Best and Worst Hotel Conventions | Hotel Worker Explains
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One fun one I heard about was a hotel that booked a costume convention and a Baptist church convention for the same weekend. Apparently one story has a guy dressed up as the devil who was riding the elevator to the ground floor, but it stopped early. There were three Baptist ladies waiting to get on, but froze in shock when they saw him. In his evilest sounding voice he asked, "going down?" They took the next elevator.
I’d have played along.
Why yes we are…now can I talk to you about Jesus Christ? Y’all met right?😁
This is literally my dream to do!!!!
As a Baptist woman... I definitely feel for those poor ladies lol
That is definitely something I would do.
I had a similar experience with an anime convention sharing space with a conservative Christian conference. Unfortunately, the head of security (and his family) was attending the conference, so the anime group got the short end of the stick all weekend. A friend of mine got her "Night of Bishonin Pleasure" taken down a lot.
Last year I was checking into a hotel in Oklahoma, and the girls at the desk when I checked in warned me that there were people for an Alpaca convention staying at the hotel, and that they were a bit strange. I went out to smoke around 11pm, and decided to joke with the desk people on the way in. I walked up to the desk and said “hey, there is an Alpaca in pool”. The girl at the desk responded “oh you gotta be f**king kidding me, not again”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can’t! Although I do love Alpacas so I would have been in heaven
Was it wearing a swim cap at least?
When I lived in Virginia Beach the convention I remembered most was the Shriners convention. They were wild and all the little cars that they drove everywhere
In that situation, I'd immediately inform them it's a prank, but then ask ALL questions on 'again' 😂
@@christinapolander4025i get the feeling that I would probably be a bit too distracted to tell them that it was a prank. Like, “wait, what do you mean ‘again’?” Lol
While I was not a hotel employee, I did work for a science fiction convention on Long Island and one of my favorite hotel experiences was the year they booked us and a gay motorcycle club the same weekend. It was clear that the bikers were not accustomed to not being the most nonconformist group in the hotel. They stared at our attendees while none of us were even fazed by their appearance. it was so much fun!
Lol
You'd think gay bikers would be more tolerant than that... smh. This is why I don't hang out with LGBT. (Also I used to attend ICON on Long Island)
Nice! That would've been a blast!
@@racheldavin7763 It really was. I was manning the admission table to the costume party so we had folks in all sorts of crazy outfits.
I was on the con-comm of several SF conventions over the years, and the weirdest situation I recall was when one science fiction convention with a large "furry" contingent shared a hotel with a Christian Golfer's convention. After a few unfortunate run-ins at the elevator lobby, the golfers pretty much barricaded the main elevator lobby, illegally closing the fire doors and only letting "normals" get on the elevator on the ground floor. The hotel staff tried to stop this behavior, but it took the local police posting an officer on a chair to resolve the situation.
On an occasion that I was travelling for business, I was at a hotel that was hosting two groups - the tavern owners and AA. At the time I wondered how the management didn't realize what a disaster such a combination might cause.
I'm a 58 year old Christian woman. Throughout most of my life i worked in food service. Sunday's were the absolute worst, bc you would get yelled at, cussed out & treated so badly by the church people. Not to mention, they were also the messiest, most demanding & low or no tippers.
It's the demanding part that makes me mad at them. Agh! Cause I ALREADY KNOW.
This is something I saw online. A church group ate at a restaurant and as a tip they left a fake 20 dollar bill that had a bible verse on it.
Agreed 💯💯💯💯💯
Yes, had the same experience with church groups, such great witnesses for god. Amway was a bad one too.
I’ve heard this from other waitstaff too - being rude, “tipping” in scripture slips, criticizing staff for working on a Sunday while contributing to the restaurant being open on Sundays….
I still remember the consideration I've experienced from hotel staff while attending San Diego Comic-Cons. That weekend has to be one of the busiest (if not THE busiest) times of the year for them, and they were still incredibly kind and thoughtful. It really made an impact.
San Diego hospitality is some of the best I've ever experienced, down to the TSA staff at the airport - like, they cheerfully wished me a happy belated birthday when checking my ID?!
I've been in the industry for almost 40 years and 30 in Sales. I can honestly say that the majorty, not all, of church groups are terrible to deal with. There was one that I dealt with for a few years (won't say here) that we had it in their contract and on notices passed out to attendee's that they could in NO WAY proselitize to any member of staff or on hotel property. I mainly deal with large corporate type groups with professional planners and much prefer that.
From someone that had to grow up in the South... Yeah, this is kinda spot on. Churches that don't have a huge youth group are normally chill😂
Came here to say that. Church groups and MLM conventions. Worst, most entitled, rude people on the planet
Did the cannibal convention have it in their contract not to eat any staff or guests?
Food service people will agree. They hate the after service church crowd coming in. Rude, demanding and rarely tipping.
this makes a lot of sense
I worked a convention for cardiothoracic surgeons once in Dallas about 5 years ago. 99% of those doctors were absolutely wonderful, understanding of difficulties with their checking in credentials which was usually the fault of their organizer or they had given us the wrong paperwork, whatever, we got it straightened out and they went on their way. Anyway, I had just gotten over bronchitis so I still had the cough that I associated with bronchitis. I was also a smoker at the time. I had at least 3 of those doctors who heard me cough (who can control when you need to cough?) tell me that I needed to see a cardiologist. I brushed it off because I figured it was due to the bronchitis and my smoking ... guess what? 3 years later I had a heart attack so now I 1) no longer smoke, 2) see a cardiologist regularly, and 3) still have that cough. Moral of the story, if you attend/work a convention and you have something going on with you that you can't control and a specialist says something about it ... pay attention and do what they suggest.
There are some good doctors out there!
My brother is a dermatologist. Many years ago he was flying on a plane. One of the flight attendants had a mole or other spot on her face. He told her she needed to have it looked at immediately. The only problem was that she had just started her job and her medical insurance had not yet gone into effect (This was pre-ACA). She was worried about going to a physician immediately and then having a "pre-existing" condition. To this day I wonder what happened with the woman.
They say once is a coincidence, twice is happenstance, but three times means someone is trying tell you something.
I work at a Hotel Casino the worst we've had is every year with the body sculpting or weight lifting conventions. The orange oil that they use all over their bodies gets on EVERYTHING. Sheets, towels, chairs in the gaming pit. It's horrible.
Same but with Irish dancers. We had to close the pool over the oil slick that developed.
I would think the blocked up plumbing would be the worst 😖🚽🪠
Being in the hotel hospitality industry for over 25 years, I know EXACTLY which one was the meanest and rudest. You could say I “witnessed” it from my watch tower
Oh yes! I’ve “Witnessed” this rude behavior before myself!
😂
GOT Ya of course
I had a VERY strong feeling even before I clicked on the video to watch who it was. I F***** knew omg agh!
