The Angelo Love Hotel – one of 37,000 love hotels in Japan: ‘Please choose a room from the menu panel.’ Love Hotel: Storyville, caption, BBC 2015
‘Japanese people are in need of escaping reality.’ ibid. manager
Today 2.8 million Japanese people visit Love Hotels daily. ibid. caption
Jesus Christ walks into a hotel, hands the desk clerk three nails and asks: ‘Can you put me up for the night?’ Author unknown
It is because we put up with bad things that hotel-keepers continue to give them to us. Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
Midnight,
a hotel bedroom, open window,
sibilant tyres on rain-washed asphalt streets
whispering a repetitious finish, finish
You stroke your love comprehensively,
who purrs contentment, clings to your neck and
sobs. Peter Reading, Midnight, 1994
Transients Hotel Kimberley. Midnight Cowboy 1969 starring John Voight & Dustin Hoffman & Sylvia Miles & John McGiver & Brenda Vaccaro & Barnard Hughes & Ruth White & Jennifer Salt & Gilman Rankin & Georgann Johnson & Anthony Holland & Bob Balaban et al, director John Schlesinger
Rusk Hotel. Star Trek s1e8: Miri, Kirk
O The City Hotel. The Matrix 1999 starring Keanu Reeves & Laurence Fishburne & Carrie-Anne Moss & Hugo Weaving & Joe Pantoliano & Gloria Foster & Marcus Chong & Julian Arahanga & Matt Doran & Belinda McClory & Anthony Ray Parker & David Aston et al, directors Wachowski brothers
Henrik Hudson Hotel. The Gangster 1947 starring Barry Sullivan & Belita & Joan Lorring & Akim Tamiroff & Harry Morgan & John Ireland & Sheldon Leonard & Fifi D'Orsay & Virgina Christine & Elisha Cook & Ted Hecht & Shelle Winters et al, director Gordon Wiles
Hotel Bastardos. The Comic Strip Presents ... A Fistful of Traveller’s Cheques, gringos on train, Channel 4 1984
The Venetian Palazzo Las Vegas … a one-and-a-half-billion-dollar replica of Venice. World’s Busiest Hotel, Channel 5 2013
It’s got an authentic bell tower, it’s got canals, it’s got gondolas, it’s got three theatres, it’s got the highest grossing restaurant in the whole of the United States of America. ibid.
An army of 8,500 almost invisible staff. ibid.
The hotel owns thirty tons of linen. ibid.
In the hottest months the hotel uses over a million gallons of water a day. ibid.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. ibid.
Dubai has become the place to go for a touch of indulgence. The Billion Pound Hotel, Channel 4 2015
The Burj al Arab: an estimated one billion pounds to build. ibid.
The Burj does not offer any budget rooms. Starting from around £900 per night. ibid.
In addition to the gold plating, the hotel contains over two thousand square metres of twenty-four-carat leaf. ibid.
The gold ipad: $10,000. ibid.
One of three aquariums in the hotel. ibid.
Now, Delhi is full of grand hotels. In ring roads and sewage pipes you might have an edge in Beijing, but in pomp and splendour, we’re second to none in Delhi. We’ve got the Sheraton, the Imperial, the Taj Palace, Taj Mansingh, the Oberoi, the Intercontinental, and many more. Now, the five-star hotels of Bangalore I know inside out, having spent thousands of rupees eating kebabs of chicken, mutton, and beef in their restaurants, and picking up sluts of all nationalities in their bars, but the five-stars of Delhi are things of mystery to me. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger p200
Rio de Janeiro, South America’s most glamorous and exotic city. And on the famous Copacabana Beach stands Latin America’s most historic hotel – the Copacabana Palace. This World: Copacabana Palace, BBC 2014
The hotel employs more than 600 staff. ibid.
The sixth floor is home to some of the most exclusive hotel rooms on Earth. ibid.
Rio’s two worlds come together on the City's beaches. ibid.
Sybil, we’ve got to try and attract a better class of person. FAWLTY TOWERS [crooked S] Fawlty Towers s1e1: A Touch of Class ***** Basil, BBC 1975
There is one thing – I was wondering can you cash me a small cheque? ibid. Lord Melbury to Basil
Lord Melbury – he’s not Lord Melbury. He’s a confidence trickster. ibid. Polly to Basil
A gin and orange, a lemon squash and a scotch and water please! ibid. guest to Basil
What’s the point in being alive? FAWLTY TOWER [crooked L] Fawlty Towers s1e2: The Builders, Polly to Basil
You want Room 16 for him? [points to garden gnome] ibid. Manuel to delivery man
We’re all dead. ibid. Basil to Polly
I’m afraid the dining-room door’s disappeared. ibid. Basil to Major
My wife – she will be back here in four hours and she can kill a man at ten paces with one blow of her tongue. ibid. Basil to O’Reilly
Get on with your meals. FAWLTY TITTIES. Fawlty Towers s1e3: The Wedding Party, Basil’s instructions to guests
You have enjoyed yourself, haven’t you? ibid. Basil
I would find it a little easier to cope with some of the cretins we get in here, my nest of vipers, if I got a smidgen of cooperation from you. FAW TY TO ER. Fawlty Towers s1e4: The Hotel Inspectors, Basil to Sybil
There are some hotel inspectors in town. ibid. Sybil to Basil
How can it be so difficult to get a cheese salad. ibid. guest to Basil & Polly
It’s always a pleasure to meet someone who appreciates the boudoir of the grape. I’m afraid most people we get in here don’t know a Bordeaux from a Claret. ibid.
I can’t breathe! ibid. guest to Basil
I’m not a violent man, Mr Fawlty. ibid.
And what can I do for you three gentlemen? Aaaagh! ibid. Basil to hotel inspectors
In a moment, my little piranha fish. WARTY TOWELS. Fawlty Towers s1e5: Gourmet Night, Basil to Sybil
Mother of boy: He’s rather highly strung.
Basil: Yes he should be. ibid.
You vicious bastard! Come on! Oh my God! I’m warning you! If you don’t start! I’ll count to three, one, two, three. Right, that’s it ... I’m going to give you a damned good thrashing. ibid. Basil to car
Duck’s off. Sorry. ibid. Basil to guests
Oooh and I forgot to scrape the mould off the Cheddar this morning so remind Chef. And do try and find time to get the Moose’s head up. It’s been sitting there for two weeks. Fawlty Towers s1e6: The Germans, Sybil in hospital to Basil
Strange creatures, women. I knew one once. ibid. Major to Basil
I took her to see India. At the Oval. ibid.
The strange thing was throughout the morning she kept referring to the Indians as niggers. No no no no no, I said. Niggers are the West Indians. These people are wogs. ibid.
Anything else? Would you like the Hotel moved a bit to the left? ibid. Basil to Sybil
Enjoy the operation, dear. Let’s hope nothing goes wrong. ibid.
What is happening to this country. It’s bloody Wilson. ibid. Basil in hospital to Sybil
You need a plastic surgeon, dear. Not a doctor. ibid. Basil to hospital Sister
German? I’m sorry. I thought there was something wrong with you. ibid. Basil to Germans in lobby
They’re Germans. Don’t mention the war. ibid. Basil to Polly