20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All
Taxi drivers, croupiers, waiters... Some professions allow the chance to have a peek at human nature from an angle that would be really hard to find elsewhere. However, while most of them deal with people in person, others get to "meet" them mostly through the leftovers of their presence.
In November, Reddit user ThatSportsGameGuy made a post on the platform, asking hotel cleaners, "What is the weirdest thing you have found in a [guest's] room?" and the replies came flying in. From bees to false teeth, continue scrolling to check out the ones that raise the most questions.
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Long long ago, I worked at a nice beachfront hotel in Wildwood Crest. The place wasn't priced for tight budgets, so we didn't have much trouble other than the semi-frequent entitled octogenarians demanding weird s**t. Anywho...
I had a nice family on my floor. A middle aged couple, their college-aged sons, and two of their son's friends. They had different friends stop by frequently, but they were quiet and there were no complaints. They were there for two weeks, never wanted anything from housekeeping, and did not let me in to clean the room because "someone is always sleeping in here." So they would leave their sheets and towels outside the door, I would replace them with a clean stack and some soaps, and they would take care of everything.
At the end of their stay I finally get to go in and do the heavy cleaning. They were so low-maintenance I was expecting a quick in-and-out. The nightmare I stumbled upon was so epic in its proportions that my brain short-circuited and I just stood frozen in the doorway until another guest happened by and asked if I was ok. He glanced into the room and was also struck dumb.
The room was covered, every surface, every inch of carpet, every ledge and nook, every millimeter of free space, with a beer can. *HUNDREDS* of them, neatly ranked in rows, less than an inch apart. And every beer can was filled to the brim with liquid. Not beer, but urine. In order to collect so much, they had to be saving their p**s this way for their entire stay, and all their friends' p**s too. Everyone had to be in on it. And two-week-old p**s sitting in open beer cans does not smell like fresh baked cookies.
So... I couldn't just wade in there and sweep all those cans into trash bags. Oh no. I and two co-workers had to tiptoe in there wearing gloves and covering our noses with bandanas, gingerly pick up each can, dump it into a mop bucket, then dump the bucket every few minutes. *For hours*. It was the nastiest most mean-spirited thing anyone has ever done to me, and this happened many decades ago.
The clincher? This was a suite. The area farthest from the front door was the master bedroom. And at the very farthest point of that room they taped an envelope to the wall. It was my tip. Twenty dollars and a note that said, *"If you got this far, you earned this!"* It was a deliberate insult. 20 bucks, for two weeks of p**s from a dozen people. Even the b****y entitled senior citizens tipped better than that.
I have no idea why these people decided some random kid deserved this treatment, but the hotel owner wasn't amused. He took photos, then charged them a 150.00 cleaning fee. When he got them on the phone and told them this, they played dumb until he told them explaining their p**s cans to a judge would be pretty embarrassing. They sent him a check (as was the style at the time) and he gave the whole thing to me. He was a nice old man. :)
How can some people be so disgusting? How can you do that to another human?
I laughed. I hate myself for it, but I laughed. Take your pun and go.
Load More Replies...How does one think of doing something like- why would... I'm at a loss for words, what the hell
This guest left his mom a disable elderly woman in her room for 2 days, she was unclothed, with a colonoscopy bag and catheter bag full to the max. This woman had not eaten in 2 days and could have died if we did not do a life and safety check when the bill was not paid for a 1 nighter. We eventually located her son, who tried to dump her in the hotel so he could go on a bender.
I hope the cops were called and he was charged with something. Hopefully a decent place was found for his mom.
Eeek that full catheter bag could have caused her a bypass and also urine burns over her lower half if it burst. Poor woman could have ended up with a horrendous uti.
It would likely cause a kidney infection or worst if it doesn't bypass as it backs up. I have a catheter and my bladder wouldn't by pass if I didn't empty it. I've seen someone admitted to hospital at the same time as me with this, their bag hadn't been changed right (didn't turn the valve on after changing the night bag) so a mistake by someone who was new to caring, but caused urosepsis
Load More Replies...I've heard so many stories like this... it's horrible what some people do...