Hurt people hurt people.
anyone who has worked a sunday in any service industry definitely wouldnt be surprised about the church group being the worst.
Yep. I was raised it (don't believe, never did) and I guessed it before I even clicked on the video.
@@waffles3629same here and I DO believe, but I avoid basically any organized church and just chill with myself and my book lol (the rude thing being a huge reason I stopped going to church, you see how they treat staff once or twice and even if you believe in their god you definitely stop believing in THEM as someone to trust/follow)
@@spencerwagner903 I totally get that. I'm not religious personally, but if I was I would avoid organised religion like the plague.
Should have called in their head of church and tell everything. And make him tell his congregation to behave.
So true. In my country town in Australia, everyone dreaded the convoy after a certain church service finished up. Apparently at their services they were talking about how bad it is everything is open sunday where it used to be closed? But it didn't stop them.
I worked for a few years in a hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota in the parking garage and the best groups I remember working with were the military groups. They were the quickest to accept "sorry, we don't do free parking even for hotel guests" and they had the neatest outfits!
Maybe the real reason that Chik-Fil-A is closed on Sundays is that they know better than to deal with the after church crowd.
And as for the attitude about how long it took to handle the check, I would inform them that I would have been done a lot faster if they had used a credit card.
If it's the particular group I believe it was, they don't believe in using credit cards.
@@QueenDarkChocolate Then they better not shop at Target. I read that they're about to stop taking checks as a form of payment. Cash or card only.
I've worked in the hospitality industry for almost 20 years . We just had a church group in this past weekend and they were awful. Very condescending and judgemental of the staff.
One of the best groups we had was a gaming convention. Most of the games they were playing were roll playing games like DnD
Gamers appreciate a large area to just play their games all weekend. It's not an option they all have regularly. Since some are on a budget (college students etc), a discount or buffet would also make them very happy.
As a gamer, I can concur that most gamers are super nice (or socially awkward/shy) and are more interested in staying up all night to play games rather than party.
Haha the only convention I attend is a massive gaming convention, and we're always told we're great guests, cuz most groups are fairly quiet playing their games, don't trash the rooms, and spend a lot of money in the community as a whole. Good to see some of that sentiment confirmed lol
most tech shows are really nice
Seven years in hospitality and she is still that chipper. Wow! That is amazing. Keep smiling Jessica.
Yeah because she also does this as her side gig, went to school, family, and probably supportive friends too.
I worked a casino hotel for years. The worst for us was always the local government conventions. They all thought they were the most important person checking in, but they most definitely were not even the 30th.
The second was the Masons. For some reason they did not want women checking them in. We had 22 agents at the desk (it was a large hotel) and 90% women agents. What a pain!
Last, my favorite were the undertakers. They had the most fun. Their humor was amazing. It was a bit strange when they started testing the caskets, though!
My worst convention experience as an attendee, was a Science Fiction convention. Year two of this con was 2000, and we were bumped to a hotel across the city from our normal hotel, because of a long standing reservation.
The new hotel had never hosted a Science Fiction convention before. The lines on Friday at check in were obscene. They had pulled all but two staff off the front desk to cancel reservations begining at 6pm- despite the fact that most of these folks were standing in line trying to check in. Friday night at midnight, the hotel shut off the air conditioning in public spaces, in an attempt to get us to return to our rooms.
Management refused to allow our guests of honor to sign for meals or room service.
Unfortunately for management, one of our attendees was an upper level officer with AmEx. Monday morning, he showed up with a team. They confiscated all the AmEx credit card machines, and scraped the AmEx card symbols off all the signage.
Wow, talk about faafo.
Years ago, I worked for a medical journal in Boston. A colleague and I traveled to Atlanta to meet with people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help them with one of their publications. At the airport, we gave the taxi driver the name of our hotel, and he asked, "Oh, are y'all here for the poetry convention?" When we told him we were just visiting CDC, he went on at length to describe the poetry convention, and what a big annual event it was, and how he was getting fares from people coming in from all over the South. I commented that it was delightful and encouraging that Atlanta could support an event like that. When we checked in at the hotel, we saw a lot of people wearing bright colored blazers with logos of livestock feed brands. Then we saw the banner: "Welcome to the Southern States POULTRY Convention."
As a former Youth asst-leader I can tell you that our diocese big trips (I was in) had controls on our kids.
I would get up to the hotel before the buses arrives, line up everything let the staff know they were welcome to find me if there was a problem.
When the trip was done I checked rooms, busted some of the kids regarding the mess in each room, worked to be sure they picked up their stuff and would drive back with all the left overs the STILL left!
The biggest push backs I got was when I posted on the leader only f/book page some of the rooms and messes I found!! It embarrassed the leaders of those kids!!!
GOOD, I say do better!
My youth leaders were NOT afraid to send kids home early when we were on trips (at the expense of their parents), if any of us were disrespectful, didn't cleanup after ourselves, didn't listen, etc. It drove me crazy when I heard of other youth groups (in our same denomination) being loud, disrespectful, and messy because I knew that with cooperative parents and youth leaders, it really wasn't that difficult to get us to behave. We understood that we weren't just representing ourselves, but our families, our Church, and ultimately and most importantly Christ, and for the most part, keeping those things in mind helped us to behave and be respectful.
Conventions are the reason why I quit working in a hotel. I loved the human interaction part of the job but I felt that professionally there's no room for growth. All those conventions happening in the hotel made me realise that I want to be on their side of events. And now my name appears in the credit scenes of several video games 😊
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Congrats! What a wonderful way to discover your passion!
Which games if I may ask?
@@pokedude720 Would you openly reveal your full name online? No? Then shut up
@@pokedude720 Of course you can ask that 😊 I've translated a few games: Pineford - a detective visual novel with lovecraftian elements, demo is available on steam for free; Wendy - adventure clicker, heavily inspired by Addams family but actually has a pretty good story on its own. It was the most challenging game I had to translate so far because it had poems and lots of wordplay but it was also a very creative project so I ended up having o lot of fun anyway (available on Google Play); Somnium - fantasy visual novel with romance elements. I was part of a team of translators. It was really cool to hear my name mentioned in one of the game podcasts. I've translated a couple of other games but they are either not out yet or not in English. I'm also testing one game that should be out on steam soon called Arkhe. Genuinely one of my favorite games (fantasy-adventure visual novel). They will also be hiring me as a translator for the next episode and I'm really exited. As I said, I'm a genuine fan of the game. I've tested several other games some of which I would be happy to recommend but they are in Russian and can only be found on a Russian platform so I doubt you'd be able to play them (which is really sad)
Anyway, this may not sound a lot but since I didn't have any prior experience in gaming industry starting in this field was quite challenging so I'm proud of what I have now and plan on doing a lot more :)
I go to a furry convention every year and I always make sure to be polite to the hotel staff
My brother does too. He said the one the hotel manager was pretty rude to them, like did not want them there at all. But they all seemed like fun guests according to the pics and videos my brother was posting
It's annoying because OTOH, furry conventions can have a well-deserved bad rep. Confurence, FWA, just to mention two specific cases by name. But others are welcomed with open arms because of the general positive impact on the area. Furnando's Sandwiches, if you know, you know.
