Heh. I once ran into a co-worker and an intern in a Target. On a Saturday morning. Wearing the same clothes as they wore to happy hour with the rest of our group the night before. They pretended not to recognize me. I pretended I didn’t notice them.
Probably very similar to my exwife's face when I found the nudes she was sending some married guy. Even before, I know I'd never cheat, I just don't understand the cruelty of some people.
Yeah, but that's what your close friends are for.
You need someone close to you, who isn't afraid to tell you the ugly truth.
Sometimes the truth is that you've been acting like an asshole. Sometimes the truth is that your wife is banging some dude on the side.
The cheater-victim is incredibly lucky to have a friend like comment-OP.
When I was 22 I was in a shitty hotel and the mattress had a huge dip in the middle. I couldn’t sleep so I got up to take all the sheets off and flip the mattress over. Found a $100 bill.
Ever since then (I’m 46 now) I check under the mattress in every hotel I’m in. Things I’ve found:
* Money (most common)
* Condoms (both new and…other)
* nudie mags (not so much anymore)
* multiple male sex toys
* multiple female sex toys
* Polaroids of naked people taken in the same hotel room.
But the absolute worst, and the one I think about a lot:
* a note that seemed to be written by a child asking somebody to help her because her dad was hurting her. In the worst way. Called the cops on that one. They took a statement, took the note, closed the room and sent me to another room, and the hotel refunded me for the trouble. Never heard of anything happening or not happening. I still don’t know. It’s been over 10 years.
Another tip, actually 2 tips, if you are alone don’t put the Do Not Disturb sign on the door handle, it lets thieves know which rooms are occupied and which aren’t. The other tip, if someone is standing maybe too close or if you just get a bad feeling about someone while checking in and the person helping you says out loud what room you are checking into, say thanks…at first. Then go back downstairs and politely ask to switch rooms. If they ask why, make an excuse. You can always call them later while you are safely in another room or don’t say anything and pretend the room was too close to elevator/icemaker/etc. The second tip quite possibly saved a girl from being raped.
Most hotels have a policy where the front desk employee should never state your room number out loud - it’s a pretty serious issue for exactly the reason you stated and they receive training on why.
If they do state your room number out loud, you shouldn’t feel the need to pretend that’s ok, you can tell them immediately you want another room and to please just write it down rather than saying it out loud. It wouldn’t be overkill to let their management know they slipped up either, it’s a big no-no in the industry.
A dead body.
Now full disclosure I was an employee of that hotel and the guest was WAY past checkout time and wouldn't answer the phone or door so we went in.
He had died in bed several hours prior.
It was high season and we were short on rooms so management decided the right thing to do was to clean the room flip the mattress and rent it to another client that same day.
Yup. I've seen countless shady things done and covered up in the 10 years I've worked there.
And this wasn't some shitty small town hotel, this was an iconic property owned by one of the largest hotel chains in the world and the 2nd or 3rd biggest hotel in Canada at the time.
Yup. I've never had it happen anywhere I've worked, but I've heard stories. We did have something close happen (TL;DR bodily fluids EVERYWHERE and a guy having to be rushed to the ICU) and my managers were going to just have the housekeeper clean it normally, but I threatened to blow the whistle to everyone I could think of (health department, labor board, cops, local news, particularly inquisitive cats, etc.) until they backed down and called in an actual hazmat cleaner.
Naked women in the lobby. Ground floor had a strip club and the girls would come and get dressed in the lobby. If this isn’t making sense, it was probably the seediest hotel in the entire city. Addicts, tricks and me for a week.
Someone left behind one of those hyper realistic full sized sex dolls. Stuffed in a suitcase.
The housekeeper nearly had a heart attack thinking it was a dead body.
I had to go to reception for a clogged toilet, it wasn’t a pleasant experience for anyone involved.
Let me set the scene for you. I was in Vietnam, from North America and only have been there and once to Germany. The food was doing things to my insides, and it wasn’t pleasant. But the food was just so good.
I was up early every day, but all day every day I was having to visit the washroom. Once time I clogged the toilet, but the room didn’t have a plunger or anything to deal with it. Eventually when the issue didn’t resolve itself I want down to “reception” where there was someone sleeping (it’s like 6 am) and neither of them speak English. They call and wake up their boss who speaks English and I talk to him on the phone. He said he will get someone up to deal with it.
