Director Steve Jackson says he regularly gets tee-time requests from gulf pros or concierges on-board arriving ships. |
It happens two or three times a day and the concierges get fed up reporting it. |
Now they're called concierges and usually go in the most expensive flats. |
The concierges, called hall porters here, are just to the right, efficiently satisfying demands. |
Just as scruffy lobbies are a thing of the past in posh developments, so too are old-style concierges. |
All the same, many bourgeois wore thick shoes, carried umbrellas, and tried to look as much like their own concierges as they could. |