@@eldergeek6077 Of course SF/F cons are generally boomer havens and slowly dying away.
@@bar-1studios not sure which one he was referring to. Honestly I didn’t know he was into that until recently. I think he thought we would be more judgmental about it. I’m like “do whatever makes you happy! I turned 40 and started playing video games and collecting action figures. Like what can I say about it?” 😆
i live around Pittsburgh and everyone gets excited for Anthrocon and seeing people in their suits everywhere! it's a wild novelty that people love to see lol
I worked at a small (101 room) hotel through high school and university. The worst for me were the weddings. People getting drunk in the hallways, loud, and obnoxious. At one wedding, a drunk guest pulled the fire alarm causing the fire department to turn up. Everyone had to evacuate the hotel. While the firefighters were inside dealing with the alarm, one of the drunk wedding guests stole the fire chiefs fire helmet off one of the trucks. The chief was PISSED. He threatened to bring in the police and start arresting people. I had to get one of the more sober guests to find out who did it and return the helmet. They finally did, and the chief decided not to press charges. That was not a fun night.
The worst time I have ever had a hotel, I was doing security for a tour group with a bunch of high schoolers (in short my job was making sure that they stayed in their rooms and were not too loud and disturbing the hotel).
But they weren't the issue, no, there was a police convention going on, and a police chief got drunk, pulled a fire alarm, and while we all had to be outside due to the alarm, stole a tricycle from a nearby home, and rode it around in the middle of the street while shouting and swearing. A Lt with his department came around apologizing for his behavior, but blue-line, nobody would do anything to actually Stop him.
Weddings can be *super* bad when they're alongside fandom conventions, mainly because the bridezillas can get *super* uptight if not all attention is on them on *their* day.
weddings are the worst
Yeah cause I'm willing to bet you over 50% of people who are married are RELIGIOUS.
@@wowwiz1187 Yeah, we call that 50% "The husbands".
I was at a hotel in Fort Worth to visit Tandy. I stepped into an elevator with a bunch of people. They decided that one of their members was speaking in tongues. Half the elevator were attempting to cast out her demon. The other half was praising the miracle that was happening. I was just glad I was on a low floor.
If you love dealing with dog people as they check in, you should look at working at The Riding Academy Hotel at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala. The hotel and rooms are specifically designed to welcome dogs so they could have more dog events at the WEC.
I had heard about the troll cosplayer dying her skin in a bathtub, but I didn't know it was a *hotel* bathtub. 😱
Hoping for the dyed troll not having ink allergies, could have died from that.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know if it would work on a bathtub after an extended soak, but Simple Green cleaner takes permanent marker off of walls and cars.
The shock when she said "seven HUNDRED dollars", though. Makes me feel terrible because that really is an oh-no-this-is-a-disaster amount to a lot of people, but I was like is that all? Can't have been that exciting if that was the worst that happened?
@@erichanastacio9695 She did get alcohol poisoning though
Homestuck cosplays were banned from a lot of conventions because of her, but what's worse is that she actually got incredibly sick. It was a mix of sharpie ink bottles and 70% alcohol she was soaking in, and the people she was sharing the room with were strangers. If you google "homestuck cosplay sharpie bath", the first result should be a tumblr post with the original incident, as well as a follow-up from a friend of the cosplayer.
I've heard that cruise workers love the Metal cruises because the passengers are always really polite and much less demanding than the more typical cruise passenger.
Metal heads are the coolest people! As a single woman, going to metal concerts is one of the few places I’m not scared someone might hurt me because most of the people are awesome, and if someone were to try anything, everyone else has your back. The only people we don’t tolerate are assholes!😂
When she was building up to the worst one, anyone else with restaurant experience immediately say “it was a church group!”
The after-church crowd on Sundays were always the rudest, most demanding, most condescending customers.
And you’d bend over backwards for them and tolerate their rudeness and condescension as if it wasn’t happening with a smile, and they’d tip you with a fake $20 bill that said something about your true fortune being in heaven and info about their church.
Is this phenomenon just in my city?
I was actually expecting a MLM convention to be the worst, with every single person trying to 'pitch' every single staff member on repeat.
Church would have been my second guess.
Unfortunately, as a Christian, I was saying it before I even began the video!!! It really saddens me that the very people that profess to follow Christ are the same ones that cause others to stay away from him!!
You know, they just spent the morning being told that they were all going to heaven. At least as long as they gave the church 10% of their earnings. So, what do you expect.
You nailed it. Praise the lord in Sunday church and turn into the devil at the restuarants they go to after church
Not exclusive to your city. When I waited tables, I hated working on Sundays because the after church crowd was the worst. More demands and complaints than any other group plus they typically hardly tipped, if at all, and I regularly received those fake bills and pamphlets as tips. They would run you ragged and then complain in order to try to get their food reduced or comped. Not even legitimate complaints. Things like we didn’t have enough crayons for the kids or space for them to run around, or that we had to seat people near them because we were busy, or they didn’t read the menu so they ordered something that they didn’t like. My favorite was one group that let regularly let their kids run out of control and they would trip waitstaff and guests, try to run into the kitchen and bar, smear food all over the place including on other people, and use the pay phone to call 911 repeatedly. No matter what we said, the group would not supervise their children. It finally came to a head when they made so many prank calls to 911 on the pay phone in a single visit that the police showed up to give a warning and we had to ban them from the restaurant
We opened in Feb.1999. In March we had schools coming in for a sporting event. The landscaping had been only about a month also. When housekeeping enter one of the ground floor rooms they found the students had removed the screen, and passed plants into the room. The corner was this little garden of what HAD been outside the day before. The was a tree in the corner, bushes all around and the white rocks filling in all the areas in between. It covered an area of about 3 ft to the ac unit, 4 or 5 ft toward the desk and just inches from the bed. The coaches were called into the room, pictures were taken and a bill was presented. Carpeting, paint for the walls, the screen they broke and of course a bill for re-landscaping the area. Some of the plants didn’t survive since they were yanked up. That school was banned from ever staying at our property again.
There's a joke that I heard many years ago-that you could tell who was from a church attending one of those conventions: They'd show up with a copy of the 10 Commandments, and a $100 bill. And they made sure that they didn't break either one while they were at the convention.
It's interesting to see the winner of worst. In the 1950s my grandmother worked as a florist in London dealing with a lot of hotels and got all the gossip from staff. The worst group was a certain American Preacher whose people were noted for being rude, demanding and not tipping.
