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An international travel [site / sight] conducted a survey on hotel complaints around the world and found some [unusually / unusual] things. The travel website Skyscanner.net [surveyed / survey] 400 international hotel [stuff / staff] in 39 different countries. It asked them about the strangest things guests had asked for or complained [around / about] . The site said that most of the unusual complaints were about food. Other [weird / weirdo] requests were [related / relative] to the room. Not every hotel room or the services on offer are to everybody's [tasty / taste] , but the complaints in the Skyscanner survey were so strange it makes you wonder how the hotel staff [responses / responded] . It would be impossible for any hotel in the world to make some of the [complaining / complaint] guests happy.

The food-related [complains / complaints] were very weird. One guest asked for 16 cucumbers a day, while [another / other] requested only the right legs of a chicken. The staff had [no / not] idea why just the right leg, or [whether / weather] the left leg of a chicken didn't taste as nice as the right leg. One guest asked for something not [normal / normally] found on the room service menu – crocodile soup. Other complaints were [crazy / crazily] enough to make staff wonder about the mental [old / age] of the guests. A man at a luxury hotel in London complained that his room did not have a sea view. The [nearest / farthest] beach to London is about 75 km away. Other guests wanted the toilet [filled / fill] with mineral water, a bath full of honey and a discount because his girlfriend [snored / snoring] .


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