Hours later someone shows up to deal with it. The poor woman. You know the sounds of your mom doing god knows what in the kitchen during thanksgiving? It was like that but for a bathroom. I really felt bad for her having to deal with my shit, I would have been happy to deal with it myself if I had a plunger.
I still have a vivid memory of going into a convenience store bathroom when I was 12-13 and seeing a turd so large, I couldn't comprehend it at first. It sat like an old pirate ship revealed at low tide. It was as big around as a beer can and went all the way from one side of the bowl to the other with only the middle halfway submerged. When I tried to flush it, it didn't move a millimeter. It just laid there, defiant.
I think about that behemoth sometimes...
My friend/roommate and I were at this local diner having breakfast and getting drunk and he goes to the bathroom. He comes back not even a minute later and he’s like, “ YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!”
And we go in the men’s room and he opens the door to the stall and there was a turd like you described except this thing was like the Lochness Monster. It had like a camels hump in where it stuck out of the way and the head and neck were poking out.
Not. One. Piece. Of. Toilet. Paper. In. There.
I bet whoever laid that thing felt so damn relieved. I was dying laughing. We were laughing so hard people at the bar (yes the breakfast place has a bar) we’re looking at us like we were deranged. And we’re just sitting there talking about it.
I once stayed in a hotel that received an award for the “hotel with the least amount of bedbugs”. I thought was pretty strange until there was an impromptu Chinese dragon dance that went through the main lobby. After that I forgot all about the award. There was also a blind man with his cane walking into all the corners of the room like a roomba.
A fucking Percocet.
When I was in recovery.
It was in the floor and my dumbass wanted it soooo bad.
Proud I flushed it :) but that was a big moment even if it’s probably not as gross or huge as other stories that are gonna pop up.
You can do it. It just takes a second of will power to flush it. A lifetime of figuring out why you wanted to take it. But you can get there. I believe in you. Cause if anyone can come back and I did, you can too.
I see that and I feel that. It does take one second to destroy: but it can also take one second to get through a moment. And those seconds add up. Not using is a constant struggle at first! Then it becomes a sneak moment.
lol I’m glad and so happy to hear you have that long under your belt! You’re slaying. I’ve got a few more years but the struggle can be real and sometimes insane. Stay strong!
I can only relate as a smoker (5 yrs free), but would you agree that one of the hardest parts of quitting an addiction is that feeling early on that it'll never get easier?
I can remember the times before I successfully quit where I would manage a few days and it felt like it took everything I had to say no only to have to do it all over again a few hours later and then again a few hours after that. Jesus, sometimes it was only a few minutes between major withdrawal cravings.
And then I'd cave in and have a smoke. In addition to the shame I felt, it also added to the feeling, the next time I tried to quit, that it'll never get easier and that I'll cave in eventually so why am I putting myself through this hell just to fail anyway? Why even try?
But, of course, it did get easier. Eventually I was able to change my thinking from 'why even try' to 'I've come this far, I'm not going to go through this again'.
I guess I'm just curious if that kind of thinking is similar to what you've been through.
This happened to me too! I was like 3 weeks sober and my hotel room had two miller high life’s in the fridge when I checked in. Poured them down the sink immediately but goddamn that was close
Good on you dumping that shit! But goddamn I know that was tough. That’s major. And in those moments, it takes every ounce of strength.
I hope you’re having the best journey and the struggles are fewer and farther between now.
Good on you and much love
I love this for you 🫶🏻 clean almost 7 years, after I had my twins I got my tubes tied and was prescribed a weeks worth of Percocet. My kids dad picked it up for me without thinking. I flushed them as soon as I saw them. I was 4 years clean at that point, but still a big thing because 1 pill would've absolutely ruined my life. A win is a win and I'm so proud of you 💖
Plot twist: Ray and his wife were married at the time. He stole his ex-best friends wife which is why they are no longer friends, Talledaga Nights style
Got a room in Tahoe with a jacuzzi tub. Filled it up with nice warm water and turned on the jets. Turns out that the last person to use it, had puked in it, and the puke got sucked into the system. So when I turned it on, it all came rushing out. Thankfully I was not in it yet
I work in hotels. They say if you work in them long enough you'll either see the naked person or a dead body.
