A man making his usual breakfast deliveries up and down the twin towers was the sole breadwinner for six of his relatives in a farming village in Morelos, Mexico.
English owner Sarah lives nearby and is on hand with daily breakfast deliveries (just ring the sheep bell when you're ready), afternoon tea and delicious evening meals (five days out of seven) so frazzled parents can completely switch off.
The hotel restaurant is closed for a wedding, but there's a Clubhouse at the foot of the Treehouse slopes doing snacks and drinks, plus there are three menus from which to order room service, breakfast and hamper deliveries.
The passing joy of "Passengers," as directed by Morten Tyldum, isn't at all in the ineffable story but in the drolly conceived quasi-documentary details of space travel — the mechanized and economically stratified delivery of breakfast foods, the chrome-plated robot waitstaff with their French accents, the holographic greeters, the swimming pool with a cosmic view.
The square's tree-lined walkways and smattering of high-end restaurants make a nice complement to the hotel itself, where marble bathrooms have Molton Brown toiletries, and a range of amenities (Wi-Fi, newspaper delivery, continental breakfast) are included in the rate.
"Dylan was quite spiderlike," she says, taking delivery of her breakfast, a plate of tiny pineapple chunks, a couple of strawberries and a blackberry.
Our continental breakfast (18 euros, plus a 4-euro delivery surcharge) arrived promptly at the requested time.
UberEATS, Uber's on-demand food delivery service, is launching a breakfast offering in London, as it continues to compete with the likes of Deliveroo and Amazon, and 'buy and deliver anything' services such as Jinn and Quiqup.
A bicycle delivery man, a bag of breakfasts drooping from the handlebars.
The flower-pattern curtains and bedspreads, winged chairs and rockers look better suited to a bed-and-breakfast in the Cotswolds than to a delivery room.