I no longer work the job, but when I did I thought I found a dead body because I saw a person in bed under the covers after checkout. I called out but got no response. Guy forgot his inflatable girlfriend under the covers.
Either way, i think its safe to assume they broke up....
Load More Replies...I guess it's not like they don't know who stayed there?
Load More Replies...I hope the inflatable was... not ... secondhand... if you see what I mean.
Blood, lots of blood. Literally on everything. Me, and the person cleaning with me, got out of there and reported it. Customer had gotten extremely drunk and sliced his hand open, then freaked. Also found various weapons and one time a raccoon trap. This was my first job, in high school.
You got a great welcome to adulthood. So sorry this happened. Not a great start in to the world of adulting..
Hopefully it's only gotten better from there.
Load More Replies...Not to be that person but I see smh a lot and idk what it means do u mind saying what it is?
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I used to work on housekeeping at a children's theme park called Gulliver's kingdom, I remember going into a room and it STANK, soon found the source, 3 dirty nappies floating in a bathtub. That is disgusting but unfortunately not completely abnormal, what was wierd was the sight of an untouched large fish from one of the fish&chip shops tucked up in the double bed like a small child, around it a murder scene had been painted with tomato sauce, and placed carefully in a equally spaced ring arround the bed were chips all printing towards the fish.
It looked like some sort of satanic ritual to summon the god of the god of chip shops.
It was a pain in the a**e to clean up but it was defo a memory.
Do these humans think that the cleaning means they can do whatever they want with the room??
As someone that used to do this job during summers all trough high school, yes... yes they think it's fully acceptable to do this and also funny and sadistic to torture minimum wage workers
Load More Replies...This thread is giving me a bit more sympathy for the AirBnB hosts who tack on those exorbitant cleaning fees. I can think of better ways AirBnB could handle it so not everyone gets hit with them, but since those ways don’t exist, I’m starting to understand why (other than sheer greed) the hosts are tacking them on.
Gulliver's Kingdom is in Matlock Bath, near Derby if you want to go and see for yourself. Drove past it on the way to The Great British Car Journey last year.
When I read things like this and the other one with the beer cans filled with urine I always wonder what these peoples home must look like... 😡
A hole cut in a mattress because the "platinum level" guest s**t the bed drunk and then used a butter knife to cut it out and flip the mattress over.
Just curious - how drunk do you have to be to cut out poo from the mattress?
Rich people really are the most disgusting animals in the world. I've literally seen wild dogs with better manners.
Bees and bee c**p literally covering every single spot in the place. The guy was a beekeeper and was delivering a hive. He brought it into the room, where the hive tipped over and broke. It took days of scrubbing with some harsh chemicals to get the poo off. Even had to repaint walls
I don't know why, but it never occurred to me that bees poop.
Load More Replies...The bee poop I could deal with, but I’m allergic to bee stings. Opening a door to a room filled with trapped, homeless, and undoubtedly hungry - and, therefore agitated and angry - bees is nightmare fuel. But, I really have to question the dedication and professionalism of any bee keeper who would simply abandon them.
This is completely fabricated, it would take years for a single beehive to damage a hotel room enough to match the description and I know this because I have 8 hives. Bees are very clean insects and even if they had not been out of the hive for a trip from Maine to southern California there wouldn't be enough of their waste to equal more than a tablespoon in a population of 10K bees.
Bit concerned that no-one has seen bee poo. How can this be? Or bee. Sorry. But I have never had a car where I have not had bee poo on it. That stuff is concrete.
Not necessarily no-one has seen bee poo, but perhaps we've simply not seen the bee poop the poo so haven't realised it is actually bee poo. (And no, I've never considered what bee poo looks like so wouldn't have recognised it before reading this post.)
