Can you dress up as Vikings when we arrive? Travelodge unveils bizarre guest requests in York

Can you make a hat out of the bed runner for me to wear to the races? Can you dress up as Vikings when we arrive? Are you able to dress up as Elsa and Anna from Frozen to surprise my children? Can you fill my bath with honey?

These are just some of the bizarre requests Travelodge hotel teams in York have been asked.

The UK’s first budget hotel chain has revealed the odd requests that some of its 18 million customers have asked while staying in one of its 552 hotels during the last 12 months.

The Travelodge hotel teams across the length and breadth of the UK receive thousands of strange requests every year and York provides some of the strangest oddities ranging from:

·         Can you make a hat out of the bed runner for me to wear to the races? (York Central Layrethorpe)
·         Can you dress up as Vikings when we arrive? (York Micklegate)
·         Can you dress up as Elsa and Anna from Frozen to surprise my children? (York Central)
·         Can you fill my bath with honey? (York Hull Road)
·         Can you take notes in my next meeting? (York Central)
·         Can you attend a meeting on my behalf? I don’t like the client (York Tadcaster)
·         Will you help me with a board report for this afternoon? (York Tadcaster)
·         Can you dog-sit my German Sheppard Ringo this evening? (York Central Layerthorpe)
·         Can I borrow your trousers? (York Micklegate)
·         Can you try on an outfit I am wearing to the races? I want to see what it looks like (York Layerthorpe)

Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge spokeswoman said: “The hotel teams at our 552 Travelodge’s annually look after 18 million business and leisure customers. Every day they go above and beyond to help customers. Just recently our receptionist at Doncaster M18 Travelodge, Karen Dyas was asked to deliver a baby, which she did.  However, there are some requests that our hotel teams cannot help with, such as: finding a train to take a customer to Hogwarts, building a helipad on top of Edinburgh Central Travelodge hotel and directing an American couple to where they can see wild haggis.”

Meawnhile, receptionist Karen Dyas from Doncaster M18 Travelodge has been praised for her help and quick thinking in being asked to deliver a baby in the hotel’s car park only last month.