Inside the Secret Lives of the Ultra-Rich: Shocking Tales from Luxury Hotels and Restaurants Revealed
There‘s a thing in Stockholm‘s rich kid district called „vaska“. Basically, you order an expensive bottle of champagne, pay for it and watch how the waiter wastes all of it by pouring it down the drain (some places let you do it yourself).
Sadly, it’s an established thing in these kinda circles, like, it‘s on the menu cards and all that. Honestly the dumbest way of flexing I‘ve ever witnessed.
Worked at a private villa in Bali. One guest stood out. She only drinks and bathes in Evian, so one day I spent almost an hour filling a large tub from tons of Evian bottles. The same young woman complained that the path from her villa gate to her room wasn’t well lit. She wore sunglasses at night.
EDIT: Thank you for the silver!
This was not stereotypical but ridiculous it was. I had a customer come in in the most basic cheap clothes. Pull out a bundle of 2000$ in cash. Buy a glass of our most expensive wine. Sit by himself for about an hour not doing anything then leaving having taken only 1 or 2 sips.
I was in Amsterdam to judge the Cannabis Cup years ago, with about 30 people that had all expenses paid by this one rich dude that owned race cars we all worked on. We all were trying to go to lunch one day, when we came across a steakhouse. It was packed. They said we wouldn’t be able to all fit for hours. The rich guy, without even hesitating, asked, “Can we smoke in here?” They replied that there was absolutely no smoking in the restaurant (as is most of Amsterdam, outside of coffeeshops). He asked for the manager. When they came over, he said, “How much will it be to empty the restaurant?” The manager looked confused. Rich dude repeats, “I want to know how much money you want to get everyone out of here, so my friends and I can have lunch and smoke.” I think the manager made a phone call or something, came back, spoke with the rich dude, and said to wait a minute. We had to wait about 15 minutes, but slowly, everyone began leaving with to-go boxes, and had surprised looks on their faces, because they weren’t paying their checks. We ended up pulling together a bunch of tables and ordering a ton of food, while everyone smoked weed. I barely even got to eat, because I was the only one that could roll worth a s**t, so I probably rolled like 15-20 blunts, while waiters came around to check on us. It was really surreal. I think the restaurant told their customers that there was an issue and they had to close, but their meals would be comped (in reality, they were all added to my friends bill). I don’t even want to know how much he spent, just for lunch that day. At the time, it was a place I couldn’t even afford going to, on my own. This guy pays everyone to leave, pays the manager to shut the doors, pays to let us smoke weed in a place that doesn’t allow smoking weed. At first the waiters and staff seemed really pissed, but he would tip them like $100 every time they would refill his water or whatever, so they were soon having a great time. It was the most ultimate flex move I’d ever seen.
Edit: had the wrong restaurant name.
I once stayed in a hotel an NFL team had rented for an away game. It was a really nice hotel and the only reason I was there was for a family members wedding and I was sleeping on a couch in a room. The whole place was filled with very wealthy people and to separate them from the other guests they rented the 3 top floors and had security to stop anyone from getting to the floors. Best part about the trip was seeing a guy valet park a rented muscle car by just stepping out and handing the keys to the nearest person.
I used to work in a luxury hotel. A colleague of mine got a call from an in house guest, asking for a car to take him somewhere. Naturally, he offered him what options we had, and the guest got annoyed and closed the line.
A few minutes later, the guest came down to the front desk and asked for my colleague. He then proceeded to show him a cardboard bag literally overflowing with cash, and started saying ‘You dare ask me which car just because of different prices? Can’t you see how much money I have? Why do I care, just get me a f*****g car ready.’
People…
My mum used to work in a snazzy hotel in Dublin, Mel Gibson stayed while filming Braveheart. He insisted that under no circumstances was anyone to ask for his autograph, and everyone was informed. Except one girl who on the Monday came in from sick leave, as soon as she saw the star she said “hello Mr Gibson may I have your autograph”?
Well he went into orbit, demanding that she be fired, not reprimanded, fired!
He’s was a real d**k, I hope he’s changed.
Coworker thanked a family for their generous tip as he brought back their change and they said to keep it….but mom added “don’t worry, you won’t get rich doing this.” Rich, no, but leaving $60 on $240 is a decent hourly wage when your server also has 4 other tables besides yours.
I worked briefly at a chocolate shop in the mid 00’s. There was a rich businessman who would come in a few times a year and buy gifts for his employees, easily spending $300-500 each time.
It wasn’t in a tipping environment, but he usually tipped $50.
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