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The item wasn't weird just the whole situation. I walked in and every inch of the floor was covered in rubbish(except one, guess which). We had to walk on the rubbish it was like an extra carpet on the floor, but bot just the floor. On the bed and under the bed, on every surface, even in the bathroom and in the bath too. They had only been there one night. Where did all this rubbish come from?!? Food wrappers, pizza boxes, shoe boxes, cans, magazines, rubbish all over.
The strangest part was the trash bin. It was absolutely empty, and so was the floor around it. Like a perfect forcefield was erected that stopped the occupants from being able to get anything near it and yet everywhere else. F**k that guest. It smelt rancid and took ages.
My guess is that it’s fine. The ability to trash someplace they don’t have to clean falls into their definition of vacation “fun”.After all, the people who own the place and/or who have to clean it can’t gossip about them to their friends, and they’ll never likely see them again in their lives. So, go wild.
Load More Replies...I worked front desk at one of the "mouse's" higher end hotels way back when. I was the only brown person working up front. First day, I get sent up to a suite to deliver a package. As soon as I opened the door it was like a sea of cash. It literally covered every surface, bed, and floor. I'm not a theif, and also not stupid. Obvious set up. I set the package down on the dresser, put my hands up, and hauled a*s out of that room. I don't know where the cameras were, but they were not about to hem me up. I'd like to hope they "tested" all new employees like this but I have my doubts.
Sounds like they robbed a few places, unpacked and gloated at the hotel room, and left the mess as their due.
A pile of human skin, on the floor beside the bed. It was like sunburned skin peelings or something. Truly f*****g disgusting.
Half-human half-snake perhaps? Let's keep our minds open (just not too wide to avoid brains falling out)
No no, the lizard people were there. We're not supposed to know of their existence, but Nathaniel keeps spilling the beans
Load More Replies...I can get insane amounts of blisters when I get new shoes, or switch back to old shoes I've already walked in. Best way to deal is put on blister bandages (compeed is great) and then ignore them. But after a week or two there is a nice new layer of skin under the blister and there is tempting skin to peel of, but naturally that goes in the trash.
A giant ring of salt on the carpet like straight out of Supernatural. A toilet completely filled with chewing tobacco, so much it was clogged. A mom locked her 1 year old daughter outside of the room leaving her to bang on the door crying for way too long. People FREQUENTLY wipe their asses with our towels. And I once had a homeless person up on the 7th floor raiding my cart trying to steal my belongings, not for soap or any hygiene products which I would have happily gave to him.
"People FREQUENTLY wipe their asses with our towels." Let's contemplate that, all travellers using hotel towels.
For way too long? What amount of time is acceptable to leave a 1 YO unsupervised in a hallway? I’m a mom so I get needing space from time to time but this sounds more like neglect and child endangerment.
Absolutely. The child could quite easily have been kidnapped or toddled off and broken its neck falling down the stairs, for example
Load More Replies...That poor baby what a bad mom I hope that baby okay now and in better hands. Goodness
We had a guy stay in the hotel who was in town for a competitive eating contest. Um when he checked out, he s**t all over the bed. Like ALLL over. I think he wiped his a*s with the sheets. We threw everything away. it was so gross
also the day after valentine day is always weird. I didn't know some people could have sex THAT MUCH. so many condoms just all over the floor.
That sounds exhausting and, except for the bed, uncomfortable.
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I worked at a mountain/ski resort the first year it opened. There was a big snowfall in mid-November and suddenly we were fully booked for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Management didn't hire any extra cleaning staff, so it took us almost the rest of the next week to work our way through all the rooms and suites.
You would not believe how many people had left half-eaten turkey carcasses, not in the refrigerator, or in the trash, but just sitting out on the counter...the smell permeated the rooms, the carpets, the drapes. It was just appalling...
And, I’ll bet at least *some* of those families thought that doing so would ensure that someone saw it and disposed of it instead of chancing they wouldn’t check the fridge or that the little garbage liner wouldn’t leak. It would never in a million years occur to me that it would take 2 days, much less almost 2 WEEKS for someone to clean my hotel room. I’m sorry, but that one’s on management, not the guests.Even if they couldn’t get around to cleaning them all, they could at least send someone to glance around the room the day of check-out.
