43 Times Housekeepers Were Taken Aback By Things Left In Rooms: “Forgot His Inflatable Girlfriend”

I mean, when you work in housekeeping, things related to s*x, d***s, and just general grossness quickly become far less strange, lol.

But my favorite story is when I had to get a witness to open a room safe that had been left locked by a guest. Its contents? One Taco Bell bean burrito. Best guess is a particularly drunken guest mistook the safe for the microwave.

Not a housekeeper, former desk staff and night audit.

I found someone's hamster. It got out of the room during housekeeping and we originally thought it was a rat in the main hallway. But after 3 days it was confirmed to be a tiny female hamster. I ended up catching it in a box by luring it with peanut butter and gave it to my cousin as a birthday gift. She named it Hobo because it was homeless and squatting in a shifty hotel.

The original owners never called us or came back btw.

Not me, but my friend from Ukraine worked at a c**ppy casino hotel in Wendover, Nevada, because they would sponsor his work visa. He wasn't a housekeeper but would have to do maintenance in rooms. He said one day he went to a room where the people had already checked out and there was a chicken in the room. Like a live chicken. Just chilling there.

Maybe the story is funnier when he tells it with his accent.

Why eez cheeken in room?

Crabs! Crabs everywhere! It was a hotel by the ocean and in a huge 4 bedroom 2 level suite. They people staying there took the time to put crabs EVERYWHERE. In the coffee pots, the toilet, the vases, the sinks, the dishes in the cupboard etc... Most were tiny babies and still alive. We put them in buckets and took them back to the beach. . But honestly it was so fricking weird

I worked room service at a mid-range hotel. One of the funniest things I remember seeing was during a champagne and chocolate covered strawberries delivery for a honeymoon package. This one was requested for delivery before the guests arrived, and I could tell the second I walked into the room that I was not the first person to have been in there. Someone had tossed rose petals around the room and added some decorations for their magical night. The one that stood out though: a 3'x3' print out of the bride's father with a massive, cheesy grin and a thumbs-up. It was taped to the ceiling directly above the bed.

I initially found it strange that high school/college aged boys will "hang out" in each other's rooms completely naked. They'll answer the door, completely nude and 100% shamelessly and carry on a conversation with me as if nothing was out of the ordinary. At first I thought they were doing it for a laugh to see if I would say anything, but the amount of times it happened dismissed that thought. People are just strange.

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.

I work for a large hospitality company that has multiple brands under its umbrella. One of which is a hotel chain. I'm sent in when sites have refurbs to observe their operations, and do training refresher and brand standards with the teams.

The stand out stories managers have told me:

- A woman booked a room, and requested it be next to a fire exit. The housekeepers are told not to enter a room if a do not disturb sign is on the door, even if the guest should have checked out already. The site manager was called to the room, because nobody was answering the door and they were three hours after late for check-out. When they entered they found a man handcuffed to the bed, naked, wearing a blindfold and ball gag. He had been left like that for near 24 hours. She took his wallet and car.

- A housekeeper entered a room to clean, and the bed was covered in guns, some full automatic. She quickly left and they called the police. The guy was downstairs at the time eating breakfast. Luckily he didn't out the do not disturb sign on.

- Drew Barrymore stayed at one of our sites. One guy came to the manager and asked to buy the toilet seat and all the unwashed sheets and towels. He was willing to pay £2000. The manager refused, and the guy genuinely sent a complaint email to our head office to report said manager for being 'rude' and 'embarrassing him'.

One I witnessed:

- I went to a site, which had a housekeeping team consisting of three family members. Two of which spoke no English whatsoever, and all translation went through their mother. I watched one of them strip a bed to put fresh bedding on. When they removed the duvet it revealed a HUGE dried blood stain on the sheets, which went through to the matress. The guy legit didn't know what it was. He looked at me and kept saying "chocolate". I tried to stress it was blood, but he wasn't getting it. He then sniffed the mattress, and scratched at it with his nail and sucked his finger, while repeat "chocolate". I was stood in shock. His mother came in and saw what he was doing and screamed at him. She clearly told him what it was, and he ran to the bathroom to throw up. I told her I was trying to explain, but he wasn't getting it. I went to get an incident report to get the mattress destroyed, and replaced, when I came back, they had just flipped the mattress and made the bed. They were all fired.

I'm the lobby manager at a small boutique style hotel. There was one morning our general manager (a very prim and proper mid-60's Dutch lady) came back down from the honeymoon suite waving around a small metal object that someone left in the room, asking me if I knew what it was. I had to explain to her that it was a b*tt plug and she should probably go wash her hands.

I was at random party taking place in a suite and I go into the bathroom and see a guy in the bathtub with an entire rotisserie chicken. He looks up at me and sticks out a greasy finger as he finishes chewing and then says, "Don't mind me."

