The reason why VIPs choose luxury hotels,
is because they are buying not just the facilities, but a lifestyle.
Especially in some remote cities where connections matter, the role of a VIP butler is quite similar to that of an informant or jack-of-all-trades in Old Shanghai.
Ever since Abbot started in the industry years ago,
he's heard countless stories from predecessors about eccentric guests and their incredible demands.
Getting a bottle of a specific vintage of fine wine for a client in the middle of the night, scouring the city to find 9,999 purple roses, figuring out how to play a proposal VCR on the city's largest video billboard, or contacting private jet rental companies, are all fairly basic requests.
