What are some really extraordinary amenity ideas for a guest that stays more than a month, I want to do something special for them once a week?
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Previously, I worked in many extended stay properties. I would put together meal gift baskets that would have different themes.
For example:
1) A pasta theme includes a Collander as the gift basket filled with pasta, sauce, french bread, and sausage stick, possibly a bottle of wine.
2) Pizza basket includes Ready made pizza crust, Pizza sauce, pepperoni, sausage, placed on a pizza pan gift wrapped together. Our guests loved these surprise meals.
We would change up the theme every month for each of our guests, so they never received the same basket twice.
Sometimes we would include tickets to local attractions or events into their baskets as well.
On the final basket before departure, we would include a souvenir t-shirt of our city.