Hotel goes up scale

FORGET room service or pillow mints, a hotel in Belgium has come up with a unique added extra on a different scale – rent a fish for an evening.

The manager of the Van der Valk Hotel Charleroi, near Brussels, said the idea to lend out the establishment’s three goldfish came to him a few years back when he noticed guests getting bored at the reception desk.

He decided to offer guests the chance to keep one of the fish in their rooms. Since then, several guests have taken him up on the offer to rent a fish for $4 a night (fishbowl included).