As someone who is a preacher, it's sad but not surprising how many folk come to church, but don't live Christianly.
Let me guess...Billy Graham?
@pauletteb6393 to quote the original BBC house of cards "you might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment"
I'm not surprised that Jess identified a church group as one of her most difficult experiences. A while back I had a good rapport with the senior pastor of my church (we were both military veterans) and he talked me into becoming the congregation president. During the crash of 2008, our contributions started to fall off and we were looking at cutting church staff. Since I was congregation president, it was my responsibility to talk to the congregation about our funding needs and I was the one who received all the calls from angry members when contributions didn't pick up and we finally let a couple of staff members go. I finished my term as president and haven't been back since.
Certain denominations believe that they are saved by the sacrifice of Jesus, so no matter what, they are going to Heaven. As such, they behave badly, because what they do has no influence on where they are spending eternity.
I've been working in restaurants/bars my entire adult life (one hotel bar, that's how I ended up here), and even in "normal" restaurants, church people are the WORST. They run you ragged, as if you have no other tables, act so condescending, then tip terribly.
I don't know about doctor's fields of specialty, but boating vs yachting can be very easily explain, yachts are usually own by rich people. Most rich people are rude XD
Yeah I hope most people would know that 😒
Whereas boats are owned by people who were rich but then they bought a boat?
No shade, I used to own a horse (RIP) and people would get very wide-eyed, "Wow, how much does that cost?" "All of it. It costs all of it."
@@kray3883 Boats are expensive but not super expensive, it's like buying a second or third car, the poorest people can't, but it's still affordable for like most of the middle class ^^
There's not just poor people and rich people in the world XD
@@krankarvolund7771 I thought it was like horses, though, it's not so much the initial cost as the ongoing maintenance, storage/housing, fees, the inevitable desire to buy more accessories/upgrades, etc. (The number of sweet colleagues I have who hear about a horse for sale and come to me all excited about the very cheap sounding price...)
As a dog owner and one of those ladies that travel with dogs and competing with them, we love a nice friendly hotel. If the front desk are like you, we'll also likely to suggest it for others in and outside our community. And it's so lovley to have an extra towel prepared in the room and I've also gotten a treat bag, coupons, suggestions on walks and so on. That is good customer service and as you said, we know each other and if you behave bad that rumor are spread quickly and can be pretty damaging. Drunk judges have been banned😅
I used to go to sci-fi conventions. One time we were booked with a woman’s religious group. They LOVED us! After the shock wore off. They kept crashing the room parties!😂
Years ago when sister worked at McDonalds, on Sunday nights the after church crowd would come in and trash the place. It was so bad they either closed on the lobby or removed the condiment packets, etc. Otherwise they would spend 3 hours cleaning up the mess.
If they frequent that place, maybe the establishment should put up a sign:
"Are you a good church people, or BAD church people? What you do on Earth (specially in this establishment) would reflect if Heaven would let you in OR NOT! We both know that they don't let in people who are loudmouth, rude, and use religion to belittle others. Being WITH the church doesn't guarantee entrance to heaven, it's WHAT YOU DO UNTO OTHERS that matters!"
@@erichanastacio9695But that isn't church teaching. Most christian churches teach that believing in Jesus is all you need to get into heaven.
@@tedthurgatehuh? Maybe in the USA. About half of the Christians in Germany grow up learning, that only being a good human being helps them to anything. There is no forgiving sins by praying or paying monkey in the Lutheranian (and probably other) churches.
@@jennyh4025 There is a movement that is worldwide though predominantly in that US called Evangelicals. About a quarter of the US population call themselves evangelical. It exists within all the protestant denominations. They teach that originally God required a sacrifice to forgive your sins. So you sacrifice a goat, have your sins forgiven, have unclean thought about something and get run over by an ox cart. Well you aren't going to heaven because you died in sin. So to fix this, God sent his only son to die for our sins. He is the sacrifice that gives us forgiveness and all we need do is believe in him and our sins are forgiven.
It is nuts to me. I mean wouldn't it be God who made the rules, can't he just change them? Why have this complicated system of sacrifice? And if God is perfect, why he set up an unworkable system that had to be fixed?
@@tedthurgate what you described reminds me of the medieval Catholic Church. You did something that was against the rules pay and pray to have your sins forgiven.
Even though I’m now an atheist, I really prefer the „progressive“ Lutheranian church I grew up in; sins can only be judged by god when you die so you have to be a good person all the time, Genesis was the best explanation they had at the time,..
Place to share the Glitter Incident!
The first year (i THINK 2005?) that GenCon was in Indianapolis (GenCon being at the time THE gaming convention, along with DragonCon. Not sure if it still is? Too disabled to attend anymore. Anyway, glitter!)
So, i was used to hotels that *know*. Didn't occur to me at check in to say anything...
But this particular year, my costume included a mask drawn on in embossing glitter. Now, I'd brought a tarp to lie in the tub, and we did everything we could to keep the glitter localized and get rid of any extra. But as everyone knows about glitter...i mean, i was still finding glitter in my hair OVER A MONTH LATER.
But we TRIED, and mostly succeeded - I'm pretty sure most of the stray glitter was from me showering each night.
I ABSOLUTELY left a hundred dollar tip, on TOP of the 30 dollars each of the people i was sharing with left (and there were six of us in the room) and we had been leaving individual smaller tips all thru the 5 days we were there (checked in Thursday before start, Tuesday after over) and i was tiping HEAVY, because GLITTER.
The room wasn't in my name, and i was worried about my friend being charged extra for MY glitter. So i convinced him to check out with me they're.
And told the front desk clerk if there was an extra fee for the glitter, charge ME.
She was like "the glitter" and i very briefly explained costume/ makeup included glitter, we tried, we tipped a LOT, but.
And she stared at me blankly, and repeated "the glitter"?
And i said yes, if the cleaning was beyond what the tip covered, bill ME please.
Again "The glitter?"
So after a dozen rounds, i finally was like "yes! The glitter! You can see some on my face and hands, this red sparkling pattern is GLITTER, wth?" I wasn't yelling just really frustrated.
She goes and gets the manager.
The manager is like "do we need to call the cops?" And I'm like "no seriously, why do you people not know what glitter is, every parent is terrified of arts and crafts day because glitter gets EVERYWHERE no matter how careful you are. I get that. But why would this mean cops?!"
And then the manager looks at the clerk in the most "done with you manner" I've EVER seen, and asks her in a whisper shout WHY she thought GLITTER meant we'd been cooking DRUGS in our room.
My jaw DROPPED.
We were not charged any fees. And were given a voucher for some amount off our next stay (i mean, guy whose name was on the room.)
I went upstairs to leave a bit more tip - i had like 20 left - and caught the housekeeper in our room and handed it to her, and just kept laughing and laughing, so.
