Luxury travel firms reveal how guests have demanded mermaids ‘with gills’ and spent $4m on clothes

Hotel and travel agency employees have revealed the ridiculous requests rich guests have made at luxury resorts across the world.

Employees at hotels from Costa Rica to Switzerland described uber-rich guests spending $4million on shopping sprees, booking private flights for their pets, showering in Sanpellegrino, and demanding mermaids ‘with gills’ to swim in pools at their parties.

The hospitality workers shared their salacious stories with the Washington Post just as the newest season of White Lotus – which viciously satirizes the antics of the rich on vacation – was released on HBO. 

Angelica Bridges and Christina Stanton, both luxury hospitality workers, described the extravagant behavior of their uber wealthy guests

A spokesperson for the Nightfall Group – a high tier travel concierge service – said a guest renting a Los Angeles mansion (file photo) demanded she find them a mermaid in one hour who could swim in their pool for a party

A spokesperson for the Nightfall Group – a high tier travel concierge service – said a guest renting a Los Angeles mansion demanded she find them a mermaid in one hour who could swim in their pool for a party.

Angelica Bridges told the Washington Post the client wanted ‘a real authentic mermaid with a splash tail.

‘They wanted to see, like, gills,’ she said.

Fortunately her group had a woman who played mermaids on hand and was able to get her to the party on time.

The hospitality workers shared their salacious stories with the Washington Post just as the newest season of White Lotus – which viciously satirizes the misbehavings of the rich on vacation – was released on HBO

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The latest season of White Lotus was recently released, and delves into the debauched behavior of wealthy vacationers

New York City tour guide Christina Stanton said she was hired to work with a Russian oligarch’s wife during a trip.

Stanton said that she took the woman shopping at Bergdorf Goodman – which had opened early so the woman could shop in private – and that she wound up spending at least $4million at the store.

Stanton said the woman was married to one of the richest men on Earth.

She said when the family went to restaurants only their bodyguards spoke with the waitstaff.

‘The family wouldn’t speak to waiters, the bodyguards did,’ she said. ”The way he [talked] to that server, you know that he’s killed a man with his bare hands.’

Sandra Weinacht told a story of a Russian guest who demanded cases of Sanpellegrino so she could wash her hair with it

Inside Europe Travel Experiences travel planner Sandra Weinacht said a friend of hers who works at hotel in France described being asked to order cases of Sanpellegrino sparkling water (file photo)

Inside Europe Travel Experiences travel planner Sandra Weinacht said a friend of hers who works at hotel in France described being asked to order cases of Sanpellegrino sparkling water. 

The guest – a Russian client – apparently liked to wash her hair with the bubbly mineral water. 

‘His Russian client needed that water to wash her hair, and it could not be Perrier,’ said Weinacht. ‘It had to be Sanpellegrino.’ 

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Chef Concierge Jens Maier said it was ‘bizarre’ for a guest at the Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich to request some lawn for their room for a dog to pee on

Another person said a Russian guest at the Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich asked that a square of lawn be brought to the hotel room so their dog could go to the bathroom on it

An employee at the private jet charter Monarch Air Group said a client once booked a $60,000 private jet to fly their Pomeranian and Siberian Husky mix named Bella from Santa Barbara to Vancouver (file photo)

An employee at the private jet charter Monarch Air Group said a client once booked a $60,000 private jet to fly their Pomeranian and Siberian Husky mix named Bella from Santa Barbara to Vancouver.

Another person said a Russian guest at the Dolder Grand hotel in Zurich asked that a square of lawn be brought to the hotel room so their dog could go to the bathroom on it. 

The hotel offered to walk the dog for the guest, but they declined and insisted that the piece of turf be brought up.

‘She asked us to organize a piece of lawn so that her dog could pee in the suite and she didn’t have to leave the hotel,’ said hotelier Jens Maier.

The hotel managed to find a square of artificial grass on short notice, and the guest was delighted.

‘The whole thing was complicated,’ Maier said.

Stacy Small (right) described a reality show star who screamed at her for not being fast enough picking up their luggage. Rob DelliBovi, RDB Hospitality founder, described extensive nondisclosure agreements many hotels are asked to sign

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Stacy Small, the founder of Elite Travel Club, described a reality show star who screamed at her for not being fast enough picking up their luggage.

She said the star then became irate over the price of a suite they asked to be upgraded to, despite previously agreeing to the price. 

‘They can afford it, they just don’t want to pay for it,’ She told the Washington Post. ‘They complain a lot, because they want bigger, better, more, free.’

Rob DelliBovi, who founded RDB Hospitality, described extensive nondisclosure agreements many hotels are asked to sign.

Employees the Kalon Surf resort in Costa Rica described denying a woman information about her husband’s stay.

The woman said she thought her husband was having an affair and wanted to know who he was staying with, but the hotel could not tell her.

 ‘Discretion and privacy is number one for us,’ resort owner Kjeld Schigt said.

The woman backed down, but put in a request that the staff take him surfing on a large wave ‘Just push him off, so he gets as hurt as possible?’ the woman said.