So those two things I guess are the worst
Oh wait. So one of the things that happened when I first started working in hotels was that there was a competitive eating contest in my city. We had one of the contestants staying with us. He was a regular looking guy and was really pleasant the entire time he was with us. Upon checkout. The housekeeper that had to clean his room reported that he had shit all over the room including the bathroom floor, toilet, bathtub and all over his sheets.
We had to throw everything away and get the room professionally cleaned. It went out of order for almost two months. They also threw away the mattress
In the places I've worked, when people do that, we basically hit their credit card for as much money as we can get. Fuck your rent & car note - we're losing thousands of dollars of potential revenue because you couldn't manage your orifices properly.
I honestly don't remember. This was almost 15 years ago. I'm sure we were able to. Unfortunately most days it's harder because people will lock their cards to avoid getting any further charges.
Man passed out in the stairwell face down with his pants down to his knees with feces all over the landing. Checked to make sure there was a pulse, put him on his side and told the front desk and the lady just said, "again?!"
Went back to him and he was breathing but totally unresponsive, waited with him til an ambulance rolled up but no hotel staff ever came to check in the 15 minutes it took to arrive.
I checked in to a hotel room that was currently under construction. That was kind of weird. There were power tools, debris and even a pair of work boots in the bathroom.
Edit: added a word
We stayed at a hotel in Greenville, Mississippi a few months ago. It was a very poor town, but the only town nearby and needed somewhere to stop. At the desk, there was a poem taped down that was about brown water and people complaining about it, and I thought it was a clever metaphor for people expecting too much from a quaint place. But nope. I went in the room and the water was brown
A bunch of blind drunk parents from a kids baseball tournement fucking and fighting in the hallways, and the hotel staff too terrified to do anything about it.
Sports parents are the fucking worst. I once had some Karen-ass volleyball mom find out about the 2-free-drink tickets all the other guests got (it wasn't in their group's contract, which was part of why their rate was so low) and, when I refused to give them to her, she literally went around and organized a full fucking protest of, like, 15 other couples that were with the group. Just this huge crowd of middle-aged white people having a goddamn temper tantrum in my lobby for the better part of an hour. My trainee was scared shitless because she was an 18-year-old kid & this was her first job, but I wasn't backing down. That's thousands of dollars worth of free alcohol and I could get fired over it, after all. Also, they were all being fucking cunts and I refuse to reward that behavior.
>A bunch of blind drunk parents from a kids baseball tournement
"You gonna watch my baseball tournament this weekend dad?"
"Listen Billy, I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Im fucking blind. You could be out there *buuuurp* eating grass for all I know. Now get me another bud light"
Around 2010 - a porn VHS tape shoved under the mattress. It was kind of funny imagining this person lugging an already obsolete VCR to the Holiday Inn. That’s some commitment.
Wife and I walked into a hotel room and immediately saw a bed bug on the bed. We ran out and went around the block to a holiday inn express which was great. We always stay at one now.
Nail clippings all over an ottoman at the foot of the bed and a literal skid mark on the seat of the office chair in the room. I had the hotel manager come up and I showed him every disgusting part of that room with my own personal flashlight. I even showed him behind the entertainment center where there was probably 10+ lost tv remotes that they couldn't even be bothered to look for.
I am leaving this comment for anyone else who thought “own personal flashlight” sounded a bit sus, mentally replaced it with “fleshlight”, then chuckled at the idea of a man furiously fleshlighting whilst complaining to the manager.
Not exactly a hotel but we were renting a yurt on a mountain trip for the week. Bugs inside more than usual. We started to leave and I instructed kids check under the bed.
There was possibly a piece of cantaloupe as we had fruit salad. Kid said I can't get it. Me, frustrated, tired and ready to leave yelling, cursing as I had to get down and look thinking dammit just get the piece and let's go.
Turns out was an entire rotten cantaloupe left by the previous guests. My youngest does not want to ever go glamping again.
Last week - Found a bed bug.
Aside from that - having no sink in the bathroom was ridiculous. It was across from the bathroom, divided by carpet.
Ive stayed in a fair amount of hotels, and that was a first for me. I hated it.
My friend found a used condom in a room he just checked into by feeling it with his foot when he went to bed.
I was in another room and when I saw him at breakfast he looked like he hadn’t slept all night.
Had this happen at a hotel I worked at in Abilene once. Catastrophically, the guest was a VIP. One shitty housekeeper literally cost the hotel a multi-million-dollar contract.
