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Principles of Hotel Management
Awakening-call Procedure : A wake-call is a telephone
call made by the telephone operator to a guest at a specific time,
predetermined by the guest. By its
very nomenclature a wake-
call is a telephone alarm to wake a sleeping guest. Normally,
the telephone department are fully concerned with wake-calls,
but the lobby personnel are involved
when wake-calls have to
be made for airline crews and groups. All information regarding
wake-calls is received by the lobby desk which in turn
disseminates it to the telephone department.
In the case of
airline crews, the city airline operations office normally calls the
lobby desk and conveys the time of pick up of the crew from
the hotel. The wake-call time is thus 45
minutes to one hour
before the pick up time. When airline operations give a pick up
time, care must be taken to call back operations and re-confirm
the
pick up time, noting down the name of the person on the
other end. It is customary for the lobby member receiving the
pick up time to give his name to the airline operations officer.
In
the case of groups, the group leader or travel agency
would convey wake-up call timings to the lobby. The lobby would
then prepare a wake-call list
and forward the same to the
telephone operator.
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