Celebrities who are a true nightmare in hotels
Having one or more celebrities staying in your hotel can be a great advertising opportunity. However, it has proven to be also a bit of a nightmare for the owners and directors of hotels. While you may not be surprised by the actor in the picture being a bit problematic, there are more stars like him…
When we refer to stars being a nightmare, we are not only talking about destroying furniture, being too loud, or setting a room on fire, we are also talking about unreasonable requests some celebrities make when staying in hotel rooms.
The Queen of Pop allegedly asks for a new toilet every time she stays in a hotel. In addition, she wants it to be destroyed afterward, so no one can sell or auction it. This nightmarish story could also be a myth.
The hotels that hosted the British band would hide anything of value from the rooms they stayed in. Yet, it didn't stop Keith Richards, from throwing a TV through the window of the Continental Hyatt hotel in Los Angeles in 1972.
The singer has confessed that she cannot help taking things from hotels. Pillows are her favorite thing to take home with her, but anything that could be useful may end up in Katy Perry's luggage.
The Oscar-winning actress is very demanding when it comes to sleeping. She goes to hotels with her own bed sheets and leaves instructions on how to make the bed. At least that's what two former employees of the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago said in their book 'Great Reservations.'
According to Gothamist in 2012, the singer went a little overboard at a party in the Bowery Hotel in New York. After 17 Martinis, Florence lost her phone, broke a tooth, and ended up setting the room on fire. Random fact: Kanye West was there too.
According to ABC, the actor was once found drunk and without clothes in a destroyed hotel room of the Plaza Hotel in New York. The cost was 995 dollars for a night, but we are sure Charlie Sheen paid more than that.
Among other requests, the artist has asked to have the room full of pictures of Queen, David Bowie, and Elton John. According to Yahoo, Lady Gaga has also at times requested fresh white and yellow roses, lavender, white leather sofas, and a special menu based on bread, light peanut butter, cereals, fruit, hummus, and homemade guacamole. Myth or reality?
When he was at the top of his career, his hotel parties were legendary. It conflicted with his obsession with cleanliness, so, before the party, he asked the staff to take furniture, decor, and even rugs that could get dirty out of his room.
JLo also arrives at hotels with her own bed sheets, which have to have a count of 250 threads. If she doesn't like the room's lighting, she asks to change it. She is even said to have asked for golden faucets and new toilets in rooms she stays in.
Everything in the room has to be white, chocolates or sweets are forbidden and there has to be a chair where she can do her makeup. Finally, Jennifer Lopez wants her personal gym. It's a mix of requests surrounded by sensationalism that we are not exactly sure are true.
When her kids were little, JLo would allegedly ask to have a room full of toys just for them. So Emme Maribel and Maximilian David would never get bored.
When a hotel prohibits animals, she takes them with her anyway. The singer also likes to have hundreds of red roses in the room and a vanilla scent diffuser.
When the top model and the actor were a couple, in 1994, they once made a huge mess in their hotel room. Then, they proceeded to blame an armadillo for the chaos. The room cost 2000 dollars a night, but surely, the iconic couple had to pay a lot more than that.
The great used to ask for a gym in her suite, just like JLo did. And the other suites of the hotel were booked for her big team. Legend has it that Mariah Carey would often ask for French mineral water and Death Sea salts in her baths...
However, the greatest hotel story involving Mariah Carey was when she asked to be received in the London Baglioni Hotel with a red carpet full of white candles. That happened in 2005.
According to MTV journalist Kurt Loder, he once saw how Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic destroyed an entire room in a Minnesota hotel. The crazy night cost them 19,000 dollars. Just your everyday rock band expense.
According to the New York Post, the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles declared the Queen of Pop 'persona non grata' after she smoked inside the hotel and let her dogs poo all over one of their most exclusive suites.
If Travolta books a room, nobody can stay in the room 24 hours before his arrival. He also demands new sheets and a personal massage therapist.
In 2012, TMZ heard from the manager of the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles that Lindsay Lohan had a debt of 46,350 dollars there. It was the total of what she had spent (and broken) during a stay of a few weeks in a hotel suite. There were minibar expenses (3,145 dollars), restaurant bills (2,000 dollars), and room service bills (685 dollars in just one day).
But Lohan could explain it. According to 'E! Online', the actress believed that all the expenses were going to be paid by the production company of the movie she was filming at the time.
In 2009, the Manhattan Hotel INN couldn't believe the dimension of the mess the singer had made in only 8 hours. As related to The Post, those 8 hours cost the artist 5,000 dollars and it's best not to know what they even found in the room.
In 2013, Amanda Bynes was in a confused mental state that led her to get expelled from the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Manhattan. The reason was the amount of garbage and the awful behavior of the actress towards the staff. According to the Daily Mail, Bynes had to pay 9,000 dollars for a 9-day stay.
In 2007, the troubled singer destroyed an entire room in the Riverbank Plaza Hotel in London. According to The Sun, Winehouse left the bathroom with black dye stains, a lot of cigarette butts, and empty bottles. They also said that the carpet was wet and that the used underwear of the artist was scattered all over the room.