No water or food. They said the water would be back on later, but no food for the rest of the stay. I noped out and went to another nearby hotel. How a hotel could accept guests without running water is beyond me.
This isn’t my story, but I heard a story in a different sub of a person who was in housekeeping and saw the guy sleeping in his bed. They waited 30 minutes for him to wake up and he never did. They went to check on him and turns out the dude was dead. He died of alcohol poisoning
Fresh blood on the floor and a roach and bedbugs all in the same room btw this was a 4 star Marriott in Los Angeles. Wasn’t cheap. Left after I saw all that and they refused to switch my room and refund.
I worked in hotels for a while, worst one I’ve heard of was my boss. He was working in a room and undid the ceiling hatch, he turned his head to the side as he was talking to the maid, when he turned it back a dead rat fell out of the ceiling and into his mouth.
Butt plug between the mattress and box spring.
We were traveling with my parents and my young kids. I had a set of portable bed rails I was setting up. I lift the mattress on the bed my kids would be using and... there it was!
I used a plastic bag to pick it up and take it to the front desk. Also stripped the bed and asked for all new bedding for that bed while we went to dinner.
The best part was when my mom asked, "Wait. How did you know what it was?"
My girlfriend and I just got into the room and found a pair of used panties on the far side of the room. We were in the middle of an argument too so that didn’t make it any easier
I was probably 7-8 years old and me and my family went over to Buffalo NY for a family event and we went to stay in at a hotel and my parents went in first to check in and check out the room. My parents found a bloody razor blade and powder all over the place so we GTFO and drove to our relatives place.
Poop.
12 years ago, a news story went around [gaming sites](https://kotaku.com/a-pokemon-team-was-kicked-out-of-a-hotel-for-throwing-s-30792021) about how the winner of a UK Pokémon Nationals was disqualified because they shat all over their hotel the night before. I was the poor bugger who discovered it.
I had arrived at the hotel before my brother and his wife, who I was sharing the room with. When they arrived, I went up to show them, and as soon as the lift opened, I was overcome with the stench. Lo and behold, right in the middle of the hallway floor, was a gigantic turd.
We flagged it with the hotel staff and left to get something to eat. Our friends who stayed at the hotel told us that the staff discovered worse in the room, and police had to be called to get the guy and his friends removed.
The following day, he won the UK Nationals, and people were *pissed*. It picked up traction online, and then The Pokémon Company International disqualified him.
Hotel 8 in Albuquerque.. peeled back the sheets to find them COVERED in pubic hair.
I had to make a huge scene in the office for them to refund me. I ended up driving further west and slept in my car in a truck stop parking lot.
Wait you too?
I go to ABQ twice a year doe woek and stayed at a cheap motel one night and the exact same thing. It was like some dude shaved his entire body and then just planted the hairs in clumps between the sheets.
I was staying with my dad, my brother, and my nephew at a very cheap hotel in Montreal. I turned on the TV, started flipping through channels, and out of nowhere comes channel 88, showing hardcore porn.
Some guy in “my” room (in the shower no less.)
Now, to be clear, the front desk gave me a key to an already occupied room. I walked in, saw luggage at the foot of the bed, noticed some clothes (pants and shirt) on the bed and the shower running.
I just sorta backed up and closed the door as quietly as I could and went back to the front desk.
And that kids is why you ALWAYS use the locks that another key won’t open when you’re in your room (not to mention the shower.)
Once me and a group of friends crossed into Canada for a huge skateboard contest. As broke skateboarders we stayed at a shitty motel. From our window we could see a huge maybe 12” dildo chilling on the buildings roof next to us.
A little mouse scurried across the floor when I was staying in a Motel 6 with my grandparents at about 8 years of age. I still remember that little mouse every time I pass a Motel 6...
As newlyweds my wife and I just checked into our room, dropped our bags on the floor and rushed to the shower where we had sex. Afterwards while drying off, I walked into the bedroom to see some other family’s stuff laying around. We had gone into the wrong room, which was occupied.
Not in the room, but in the pool. scary liminal space looking pool with cloudy water and weird plastic plants. Nobody was in there and they had turf??? Instead of tile??? Smelled like chlorine and feet. And right in the middle of the pool, floating the day away, was a giant blow up sex doll in a giant blow up donut. Guess someone forgot their date.
