So much for modern hotels being soulless. Below are some edited highlights from a survey of guest habits from Novotel released today.

A guy’s girlfriend liked farms. So he asked for their room to be filled with hay.
A guest in Australia’s great shiraz-producing Barossa Valley heard about the hotel’s signature red-wine spa treatment. He asked for a bath full of red wine in his room.
Bizarre items found in hotel rooms included: fake limbs, a nun’s habit, a 2m hand-carved statue, a riding crop (under the pillow) and a baby. Yes, a baby.
A guest in Canberra demanded an appointment with the Prime Minister.
A guy asked for 33 rubber ducks to be delivered to the room before his girlfriend checked in.
A staff member was injured by a sex toy thrown from a balcony.
Women are more likely to leave their room in a shambles. Men, meanwhile, are more like to be the shambles themselves, being vastly more likely to be caught in the corridors with no clothes on.
You can read more details on the survey here.
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