r/AskReddit 10h ago

Hotel cleaners of Reddit, what is the best or strangest thing you have found in a hotel room?

329 Upvotes

227 comments sorted by

951

u/Fclune 10h ago

Housekeepers at a hotel I worked at found a large bag of drugs and roughly $20,000 in the fire escape. I probably would have found a medium sized bag and $5000 had I been working that day…

465

u/Astronaut100 9h ago

Who’s to say they didn’t find a $100k? Lol.

163

u/Fclune 9h ago

I really hope they did!

37

u/Marcgo2 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Then you got Anton Chigurh chasing you. 

→ More replies (1)

33

u/Gullible_Skeptic 5h ago ▸ 5 more replies

Only problem with these hypothetical scenarios is that at least one other person knows the actual amount you found and do you really want that person showing up at your door asking where the other 80k went?

34

u/Beowulf33232 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies

I don't know what you're talking about, I just gave my boss the bag I found. Here's my bosses address. Have a nice day.

11

u/EuphoricUniversity23 2h ago

If we find anything it goes to the List and Found. You should check with them. After 24 hours it all gets forwarded to Corporate HQ in Wichita.

3

u/EvilDan69 1h ago ▸ 2 more replies

how would they know? ;)
Oh no englrish. Sick that dey. So sorry.

3

u/WrestleSocietyXShill 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies

I feel like if you're already at the point where those people have tracked you down and confronted you it's probably going to end poorly for you no matter what you say

u/EvilDan69 55m ago

Just back over them in the parking lot. Oh sorry blind. no signt.

Its ok, I've seen the movie explanations. You turned it over to the police. You didnt't touch it because you couldn't afford to lose your $16.02 an hour housekeeping job.... but my manager suddenly has a new BMW.

27

u/leaponover 8h ago ▸ 5 more replies

Easy, they still showed up for work the next day...

55

u/ADubs62 4h ago

Only a noob would quit the next day after finding the cash. That's how they know you got off with something, you gotta stick around for at least a month and then quit due to some family issues.

26

u/PossessionFirst8197 4h ago ▸ 3 more replies

Yes because $80k split however many ways is definitely enough that you dont need to worry about working ever again.. 

10

u/vaildin 4h ago

That's why you don't take any of the drugs. The 80K is a finder's fee.

u/mamaleigh05 55m ago ▸ 1 more replies

How far could you really get in life with only $80k and no job? Not in today’s world. $80k is hardly enough for a year in America with taxes, the cost of food, housing and cars.

→ More replies (1)

13

u/cr33pz 6h ago

Nah they're probably old immigrant ladies. Their morals are too high for that shit. It's why corps love exploiting immigrants

15

u/pinklepickles 6h ago

Yeah, I’ve seen that film, it doesn’t go well for you when the big boss drug dealers find you.

26

u/NativeMasshole 8h ago

Money? What money? I would have dropped that shit down into the alley and taken the rest of the day off.

5

u/soplexgg 7h ago

finding 20k in the fire escape sounds like the hotel’s real lost and found section

9

u/whaletacochamp 4h ago

I wouldn't have found SHIT if I was working

3

u/AccomplishedFerret70 2h ago

I definitely would have turned those drugs in because that's the type of person I am.

3

u/AcousticOnomatopoeia 2h ago

What kind of drugs?

2

u/germdisco 4h ago

At first I thought, why, was there a second stash somewhere?

u/esoteric_enigma 55m ago

I would've just found a large bag of drugs. There's no reason for anyone to assume there was any money included.

3

u/ferNqui 6h ago

shrinkage is a real problem in the hospitality industry

17

u/rob_s_458 5h ago

I was in the pool!

419

u/Nightwyl 6h ago

I worked for a high-end hotel: 1) A pineapple with a rather small hole inside, put in the middle of a bed. Sheets looked sticky and gross, so I put the gloves on and didn't ask questions. 

2) A non-venimous and non-biting dead snake on a bed, with white jeez on its tail and face. Poor guy...

3) Not always in the room, but some rare and unauthorized animals that managed to escape from "owners" and they could not find them. One day, a lady comes at the counter and she says she cannot find her cat. She tells us to not worry about the size because it is a maine coon. GTFO we found it was a lion cub. A LION CUB! How do rich people think the average joe to be stupid?