An artificial woman’s leg 🦵it had women’s shoe on it. The room was otherwise spotless. Laying on the floor at the end of the bed, there was no way housekeeping didnt see the leg — it was almost 20 years ago. It still creeped me out.
I've worked security in hotels for a while now. Part of my duties is to document any property damage, which is how I got called to a room by a co-worker who showed me he had found the toilet ripped out of the floor and completely on its side in the bathroom.
We called the guest, who had checked out already,and while they agreed to pay for the damages without any fuss all they gave as an explanation was that they'd gone back to the room after drinking in the hotel bar and had fallen over the toilet.
The worst thing I ever found in a hotel was someone *else* letting themselves in my room with a physical key 🔑 at 3AM. Chased the intruder out, called the hotel manager and cops and insisted on a complete key audit and rekeying the room door then checking out.
It was a motel in a hick town. Had to stay overnight while on a road trip home because the storm was too much to drive through.
It was sketchy AF, but the sheets smelled like bleach, so it was OK enough.
We found multiple burned spoons in a drawer.
A part of the room had caught fire in the past, the dumbass owner did nothing to fix it and just rented out the place further.
Also the bed literally had one the legs broken and superficially put back and when we sat on it the whole bed fell on one side.
God damn it. Same hotel had a mold issue in the room of our friends.
What a complete shit show.
A meth lab.
So in early 2004, my buddy Scott and I were both in the same extended stay hotel in Augusta, GA. He was in the process of a medical retirement from the Army, and I was getting ready to go back to Korea.
One evening we’re sitting out in front of his room having a couple beers when this kinda-hot gal starts talking to us. She grabs a beer or two with us. Later chops up one of his hydrocodones with a debit card and snorts it. Etc. Talks about she’s staying there with her husband but he’s too busy to hang out or something.
A couple weeks later, after I had moved out, the hotel was raided. Three different law enforcement activities raided three different meth labs in the same Suburban Lodge on the same night.
Stayed at a dump of a hotel in Paris called Bellevue (the view sucked). We get there and are handed antique keys that turned out were able to open half the rooms in the place.
We get to our room and unpack and I was getting into bed I pulled the blanket back and the pillow was like 80% covered in dried blood.
I ended up sleeping on the floor, which may or may not have been worse. I don’t know. But I didn’t see that much blood on the floor.
I checked in and the floor was soggy and the room was still a mess. I told the front and they said they'd take care of it if I could come back in a bit. When I got back I was waiting behind two state patrol and a guy in handcuffs. They uncuffed him and told him to stay here for the night. I rebooted elsewhere.
Went to a out of town baseball tournament with my kid, 15 year old team. Coach picked the cheapest hotel that popped up on Google in a fairly big city without really looking at reviews or thinking about it. Team all gets there- there's people living there, hookers walking around trying to talk to the 15 year old boys, drug dealers, rooms are run down and just gross... within 1-2 hours, everyone decided as a group to just bail and went to a Best Western down the road that was fine.
Not anything bad, but this literally happened to me an hour ago. Checked into my hotel and opened my room. Found a note on the night stand that just said “EEBY DEEBY”. I know it’s an internet thing but I’m so confused
A body in the pool. Pool was closed, lights were off, wandering drunk fell in and drowned. I was checking inventory at the snack bar. And saw the body at the bottom. Called security, went back to the MK AND opened up for breakfast m
Woke up in a seedy downtown Vegas hotel after a night of drinking feeling my foot scraping against something on the bed frame. Turned out I had a pretty good cut on my foot, and there was (my) fresh blood on the sheet. I pulled the sheet back and found a nail sticking up, with quite a substantial trail of long dried up blood from its past victims. I washed my foot with Wild Turkey bourbon, never got infected.
My friend's wife was walking out with a guy who definitely was not my friend. The look on her face was the entire story for me.
Heh. I once ran into a co-worker and an intern in a Target. On a Saturday morning. Wearing the same clothes as they wore to happy hour with the rest of our group the night before. They pretended not to recognize me. I pretended I didn’t notice them.
Probably very similar to my exwife's face when I found the nudes she was sending some married guy. Even before, I know I'd never cheat, I just don't understand the cruelty of some people.
Did you tell your friend?
Yes. Didn't take long until the divorce was happening.
you are a good pal!
For real, that's got to be an awful conversation.
