TRAVELODGE has revealed some of the most bizarre requests it has received from guests staying at their hotels in Bradford over the past 12 months.

The budget hotel chain, which has 582 locations across the UK, has released a list of the "top" strangest requests staff have received, as part of the company's audit.

Four of the firm's hotels are based in and around Bradford and the wider district - Bradford Central, Bradford Midpoint (Thornbury), Keighley and Leeds-Bradford Airport.

Some of the requests on the list happened at these locations.

One person, staying at the Bradford Midpoint hotel, posed an interesting question in relation to West Yorkshire's only major airport.

They said: "Is half of Leeds Bradford Airport in Leeds and the other in Bradford?"

Meanwhile, someone at the Bradford Central hotel wanted a hand with impressing their personal trainer (PT).

They said: "Can you wear my FITBIT and walk at least 10,000 steps as I need to impress my PT?"

The final example of the list was also at the Bradford Central location.

The person said: "Can you help me convert a dress into a saree for my friend’s wedding?"

Following the lifting of all Covid-19 restrictions earlier this year, the company experienced a stampede of customers checking into its hotels across all corners of the UK this summer, including Yorkshire.

With so many people enjoying a Great British Staycation in 2021, a high volume of Travelodge hotel teams received interesting requests and questions – especially around place names, local dishes, customs and traditions across the regions.

Travelodge has 14 hotels in Yorkshire as a whole.

Here's a list of the top ten most bizarre requests from customers staying in the county, which includes the questions posed in Bradford:

Request

Hotel

Where can I find a Fat Rascal?

York Central Travelodge

Can you teach my wife on how to make the perfect bed?

York Central Layerthorpe Travelodge

Can you call my daughter and pretend to be the Tooth Fairy and let her know £20 is in the post as she is not doing house visits due to social distancing?

York Central Micklegate Travelodge

Can you input all of my contacts from my address book into my phone?

Doncaster Lakeside Travelodge

Can you help me convert a dress into a saree for my friend’s wedding?

Bradford Central Travelodge

Is half of Leeds Bradford Airport in Leeds and the other in Bradford?

Bradford Travelodge

Do you have to be a certain height to play for the Huddersfield Giants?

Huddersfield Travelodge

Can you wear my FITBIT and walk at least 10,000 steps as I need to impress my PT 

Bradford Central Travelodge

Is it a local tradition that one of Sheffield’s football teams only plays on a Wednesday?

Sheffield Meadowhall Travelodge

Can you kitty sit my Persian Chinchilla whilst I go out to dinner? He likes a head massage before bedtime and to listen to Buddha Bar style music as he falls asleep. 

Harrogate West Park Travelodge

 

Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge Spokeswoman said: "Following the lifting of all Covid-19 restrictions earlier this year, we have experienced a significant increase in bookings across our 582 UK Travelodge hotels including our 14 hotels in Yorkshire.

"With more Britons holidaying on British shores than ever before our hotel teams have also received a high volume of interesting requests and questions especially around place names, local dishes, customs and traditions across the British regions. 

“Where possible, our hotel teams will go above and beyond to help customers as they relish a good challenge - such as the time a guest staying at York Central Travelodge asked the receptionist to come and sing in the room next door to his allocated room in order to check that he had received a ‘quiet room’.”

Some of the other requests from the rest of the country include, one customer asking where Welsh Rarebits live, and when might be the best time to see them, while another wanted to know what time the snake comes out on Snake Pass in Derbyshire. 

Another customer, staying at Manchester Trafford Travelodge, asked whether Manchester Caviar "is imported from Russia", and a couple staying at  Liverpool Exchange Street Travelodge were keen to know where they could find a tasty Liverpool tart.  

With weddings and receptions back after an extended hiatus, a groom’s mother staying at Solihull Travelodge asked the hotel team to help make six necklaces out of £50 and £20 for her son’s wedding.

A bride staying at Birmingham Moor Street Travelodge asked the reception team to arrange 12 gondolas to take their wedding party to their wedding venue.

Travelodge hotel staff also received a host of interesting room requests.

The hotel team at Newcastle Quayside Travelodge were surprised when a customer asked for a children’s paddling pool so that their pet fish could have a spacious bed for the night.

Further down south, a guest checking into St Austell Travelodge requested a room with a large south facing window so that they could be flooded with light at dawn to recharge their aura.   

Interestingly this year’s audit also revealed a growing trend of customers asking hotel teams especially in the northern regions such as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool and Cardiff to record voice messages on their phone because they love their regional accent.

Parents away from home also asked hotel teams if they could call home pretending they were Father Christmas to ensure their children did their homework.