For example, what is the answer for a patient who walks up to the front desk with a question?
Leave your car key with me and go to the front desk.
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From the drivers of the complimentary SUVs who are always happy to chauffeur guests around town to the front desk, it is all about being helpful.
Despite wanting to just crawl into bed and crash after the 10-hour overnight flight, I returned to the front desk and told the clerk that the room was not acceptable.
Be ready to point this out to the front desk staff and request an alternate room if available or have the hotel provide an air cleaner unit, which many hotels have on hand unbeknownst to guests.
At the next playgroup, I asked the lady at the front desk to pass my e-mail address on to her. (By the way, Mary isn't her real name -- I changed it to prevent scaring her off.) I was beet red as I walked Kylie toward the subway station, and was doing frenetic hop run behind the stroller.
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Last May, in a fit of bleary-eyed jet-lag, I made the mistake of checking into a hotel without running through the standard list of questions I normally ask at the front desk to ensure I get a good room.
"They will have to leave a message at the hotel front desk, " he says.
Other teachers refused to leave their drivers' licenses at the front desk in exchange for a bathroom key.
The next morning, she was awakened by a call from the front desk alerting her that it was time for overnight visitors to leave the hotel, she said.
I'd included phones in the rooms, but had forgotten the front desk console and main switchboard system: add twenty-five thousand dollars to the list to allow for that.
For the 18 to 44 bracket, 36% said they would favour an automated kiosk over a clerk at the front desk, whereas only 19% of those aged 45 and older said the same.
Saylor sees the smartphone as the payment device for all things, including the key to hotel rooms that we no longer need a front desk to check into.
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And if you want to go one step further, get a bottle of disinfectant from the front desk.
On my first day I came down with my clubs and told the front desk I was playing golf, and asked how to get to the golf club.
"I'll call the front desk and say the room smells like smoke even when it doesn't, just to see how they'll respond, " she says.
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