A humorous review of the most eccentric hotels on offer to today's traveller. Marion and Lucy, ladies in their fifties, stay in strange hotels for good reasons and not only live to tell their tales, but discover the answers to some intriguing questions, such as : What is the young man in white gloves bringing on the silver tray? Where are you when the lights go out in a dingy room in Bangalore? Why go out to the telephone on the Boulevarde St. Germain instead of using the one in the room? And what of the Englishman who designed discotheques for the Shah of Persia?