Room Service

Last year I wrote about a curious hotel in Shanghai, the Randevous Hotel, where you can take your shower beeing seen by your guests through the shower glass.
At that time I just alluded to another curious service offered by the hotel itself, but I did not deepened into that subject.

Now I would like to let you know more about it.

When you switch the TV on, it appears a TV "screen saver" similar to the one here beside - it changes every week. You just have to push the correct button of your remote contol in order to choose among normal TV programs (central option), the pay TV service (left option) or the "room service" (right option).

Actually I've not tried yet neither the "movie" nor the "service" options, but maybe I can tell you more about them in case my love life will fall apart in the future.

So at the moment you must be content with my statements, unfortunately based on second hand information.

The most believers will probably think that this kind of practice is immoral and unethical, and that it is maybe better to change hotel not to see this kind of havoc anymore, but unfotunately for them the Randevous Hotel in Shanghai is not the only one in Cina (and in the whole world) offering such so called "room service". In fact, during my trips to China I experienced that also the Shitec Hotel inBeijing offer to customers the same kind of service.

Still the "room service" is practised all over the world. Can you remember the scene of the fortunate Sophia Coppola's film "Lost in Translation", when the main character Bob Harris is forced to play the role of the interested customer when a professional prostitute is sent to his room just as a gift from his Japanese guest?

Or can you imagine me, one night in the Hangzhou Holiday Inn, opening my room front door and found in front of me a nearly naked woman looking at me very surprisingly and imbarassed tellind me "Maybe I'm in the wrong room". She wasn't, she just could not recognize that mine was a female name. She took her chances, and, unfortunately for her, that night she failed.

We have similar examples every day also in our prude country, but we call these provocative girls: showgirls, anchorwomen or starlets. They sell themselves to businessmen and politicians just to run faster up the career ladder.

I don't judge them, but I am really disappointed when I herd them being judged from the same people (usuallt married) that away from scenes go out with them.