{"id":9276,"date":"2010-04-09T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-mind-the-ferrari-please-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T13:04:00","slug":"struth-mind-the-ferrari-please-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/04\/struth-mind-the-ferrari-please-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Mind the Ferrari Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S78lyHM_xZI\/AAAAAAAAJg4\/qie8tNNZNS4\/s1600\/Baby+sitter+required+for+ferrari+sports+car-747996.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S78lyHM_xZI\/AAAAAAAAJg4\/qie8tNNZNS4\/s320\/Baby+sitter+required+for+ferrari+sports+car-747996.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRUTH !\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says staff at England&#8217;s Premier Inn accommodation group have collated some of their more unusual requests from guests \u2013 including one staffer being asked to sit in a guest&#8217;s Ferrari sports car while he had dinner to ensure it wouldn&#8217;t be stolen, and another being asked to propose to a young lady on behalf of a bloke who was too nervous to do it himself.<\/p>\n<p>Other bizarre requests include a front desk manager lending his trousers to a guest who didn&#8217;t have any appropriate daks for a sudden important business meeting, lining up a dating service for a shy guest, buying a rubber duck for a guest to play with in their bath, and a female staffer being asked to go out and buy a very specific style and colour bridesmaid&#8217;s dress for a distraught guest who&#8217;d torn their&#8217;s trying to get it on.<\/p>\n<p>Another guest rang the front desk of one Premier Inn and asked if they knew the name &#8220;of a good local undertaker,&#8221; while another who was suddenly taken to hospital rang their hotel and asked them to send around a plate of their fish and chips because the hospital food was so bad.<\/p>\n<p>And finally there was the overseas guest who wanted to know if it was &#8220;possible in England to buy a rhinoceros for a friend&#8217;s birthday?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH !\u00a0 IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says staff at England&#8217;s Premier Inn accommodation group have collated some of their more unusual requests from guests \u2013 including one staffer being asked to sit in a guest&#8217;s Ferrari sports car while he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-9276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}