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Topic : Confirming a hotel booking
Type : ialog!e" # Con$er"ation
Situation : a telephone conversation between a hotel receptionist and a person trying to
make a booking. The line is bad but the receptionist has the telephone skills to
deal with this problem.
SCRIPTS:
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Receptionist ! "ood afternoon, #rion Hotel, how may $ help you%
Customer ! $&m ringing to confirm a boo'ing $ made a wee' ago. $ was e(pecting an email
but $ haen&t receied anything.
Receptionist ! $&m sorry the line is rather bad, would you mind repeating that, please%
Customer ! )es, $ made a reseration on your website under the name of Coutts. "eorge
Coutts.
Receptionist ! Could you spell your surname for me, please%
Customer ! )es, that&s C*#*+*T*T*,
Receptionist ! -nd when was the reseration for%
Customer ! .uly /0
rd
to the /1
th
Receptionist ! ,orry, did you say the /2
st
%
Customer ! 3o, the /0
rd
Receptionist ! Let me 4ust chec' if we hae your details on the system. -h5 yes, here we
are.
Customer ! $ put down one double and one single room, but $ wonder if $ could change that.
Receptionist ! $&m terribly sorry $ didn&t 6uite catch that. 7ould you mind spea'ing up a little%
Customer ! )es, $ wanted to change the number of rooms. $s it possible to hae two
doubles instead of a single and a double%
Receptionist ! Let&s see5oh hold on a moment. $&e got someone on the other line. (Speaks
to other customer) yeah, yeah5would you mind if $ rang you bac'. $&m 4ust
dealing with a reseration. Than's.
Customer ! ,orry%
Receptionist ! )es, sorry about that 8r. Coutts, $&m 4ust getting your boo'ing details up now.
)es, we do hae another double aailable for those nights. 7as there anything
else%
Customer ! 7ell, $ wanted to 'now if you did egetarian food for the eening meal. $t wasn&t
clear from the website.
Receptionist ! )es, we do, but by prior arrangement. But now you&e re6uested it, $&ll put that
down in the boo'ing. How many people was that for%
Customer ! .ust myself
Receptionist ! 9ery good. -nything else%
Customer ! 7ell, we&e got a ery early return flight on the 0:
th
, so we&ll need an alarm call
at about ;.0:, $ should thin'.
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Receptionist ! 3o problem sir, $&ll arrange that now. 7as that all%
Customer ! $ thin' so.
Receptionist ! ,o you&d li'e two double rooms for the nights of /0
rd
to the /1
th
.uly inclusie,
egetarian proision for one and an early morning call on your departure. $s
that correct%
Customer ! That&s right
Receptionist ! $f we can help you with anything else, 4ust gie us a ring. 7e loo' forward to
seeing you in .uly.
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