Hotel Babylon: Inside the Extravagance and Mayhem of a Luxury Five-Star Hotel

A must-read for anyone who has ever worked for a luxury hotel, or just stayed in one. I've been in the industry for 6 years with 4 different luxury properties, and the stories and characters are as real to me as the people I've met in my daily life. The book is funny and gives the reader a true picture of what goes on within the four walls of the top hotels all over the world. Not all is as perfect as it may appear on the surface.

I am working in hotels for a long time now an I found this book hilarious!great reading with real life stories

This is a wonderful book ! Not only is the subject - behind the scenes in a posh London hotel - fascinating in its own right, but it is brilliantly told. We follow the activities in the hotel hour by hour, from one dawn to the next, and in the course of the day and night we meet an amazing variety of people, the wealthy who patronise the hotel, and the shrewd who exist to indulge their every whim. But instead of being a dull plod, plod round the clock, we see it all through the eyes of a receptionist who knows everyone and sees everything, and who recounts it to us with a wealth of astonishing details and hair-raising (and often very funny !) anecdotes. I rarely read a book cover to cover at a single sitting, but this one I did - I haven't enjoyed a book so much in a long while. Imogen Edwards-Jones invites us to slip in through the back door to peek at an amazing private world that you'd never guess just by looking through the establishment's palatial front entrance. Give yourself a treat - buy this marvellous book !

I really enjoyed this book. As someone who spends a lot of time travelling abroad and staying in five star hotels this is was a real eye-opener. The book is packed with great stories, anecdotes and loads of celebrity gossip and I found it hilarious, entertaining and the prefect thing to take on a long haul flight. I read it one sitting. I couldn't put it down. I liked the 24 hour format and I would recommend to anyone who is at all curious and who has a sense of humour.