My friends family ran a little hotel at the beach. Nothing fancy, but it was oceanfront. My friend once went to a room to clean, and found the ENTIRE place CLEAN. Not just wiped up and etc. the walls and ceilings had been scrubbed, the carpets looked like they had been shampooed, the tub/shower looked brand new (quite an accomplishment at the beach with super hard water and salt spray), the bed frame had been cleaned, the old beach furniture had been cleaned and repaired, the knobs and track on the sliding glass door had been polished, the railings on the deck had been thoroughly scrubbed, the dirty linens were stripped and folded with a sign saying “dirty.” We were kinda curious if someone had been k**led or what.

My wife used to be a housekeeper for some cabins in a state park. One time, one of her co-workers found a brand new pistol tucked behind a dresser. Apparently no one claimed it, so she got to keep it.

On another occasion, one of her other co-workers that was extremely religious, found a plate of home-made brownies and ate a couple of them. They turned out to be edibles! She had never had marijuana in any capacity and ended up on the bed, slowly talking about how she thought she was dead and they had to call 911!

I worked at a hotel many years ago. We used to get professional sports teams stay for two or more weeks at a time.

One team that came a few times was particularly interesting. Each room had two players (two double beds per room) and it was funny to see very religious books on one bedside table and p*rn on the other.

Once found an anaconda in the bathroom, wrapped around the shower curtain pole.

As a Housekeeper we had a situation where we had to split a couple parents from their child and boyfriend. They were of age and got an upgrade to a suite on the top floor. They kept extending their stay per day, but always had the DnD up so we couldn't clean, they explicitly told us. They would leave their linens/trash bags outside the door (not a policy of ours, just something they decided to do.)

Well, come about a month later and we finally get in after they check out and...oh. I had never seen literally AT LEAST 1000 AEROSOL CANISTERS. Piled everywhere in the fairly small room. Just...whippet cans. And chicken qing bones, food boxes, f*****g everywhere.

Took two of us over an hour to get it straight.

I worked for one summer in a hotel and a colleague told me that one day she was preparing a room for a just married couple. When she returned to the room to check it friends of the couple had filled the room with balloons from condoms and she just fricked out because she thought that she's gonna be in trouble.

I only have found a little cute bat in a room sleeping on the carpet 🦇. It wanted to sleep, so it didn't bother at all when I was moving it away 😂.

I worked for a hotel chain in Colorado and one day my coworker and I went to strip a bed and the bed was full of oranges. The dresser oranges. Side table, cans of mandarin oranges. Not exactly shocking or disgusting, but it was weird.

I used to work in reservations in a big chain hotel in London. Housekeeping once told us there was one regular guest who used to ALWAYS leave a single whole in-tact raw egg in the bed when they checked out. Nobody ever figured out why or where on earth they got that single raw egg in the middle of central London (grocery stores aren't frequent in the area and they certainly don't sell eggs one by one).

I worked in maintenance at a hotel and while I’ve heard some crazy things that housekeeping has found this experience was my own.

The front desk paged me and when I arrived they told me this woman wanted to go look for her wedding ring she had his in a room she had stayed in a few days prior. This was obviously suspicious and we had a policy that guests couldn’t visit their room after they checked out and housecleaning had visited already. This lady tried to bribe the desk to let her go up and when that didn’t work she snuck upstairs and tried to bribe housekeeping who also refused. When I was called was when she was trying to convince the desk a second time and we settled on she couldn’t go up, but I’d go look. I get on the elevator, a man and young boy probably about ten years old or so get on with me. I don’t really think anything of it at the time until they follow me off the elevator and to the room. At this point I spin around and tell them no one can enter the room with me nor be upstairs and they needed to go back downstairs. I wait for them to turn the corner and quickly enter the room and secure the door behind me. I know that something is up at this point. I feel along the bottom of the curtains and I don’t feel anything, I look around the rest of the room and don’t see anything. I say screw it and check the curtains again and this time I feel something I missed last time. I find where this lady had cut a whole in the curtains and move the object in that direction. A huge bag of white crystal plops into my hand. I call down to the desk and tell them to call the cops cause I just found a huge bag of d***s and tell them that’ll I’ll be staying in the room until the cops arrive in case the people are waiting for me somewhere. The cops arrive and I hand over the baggie and the cop tells me that it contains over $1800 worth of meth. The people split right after I sent what I assume is the dad and son back downstairs.

Who brings their kid with them to retrieve d***s?

Someone left a huge stack of money inside a Bible. They called and had the money mailed to them.

Someone polished their shoes inside the tub .I assume they were wearing them. They used a hotel towel to buff the shoes. Black polish was in the tub, on the rim, and on the toilet. Impossible to clean. They had to pay for the repairs.

I had a friend who worked at a luxury hotel tell me that someone s**t in the room safe.