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Hotel Amenities

Amenity

• A hotel amenity is something of a premium nature provided in addition to the room and its basics when renting a room at a hotel, motel, or other place of lodging.

Amenity• An "extra" service or product given to guests by the hotel, typically at no

extra charge. This term is broadly used to describe the shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, soaps and other products left in the guest room's bathroom for your use. Amenities can also refer to a service like a station to print your boarding pass in the lobby, or free parking.

Common Amenities

• Complimentary breakfast service • ATM machine • Complimentary high speed wireless Internet• Business Center with computer access & high speed Internet • In-room dining • Flat-screen televisions and iHome stations• Fully-equipped kitchens with modern appliances• Roll away beds and cribs available upon request

Upscale Amenities

• Complimentary cookies and milk • 24 hour coffee and tea service in lobby• Valet parking• Newspaper delivered to your door in the mornings• In-room dining • Conference Center• Bedside white noise sound machines

Luxury Amenities

• Nightly turn-down service and treat• Grocery delivery and stocking service upon request• Complimentary downtown town car transportation• Overnight valet parking • Complimentary evening reception featuring domestic beer, house wine, and

soft drinks• In-Suite washer and dryer• Room service available from four nearby restaurants• Four Apple iPads available (first come, first serve basis)• Same day dry-cleaning service

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Choice of 20 Fender guitars

• One of 20 Fender guitars is available for free at Chicago's Hard Rock Hotel?• Although guests do have to put down a credit card, they can keep their

chosen guitar until check out.• Choices range from a $1,600 Stratocaster to classic Telecasters and bass

guitars.• Also available are floor amps and Nixon headphones • Those that don't know a "G" chord from a "C," can tune into a streamed

70-minute lesson from guitar instructor Rico Monaco.• The hotel now offers a similar program for DJ mixers in addition to guitars.

Royal Chariot

• The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin is built to resemble an ancient British palace.• Branding itself as a wedding hotel, the Ritz offers an extravagant "royal

wedding package" that includes a Rolls Royce grand entrance, free-flowing Champagne tower, royal-themed cake and a ride on the carriage.• Non wedding guests can enjoy a 30-minute ride on the carriage around

the former British concession too - for the princely sum of RMB50,000 ($8100).

Pet Psychologist

• Hotel deLuxe offers guests' dogs acupuncture and even Reiki treatments, and has an in-house pet psychologist for guests to connect with their pets better.• Dog expert Stanley Coren can answer questions about canine

emotions and intelligence.• The service is available at these Provenance hotels: Hotel Max

(Seattle), Hotel deLuxe (Portland, Oregon), Hotel Murano (Tacoma, Washington), Hotel Lucia (Portland) and Hotel Preston (Nashville, Tennessee).

Wake-up Calls From Celebrities

• At Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, a monster hotel with 2,882 rooms, waterfalls, indoor rivers, daily light shows and more tropical vegetation than Biosphere 3, guests can opt for a rousing "Rise and Shine" wake-up call from a Who's Who of country music stars, including Vince Gill, Trace Adkins, Kellie Pickler and Wynonna Judd.• Guests might even bump into them in the flesh at the adjoining Grand

Ole Opry stage, a Nashville institution since 1925.

Sleep Concierge

• The Benjamin has been a pioneer in the trend with an in-house sleep consultant, Rebecca Robbins.• The sleep team and Robbins, co-author of the book "Sleep for

Success!," provide advice to adults and children. • Kid-size bathrobes and pillows, storybooks and dolls are available.

Kids are then rewarded with a certificate for sleeping well.• The hotel can also prepare the room for optimum napping, on

request.

Recording Studio

• In the basement of the Sunset Marquis Hotel in California is a professional recording studio that attracts some of the biggest names in showbiz, including Katy Perry, Tom Hanks, Christina Aguilera, Aerosmith and Clint Eastwood• The Nightbird studio handles tracking, editing and mixing with state-

of-the-art technology and a staff of engineers.

Kidnapping followed by a picnic

• Every couple that checks into Namale Resort and Spa on Fiji's Vanua Levu island is "kidnapped" at some point during their stay and taken to a surprise four-course picnic somewhere on the lush resort's 212 hectares.• Sometimes it's next to a waterfall, sometimes in a cave, sometimes on

a private deck overlooking a blowhole in the Koro Sea. Guests never know when they will be summoned.

Pet Goldfish

• At Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, guests can request a stand-in pet.• The Kimpton's in-room goldfish can't sit or fetch, but they can, if

scientific studies are to be believed, calm nerves, reduce anxiety and lower blood pressure.• And if that doesn't work, Kimpton also offers in-room yoga lessons.

Chocolate Parlor

• Soneva Kiri's over-the-top chocolate parlor serves non-stop free chocolate from mousses and fondues to candies, lattes and brioche.• Resort on the Thai island of Kood.

Sunshine Butler• The Club Hotel & Spa in the Channel Islands has recently introduced

their "Sunshine Butlers" to guests at the terrace pool.• The butlers offer poolside services like polishing your sunglasses,

applying sun creams and providing cooling face and foot misters, iced towels and watermelon.

Porsche Rides and Others

• Not a fan of being chauffeured around? • At Rancho Valencia, all hotel guests have access to a fleet of Porsches. • Guests at all 25hours Hotels can hire Mini Coopers during their stay.• And for eco-conscious guests, the Hyatt Regency Jeju hotel on Jeju

Island -- the "Hawaii of Korea" -- offers free electric cars.

Fragrance Butler

• At Vancouver's tiny Hotel Georgia and some other Rosewood's city hotels, there's no need to monitor perfume bottles to make sure they're less than 100 milliliters because there's no need to even pack them.• A white-gloved fragrance butler bearing 10 fragrances (five for him

and five for her) on a silver salver will knock on your door within minutes of you notifying the concierge your wrists need spritzing.