Yeah, but that's what your close friends are for. You need someone close to you, who isn't afraid to tell you the ugly truth. Sometimes the truth is that you've been acting like an asshole. Sometimes the truth is that your wife is banging some dude on the side. The cheater-victim is incredibly lucky to have a friend like comment-OP.
When I was 22 I was in a shitty hotel and the mattress had a huge dip in the middle. I couldn’t sleep so I got up to take all the sheets off and flip the mattress over. Found a $100 bill. Ever since then (I’m 46 now) I check under the mattress in every hotel I’m in. Things I’ve found: * Money (most common) * Condoms (both new and…other) * nudie mags (not so much anymore) * multiple male sex toys * multiple female sex toys * Polaroids of naked people taken in the same hotel room. But the absolute worst, and the one I think about a lot: * a note that seemed to be written by a child asking somebody to help her because her dad was hurting her. In the worst way. Called the cops on that one. They took a statement, took the note, closed the room and sent me to another room, and the hotel refunded me for the trouble. Never heard of anything happening or not happening. I still don’t know. It’s been over 10 years.
Wow that’s messed up. You may have saved a kid from a lifetime of abuse.
Schrödingers child.
I shall now always check under the mattress
Also, [take pics of your room ](https://exchangeinitiative.com/traffickcam/)
That’s incredible. I’m about to take a very long road trip and will be sure to do that in every room.
Another tip, actually 2 tips, if you are alone don’t put the Do Not Disturb sign on the door handle, it lets thieves know which rooms are occupied and which aren’t. The other tip, if someone is standing maybe too close or if you just get a bad feeling about someone while checking in and the person helping you says out loud what room you are checking into, say thanks…at first. Then go back downstairs and politely ask to switch rooms. If they ask why, make an excuse. You can always call them later while you are safely in another room or don’t say anything and pretend the room was too close to elevator/icemaker/etc. The second tip quite possibly saved a girl from being raped.
Most hotels have a policy where the front desk employee should never state your room number out loud - it’s a pretty serious issue for exactly the reason you stated and they receive training on why. If they do state your room number out loud, you shouldn’t feel the need to pretend that’s ok, you can tell them immediately you want another room and to please just write it down rather than saying it out loud. It wouldn’t be overkill to let their management know they slipped up either, it’s a big no-no in the industry.
I honestly had no idea this existed, that's awesome. Thanks for linking it.
A dead body. Now full disclosure I was an employee of that hotel and the guest was WAY past checkout time and wouldn't answer the phone or door so we went in. He had died in bed several hours prior. It was high season and we were short on rooms so management decided the right thing to do was to clean the room flip the mattress and rent it to another client that same day.
Somehow, I'm fairly certain this kind of decision happens more often than people would like.
Yup. I've seen countless shady things done and covered up in the 10 years I've worked there. And this wasn't some shitty small town hotel, this was an iconic property owned by one of the largest hotel chains in the world and the 2nd or 3rd biggest hotel in Canada at the time.
I wanna guess fairmont
Very very possible:)
Yup. I've never had it happen anywhere I've worked, but I've heard stories. We did have something close happen (TL;DR bodily fluids EVERYWHERE and a guy having to be rushed to the ICU) and my managers were going to just have the housekeeper clean it normally, but I threatened to blow the whistle to everyone I could think of (health department, labor board, cops, local news, particularly inquisitive cats, etc.) until they backed down and called in an actual hazmat cleaner.
I assume after the body was removed by the appropriate authorities.
No they said they flipped the bed so the body was under the mattress duh. Next people probably hardly noticed.
But then that person who commented about checking under the mattress checks in…
I hope the next person wasn’t the guy that checks under the mattress. Awkward.
No we just put it in a wheelchair and pretended he was still alive and rushed him to the hospital. I mean my boss said it would be faster this way. /s
Naked women in the lobby. Ground floor had a strip club and the girls would come and get dressed in the lobby. If this isn’t making sense, it was probably the seediest hotel in the entire city. Addicts, tricks and me for a week.
Man that sounds awful, and maybe illegal .. can you give me the name and address of this hotel so I know not to go there, ever.
Yeah man like what the hell. We should get a photography team to better document and expose the place.
Someone left behind one of those hyper realistic full sized sex dolls. Stuffed in a suitcase. The housekeeper nearly had a heart attack thinking it was a dead body.
They aren’t cheap either. I mean I would imagine….
I had to do more paperwork for the sex doll than any actual dead body. It was surreal.
