Salvador Dali once demanded that a horse be delivered to his hotel suite in Paris, along with sheep, which he liked to shoot with blanks. Mariah Carey requires the faucets in her hotel rooms to be gold and the toilet seats replaced with new ones. Britney Spears once demanded that a hotel in Glasgow, Scotland cancel the reservations of all other guests while she was staying there.
Such is the strange world of celebrities and their hotels, as detailed in a pretty funny round-up at Concierge.com.
You think you were a pain in the rear when demanding a room that didn’t actually smell like smoke? Or sending back that hamburger to room service — for a second time — for being overcooked?
That’s nothing on these 15 celebrities singled out here, who demand room alterations, weird candy, and sometimes make off with expensive linen.
Russell Crowe once punched a hotel receptionist in the face…with a telephone. Nicole Kidman gives hotel staff a multi-page instruction manual for making her bed. Amy Winehouse treats her rooms like crack houses.
And who can forget Michael Jackson’s predilection for dangling babies from hotel windows?
This celebrity who’s who in unwelcome hotel guests reads like a tour of some of the world’s poshest penthouses, and the people hoteliers would rather not see return.