Villa Host Anantara Hotels Resorts & Spas UAE

Anantara Hotels Resorts & Spas

Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort is looking to hire suitably skilled and devoted candidate for role of Villa Host. As a Villa Host, you are required to maximize and exceed guest satisfaction by providing highly personalized, efficient, and responsive service with attention to detail, and anticipating guests’ needs. Take ownership and leadership of all villas assigned to you including supervising, directing, assisting, and ensuring the cleanliness and maintenance of guest villas. Villa Host is instrumental to achieve our goal of providing the highest professional standards of service to our guests.

Responsibilities of Villa Host

  • Perform duties in accordance with the Standard Operating procedures and Guidelines of the resort.
  • Assist Front Office Department with daily operations, check-in, check-out, and upselling.
  • Maintain high standards in personal appearance. Is well groomed, hygienically clean, and properly attired in uniform to carry out duties at all times.
  • Behave and carry out tasks and responsibilities in a professional manner
  • Punctual to report for duties and prompt to disseminate services to guests.
  • Fully aware of arrivals, departures, and guest movement in the resort.
  • Always prepared to handle guest requests, complaints, and suggestions and follow through to maximize the service standard.
  • Knowledgeable about fire and safety procedures.
  • Deals Guest comments and concerns systematically and keeps superiors informed of the same.
  • Report health or safety hazards to the supervisor.
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Management.
  • Initiate contact with guests before arrival and proactively gather preferences for residences.
  • Attend all briefings conducted & follows up with daily arrivals, departures, and other important information.
  • Ensure a place of guest courtesies, complementary items, and amenities in the villas as specified and carries out its delivery and timely clearance.
  • Facilitate arrivals and departures according to set procedures.
  • Prepare necessary mise-en-place in the allocated pantries and villas to facilitate efficient service.
  • Knowledgeable of the service and quality of all types of wines available in the Private cellar.
  • Aware of the procedures for laundry valet service and is ready with requirements to carry out same in a professional manner.
  • Maintain logbooks, making log entries as per the log standards and going through them every day as soon as coming to shift.
  • Attend daily briefings and meetings as scheduled.
  • Ensure all arrivals amenities such as fruit platter, beverages according to VIP codes; foot ritual, cold towels, and welcome drinks are in order.

What You’ll Do More?

  • Check the arrival villa prior to arrival as per the
  • Meets the guests upon arrival at the resort and VIPs at the airport if requested.
  • Prepare and offer foot rituals and welcome drinks to guests in the villa.
  • Introduce guests to the resort and their villa.
  • If guests have any other requests like laundry or baggage unpacking, attends to them immediately.
  • Meet guests regularly.
  • Educate, recommend and assist guests of using and indulging in resort’s facilities.
  • Make arrangements for excursions and dining by design.
  • Assist guests in foreign currency exchange or matters related to payments.
  • Hand over and takes over any guest faxes and emails.
  • Attend to flight re-confirmation/special transfer requests if any and coordinate with reservation and Front Office.
  • Speak to the guest the night before departure and explain departure procedures. Offers guests wake up calls or early morning breakfast or any other requests which guests have.
  • Facilitates villa checkout.
  • Check the villa for any last-minute consumption in the private cellar and keep the front desk informed about it.
  • Monitor guest comments and follows up as necessary.
  • Attend behavioral and vocational training in own and related work areas, to enhance skills and develop multi-functionality.
  • Ensure that all fellow associates follow Safety rules and operating procedures.
  • Aware of all house rules and assists in enforcing them on associates.
  • Always conduct himself/herself in such a manner to encourage all fellow team members to do likewise.
  • Maintain a favorable working relationship with all other company employees to foster and promote a cooperative and harmonious working climate.
  • Project at all times, a favorable image of the company, resort and department.

Requirements of Villa Host

  • High school diploma in relevant field.
  • Minimum 1 year experience as a Butler/Villa Host; preferably in a similar quality hotel.

Skills and Knowledge Desired

  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Fluency in English and Arabic.
  • A friendly and outgoing behavior.
  • Proactive, resourceful, and able to work independently.
  • Has strong decision-making abilities.
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