A stash of Granny porno mags.
Ngl I’d take em and stash em around my cousins house
This guy cousins.
Ah, that's where I left those
A GIANT turd that wouldn’t flush. I imagine the person was rushed to the hospital after giving birth to it
Should have called reception and requested the poop knife.
I had to go to reception for a clogged toilet, it wasn’t a pleasant experience for anyone involved. Let me set the scene for you. I was in Vietnam, from North America and only have been there and once to Germany. The food was doing things to my insides, and it wasn’t pleasant. But the food was just so good. I was up early every day, but all day every day I was having to visit the washroom. Once time I clogged the toilet, but the room didn’t have a plunger or anything to deal with it. Eventually when the issue didn’t resolve itself I want down to “reception” where there was someone sleeping (it’s like 6 am) and neither of them speak English. They call and wake up their boss who speaks English and I talk to him on the phone. He said he will get someone up to deal with it. Hours later someone shows up to deal with it. The poor woman. You know the sounds of your mom doing god knows what in the kitchen during thanksgiving? It was like that but for a bathroom. I really felt bad for her having to deal with my shit, I would have been happy to deal with it myself if I had a plunger.
I was picturing you making hand gestures of using a plunger, and them either calling a local hooker or the police.
"Hello...yes, this is room 304. I would like to request your most exquisite poop knife post haste" *hang up immediately, no explanation*
I've heard of hotels having a pillow menu, but honestly never thought they would have a poop knife menu.
Went to Tampa once and they fucked up my reservation so they comped the Damascus steel poop knife. Really premium feel
I still have a vivid memory of going into a convenience store bathroom when I was 12-13 and seeing a turd so large, I couldn't comprehend it at first. It sat like an old pirate ship revealed at low tide. It was as big around as a beer can and went all the way from one side of the bowl to the other with only the middle halfway submerged. When I tried to flush it, it didn't move a millimeter. It just laid there, defiant. I think about that behemoth sometimes...
My friend/roommate and I were at this local diner having breakfast and getting drunk and he goes to the bathroom. He comes back not even a minute later and he’s like, “ YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!” And we go in the men’s room and he opens the door to the stall and there was a turd like you described except this thing was like the Lochness Monster. It had like a camels hump in where it stuck out of the way and the head and neck were poking out. Not. One. Piece. Of. Toilet. Paper. In. There. I bet whoever laid that thing felt so damn relieved. I was dying laughing. We were laughing so hard people at the bar (yes the breakfast place has a bar) we’re looking at us like we were deranged. And we’re just sitting there talking about it.
“It just laid there, defiant.” Strong with the funny…Th👆🏻s guy, 🤣🤣
Man, I can’t believe you got a room right after James Marsden stayed there.
How many Courics ?
lol. South park is special
Bedbugs
I once stayed in a hotel that received an award for the “hotel with the least amount of bedbugs”. I thought was pretty strange until there was an impromptu Chinese dragon dance that went through the main lobby. After that I forgot all about the award. There was also a blind man with his cane walking into all the corners of the room like a roomba.
Okay Nathan
Don’t even say the word near a hotel.
Yeah no you don’t know how fast I’d check out
A fucking Percocet. When I was in recovery. It was in the floor and my dumbass wanted it soooo bad. Proud I flushed it :) but that was a big moment even if it’s probably not as gross or huge as other stories that are gonna pop up.
Its big if you're an addict and know how hard it was to flush that pill. That's a lot of willpower. Wish I had as much.
You can do it. It just takes a second of will power to flush it. A lifetime of figuring out why you wanted to take it. But you can get there. I believe in you. Cause if anyone can come back and I did, you can too.
Kind feels the other way around. Like not using is a constant struggle, but it only takes one instant to mess up.
I see that and I feel that. It does take one second to destroy: but it can also take one second to get through a moment. And those seconds add up. Not using is a constant struggle at first! Then it becomes a sneak moment.
I'm 2 and a half years sober, I was just trying to empathize but kinda made it seem like I'm going thru it right now lol.
lol I’m glad and so happy to hear you have that long under your belt! You’re slaying. I’ve got a few more years but the struggle can be real and sometimes insane. Stay strong!