I don't disagree with this one, assuming this was room service which it sounds like is the case here. It would be reasonable for guests to expect if food has been delivered to the room, the trays/tableware/leftovers would be removed as soon as possible. But whilst the management is to blame for not hiring extra staff and not managing the workers properly, I don't get why the workers didn't consider going into all the other rooms pending cleaning for a look at the state of them and open windows where appropriate, particularly after the first one or two rooms where the staff found with leftover turkey on the counter.
Load More Replies...At least throw them out for the bears and wolves to chew on. (the guests, not the turkey carcasses)
Like Girl, Interrupted with chickens under bed. Apartment with an eat-in chicken
At least is was on the counter and not rubbed into the carpet or something
A dead elk on a tarp during hunting season.
My uncle is a hunter, and my aunt asked me to get a chocolate cake from the large walk-in cold room they had in their basement. I open the door and stepped in and in the corner there was a bloody carcass covered with somewhat see through plastic, and 17 year old me almost screamed my lungs out and ran. The only thing that stopped me was antlers poking out of the plastic. Didn’t eat the chocolate cake though.
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Teams I've been on have found:
A dildo stuck to a mirror
Butt plug in pull out couch (poor girl picked it up cause it looked like a ring pop 🤣😭😭)
Vibratory, used condoms both more then a couple times.
I had a trainee housekeeper come running up to me in tears babbling about something in the bathroom of t the room she was cleaning. So I go back with her to see what the problem is. I don't know how - but the guest had managed to ejaculated all over the bathroom mirror. Copious amount of copulation juice. This could only have been several rounds of .....*..... Nowhere near as bad as can of pee, but still not fun to get off the mirror, all stuck and dried and gooey.... >gag<
I'm an executive housekeeper at an upper class hotel and I had a guest go to the front desk as they was checking out and told the desk clerk that they had left something in the bottom drawer of the nightstand for us and naturally curious I went up to the room and pulled the drawer open and found a very huge size smruf blue strap on! Why they didn't take it with them and why they told the desk clerk about it I have no idea. I've also seen several of the pocket p***ys as well just laying out in the open as I'm cleaning their room!
I used to manage a hotel and found similar items, except everything was in one bag. Size 14 spike heels, fake hair, fake nails, fake eye color, fake eyelashes, fake boobs, and on and on. I'm sure she was looking for a "real man"
Something different for you-
Was cleaning a room and opened up the nightstand drawer- and found a fire alarm in a sandwich bag, along with the batteries.
It was the one that went to the room, on the ceiling. The ceiling which was much taller than on any other floor. It couldn't be reached even by a reasonably tall man standing on the bed, and they had to grab one of the tallest ladders to put it back on.
We have no idea how the man reached this, or if he brought in a ladder to do so, nor do we know why. He never spoke to front desk about it.
The first rule of fire alarming is that you don't talk about fire alarms.
I've always wondered why they're so alarmed. What made them scared?
Load More Replies...I was at a hotel once where the alarm started going off in the middle of the night for no reason. I called the front desk and they told me just to take out the batteries. I'm short and the ceiling was high, so I had to stack furniture up to reach the alarm. I was pretty annoyed.
Or MAYBE he somehow managed to hit it off the ceiling by accident and was ashamed. Dunno, sounds like something I'd do.
I bet that the reason why the guest removed it is because it was doing that ****ing chirping noise they make when the battery is low.
Maybe the customer had a smoking hot date and didn't want the alarm to go off?
I had a checkout where someone left behind their false teeth. They never came back for them.
I would have overcome my embarrassment. I don't know in your country, but in mine the false teeth are quite expensive
Load More Replies...What gets me is the guy in the pic clearly has bottom teeth, but is putting lower false teeth in his mouth.
If they were mine, short of being dead, I would have retrieved them. Denture are extremely expensive and the fitting process is arduous.