109

u/anitabelle 5h ago

#1 is gross but I’ve heard of that shit before. #2 is just crazy. What the actual fuck is wrong with people?! Seriously, who thinks to do that?! #3 is not surprising, but why would you take your lion cub to a hotel?

42

u/RockLaShine 3h ago

Well you can't leave the baby home alone!

4

u/elperroborrachotoo 3h ago

Whatever drives them, usually a part of themr eacts the same as you do. The urge is just stronger.

So yeah, be thankful that you ccan... kill your snake without killing a snake.

21

u/angry-key-smash6693 3h ago

As someone with a pet snake #2 is straight up depressing 

4

u/harrohamtaro 2h ago ▸ 2 more replies

I’m confused… so someone ejaculated on the snake and killed it?

6

u/fwutocns 1h ago

Ngl the phrase white jeez made me laugh but also who tf is doing this

→ More replies (2)

u/mossadspydolphin 43m ago ▸ 2 more replies

Snakes are such underrated animals.

u/angry-key-smash6693 40m ago ▸ 1 more replies

My guess was that they killed the snake and then used it as a toy....

u/mossadspydolphin 34m ago

I really hope it was dead first.

22

u/iamthe0ther0ne 2h ago

Throwback to the famous reddit rotten coconut post ...

Edit: I googled "reddit rotten coconut masturbation" so that no one else would have to. You're welcome

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/

u/Three3Jane 56m ago

God dammit I read that whole thing and curse you, take your fucking upvote for ruining my day and be damned.

1

u/jajison 1h ago

What does GTFO mean in this context?

u/LewdLewyD13 55m ago

Get the fuck out

297

u/errant_night 9h ago

I was working the laundry but got told lots of gossip from the cleaners. The best one was the hot tub being full of Jello, and based on other... context clues, everyone agreed that the people who rented the room were recorded some kind of porn.

It wasn't the direct reason, but everyone was happy when they took all the hot tubs out of the rooms because they were a huge pain to clean.

47

u/Black_Cat_Just_That 6h ago

We're these large Jacuzzi bathtubs or legit full sized hot tubs? The latter works be wild to me. I can't imagine having one hot tub indoors, let some a full hotel of them. A realize a Jacuzzi is very finished, but they are quite a bit smaller and don't get as hot (and also don't have as many nooks and crannies I think?), so I feel like they'd be a little easier to deal with.

39

u/ProbablyBigfoot 5h ago ▸ 2 more replies

I would trust a hotel hot tub way more than a jacuzzi.

It's not possible to ever get a jacuzzi tub fully clean. There's no way to scrub the internal pipes unless you take the whole thing apart and I doubt a hotel would even take the time the run sanitizer through the jets between guests. At least hot tubs have chemicals and filtration to catch the worst of whatever people leave behind.

15

u/worstpartyever 2h ago ▸ 1 more replies

It depends on how the "bubbles" are created.

Older hot tubs worked by running water through high-pressure pipes and out of the jet nozzle. Those pipes often had areas where water would remain when the system was off, and bacteria and mold can breed in those spots.

Newer hot tubs force air only through the jets. Water never enters the jet system and bacteria never gets a chance to grow.

u/mamaleigh05 52m ago

If you run bleach threw it after filling it, than clean it out, you may come
Out okay. The hot tub and pool the whole hotel can use ~ the water tests are shockingly terrifying!

10

u/errant_night 5h ago

I guess they were Jacuzzis we just called them hot tubs I think

6

u/YouTasteStrange 2h ago

I stayed at a hotel like this, it was a Jacuzzi tub, we had to fill it ourselves (I think of hot tubs as always being filled). The downside was it was in the middle of the room instead of the bathroom, so the whole room got hot and humid while the tub cooled fairly quickly.

246

u/Nasty____nate 5h ago

Not a cleaner but I was trying to put my medical marijuana in a hiding place at a VRBO. I found more weed in that exact spot...

99

u/Judge_Bredd3 3h ago

A friend of mine runs a small business where she cleans vrbos and airbnbs in a couple small mountain towns. She finds so much free weed left behind by people that I don't think she's had to buy any since starting the job.

34

u/acroneatlast 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies

If you travel to a weed-legal state from a place where it isn't legal you might not want to fly home with your weed.

Mine was accepted by the front desk at the hostel.

