What's Floating Around? 8 April 2019

Welcome to another week,  #eventprofs and we are still a bit miffed that our top tip for the Grand National on Saturday, fell at the first fence! How could we not pick Vintage Cloud as our horse, and it sadly fell at the first fence, and luckily with no real damage to horse of rider. 

Love it or hate it, the National is one of those events that really gets under the skin of the entire nation and although we have no idea which other event professionals backed a particular horse, we like to think that most of them opted for a name - which is our tried and tested method rather than looking at the actual odds or form. 

So Cloud 9 and Vintage Cloud was a natural choice which got us to wonder who else picked a name based on the affinity between brand and bobo! 

General Principle which fell at the 19th was probably a pick for those at Principle Hotels and Jury Duty which also fell at the same fence for Jury's Hotels?

The Hotel Minella & Leisure Centre in Clonmel in Ireland probably picked Minella Rocca - which pulled up at the 21st Fence, and Lake View Lad which pulled up at the 27th Fence, was probably a pick for the Lake View Hotel team in Snowdon. 

There are slightly random others which would work with a little imagination but its clear with the results on Saturday, that event professionals should stick to what they know - running events and booking venues rather than trying to be horse racing tipsters! 

Have a great week...!

What's Floating Around? 1 April 2019

Welcome to another week everyone and as it's April Fools Day, we thought we would take a quick look at some of the best Hotel Pranks.

A couple of years ago, at a Travelodge in Australia, they announced the launch of a  new Whiff & Wake Service. This was said to entail the smell of frying bacon being blown into guests’ rooms to help them wake up. The hotel chain said the new service was in response to an increasing number of guests reporting to struggle with snoozing through their alarm clocks in the morning. 

Back in 2009, the agency TTG Digital said it was going to open the world’s first ‘Hover Hotel’ in Dubai and that the 20-room boutique hotel, was apparently going to hover approximately a kilometre off the ground.

But perhaps our favourite story was in 2015 when the The Telegraph reported that Italian authorities were planning to turn the Leaning Tower of Pisa into a hotel called 3.99 Degrees. The newspaper claimed to have learned about the plans from a leaked document, which stated the hotel rooms would cost more than £14,000 per night. The article even stated a local carpenter had offered to make special beds with legs of differing lengths, so guests didn’t have to sleep at an angle. 

Stay sharp today and have a great week!