Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby

I’ve been watching this tv show from my online library called Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby.

The hosts are Giles Coren and Monica Galetti, a critic and a chef. They go behind the scenes, working with the hotel workers to get a feel for what goes into making a huge hotel work.

The first episode features the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. This is a huge hotel with a casino, infinity pool at the top of the hotel and multiple top restaurants.

Here’s an ad for the Marina Bay Sands hotel

Trailer from episode 3 of the show, a giraffe hotel.

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I watched the Singapore episode what a hotel so huge so Iuxi
The staffs uniforms delivered pressed and steamed .
Im not sure I’d swim in that infinity pool in the sky.

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I wish they would show how the infinity pool works. It looks so frightening, like you could just float over the edge. There must be some kind of safeguard, but they don’t show you that in the video.

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I was thinking what if it gave way , it’s a long way down.

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Right?! But I don’t know what holds it up. Someone said it might be glass or plexiglass. Then it would be like standing at the edge of a glass building. From the pictures, it looks like there’s nothing at that edge. But there must be.

I had to look it up online

The edge of the pool is an illusion there is another 2 or 3 metres of wall the other side of the edge !
The bottom of the pool is made of glass

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Can’t recall which hotel was involved, but I remember watching part of one episode and being absolutely amazed how much money some people must have to afford staying there. Guess it’s all relative.

Watched episode 2. Mashpi Lodge in Ecuador. The owner requires that all improvements did not damage the environment. All the cleaners in the hotel have to be environmentally friendly so the staff spend their days cleaning the windows and scraping mold off the walls because the hotel is located in a rain cloud in a rain forest so everything is wet all the time.

The cuisine of the region includes guinea pig so their lunch was a roasted guinea pig.

Beautiful scenery.

This YouTube is of the lodge. It’s not the tv show.