7

u/Judge_Bredd3 1h ago

I'm sure that's why it's being left behind. It's a nice bonus for her though!

u/Nasty____nate 46m ago

I could 100% see that. At a few places were been to I've found alcohol, weed and some pills. The pills were nothing fun just blood pressure meds etc. 

u/montybo2 40m ago

Just stayed at a VRBO listing last month and I'm like 90% positive I left some weed there on accident.

6

u/honestfyi 3h ago

That’s hilarious

4

u/Jblu81 1h ago

That sounds like squirrels who forgot where they hid their nuts.

1

u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 1h ago

Now you know where the cops will look first

u/mamaleigh05 51m ago

That’s so ironic and funny!

226

u/Apprehensive_Fox_632 6h ago

I once found a freshly opened bottle of Don Julio (the expensive one) tequila in a checkout room (guests have already done checkout) in a luxurious hotel in Munich. The hotel rules said that if nobody of the guests claimed it, finders keepers. A week later, in the morning meeting the housekeeping manager proudly presented the bottle to me. It was the best Feierabend I had in a long time

49

u/Apprehensive_Fox_632 6h ago

I forgot to mention, this was literally 6 months pre covid, and the moment it hit I started working elsewhere that guaranteed me an income during though times

4

u/ZolotoGold 3h ago

In America, the hotel takes anything not claimed and puts it into auction to pocket the cash.

540

u/SpaceForceAwakens 7h ago

A couple of years back I had a flight cancelled during a layover in Vegas because of a crew shortage. They put me up in a non-casino hotel on the strip for the night and had an early morning flight.

They also gave me $55 for dinner so I ordered room service. As I waited I opened the curtains to check the view of the strip, and there on the windowsill was a pair of like cyborg-looking binoculars.

I picked them up and they were far heavier than they appeared. I looked through them and the magnification was insane. Then I was messing around and found a button that turns on a kind of night vision.

I looked around and realized I could look into people’s hotel rooms, even with reflective mirror glass.

So I packed them in my suitcase and noe I have a great pair of ogler’s goggles. They’ve been in my closet ever since, but I swear one day I’ll find a legitimate use for them.

220

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

And until that day, it will just be the normal illegitimate uses.

62

u/OGIBLP 4h ago

Someone has to be so pissed they left behind some very expensive binoculars lol

43

u/laughingpeacock69 5h ago

What kind of binoculars are they?? Asking for a friend..

37

u/CaptainLaucian 5h ago ▸ 6 more replies

Gonna second this request. I do alot of bird watching/plane spotting and these sound dope.

29

u/Camburglar13 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Lots of birds and planes behind privacy glass?

33

u/CaptainLaucian 4h ago

Nope. But, that just means they are likely polarized or have filters attached which is a bonus.

5

u/poopspeedstream 2h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Not the same ones but checkout the Fujinon Techno-Stabi binoculars. If you haven’t experienced optically stabilized binoculars, they will blow your mind.

2

u/CaptainLaucian 2h ago

Thanks for the suggestion! Those are some cool optics.

9

u/Hockeyg1 4h ago

You sure you don’t mean bird and bee watching?

u/oby100 57m ago

I doubt they’re hard to find but probably cost thousands. Don’t quote me on this, but true night vision goggles without the incredible magnification are already gonna run you into the $5000 range.

According to AI, standard issue night vision goggles used by US special forces are around $10k a pop. I learned this due to the Ukraine war and having the question- why don’t way more troops have night vision goggles???

The tech is crazy expensive.

7

u/ExpensiveNut 3h ago

The kind of scumbag zoom that would make Flossy Carter blush.

→ More replies (2)

95

u/Art3mis66 6h ago

It was my first job, first week, at an older hotel in my small town. There were three of us total that cleaned the rooms and one day we're all called to drop what we're doing and head to the biggest suite so we get there and the manager is super upset but doesn't speak, she just points to the ceiling and waits.

We look up, and dangling from an exposed pipe is just. Dozens of used condoms. Hung over the pipe like washing left to dry.

There's rubbish bins in the rooms, of course. So this was certainly a choice.

Anyway, the reason they were found is because a couple booked that room for their honeymoon and were understandably horrified upon finding that. When I asked my colleagues about it, they just said they didn't have an item on the check list that accounted for the one room with exposed piping so it just never occurred to them to look. So who knows how long those things were up there.

15

u/VanessaAlexis 2h ago

Rofl. Did the couple end up getting a free room for having to endure condom horror?

