Product Description

How does it feel to live and work in the world's most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? How does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you're thousands of miles from anywhere else? And when the guests are some of the richest and most demanding people in the world, where do you find the energy every day to smile, smile and smile again?"Beach Babylon" takes you behind the scenes at a five-star tropical island resort. Do all the stories which take place behind the closed doors of the exclusive spa have happy endings? What do the world's richest people expect from room service during their fortnight in paradise? What does the windsurfing instructor do to keep sane after hours? In the bestselling tradition of her previous Babylon books, Imogen Edwards-Jones investigates the rivalries and alliances between the staff at a resort where pandering to the guests' most extravagant whims is de rigueur. With a cast of millionaires, celebrities, hangers-on and prostitutes, "Beach Babylon" takes you to a world where extreme luxury is the norm and where excess somehow isn't always enough.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10221 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

From the Inside Flap
How does it feel to live and work in the world’s most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resort, surrounded by white sandy beaches and aquamarine seas? How does it feel to be in the lap of luxury when you’re thousands of miles from anywhere else? And when the guests are some of the richest and most demanding people in the world, where do you find the energy every day to smile, smile and smile again?

Beach Babylon takes you behind the scenes at a five-star tropical island resort. Do all the stories which take place behind the closed doors of the exclusive spa have happy endings? What do the world’s richest people expect from room service during their fortnight in paradise? What does the windsurfing instructor do to keep sane after hours?

In the bestselling tradition of her previous Babylon books, Imogen Edwards-Jones investigates the rivalries and alliances between the staff at a resort where pandering to the guests’ most extravagant whims is de rigueur. With a cast of millionaires, celebrities, hangers-on and prostitutes, Beach Babylon takes you to a world where extreme luxury is the norm and where excess somehow isn’t always enough...

From the Back Cover
How does it feel to live and work in one of the most beautiful and luxurious tropical island resorts in the world? Your office is a beach of pure white sand. Your daily commute is a stroll past an aquamarine sea. Your meetings involve champagne cocktails at sunset.

But how do you maintain this level of luxury when you’re thousands of miles from anywhere? How do you keep the richest and most demanding people in the world supplied with call girls and vintage Dom Perignon? What happens when the sun refuses to shine? And where the hell do you find the energy every day to smile and smile and smile again?

With a cast of billionaires, celebrities, hangers-on and prostitutes, Beach Babylon takes you to a world where extreme luxury is the norm and where excess somehow isn’t always enough…

About the Author
Imogen Edwards-Jones is the co-author of the Sunday Times non-fiction bestsellers Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon as well as author of the novels My Canape Hell, Shagpile, The Wendy House and Tuscany for Beginners. She lives in west London. Anonymous is the manager of an exclusive five-star island resort.

Customer Reviews

Summer Season Review 1
An excellent expose of the world of luxury resorts and everything that goes on - is it all dramatic license? I bought this on the strength of the book / TV series of Hotel Babylon and it did not disappoint. Will appeal to both sexes.

Informative as well as entertaining
As the author of the Bradt Travel Guide to Maldives, and guide books and inflight magazine features on other beach destinations, I was fascinated to read BEACH BABYLON. Although the resort itself has been fictionalised and the incredible events of a resort manager's career packed into one hectic week, it rings so true.
From various clues (a Muslim country, aclohol confiscated from arriving passengers at the airport, the proximity of Colombo, Singapore, the Seychelles, Mauritius and Dubai) the setting seems to be the Maldives.
The author's sources of secrets about what happens behind the scenes are accurate as well as knowledgeable on wines and costs, making this an informative as well as an entertaining book. It is a fast-paced and often gripping read that ends too quickly, even though with a final philosophical flourish. Anyone thinking of holidaying or working in a "tropical paradise" will benefit by reading this book. Jolly good fun! (Royston Ellis)

Summer Season Review 1
A very good expose of the world of luxury resorts - really warts and all. A very witty read that will appeal to both sexes seems to be the general consensus from my Rep Team. You will love it if you watched the TV series, Hotel Babylon.