No, i don't know why the clerk heard "my costume included a LOT of glitter" and translated that to "so, was just casually MAKING ILLEGAL DRUGS, as you do". We never even opened the mini bar!
Indy took a long while to get used to the Con. And it WAS the first year. But even still...!
Actually, I do remember back in the day there was a form of meth known as 'Glitter' that would inflame your skin or something? They warned us about it in school since several street names for drugs like that sound like candy (Although I am pretty sure this was in 8th grade, they still wanted us to be careful). That clerk was certainly not listening at all, wonder if she had been through some bad experiences with drugs for that to be her first reaction. That or someone still needed to wake up lol
That year, the RPGA put it's judges into a hotel that was partially converted railroad station, so some of the rooms were actual railroad cars (the head judge coordinator John, got one of those car rooms, while most of the rest of us were up in the building)
Haha, fun story i heard. Years ago, My local GameStop was a weekly visit for me. I got to learn the employees, even the managers( even though i found them rude). I went visit one week and they were closed on a friday, odf. Next week, i go in and start looking around. I get to the counter and , during sale, ask the woman behind the about them being closed.
Apparently the manager and assistant manager went to the GameStopmsnagrt convention and made complete fools of themselves. One got totally drunk( and possiblly other drugs) and started fights with people. The other got arrested for soliciting a prositute and decided to call the regional manager to bail him out.
Needless to say, they were both let go and the regional manager had to quickly return to town and get the locks on building changed and contact employees to explain the Management change.
I went to a Star Trek / Sci Fi convention in Germany a earlier this year and I think the staff liked us: some were even wearing the Star Trek communicators on their uniforms
No they just hadn’t upgraded from flip phones 🤣
@@lindab.716Always one person answering with a smart A** comment! I have a Star Trek communicator that I’ve had since about 1990 - and I’m probably olde r than your grandma!!
@@sandybruce9092 I’m afraid you can’t be older than my grandma. I’m a social security collecting Nana of 3 and I watched Star Trek when it first aired.
I assume they're Next Gen communicators (or later, I haven't watched ST in a while) since the OP said the were worn on the staff's uniforms. But I could be incorrect.
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I live just outside Indianapolis and attend Gencon every year. We are always being told by the people working at the hotels, restaurants, cafes, etc how they always look forward to Gencon. People are friendly, good tippers, and very understanding. As you mentioned they also love seeing all the cosplay. I'm sure not everyone who attends Gencon is nice especially as the convention grows in size and popularity but I hope we mostly are.
My experience at gaming conventions has been that, in general, gamers are polite, welcoming, understanding, and generous.
TH-cam had recommended me on of your shorts and it was so good. I later was telling my co worker about it and my co worker knew exactly who I was talking about. We both watch your videos and as customer service people, we very much enjoy them. ❤❤
I'll vouch for you, church conventions are awful. I was helping out with breakfast while this one specific church group was staying and one lady walked in, took an entire tray of cinnamon rolls that I had just put out and walked away back up to her room with it.
Hopefully it wasn't for next week's bake sale.
I'm so sorry that you had that experience with Christians. As a woman who identifies with being Christian, I'm just so sorry. Breaks my heart.
Real Christians, and I don't mean just those who attend church, but those who honestly live the life they are taught, are the most wonderful people ever. Unfortunately, just going to church doesn't mean you're a good person. You have to walk the walk also, and that means kindness to others, right? I've heard about church people routinely being bad tippers and rude to restaurant servers. Leaving a Bible tract instead of a decent tip won't pay the rent.
While it's certainly frustrating remember in 2 Peter 2:1,2 when Peter was discussing how false teachers would appear among Christians he added
"many will follow their acts of loose conduct, and on account of these the way of the truth will be spoken of abusively"
So the terrible behaviour by these ones proves what God's word says will happen is what happens. Keep strong.
Yet so typical. Hypocrites.
It was a 750 fee for thr sharpie bath because she actually stained more than just the bathtub. She also stained the walls and the sink.
There really is nothing like DragonCon as the most “hotel anime convention” of all anime conventions. Even Katsucon, which is huge and entirely contained in the Gaylord, doesn’t have the insane hotel con culture of DragonCon. I mean people have extreme loyalty to their favorite hotel and its offerings. Plus the hotels each choose to have their own themes and throw crazy lobby/patio dance parties that aren’t even organized by the convention! And I’m not even going to get into the Marriott Cult of the Carpet, which I proudly made a cosplay for last year (and for anyone who doesn’t know, that’s where the weird geometric pattern on that one Trex is from). Love DragonCon❤
What happens when the DragonCon people find out they are in a no smoking hotel.
@@charlesgantz5865 There are designated smoking areas outside each of the main hotels (except maybe the one that just changed brands. Not sure if that one changed). I haven’t heard anyone complain about not being allowed to smoke inside their hotel room, but I’m sure some people have been upset. They either dealt with it or found a different hotel…. Or paid damage fees
@@charlesgantz5865 ... they just smoke outside. it's not hard to find the smoking sections.
@@charlesgantz5865We go to the nearby speakeasy that has a walk-in humidor and smoke a cigar with a cocktail.
@charlesgantz5865 - many of the DragonCon Attendees have stopped smoking ages ago, and it is illegal to smoke in 99.9% of the hotels in the US, EXCEPT in SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED rooms
"Homestuck incident"
I instantly hissed and winced. I think morphsuits had just came out but weren't as readily available/easily to get.
But thank goodness that they are a thing that has saved many of pools, tubs, furniture, and merch. Praise be to the morphsuit.
I’m a bus driver and in my experience church groups vary greatly from one church to the next. Some are really nice, but others are not.
We were in a hotel at the same time as an MLM once. They were HORRIBLE. Very rude, upset that anyone else was there. They tried to make the free breakfast an exclusive to them thing. The first day they put up signs the staff had to take down repeatedly. The second day they came down with boxes with the company logo and kept cleaning it out.
I hear this time and again about MLM conventions. The breakfast one is new to me, though. Just…wow. 😮
Reason #4,000 I dislike MLMs.
One year The World Science Fiction Convention shared the venue with a national religious organization, and all I can say is that the ladies hanging around the hotel lobbies were not there for the nerds and geeks (no mistake, there was a LOT of action going on around the nerd side of things, but generally not the paid kind).
Went to what was supposed to be a professional management conference for the company I worked for at the time. What proceeded to happen was an orgy-filled drunk fest interrupted by daytime meetings. I was one of the youngest managers there but for some odd reason, I ended up having to babysit people that were years older than me, many of whom were married and had families. It got so bad that a number of the attendees were kicked out of the premises. I also had to repeatedly peel the president of the company off me because he was insistent that we have private meetings to discuss my future with the company. When I got home, I immediately started looking for another job.
