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For Travelers: English Signs Seen Around the World Prior to the Collapse of the Soviet Union

-Tokyo Hotel: “Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are no person to do such thing is please not to read this.”

-Another Tokyo Hotel: “Please to bathe inside the tub.”

-Another Tokyo Hotel: “You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.”

-Bucharest Hotel Lobby: “The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.”

-Athens Hotel: “Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours and 9 and 11 a.m. daily.”

-Yugoslavian Hotel: “The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.”

-Acapulco Hotel: “The manager has personally passed all the water served here.”

-Swiss Mountain Inn: “Special today—no ice cream.”

-In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery: “You  are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.”

-Moscow Hotel: “If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.”

-In the lobby of an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: “Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.”

-Can Tho, Vietnam Hotel. “Do not bring stinking things into rooms.”

-Vienna hotel: “In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.”

-Zurich hotel: “Because of the impropriety entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.”

-Leipzig elevator: “Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.”

-Belgrade elevator: “To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.”

-Paris Elevator: “Please leave your values at the front desk.”

 

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