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I’m never drinking out of a hotel minibar glass again

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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I stay in hotels a lot.  Often for only one night at a time.  I recent traveled back to the UK  and for a one week trip to visit family, whom I stay with, I have to stay in 3 different hotels (2 of them airport hotels).  I’m fascinated by the way hotels work, how rooms are allocated and so on.  Why in some hotels when I return to my room mid afternoon has it still not been cleaned?  I’m often checking in super late […]

Hotel Confidential

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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Do you have a thankless job where you are expected to maintain complete and utter composure at all times, deal with difficult clients/customers, find yourself on the brink of alcoholism, work too many hours, and have a host of ridiculous stories about the shit you’ve dealt with? Jacob Tomsky does, and if you do too, then this book may just be the salve you’ve been waiting for. Despite being an arts worker, I’ve managed to avoid working in the hospitality industry to supplement my income, […]

Is it too soon to call my favorite book of 2019?

Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

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You guys, I could not put this book down. It was also kind of like eating a Twix bar hidden in a Fiber One bar wrapper, because whenever anyone asked me what I was reading and I said that it was a memoir about the hotel industry and I couldn’t tear myself away from it long enough to function, for whatever reason the topic struck people as a much more dry and scholarly than it was. And I really don’t know why – what goes […]



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