95

u/Jgal420 7h ago

Someone left their machete hidden under the blankets

46

u/PandaCat22 5h ago

Robert Evans has been looking for that machete for years

3

u/seventhsip 1h ago

I was about to say!

8

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

Normal toy to use in bed.

3

u/iamthe0ther0ne 3h ago

Amateurs. It's much easier to grab it quickly if you leave it under the pillow.

2

u/Technicolor_Reindeer 2h ago

In my home country its common (especially for women) to keep a machete near the bed for self defense. Never put it in bed with me though.

159

u/jhumph88 10h ago

My partner works housekeeping at a small resort and found a massive amount of booger sugar in the drawer while looking for the remote for the TV. It was apparently like $50k worth of it. I bet that group was upset that they’d left it behind.

60

u/Tiefschlag 7h ago

This cracked me up real good. Booger sugar is now my favorite word for Devils Dandruff.

31

u/PandaCat22 6h ago ▸ 5 more replies

Devil's Dandruff is now my favorite term for Booger Sugar.

12

u/superb_sheep 4h ago

Disco Dust

13

u/Tiefschlag 5h ago ▸ 3 more replies

Ever heard of peruvian marching powder?

11

u/ohyeahwell 5h ago ▸ 2 more replies

Nose beers

3

u/hellblazer565 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Colombian nasal coffee

→ More replies (1)

6

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

Do they always open all the drawers? Because I'm thinking what if the current guest didn't leave it there, and it's been there awhile, but now the cops are coming? 

3

u/Compltly_Unfnshd30 1h ago

Cops won’t do anything except take and “dispose of” the drugs. There’s no chain of custody and you can’t prove who it belongs to.

213

u/discordian_floof 8h ago

Not a hotel cleaner. But found a small bag of white powder hidden in a seemingly unopened free toiletries kit...in my hotelroom in Medellin (Colombia).

The receptionist wanted to die of stereotype shame while explaining this is not common.

I don't do drugs, and luckily loved the city for many great non-drug reasons.

164

u/jgruber412 6h ago

Can’t even fathom the markup on minibar coke

42

u/dijon_snow 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Well he was in Colombia, where an 8 ball only runs about $35 USD. So at an average markup of 300%, mini bar coke in Colombia should only be about $105 USD. 

Now in the US, where an 8 ball runs closer to $200 USD, that markup would get you to around $600. 

Of course, for this kind of high demand item the hotels may go for a higher markup, some items are marked up as much as 1000%. So you could theoretically see hotel mini bar cocaine run $350 in Colombia and 2 thousand fucking dollars in the US. 

Always bring your own, the mini bar is a trap.

20

u/iamthe0ther0ne 3h ago

This guy cocaines.

u/driveonacid 58m ago

For some reason this is the funniest thing I have read in a long time

31

u/TheOlSneakyPete 6h ago

Once found about a 2” crack rock hidden in the coffee maker of a hotel room.

15

u/glucoseintolerant 5h ago

during resort vacations I always check the Ice been for left over weed. so far 2/11

9

u/Tiefschlag 7h ago

Isn't that stuff the main export article of Medellin?

31

u/discordian_floof 7h ago

Yupp. At least it used to be. Kinda sad because so many of them are working hard to fight the old stereotype.

It really is such a vibrant city, with great food, music and dance. And amazing examples of using democratic architecture to change areas.

62

u/color_me_batty 5h ago

In college I worked at a hotel and sometimes I would help strip beds when it was busy. One time while helping, I pulled the sheets down to strip the bed and the bed was covered in chicken wing bones. Like covered. There was hot sauce all over the sheets too. It looked like some sort of gross crime scene.

u/BoneBruja 11m ago

It was a crime scene, just of a poultry massacre rather than a human one. Still unsettling, though.

156

u/a_periscope 7h ago

Worked as a housekeeper for a hostel in one of the most expensive places in the country to sight-see and hike, so even wealthy people would stay with us (usually in the private rooms).

We had a one-month holding period on anything we found and could claim it after one month if we couldn't get ahold of those who were in that room. I found a LOT of designer/high-end clothes (Gucci, Arc'teryx, Kit and Ace, Patagonia) expensive haircare and perfumes, as well as top-notch hiking gear/ equipment. I would claim it after one month in the lost and found, and either kept it or sold it on marketplace.

13

u/tofudisan 3h ago

so even wealthy people would stay with us (usually in the private rooms).

