Amazing things you can order to your hotel room including opera singers, suitcase packers and pet packages

FORGET ordering late night snacks, these hotels are now offering services you never even knew existed and they’re amazing.

Hand ringing in service bell on wooden table.

IT’S now easier than ever to order little luxuries with a few taps of your smartphone or a quick phone call. From meals prepared by a celeb chef to DJ equipment or an opera serenade, the options for what can be delivered to your hotel room are seemingly endless.

For decades, hotels have been delivering food, toiletries, towels and drinks to guests in the comfort of their rooms, but an increasing number of hotels are offering more creative deliveries, from whimsical items like warm milk and cookies at bedtime to seemingly vital amenities like oxygen. Many of these items are free.

Can’t find what you want within the confines of your hotel or are too lazy to leave the property? No problem. A number of apps and companies will deliver an encyclopaedic collection of items, from massages to dry cleaning.

Cheapflights.com has pulled together some of their favourite items that can be delivered to your hotel room.

Jam session gear

The 21 Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos worldwide let guests channel their inner rock star and jam out with the free three-part Sound of Your Stay program: “tracks,” which allows guests to download a 15-song playlist at check-in; “picks,” which sends your choice of 20 electric Fender guitars including Stratocasters and Telecasters to the room for guests to play; and “mix,” which provides Traktor Kontrol Z1 Systems DJ equipment and mixing lessons in-room. A Mustang floor amp and Nixon headphones are included to ensure no noise complaints.

Room Shopping

Can’t be bothered to shop, but really want new clothes, shoes and accessories from your travels? Room Shopping at The Dylan Amsterdam, a luxury boutique hotel located in the heart of trendy Amsterdam shopping district De 9 Straatjes (The Nine Streets), lets fashionistas order from an exclusive in-room menu of items and have the purchases delivered within an hour to the room or shipped directly to the traveller’s home from 9am to 5pm daily (purchases made after 5pm are delivered the next day).

From local art pieces to children’s clothes and toys to shoes and purses, guests can order from several shops. Returns are equally easy — just leave them at the reception desk and hotel staff will handle the rest.

Never worry about packing your bags again.

Suitcase Packer

No more sitting on your suitcase to cram it all in. The Muse Hotel in New York City has a team of packing professionals that can come to your room to help you pack your suitcase — for free! The Kimpton Hotel’s on-call packing team will fold and fit your travel treasures into your suitcase and, if you bought more than your suitcase can handle, they will package and mail the items to your home.

Pillows

Have the ultimate pillow fight or just ensure a comfortable night’s sleep by ordering off the pillow menu, an increasingly popular — and free — option at many hotels. Graylyn International Hotel & Conference Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. offers guests a hypo-allergenic Heavenly Down (synthetic) pillow, but guests can also order a goose down with 650 fill power European white goose feathers; a body pillow perfect; or memory foam contour pillow made with 100-percent hypo-allergenic antimicrobial foam.

The boutique JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa’s Club 91 in Cancun, Mexico offers a variety of pillows, including memory double curve, memory hard foam and gel hypo-allergenic pillows. One of the most extensive pillow menus on offer is at the Lorien Hotel & Spa, a Kimpton Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. Guests can drift to sleep on their choice of nine pillows, including a magnetic pillow, water pillow, buckwheat pillow and Snore-No-More pillow.

Opera Serenade

Located in the heart of Verona, Italy, home of the opera and Shakespeare’s fabled lovers Romeo and Juliet, guests of the romantic Italian retreat Palazzo Victoria in Verona, Italy can order a 30-minute serenata (opera serenade) performed by a tenor in their suite. The in-room performance is $1500.

Be serenaded in your own hotel room.

Hangover Help

Had a little too much fun in the sun? W Fort Lauderdale has you covered. For $200, hung-over guests can order the Relieve & Revive Recovery, a DIY Bloody Mary kit with Tito’s Handmade Vodka, tomato juice, lime and celery; bottled water; BAND-AIDs for blisters or other “war wounds;” and headache and stomach remedies.

Bubble Bath

Too lazy to run your own bath? No worries, just call down to Il Salviatino’s “Service Ambassadors” who can arrange for The Ultimate Bubble Bath, a luxurious bubble bath of your choice of Prosecco, Spumante or French Champagne drawn in the 15th century villa’s Ojetti Suite, a two-storey haven with a rooftop jacuzzi that overlooks Florence, Italy. An additional chilled bottle is placed next to the bath so you can toast your good fortune to afford this expensive bath that starts at $14,000.

Oxygen

Before or after a day of exploring Machu Picchu, guests at the JW Marriott El Convento Cusco, Peru that are too lazy to open the door and breathe fresh air can order up oxygen, which is piped into the room’s oxygen-enrichment system. The $28 oxygen is not just for the lazy; it also helps guests acclimatise to the altitude. Need more help? Order a hot cup of coca tea made with leaves of that coca plant and used in the Andes as a local remedy.

The Langham Hotel in Sydney offers pet packages including luxury dog beds, food/drink bowls and a pet room service menu.

Books

Want to catch up on your reading? Call The Commons Hotel’s Book Butler, who will bring a classic novel or bestseller for you to read while staying at the Minneapolis hotel. (Sorry, you have to leave the books behind upon check-out.) The literary quotes left on guests’ pillows at turndown and Sudoku puzzles delivered with each in-room breakfast order add more geeky fun.

Pet room service

Even your furry friends can be lazy. West Inn & Suites in San Diego, Calif. will deliver dog beds, bowls, treats and aromatherapy to ease travel anxiety at no charge for four legged guests. The Commons Hotel’s SmartPAWS program features a Bark Butler, who delivers room service meals for dogs and cats (meals start at $4) among other goodies like plush pet beds, water bowls, and dog walking adventure maps.