some rooms include dedicated staff, dedicated cabanas, dedicated restaurant tables
when joel robuchon was at FS NY, supposedly penthouse guests had a standing table at the restaurant during their stay, so they could go down at sit at that table at any time, i would imagine many hotels will do this kind of thing on request and usually charge for it
Originally Posted by
juuceman
too many rooms and not sufficient pool loungers for everyone
plus residence guests, members, spa guests, dayguests on top of rooms
edit - a standing table, like 24/7 rotating drivers, are pretty different from just 'virtually guaranteed table' and dedicated driver (x hours) etc
although for tables, restaurants will walk/bump reservations of others for certain guests, like hotels and presumably airlines too, with compensation