• 2012
  • TV-PG
Inside Claridge's

Summary This 3 part mini series is a documentary which excellently shows the machinations of running a 5 star luxury hotel in London, UK. It highlights certain valuable staff members and various guest requirements. View more details

  • 2012
  • TV-PG

Inside Claridge's

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Thomas Kochs

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8.2

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 2, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : official bbc page about the programme

Language : English

Summary This 3 part mini series is a documentary which excellently shows the machinations of running a 5 star luxury hotel in London, UK. It highlights certain valuable staff members and various guest requirements. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Dec 2, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : official bbc page about the programme

Language : English

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Episode 1 • Dec 02, 2012
Episode #1.1
Claridge's, in the heart of London's Mayfair is a five star luxury hotel, favoured by royalty and celebrities. For the first time in its long history, this famously discreet institution has opened its doors to documentary cameras. Director Jane Treays has spent a year behind the scenes, upstairs and downstairs, following staff and their guests, some of whom are prepared to pay the price of a small family car for one night's stay. We're with the chambermaids and housekeepers as they spend days transforming the entire third floor into a palace for foreign royalty who could cancel at a moment's notice. We observe the annual two week stay of the Melchors from California who have been coming to stay for over 40 years, re-kindling their relationship with personal butler Michael Lynch; and we follow the energetic General Manager Thomas Kochs as he travels to New York to drum up new business from the top US travel agents.
Episode 2 • Dec 09, 2012
Episode #1.2
Opened in 1854, Claridge's is famed for its Art Deco interiors and traditional service. Many staff, like Roman, the doorman, have worked there for over 30 years, giving guests continuity and the sense they might be living in different century. The Crown Prince of Yugoslavia is a regular guest, and he returns to stay in the suite where he was born in 1945. Joan Collins, Stephen Fry and the Emperor of Japan come to visit as well as 85 year-old Gerry Parker, an ex-East End bookmaker who has breakfasted at Claridge's for the last 40 years. Given this weight of tradition and expectation, General Manager Thomas Kochs takes any change very seriously and no decision - from new alarm clocks to a £10 million renovation plan escapes his obsessive attention to detail.
Episode 3 • Dec 16, 2012
Episode #1.3
It's mid summer madness at Claridge's, and it appears the whole world is coming through its doors. Thirty delegations from around the world are arriving for the Olympics. The red carpet is rolled out five times a day for Heads of State and Noma, ranked the World's No 1 restaurant, is setting up as a pop-up in the Ballroom. With the kitchen stuffed with hay and wood sorrel, Claridge's chefs are faced with turning their back on the traditional fare to provide Nordic foraged food to thousands of guests who've paid £195 per head to sample among other delights - live ants. Bill and Laura fly in from Atlanta for the wedding of their dreams and Stephen, the butler, prepares a suite for one of the hotel's most regular guest, by bringing his furniture, hat boxes, and 20 suits out of storage, all for one night's stay.
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