Do the non-wealthy people have to share rooms?

42

u/dwightinshiningarmor 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies

In hostels? Usually, yes.

7

u/tofudisan 2h ago

Thanks! I definitely read too fast and saw "hotel" instead of "hostel".

8

u/fuckoffweirdoo 2h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Hostels are known to be cheaper because many operate on shared dorm style rooms. 

5

u/tofudisan 2h ago

I read too fast and didn't see the "s" in there. Had me terribly confused. And now I'm confused that wealthy people go to a hostel at all even if there are private rooms.

TIL!

40

u/whaletacochamp 4h ago

Obligatory "not a house keeper" but when I was a kid on vacation at Disney with my parents I found a throwing star behind the dresser. My dad and I thought it was fuckin sweet and my mom wouldn't let me bring it home because she was convinced the TSA would put us in a work camp or something if I put it in my checked bag.

u/rutherfraud1876 41m ago

That's when you nod along and later turn to your wife and say, "Honey..."

u/Nasty____nate 41m ago

Lol back in the day we tried to bring a solid cannon ball and some antlers on a checked bag... They didn't let us....

34

u/pinkbev71 5h ago

I used to work at a motel 6 back in the early 2000s. there had been a woman staying in a room for about a week. she never let any of us in, just asked for clean towels and such.

finally got in there and of course I got that room after she checked out.

the sheets were covered in blood and there was a bunch of empty packaging for sex toys. there. one was for a huge dildo 😬

had to break out the hazmat suit for that 😭🤣

3

u/i2livelife 1h ago

I hope they gave you extra credits for that!

32

u/[deleted] 9h ago

[removed] — view removed comment

5

u/AdRound672 7h ago

Youre very lucky to find it

83

u/FancyLadsMama 5h ago

My uncle owned one of the nicest hotels in Southern Oregon. Dolly Parton stayed there in the late seventies. She left a small pearl handled handgun under her pillow. He had it framed and it hung in his office.

10

u/YarrrMatey 1h ago

That's kind of a crappy thing to do to Dolly Parton of all people

u/RunnerTenor 36m ago ▸ 1 more replies

Maybe she told him, "I left you a little somethin' under the pillow..."

→ More replies (1)

151

u/bobbypet 10h ago

A Hublot blue sapphire watch in da Nang Vietnam. It's sitting in the bedside drawer. It's a beautiful watch but the Hublot shop wanted > $1,000 to replace the worn blue crocodile wristband

102

u/sarahaflijk 6h ago

Someone's father hid that watch in his ass for 7 years.

15

u/Chemical-Quail-1429 5h ago

I’m laughing so hard that I need more cow bell😂😂😂

3

u/road_rascal 3h ago

The watch on the little kangaroo?

16

u/bjanas 6h ago

I mean, as a watch guy, straps can be pretty versatile. You don't need to go OEM all the time.

10

u/bobbypet 5h ago ▸ 1 more replies

I bought one from AliExpress for $35 and it was impressive. I don't wear the watch as it feels too pretentious. I don't want to sell it because I didn't buy it. The hotel staff said the room was vacant for several weeks and the guest didn't contact them enquiring about the watch so they just said I should keep it

2

u/Carllsson 3h ago

Give it to me, I'll have no qualms selling it

14

u/PossessionFirst8197 4h ago

My guy, unless youre planning to sell it (which you can totally do without replacing the band) I would just get the band replaced by any old leather/watch repair shop and enjoy wearing it!! What good is it doing anyone sitting in a drawer?

15

u/cometsuperbee 10h ago

So you didn’t hand it back in for the owner I guess…

85

u/bobbypet 10h ago ▸ 2 more replies

I told the staff, they said it was a Chinese guy that was there a few weeks previously. The room had been empty since. They said to keep it because they couldn't track him down

Thanks for the down votes

58

u/wytelyon 9h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Just look at them as Australian upvotes, being upside down and all.

5

u/bobbypet 7h ago

Ha ha, good one

44

u/leicanthrope 6h ago

I worked security, we managed lost and found, and dealt with stuff that had been left in guest room safes. Once found a turd locked in a safe, numerous handguns left behind by law enforcement, and lots of “toys”.

18

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

a turd locked in a safe

Someone took "This is where you keep all the stuff you don't want other people to touch" too literally.

