It sounds like there might be trouble a-brewing for a Mexico resort that, to accommodate a Jewish group for Pesach, is going entirely kosher for the duration, much to the chagrin of non-Jewish folks booked at the hotel. From Hotel Chatter:

the agreement includes “an entirely kosher arrangement” throughout the hotel during their stay, ranging from food to the silverware and cooking utensils to a “No Alcohol” policy and to accommodations for children at this “adults-only” hotel…

It seems the hotel has also cancelled other guests reservations to accommodate this group. One reviewer says their reservation made in November 2006 for March 30th was cancelled nine days before arriving due to “a group.” Their money was refunded and they were offered to stay at a lesser hotel, but it’s doubtful this person will ever hit up that hotel again…

Apparently, what most outraged the guests (aside from not being informed of this situation earlier) was that management was not only rude and arrogant but also did not seem interested in retaining their loyalty and thus offered them no spa credits or drink comps or anything.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but I can see it happening. How would you handle it, either as a planner whose group needed everything kosher (or had some other special needs that transient guests may not like), or a hotelier with a lucrative kosher group coming in? I see no easy way to keep everyone happy.

Forget about snakes on a plane—what’s the next bizarre thing you think the TSA may end up banning? And would it make a good(or at least bizarre) movie plot? Bruce Schneier is holding his seconod annual movie-plot threat contest, and you too could get in on the action.

We screened for guns and bombs, so the terrorists used box cutters. We took away box cutters and small knives, so they hid explosives in their shoes. We started screening shoes, so they planned to use liquids. We now confiscate liquids (even though experts agree the plot was implausible)…and they’re going to do something else. We can’t win this game, so why are we playing?

Well, we are playing. And now you can, too. Your goal: invent a terrorist plot to hijack or blow up an airplane with a commonly carried item as a key component. The component should be so critical to the plot that the TSA will have no choice but to ban the item once the plot is uncovered. I want to see a plot horrific and ridiculous, but just plausible enough to take seriously.

I’m almost afraid I’d get on the watch list to enter, but I do have some ideas…