Rooms come with wireless Internet (ask at the reception desk for the access code), and the restaurant, open for lunch and dinner, serves a breakfast that is included in the room price.
"Did the rabbi just pass by here?" a man in a red baseball cap asked at the reception desk.
Tell us whom you serve and for what?" One morning recently, I took a cab to a sleek new residential tower on the eastern edge of Tel Aviv and asked at the reception desk for Meir Dagan.
Given the location, it's perhaps not surprising that the authorities seem a little reluctant to promote its existence: ask at a couple of reception desks and you'll eventually be escorted downstairs by a guard, who'll unlock a few doors, turn on a few lights and follow you alone into the shadow of death.
Ms. Hovland asked at the Town Hall reception desk where they could apply for a marriage license and was apparently misunderstood.
No questions asked, just collect at reception"; "For some reason there was a holdall full of toilet paper in the gents', please collect at reception") and telling people that two assessors from a local gym are coming in on Tuesday and can someone please come and at least meet them.
This is also the time to ask questions at the reception area like what are their packages and programs, do they accommodate group scheduling, how long will be the treatment, the price, etc. Be very observant and take mental notes of your experience with them.
When Anne and I asked the reception clerk at the hotel housing the restaurant if he could call a taxi to take us to our own hotel, which was about two miles away, we learned that it was too late.
First, he woke up to the news that his childhood hero David Bowie had died and then, when we arrived together at his new corporate home, the man at reception asked him where he worked.
I stop at reception and ask how I get a personal trainer.