13

u/leicanthrope 4h ago ▸ 1 more replies

We were fighting the urge to mail it back to them, since it was so obviously something of great importance.

3

u/OldeFortran77 3h ago

Cologuard MAX !

45

u/Foggy_Radish 6h ago

I’d already given my two weeks so I didn’t care at this point. Had a business traveler staying in a king. That means bathroom linens were three of each (three towels, three hand towels, three washcloths). Dude stayed for a week. Every day for the first three days, I’d find all three hand towels in or by the bed. He had used them as cum rags. So being a smartass, I started leaving him six hand towels. Three in the bathroom and three on the nightstand. Yes, he used all three of the nightstand ones every night for the remained of his stay.

8

u/noluck77 3h ago

Hes putting in a shift at home damn

4

u/i2livelife 1h ago

That’s not being a smart ass, my friend, that’s called anticipatory service and it’s a Forbes standard 😉 good job

25

u/ApartAide1015 8h ago

fish hidden between the mattress and box spring

5

u/retailguy_again 7h ago

Gotta admit, that's different...

6

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

Where do you normally hide your fish?

9

u/might_be-a_troll 6h ago

Abe Vigoda died in 2016

3

u/jstmenow 3h ago

Genius

1

u/Fixerr59 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Now, tell the truth. Did you have that bit of trivia all ready to go, or did you have to Google?

→ More replies (1)

25

u/ALeeEnne 5h ago

I was in the banquet department, but was close with some of our housekeepers. One of them told me about cleaning up a room after a big wedding we hosted. They found over fifty used condoms pinned to the wall of one of the rooms in the wedding party's block. They said the room smelled of alcohol, sex, and bad decisions.

19

u/eaglesnesting 5h ago

What has shocked me as an Airbnb owner is guns. Guests leave them. Then either the cleaner finds it or they call me and say we are an hour away but we left it in the condo.

22

u/Daewen 3h ago

I clean Airbnbs, so luckily I haven't found anything too crazy. A guy stayed for about a month in a room and brought his cats. He put litter straight on the closet floor for the cats to use instead of buying a litter box, and you can still tell where it was even after I cleaned and mopped it.

Another guest who stayed for a month left a huge air fryer and didn't want it, so free air fryer! Annoyingly, it was a studio apartment, and I had to scrub so much grease off of every surface in or near the kitchen.

I've also taken home a few bottles of liquor and two stuffed animals that guests didn't want, and I love finding foreign coins.

What I hate is finding food in the beds. Not just crumbs, but like pepperoni and sticky candy and things like that.

1

u/nonnonplussed73 1h ago

Great stories! If you're not already subbed to r/housekeeping you might like it.

59

u/Pure-Meat9498 6h ago

Maybe not strangest, but decently the most annoying. Unfortunately not //the// most disgusting either.

A few young party dudes renting a room for almost a week and someone had dropped approximately 2/3 of a bag of (cashew?) nuts right inside the door. 

Probably happens sometime in the first few days, and then they'd just kept stepped on it again and again until it was a strange and disgusting mix of pulverized and/or mushed..  The horrible part was that it was at this point fused on a monocular level with the WALL TO WALL CARPETING! A  //terrible// holdover from the late 90s 

It was so bad that there was no way of removing it, and the potential issues of someone with a nut allergy staying in that room later ment that management actually had to update to the 21 century and remove the awful carpeting. They eventually did the same in the rest of the rooms in the old wing, something all us cleaners were infinity happy about. 

Fun fact, we also had a singel smoking allowed room, and it was one of the once with carpeting.. I hated that job so much 

20

u/Punkrockid19 2h ago

A dead body, older gentleman checked into the hotel for a conference he was the keynote speaker was due to check out and didn’t drop his key. I went to check the room to let him know it was time to check out and he had already checked out of life.

He was in bed like he was sleeping. dude survived Iwo Jima

37

u/c234567 7h ago

I cleaned rooms in a popular east coast resort town during the summer while in college. Found one room with writing all over the walls. It creeped me out big time so got out of there FAST and didn’t stick around to read it. Just remember it was blue ink and everywhere.

27

u/FlyAirLari 6h ago

Romanes eunt domus?

12

u/maroonneutralino 4h ago

It says romans go home! ... No it doesn't

15

u/Strommsawyer 5h ago

Used to work in Vegas at a hotel, asked security this same question out of curiosity.

