Travelodge staff across the UK have revealed the most unusual requests they have heard from guests.
Workers at the hotel chain have heard countless questions from customers, regarding topics such as place names, food recommendations, and local customs, as reported by The Mirror. However, sometimes they get asked for something a bit more weird.
Edinburgh workers have shared particularly bizarre queries from guests, such as asking them to impersonate James Bond actor Sean Connery.
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Whether it's a Bath guest asking staff to contact The Fashion Museum and borrow the city's official 2021 Dress of The Year worn by Meghan Markle, or a young boy in London wanting a surprise tea party with Paddington Bear, they've heard it all.
Some particularly odd requests have come from people visiting Edinburgh. One confused guest asked a member of staff in the capital whether he was required to bow down to Edinburgh Zoo's famous resident Brigadier Sir Nils Olav.
Nils Olav is a king penguin who is the mascot and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard.
Meanwhile, and perhaps even stranger, a receptionist at the Edinburgh Haymarket Travelodge was asked by a resident to impersonate Sean Connery. It was for a voice note to send to her grandmother as a birthday surprise.
Other peculiar requests elsewhere have included a customer in Rhyl who asked if their bath could be filled with different flavoured scoops of ice cream as a birthday gift - and a guest who asked for an extra bedroom they could use as a walk-in wardrobe.
Travelodge spokesperson Shakila Ahmed said: "With more Britons holidaying on British shores than ever before our hotel teams have also received a high volume of interesting requests and questions especially around attractions, locations, local dishes, customs and traditions across our diverse British regions.
"Where possible, our hotel teams will go above and beyond to help customers as they relish a good challenge.
"However, there are some requests beyond their control such as getting ordained to officiate a wedding, getting the London Eye to rotate in an anti-clockwise formation, programming all the traffic lights in York to be green at midday for a bride to get to the church on time."
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