I worked in a casino hotel right on the Las Vegas strip. I was surprised about conventions that focused on children (not in a creepy way), little league, chear leading, marshall arts, etc. all focused on children. I think the adult organizers booked the location for themselves. There was nothing for the kids to do on their free time but get into trouble.
I’m a church person myself, but I’ve heard from so many people in the hospitality and travel businesses that church conventions bring the worst customers, that I believe it. Maybe that would be a good topic for someone’s psychology dissertation.
I was a housekeeper until ANY other job became available. HATED that job.
Once we had *two* conventions-a large club with lots of middle aged people obviously there for a good time. Lots of coolers, they had a suite with a big table and it was covered in containers of food and bottles of booze and mixers. I'm thinking mess, entitlement, puking, fights ☹️
The other group was a Christian affiliated youth club, teens 15-18 with an adult staying in each room. Should be all good, right?
Complete opposite. When checkout came, the partyers packed and headed out. The rooms weren't bad at all.
However, everyone was there until almost midnight cleaning the kids rooms. It was awful. I mean management was vacuuming and pulling trash and dirty glasses (half of them were full of tobacco spit. One room I had one of the girls had a stomach bug and the toilet was covered in dried poop. It took an hour just to clean that. A manager came in to thank me for staying and screeched to a halt in the doorway. She had a wad of $5 bills and she peeled off two watching me scrape away at the mess, then she added one more and set them on the sink outside and took off.
Another housekeeper told me she was in a room one day and the chaperone asked a kid to put something in the trash. Kid says "No, this person gets paid to take out the trash, she can get it."
Secret-we are paid to take out trash that is in the trashcan. It is acceptable to pick up an item, clean under it and put it back. It might be something highly important to the guest, you can't know. Even a half full glass, they might not be done with it.
Before our church members left for a convention, the main sermon topic was about representing a Christian attitude and being nice. The speaker was very specific about what 'nice' at a hotel meant. Karen behavior was described and shamed! I was just sitting there with my mouth agape because I couldn't help wondering what sparked that super focused presentation. (I was also glad that I had not attended the previous convention! lol )
Weirdest convention occurrence: We had a dentist group in, and one of the panels was a hands on dental implant demo. On pig heads. After the demo they chucked the pig heads into our normal trash cans, thinking that as the last event in that room for the night no one would care.
The houseman that collected the trash that night got the scare of her life. The instructor was extremely apologetic and tipped the traumatized worker $100. I let them know that if they had any special requirements, like biohazard disposal, to contact me or the convention coordinator (Who would then contact me. I was the only person with biohazard training that wasn't in the housekeeping department) and I'd handle it. Wouldn't bother me at all.
Another group we got often were the Army Corps of Engineers. They were always great. Super respectful towards the employees, great sense of humor, and had a tendency to do silly things when Entitled asshats were misbehaving. Had one colonel who got to witness a platinum guest throw a fit because she thought she could do a walk-in to the hotel in the middle of tourist season. (In Alaska. The city was so overbooked the university dorms were running a tourist hostel.) I turned to the colonel and asked him how long it would take his team to build the lady a room. "22 hours." was his reply.
I've recently been to a small (max 150 people) convention in the UK for the fourth time. And honestly I think we'd come off in the mostly nice but a bit weird category. The staff are used to us or have been prepared for us but the other guests and the users of the fitness centre that's also at the hotel for sure get confused. One of our regular activities is a hunt the X (X being a specific animal) in toy form all over the hotel. There are about 50 of them hidden with numbered name tags. Also a team scavenger hunt. And the most bemusing of all. The clone character march. No this is not Star Wars. But we also spend our evenings playing board games in the big meeting room. And largely we're just a bunch of nerds discussing books and associated stuff.
I was fully expecting you to say that a lot of the church group's checks bounced.
Me too - was preparing for the worst ;)
Maybe that's why they verified them before accepting them.
My wife has an interesting story about the time her kids’ marching band was staying at a hotel on one side and a swingers party was going on on the other side. 😳
My mother worked as a maid for 3 years on Treasure Island in St. Pete, FL and there were really nasty stories that always seemed to involve those who were there for their churches conventions.
I have the most wonderful memory of being at a Star Trek con. Many people were out in the hallway by the elevators practicing for the costume call. There was a blue Andorian singing "Am I Blue", The Howard Wienstien Monks chanting "Howard Wienstien for Godhood", my group getting the timing right for the giant tumbling tribble. Various other costumes and skits in action around us. The elevator opens a maid looks out takes a breath closes the door and goes back down. She refused to step onto the floor can't figure out why we were all having a blast.
I was NOT expecting Jess to say the word homestuck today lmao
I’m working at a convention hotel now, actually. Quite large, and I gotta say, of all the medical people I’ve met, it’s been surgeons that have been the meanest. Them and radiologists are just impatient and really angry drunks.
Same experience working in healthcare. OR nurses are pretty snotty too.
Yep, as a chronic patient I agree.
As a pediatrician, I, too, am afraid of surgeons!
The surgeon I had recently was an awful human being! At the pre-op meeting, he was unobservant and didn't listen. And after the operation I discovered that he didn't repair what he was supposed to repair.
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I hope someone took away his medical license.
I'm upset to hear that the church group was so rude. They should be the nicest group of all. Loved hearing about the food groups and what they would do. They understand that when staying at the hotel, they represent the company.
The church groups should be on model behavior since they are also representing the "Company". For shame on them as what they are actually trashing is God's name!
@@Anagrams458 Absolutely true!
I’ve heard similar issues from restaurants serving the after church crowd, rude, demanding and more inclined to leave tracts than tips
They are hypocrites in so many ways.
Sadly it’s always the Church groups who are THE WORST! The worst! The entitlement was beyond infuriating, and the attendees who had kids literally would just leave them to run like banshies and hotel staff would end up like babysitters. The number of items broken, rooms trashed, and most complaints after a stay were always from a church group.
Not a convention, but my parents booked a hotel one day and wanted to ask if they could bring along their small dog.
My father: One last question: can we bring our toy poodle?
Male desk clerk, unironically: Listen mister, you can bring _any toys you want._
My father didn't know how to respond, so he just said thank you and hung up 😂😂😂
Wow, this video brings back memories. As a member of the fire service I have attended many conventions for the fire service and was in charge of booking blocks of rooms for a local convention. One year in particular a bunch of firefighters caused so much damage, I had to go to the motel and apologize for the behavior, I was told to not worry about it the police were worse.
I worked at a hotel that was owned by a ministry that may or may not be in Virginia Beach, Virginia and the church groups were rude to us as well. One religious convention, which may or may not go by the name Benny Hinn Ministries, was the rudest of the rude. He was rude, his staff was rude, his followers were rude. It was so bad I swore to myself I'd quit my job before i worked another one.