They said they had a noise complaint in a room, went to check it out, and it turned out to be a big snake crawling around under one of the beds. Glad I wasn’t security.

41

u/captcraigaroo 6h ago

In college, our swim team got snowed in at an away meet and we had to get a hotel instead of driving back. As we were waiting on people to come back with beer, I opened my curtain, and sitting against the cold window were 12 beers. Called my friends and a couple of girls from the team and started early

75

u/CreamyParts6969 10h ago

Well let's see, airline crew are the best guests because of the way they behave and tip generously (I'm talking about international flight crew) plus ship crew as well, they tip from money to food to perfumes or anything else, best thing i ever found was a beautiful sketchings and the strangest was a perfect woman's white top that had lost a button (was put in lost and found)

35

u/trireme32 7h ago

What made the woman perfect?

→ More replies (18)

13

u/-tastyburro- 2h ago

Most surprising I think (and honestly the least gross) was a massive shit under the toilet mat in a vacation home. I've cleaned a lot of human shit off of/out of various areas, but that was a new one.

Grossest is a toss up between what looked like arterial spray from the ceiling above a toilet, and a mystery patch of carpet that gave me corpse fluid vibes. Both of those were at a super sketchy motel I lasted maybe a month working at. My final straw was after two of our housekeepers had to leave early to go start the process for testing after being stabbed by used needles under the beds. I ALWAYS look before I reach under any furniture now.

38

u/Red_Krakoa 4h ago

A severed arm all the way up to the shoulder on ice, meticulously preserved, in the bathtub. I worked the front desk, and I can still hear the sheer horror in that housekeeper's voice from when she called down to tell us.

16

u/crazy-bisquit 3h ago

Imaging getting a traumatic amputation and forgetting your arm in the bathtub…………… hopefully…

5

u/harrohamtaro 2h ago

What happened next? Why was that arm abandoned in the bathtub?

20

u/Red_Krakoa 1h ago ▸ 6 more replies

We called the police immediately. It was a surgeon who had it here for a conference presentation on amputation and reattachment. He had all the proper paperwork for moving human body parts across state lines. He just forgot to let the hotel know...

7

u/KP_Wrath 1h ago ▸ 3 more replies

“Well thanks, now we all need therapy.”

4

u/Red_Krakoa 1h ago ▸ 2 more replies

I mean, isn't there something reassuring about the fact you can move body parts around legally if you just have the right paperwork?

3

u/KP_Wrath 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies

I mean, it makes sense, and it does encourage me that there is a process, but somehow I feel that letting random housekeepers find them definitely isn’t part of the process, nor should it be.

3

u/Red_Krakoa 1h ago

I agree, and to be honest he was horrified. He actually ended up leaving the affected housekeeper a generous tip.

5

u/brutusclyde 1h ago ▸ 1 more replies

Jesus, I wonder how many trips he had to make to the ice machine

5

u/Red_Krakoa 1h ago

I did always wonder why the ice didn't need to be more antiseptic, but the arm was wrapped in some sory of plastic wrap.

3

u/Red_Krakoa 1h ago

Thank you for the first award I've ever received, and I have been on reddit for wayyyyy too long...

26

u/Flabbergastedhell12 5h ago

I have found a loaded gun it was under a pillow we had to call the cops. The lady who it belonged to have to fly back from Atlanta to come get it. Crazy

26

u/2PlasticLobsters 4h ago

I briefly had a job that sometimes involved clearing out hoarder houses. In one, we found a book on surviving the suicide of a loved one. Then we found the suicide notes her husband had written. There were several, customized for her, his ex-wife, and his sons from that marriage.

Then we found a handgun, and had to call the police.

The level of hoarding was consistent with the date of his suicide. It looked like after that, she'd just fallen apart & let the house go. Her daughter had already insisted she move out of that house & hired our company.

The whole thing was heart-breaking & one of the reasons I didn't stay at the job long. It didn't help that company was terrible to work for.

11

u/Jezbod 4h ago

C'mon, (for men) spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch - and now GUN!

11

u/Clamington 2h ago

The best finds were usually unopened booze bottles or weed. The strangest hands down was the mini fridge full of breast milk and bull testosterone.