I used to be a housekeeper back in my youth to pay for college. I'd say for my weirdest was when I saw these three cowboy dudes (and this was the south so that was normal) come out of a room around checkout. I head in to clean it up and there were beer cans and bottles on every available surface but the floor. Weirdest part though, room smelled completely normal and was fairly clean. Not a single indication that the beer was drank there.
The grossest was when the hotel would have a section of it rented out for the local disabled Olympics. I don't know if it's because the people caring for the group with us just didn't care or if it's because they were mostly in non-disabled rooms, but those rooms were bad. Our managers would take first pass and just throw out anything in there as it was covered in feces and vomit and blood. We'd clean a bit and then let the rooms air out before a final clean and stock.
Maybe the three dudes came in for a threesome but were too embarrassed, so they made it look like they were in the room solely for drinking? /shrug
Things can only smell up a room if they are allowed to sit a while. The cowboys never let the booze sit long enough to smell.
Special Olympics was never notified? This could indicate neglect of the athletes.
Broccoli and spinach in the shower on two separate occasions. THREE jars of mustard on the bedside table (this was in a suite that had a full kitchen and separate bedroom.. no logical reason why the mustard would be in the bedroom).
Anyone can advise how to use broccoli in the shower? Asking for a friend.
Structure of it kinda feels like a loofa I guess... :-)
Load More Replies...Well.... some like it hot.... and spicey.... others just like mustard and vegetables.
Mustard will stop a Charley Horse in its tracks. (The tumeric in it is what works) But three bottles? That's overkill
S**t stains on the lampshade. I just spun it around so the stains faced the wall
I agree. I would upvote your comment, but it looks like you've got the perfect amount rn
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5 pairs of yeezys he traveled alone
And do you, as a matter of course, just leave your multiple pairs of shoes, between $2000, and $4000 worth (if they are the basic, cheapest models) in your room, when you check out?
Load More Replies...Had to tell a woman that she was going to have to leave because she snuck a Cat into the room and we don't allow cats. She the said that she would send the cat to stay with her sister okay fair enough... a few days later after she got kicked out for basically being bat s**t crazy... I go into her room and find a pentagon painted on the bathtub floor, with I have no clue what. It's still there to this day. Also long strips of what I thought were bacon... tons and tons of scratches all over everything. Mirrors. Headboards etc. And then I find matted fur still Damp and stuck to the back of the wooden chair.... yeah.... lady f*****g killed and skinned her cat in the room. That bacon... was kitty Jerky 😐
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I’ve been gently mocked most of my life for traveling with my pillow. Read this post and understand what disgusting things people do in hotel rooms. Pillows aren’t only used for heads, they are props for sex and who knows what else. And while I’m sure housekeeping changes the pillow case between stays, how often do you think the actual pillow gets washed? How often is it replaced? Sure it’s bulky, to cart everywhere, but I will never sleep on a hotel pillow.
I bring my own because I require an unusually thin pillow and I'm not fond of using hotel pillows; pillows are never washed at hotels
Load More Replies...We tend to get lots of swingers staying in my hotel due to there being a local club nearby. We've found all sorts of wierd s**t like dildos, butt plugs, condoms, lingerie. My favourite one is, after checkout, housekeeper went into couples rooms and found a broken sex swing on the floor a hole in the ceiling where we believe they had tried to put up the sex swing and a broken desk. I'm sure I'll find stranger stuff in the future.
My stories aren't half as bad as any of these (thankfully) in the short while I was a hotel housekeeper 8+ months pregnant one of my rooms had the very distinct smell of a hard drug. I obviously got some of my coworkers to assist me (I wasn't permitted to leave until we found -"evidence" of drug use- yes seriously -) I opened one of the dresser drawers to get a full face of said drugs smoke, they put it in there recently and just left it I guess. I left shortly after so my baby wouldn't get affected (my coworkers had no problem with me leaving) but I did get fired for not completing my room. 😂
WTH!! Probably just as well you didn't/don't work for these guys any more.
