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Five-star hotels usually have five stars for a reason -- their service is impeccable, and they often do the impossible. It's not always celebrities who make the most unusual or outlandish requests. Take the newly breast-feeding mother at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, who asked its concierge for cold iceberg lettuce cups to relieve the pain and swelling she was experiencing.
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Hot-Air Balloon Proposal
A young man intended to ask his girlfriend to marry him during a sunrise hot-air balloon ride. However, the girl was afraid to take the ride. Panic-stricken, the man called concierge Tommy Dean. When the couple returned to their room, they found a miniature hot-air balloon -- made by Dean from a truffle box that contained the engagement ring, and a helium-filled, red balloon -- floating around.
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iPhone Lesson
A female pop star arrived at the Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park, with a new iPhone, but no idea how to use it. Unwilling to brave the crowds to get a lesson at the nearby Apple Store, she asked concierge Frederick Bigler for help. He sent a hotel page to the store for an iPhone tutorial. The page returned to the hotel and gave the singer a lesson in the privacy of her suite.
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Sheep and Flies
Salvador Dali was a regular guest at the Meurice Hotel in Paris. The rooms have high ceilings, parquet floors and 18th-century, Louis XVI-style furnishings. Dali once asked the hotel's concierge staff to bring an entire herd of sheep to his rooms, so he could shoot blank bullets at them. On another occasion, he asked the concierges to catch flies for him in the Tuileries Garden.
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Basketball in Ballroom
The New York Knicks wanted a pre-game practice before playing the Chicago Bulls. The Ritz-Carlton Chicago's concierge was asked if they could use the hotel's ballroom as their court. The hotel staff broke down a wedding that had been held in the ballroom, and then gave the Knicks staff masking tape to create a makeshift court, on the ballroom carpet, where the Knicks were able to practice their plays.
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Lettuce Icepacks
A new mother staying at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach with her husband and two-month-old daughter was experiencing great pain breastfeeding her baby for the first time. Per her doctor's orders, she asked the hotel's concierge, Kristin Koslow, to deliver iceberg cups -- two hollowed-out heads of cold iceberg lettuce -- to her room , which she then used as icepacks to reduce the pain and swelling.
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