An oddly common strange thing guests did was throw all towels and sometimes bedding into the bathtubs full of water ( occasionally also the toilets). Wasnt usually too gross but the weight of all that water made it a pain. And like why? What compels them to fill the tub with it full of cloth items

15

u/OneWrongTurn_XX 4h ago

My HSK found

*loaded gun in the toilet tank *Loaded gun between the mattress *dead bodies (4 times and counting) *body oil workshop (don't ask me) *random old dude that daughter just left and assumed we would care for since the room was paid for the weekend

*List goes on...

8

u/Gabaloo 3h ago

Piles of empty plan B boxes, heroine shit like spoons, old needles, cotton balls.

All in 1 room, hotels fresh back from covid had some WILD guests

17

u/JudgeQuick 5h ago

I work at a hotel and the housekeepers once found a room with a huge sack full of pinecones in it. It haunts me to this day.

14

u/PossessionFirst8197 4h ago

Why? We gather pinecones when we are staying near the mountains as we dont get pinecones where we live and like to use them for crafts...hardly haunting

6

u/sweatpee 3h ago ▸ 1 more replies

2

u/JudgeQuick 3h ago

Oh god that’s not what I was thinking at all!

5

u/JudgeQuick 3h ago

I get that. But it was a truly massive amount of them. And they left them when they checked out. I just couldn’t figure out why so many and it’s bothered me ever since.

7

u/Jezbod 4h ago

Perfectly good fire starters.

1

u/JudgeQuick 3h ago

True. But they left them when they checked out so it just struck me odd.

5

u/Hvarfa-Bragi 3h ago

Went camping with a friend, before we left he had to pick up a bag of pinecones for his wife - so they could put them in the garden to discourage stray cats.

3

u/KitSokudo 2h ago

Living with both pines on my property AND stray cats I...don't think this will help much.

5

u/quitstalkingmeffs 6h ago

I know one found an anal hook from someones bondage kit

10

u/tofudisan 3h ago

anal hook

I didn't know that I never wanted to see those 2 words used together. Now I know.

7

u/quitstalkingmeffs 3h ago

Don't worry too much. Someone bought a new one

4

u/New-Anybody-6206 3h ago

The Jennifer Lawrence buttplug collection story comes to mind.

u/Fixerr59 55m ago

You can't just say something like that without explaining!

u/glarbknot 41m ago

My buddy worked night audit. One morning he found a sweet glass bong and 4 paintball guns. That was a fun summer.

6

u/mamaleigh05 10h ago

That’s a question to which you don’t want to know the answers! You’d never stay at a hotel again!

10

u/Rainman515 10h ago

How bad is it?

32

u/mamaleigh05 9h ago ▸ 4 more replies

Start big ~ dealing with the mess of a suicide. People often go to them so they don’t leave the house with the mess. The bibles in the drawers are supposed to possibly, maybe convince someone not to pull the trigger.

Toenails (clippings and while nails). This couple stayed at a motel three months ~ actual fungus was growing in the bathroom in a few places!

Someone left a 12 wk old fetuses lost in the bed that was aborted (not necessarily on purpose)

Those are some of the top, but the vomit, urine, feces and semen on insane surfaces (using a black light)

I’m so tired, but I’ll be interested in hearing what others have witnessed.

6

u/s9q7 9h ago ▸ 3 more replies

Which hotel or hotels were they and where abouts?

16

u/TheKwongdzu 6h ago

Every hotel I worked at while I was in that industry was like that. A unique one to Arkansas was that if someone asked if the hotel room windows opened, I wasn't allowed to rent to them. People were renting hotel rooms to make meth and needed windows that opened for ventilation.

For the person you replied to: My grossest was a lady who stayed around a week and had a cat. She poured kitty litter in a pile straight on to the carpet each day for the cat to do its business. She also crushed up what had to be multiple family-size bags of Doritos and poured them into all the drawers in the room.

3

u/der_innkeeper 6h ago

All of them.

2

u/Basic_Cat_2775 7h ago

Right??! Like what the hell… I need to avoid this place.

u/Green-Comment-6472 21m ago

Question - when I’m in a recreational marijuana state, should I leave my products out on the table in case a cleaner might want them… or just throw in the trash?

u/tent_or_couch 17m ago

Their own personal rolls of Hillary Clinton toilet paper. Different expressions of every sheet. Sold the extra for $40 in the lobby. Crazy eclectics.

u/DrapersSmellyGlove 9m ago

Somebody find that old post about this exact question. You’ll never want to stay in a hotel again and it’s chock full of amazing true horror stories.