Purpose Statement: This blog post for Writing 310 is a response to a joke letter from Ted Nancy.
Dear Mr. Nancy,
Thank you for your response to our letter, and for agreeing with our concerns about the hamsters. We at Amstel Hotel pride ourselves on keeping our buildings clean, safe and welcoming for all customers, and allowing you to keep 300 hamsters in one of our rooms would have violated that responsibility.
In this new letter, we understand that your request is to instead keep 500 clams in 3 different rooms. We appreciate the pun you made with “Amsterclam,” and that you say the clams have been inoculated for diseases. It is clear that you have taken steps to try and make this request as reasonable as possible.
Unfortunately, for similar reasons as your first request, we cannot allow you to bring 500 clams into our hotel. Even if the clams are inoculated, that doesn’t change the fact that they will create an unwelcoming environment for the rest of the guests, as well as being a hassle for our hardworking housekeeping staff that would keep them from doing their regular duties. While we do allow pets in our rooms, according to local laws, our team here at Amstel Hotel has agreed that 500 clams would exceed the allowance of creatures for the entire building.
Thank you very much for continuing to reach out to us. If you have any other requests, please feel free to run them by us first and we will let you know whether or not they are permissible. We hope that you are able to find some other alternative way to continue with your creative play ideas.
Sincerely,
Amstel Hotel Reservations
Writing Wizard 