Load More Replies...I tried doing housekeeping for a fancy hotel right out of highschool. A lot of rooms with food deliberately thrown on the floor and walls, vomit in trash cans and stuff like that. But, the day I walked into a bathroom that looked like someone's butt had exploded was the day I quit. Floor, ceiling, in the tub, on both sides of the door. I don't know how they managed to do it, but I did not get paid enough to clean that.
Oh boy I used to work housekeeping and I found all sorts of weird things lol, entire bottles of scotch, love gloves on the floor, but the best of all was when I went into the room to do a daily cleanup and someone left their giant bear skin with the head still on, on the bed. And they had it facing the door so when I walked in it was looking straight at me , I almost passed out
I worked resort housekeeping summers in highschool. A certain old school r&b and funk artist had a show in our town and stayed at our resort, and when we went in to clean the room after he left, there was marijuana and cocaine all over the room. Under the pillows, in the bathroom, in the air vents. There were perfect lines of white powder on the table with a note that said 'your tip, thanks for a great stay' with the person's signature. Our manager had come with us because the artist had a rep for things like that, he sent us all out of the room and got out the vacuum 😂
its posts like this that make me celebrate that sperm counts are falling worldwide and human extinction isnt that far off!
Bored Panda - giving you insight into the very worst of human nature, when you thought you'd seen and heard it all! ( Unsee juice not provided).
I’ve been gently mocked most of my life for traveling with my pillow. Read this post and understand what disgusting things people do in hotel rooms. Pillows aren’t only used for heads, they are props for sex and who knows what else. And while I’m sure housekeeping changes the pillow case between stays, how often do you think the actual pillow gets washed? How often is it replaced? Sure it’s bulky, to cart everywhere, but I will never sleep on a hotel pillow.
I bring my own because I require an unusually thin pillow and I'm not fond of using hotel pillows; pillows are never washed at hotels
Load More Replies...We tend to get lots of swingers staying in my hotel due to there being a local club nearby. We've found all sorts of wierd s**t like dildos, butt plugs, condoms, lingerie. My favourite one is, after checkout, housekeeper went into couples rooms and found a broken sex swing on the floor a hole in the ceiling where we believe they had tried to put up the sex swing and a broken desk. I'm sure I'll find stranger stuff in the future.
My stories aren't half as bad as any of these (thankfully) in the short while I was a hotel housekeeper 8+ months pregnant one of my rooms had the very distinct smell of a hard drug. I obviously got some of my coworkers to assist me (I wasn't permitted to leave until we found -"evidence" of drug use- yes seriously -) I opened one of the dresser drawers to get a full face of said drugs smoke, they put it in there recently and just left it I guess. I left shortly after so my baby wouldn't get affected (my coworkers had no problem with me leaving) but I did get fired for not completing my room. 😂
WTH!! Probably just as well you didn't/don't work for these guys any more.
Load More Replies...I tried doing housekeeping for a fancy hotel right out of highschool. A lot of rooms with food deliberately thrown on the floor and walls, vomit in trash cans and stuff like that. But, the day I walked into a bathroom that looked like someone's butt had exploded was the day I quit. Floor, ceiling, in the tub, on both sides of the door. I don't know how they managed to do it, but I did not get paid enough to clean that.
Oh boy I used to work housekeeping and I found all sorts of weird things lol, entire bottles of scotch, love gloves on the floor, but the best of all was when I went into the room to do a daily cleanup and someone left their giant bear skin with the head still on, on the bed. And they had it facing the door so when I walked in it was looking straight at me , I almost passed out
I worked resort housekeeping summers in highschool. A certain old school r&b and funk artist had a show in our town and stayed at our resort, and when we went in to clean the room after he left, there was marijuana and cocaine all over the room. Under the pillows, in the bathroom, in the air vents. There were perfect lines of white powder on the table with a note that said 'your tip, thanks for a great stay' with the person's signature. Our manager had come with us because the artist had a rep for things like that, he sent us all out of the room and got out the vacuum 😂
its posts like this that make me celebrate that sperm counts are falling worldwide and human extinction isnt that far off!
