Not to be outdone, The Peabody Memphis provides guests with duck-shaped soaps, after the five resident mallard ducks that march through the lobby in a 76-year-old tradition.  According to a spokeswoman, the duck soaps are very popular and often disappear from our housekeeping carts.  The hotel also sells them on our “webbed” site.
10. At the CuisinArt Resort & Spa in Anguilla guests receive a big bowl of cherry tomatoes from the resort’s hydroponic farm upon arrival.  They come accompanied by a big hunk of parmesan cheese.

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