The one ministry that was nice was Joyce Meyers. She came to the front deck & asked if any of her staff was rude to us. We said no ma'am...they had all been nothing but nice. She said good, because being rude tarnishes their testimony. I asked if we could clone her.
I can also vouch for how nice sci-fi/fantasy conventions are, but the best convention i ever worked was a state Harley Owners Group. The experience of standing in the parking lot, feeling & hearing the rev of hundreds of H-Ds firing up is one of my favorite memories of my time in the Hospitality Industry.
I went to an AS9100 lead auditor class (business professionals) and the hotel was also having a convention for body modifications. You could easily tell who was part of what convention.
I work as a night auditor and if you ask me the best group would be theatre people and the worst would be a tie of all 3 (church group, sports team esp boys/mens team and mlm group). A honorable mention would be dance group - I just had an incident last night with them that made me want to kick out their whole block. Long story short, a few of them has been trouble makers for the past few nights but last night they vandalized the complementary bar area. All tea bags, sugars and sweeteners where dumped with sticky liquid (coffee with creamer or just the creamer) rendering them useless. Same thing was done to one of the filled coffee pots and a box of our splenda refill thats in a cupboard. There was so much wasted, I was so angry at 5am.
I worked at a small hotel and every year we had a Star Trek convention. They were a lot of fun to be around. It didn't hurt that I was a Trekkie too. One year, my last year working there, they got really rowdy. Someone had brought 4 gallons of moonshine to the party! One of the rooms had a large concave dent in the wall, about the size of a human torso to be precise. They got billed for that one.
We also had a marble convention once. You could find all kinds of marbles! Most of them were antique but quite a few were hand made! One of the vendors also brought in glass tops (the kind you spin) and I bought one. It is a gorgeous clear blue. That was about 20 years ago now and I still have it.
Long time Hotel Employee here.
The worst group was by far an irish dance competition. They had signed a many year contract back before our hotel had renovations so they were staying basically for pocket change, and in return every single room was absolutely trashed.
All the sheets, pillows, mattresses, sinks, bathtubs, and showers were stained orange with the spray tan. One room had orange footprints on the carpet. The pool had to be closed because it developed an oil slick. They fought every damage charge and were just unnecessarily rude the entire way.
When it was time to renew the contract they were willing to pay the now much higher price. We basically said "Thanks but no."
Why would an Irish oriented group use spray tan? That seems entirely unnecessary and I say that as a pasty white person of actual Irish descent.
Yuk
Oh my goshhh im so pleasantly surprised you like anime conventions! It's been a minor curiosity of mine about how those types of cons are percieved by the general hospitality industry (seeing as they borrow so much property/space) and it's so sweet to learn that some stuff enjoys having it around. And the fact that you personally like anime and cosplay is something I just found out despite having followed you for so many months now is even more of a delightful surprise!
There can be some weird stuff going on, (Not as weird as at the furcons) but the kids are usually well-behaved.
I'm always shocked, having been staff at an anime convention for years.
You basically spend the weekend creating a *city* comprised almost entirely of (horny) teenagers away from their parents and you're surprised that things do get bad quick.
I would guess, that anime, sci-fi and metal fans are the nicest (as a community, not necessarily individuals), because they either actually believe in being good people or are calm because they can let off steam through their music.
If I had to choose a convention or a music festival, it would be a sci-fi convention (because I don’t quite get anime) and Wacken or another metal festival, because the people attending are on average very nice.
In college, Jess had a part time job as a party princess, dressing as a non mouse house princess for local parties.
She also is/was in the Orlando Area, and so worked at the house of mouse for awhile, and would wear similar outfits (bounding?) When visiting the park. I think she may have even knocked the Gaston face character out of character for a bit
A few years ago on a trip to Vegas, a bunch of Trojan employees were on our flight. Yes, the condom company. Several balloons were made in the back of the plane.
I went to Dragoncon last summer, and it was my first ever hotel convention. I had the best time ever, and everyone was so nice. I can't wait to go back again, but it's going to be a few years. I got to meet some of my favorite authors on the planet, and meet so many people who I've been friends with over social media. 10/10 experience
Ms. Vanel is so cute and enthusiastic. I love her videos!
Hotel in west Virgina told me they loved the Harley Division convention very good people to deal with and very respectful! The one year for a BMW convention was a lot different!
Customer service worker here and the dog convention story triggered something in me. 😂Work at a college bookstore. Completely separate from the college, we're run by an independent company. Anyway I had this alumni call in asking why we didn't have any merch for their specific school and who he could talk to about getting merch for that school in stock. And I had to explain that I, my manager, and even *their* manager couldn't do anything to help. We just sell what we're given. Happened not even a week ago so your story just instinctively triggered a reaction lol.
You are so pleasant. I've worked in the past as a store salesman. Customer service is everything. As a rep for that store, hotel, etc, you are expected to wear a smile on your face at all times. As you are aware, THAT can be very difficult. Continued success in this, and any future endeavors.
We had high school wrestlers that would stay at the hotel and everyone hated them
We would but them all in the same section of the hotel and turn off the elevators because they were so notorious for breaking elevators by packing it and jumping in them
After 3 consecutive years of calling the fire department and $4,000+ in repairs they lost elevator privileges at the hotel
I work at a convention center, and I can relate to all of this. I've actually worked with AKC and the Boat show, and I can confirm. In fact, all these shows you're mentioning I've worked. I'm starting to think we work in the same area.
I go to a small convention every spring and this year too many people had to pull out so we didn’t make the room block. Luckily we have such a good reputation with the hotel staff they will let us come next year, but we will be doing our best to make sure more people can come too.
My boyfriend worked at a higher end hotel for years. Their "worst" group they had were crop dusters. Crop dusters are crazy! One guy, drank too much, stripped down to his socks and ran through the hallways yelling "I'm an airplane!!" and would also make airplane noises.
I used to work at a bookstore and in my experience, the worst, rudest, most self-centered and obnoxious customers... 9/10 of them were shopping in the Christian section or holding a Bible. (The other 1 was always in Kids.) Never had a problem with folks who were shopping for books from the other religious sections.
I worked in the kids section at B&N during Grad school in the mid 2000s. The relatives buying books for kids were the worst. "I would like suggestions for an 8 year old girl." As a school librarian (and this being another side job), I would recommend every series, ever book, every kind of media for that age group. "No, they won't like that. No, they have that. No, no, no"" Welp, Those are your only options. Go away now.
I worked in various bookstores for a number of years and 3 instances come to mind. First one, had a man come in for a Joel Osteen book that he demanded have never been touched by another person. I went to hand him the book he wanted as was company policy and he yelled at me that he didn’t want anything that my filthy hands had touched and the book could not have been touched by anyone. I looked at him and said, “How Christian of you” and walked away. How on earth did he think the book was printed, boxed, shipped, and stocked if no one touches it? Second, had a man tell me that he wanted a Bible in the language that Jesus spoke. I asked him to clarify. He looked at me like I was stupid and slowly repeated his request. I said, “I’m not sure what you are looking for but I am pretty sure Jesus spoke Hebrew and Aramaic and we don’t have bibles in either of those languages.” He said no, he wanted the Bible in the language that Jesus spoke which is English. At that point, I was super confused and asked if it was a specific version of the Bible he wanted like KJV, NIV, etc. He then told me I must be stupid because I didn’t understand what he wanted. I just gave up and walked away. Third one is my favorite. Had an older woman with teased bleached blonde hair and powder blue eyeshadow tell me I was going to hell because I had never read The Shack. She asked for a copy and proclaimed that she heard it was “the bestest book ever” and asked what I thought of it. I said I had never read it. She got really confused and said why not. I told her that I was Jewish and it wasn’t a book that appealed to me. She proceeded to launch a 15 min anti-Semitic meltdown which basically boiled down to I was going to hell and all Jews were AHs because her boss was Jewish and he was an AH. I lost my temper and responded maybe he’s angry because he has to deal with an anti-Semite like her. Her husband ended having to drag her out of the store. FYI fun fact, the Bible section is typically one of the high shrink sections in every bookstore.
At a Walden looks in the early 2000, we had one asst manager who liked & bought a lot of Anime, so the company started sending us lots more extra & a number of kids would steal them (naked hentai girls)
The hotel I work at sometimes has conventions and the WORST group we had so far was the chiropractor group. I had one guy call me next to useless. Absolute jerk!!
"... next to useless!" "Yeah, I just missed being completely useless, like a chiropractor."
@@carriebryan1211 My first visit to a chiropractor to help with my sciatica (cause the earliest to PT was 3 weeks away. He made it so much worse!!!!
As a Christian, I want to wholeheartedly apologize for that church's behavior... The Bible teaches us to ALWAYS be humble.
It's amazing how few "Christians" these days have actually read the Bible. They use their religion as an excuse for their appalling behavior, not as a guide for how to live a better life. I am so sorry so many have given your belief a bad name, and I am thankful that there are still some out there who follow its teachings earnestly.
My issue isn't with individual christians, but churches at a macro level. It appears to me (just my opinion) that churches systemically perpetuate bad behavior among their congregations as a whole. This is why it is so common to talk to christians who are very devoted to their faith, but choose to not go to church. To me, that is telling.
That's very sad, and a very bad witness for Jesus Christ. 😢
And no one who loudly proclaims themselves “Christian” is gonna let you forget how much better they are than you, especially at being humble. 😂
We tell our kids we will send them home. I used to work at Hotels so I have a list of kids with the adult in the room. Along with Youth Pastor and my number in cause our kids act up. Sorry for the bad experience. Also we got a church credit card for this type of stuff.
I used to work at a toy shop and toy conventions are the very best! Imagine a group of well dressed adults full of wine in a room full of new toys…it was hilarious!
This makes me sad to hear some church convention people made it awful experience. My time at hotels we did typical fun teenager stuff but always respectful for the workers and the building we were in.
As someone who is heavily in the card game community I can't thank yall enough for putting up with us when we have tourneys in hotels.
Had a church bus pull up to the restaurant I worked at at 3 am full of Christians. I was the only server and all they did was complain that I wasn't fast enough. I'm sorry, I was also 8 months pregnant. Yeah they were horrible.
Did they at least tip you?
I’m sorry.
Groups that buy out the hotel are the most interesting. Depending on the type of group, you can get fancy signage that changes the entire color-scheme of the hotel, intense security checkpoints, lots of roudy individuals, or even people brazen enough to use the employee elevators and eat their lunch in the executive office. It can get interesting, but there's never a dull moment at a convention center hotel
Worst convention ever at The Westin Resort- French Bulldog Breeder. 450 untrained dogs peeing and pooping everywhere!!!! In the rooms, in the lobby, et . They had to bring in a special cleaning and disinfecting co from 5 hours away!!! I hate those dogs to this day
And then the regular guests are ALWAYS pissed off because the conventioneers are LOUD
We always put a blurb on the convention website letting our members know they should tip the hotel staff during the event.
The hotel i work at did a convention for scientology. We werent informed and the people who arived werent all there mentaly in my oppinion. Only one spoke up and said it was for scientology. When she did most of us working went quite and did the most minimal amount of service.
I was at Disney's yacht club during an IT convention, and you could not sit down in the lobby. any place there was an open seat, there was somebody sitting there working on their laptop
I've always had a pleasant time at Chick Fil A. The sweetest people work there.
Fat Files (Fat Electrician) just did a profile on the company, explaining why it works the way it does and is one of the most profitable restaurant franchises per capita in America.
@@bar-1studios They overcharge, serve substandard food, and don't pay their suppliers ...
I try to thank people at hotels for putting up with our weirdness when I’m as sci-fi cons. 😅
We're booked to visit LA in July for a Convention. The hotel link that was supposed to be made available after registration wouldn't work for me - maybe because I'm not in the US? - it showed NO rooms available at any rate on those dates - so we rang the hotel directly. They were able to get us the con room rate for the actual convention dates but not the days either side that we're going to be in LA. I contacted the convention hotel liaison who told me off for trying to contact the hotel directly (I should have gone through her even though she didn't believe the link wasn't working!) And a week later she came back with an offer of 11 out of our 13-day stay at the convention rate. Yay!
I am not surprised that the food service conventions are very delightful, they understand what it is like working with customers.. I definitely would love those conventions
I remember reading a quote from a conference hotel manager about my profession: “We love them. They drink like fish, so we make money. And they go to their meetings, so we can clean the rooms.”
And your profession is........ exotic dancer? circus performer? Glass Blower?
I'd guess Lawyer @@netherfield2000, most appear to drink like fish, given the long hours they work, and many wouldn't admit to their profession on the internet, for all the hate they'd receive.
Lol! Sounds like the insurance conventions I’ve been to. 🤣
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Think of the profession that , in popular culture, is thought to be boring and introverted, yet intellectually curious.
@@katebowers8107 Accountant?
My first hotel job, we didn't host much in the way of conventions, weddings, etc. We did, however, had a contract with a big manufacturer where we would host some of their Japanese workers. My current one we both loved and hated weddings, especially full property ones. Fortunately/unfortunately we no longer do weddings thanks to this one BIG wedding where we had to blacklist a LOT of people for various reasons. It was a nightmare cleaning up after them.
With the "wrong dog on the card" story, I thought the twist was going to be that there was no show last year, as "last year" was 2020.
It actually makes sense that the boat conventions would be nice while the yacht conventions weren't. A lot of regular people own boats. Only rich people own yachts.
Have you ever noticed that a LOT of cars that perform death defying ahole maneuvers have a little fish on the back?
Yup! My ex told me
What I can I say, fish flop on land.