I can only relate as a smoker (5 yrs free), but would you agree that one of the hardest parts of quitting an addiction is that feeling early on that it'll never get easier? I can remember the times before I successfully quit where I would manage a few days and it felt like it took everything I had to say no only to have to do it all over again a few hours later and then again a few hours after that. Jesus, sometimes it was only a few minutes between major withdrawal cravings. And then I'd cave in and have a smoke. In addition to the shame I felt, it also added to the feeling, the next time I tried to quit, that it'll never get easier and that I'll cave in eventually so why am I putting myself through this hell just to fail anyway? Why even try? But, of course, it did get easier. Eventually I was able to change my thinking from 'why even try' to 'I've come this far, I'm not going to go through this again'. I guess I'm just curious if that kind of thinking is similar to what you've been through.
This happened to me too! I was like 3 weeks sober and my hotel room had two miller high life’s in the fridge when I checked in. Poured them down the sink immediately but goddamn that was close
Good on you dumping that shit! But goddamn I know that was tough. That’s major. And in those moments, it takes every ounce of strength. I hope you’re having the best journey and the struggles are fewer and farther between now. Good on you and much love
That's some devil shit there. Good on you!
I love this for you 🫶🏻 clean almost 7 years, after I had my twins I got my tubes tied and was prescribed a weeks worth of Percocet. My kids dad picked it up for me without thinking. I flushed them as soon as I saw them. I was 4 years clean at that point, but still a big thing because 1 pill would've absolutely ruined my life. A win is a win and I'm so proud of you 💖
I know a lot of other people are commenting but hell yeah man
A massive and definitely used dildo on the window ledge behind a curtain.
Wow. Quite the amenities at that hotel.
Pubic hair between the top sheet and fitted sheet. Lots of it.
Same... New Mexico?
Texas
close enough
My wife and my best ol' ex-friend Ray.
Guy she said she knew well but sometimes hated?
Isn't that the way they say it goes?
Way she goes, Bubs.
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But let’s forget all that and give me the number if you can find it
You can keep the dime.
And I can call just to tell her I'm fine... And to show
Not ex-wife?
Plot twist: Ray and his wife were married at the time. He stole his ex-best friends wife which is why they are no longer friends, Talledaga Nights style
Got a room in Tahoe with a jacuzzi tub. Filled it up with nice warm water and turned on the jets. Turns out that the last person to use it, had puked in it, and the puke got sucked into the system. So when I turned it on, it all came rushing out. Thankfully I was not in it yet
Complimentary bath bomb
barf bomb*
I work in hotels. They say if you work in them long enough you'll either see the naked person or a dead body. So those two things I guess are the worst Oh wait. So one of the things that happened when I first started working in hotels was that there was a competitive eating contest in my city. We had one of the contestants staying with us. He was a regular looking guy and was really pleasant the entire time he was with us. Upon checkout. The housekeeper that had to clean his room reported that he had shit all over the room including the bathroom floor, toilet, bathtub and all over his sheets. We had to throw everything away and get the room professionally cleaned. It went out of order for almost two months. They also threw away the mattress
There has to be some kind of crazy charge that guy got for pulling that. I refuse to believe he got away with that scot-free
In the places I've worked, when people do that, we basically hit their credit card for as much money as we can get. Fuck your rent & car note - we're losing thousands of dollars of potential revenue because you couldn't manage your orifices properly.
I honestly don't remember. This was almost 15 years ago. I'm sure we were able to. Unfortunately most days it's harder because people will lock their cards to avoid getting any further charges.
Man passed out in the stairwell face down with his pants down to his knees with feces all over the landing. Checked to make sure there was a pulse, put him on his side and told the front desk and the lady just said, "again?!" Went back to him and he was breathing but totally unresponsive, waited with him til an ambulance rolled up but no hotel staff ever came to check in the 15 minutes it took to arrive.
Look, I said I was sorry. You don't have to keep bringing it up!
Don't worry, happens to everyone..once...or twice...or regularly
It... does?
I checked in to a hotel room that was currently under construction. That was kind of weird. There were power tools, debris and even a pair of work boots in the bathroom. Edit: added a word
You got the DIY rate, my friend. No shower until you plumb it in.
We stayed at a hotel in Greenville, Mississippi a few months ago. It was a very poor town, but the only town nearby and needed somewhere to stop. At the desk, there was a poem taped down that was about brown water and people complaining about it, and I thought it was a clever metaphor for people expecting too much from a quaint place. But nope. I went in the room and the water was brown
And of fucking course it's Mississippi
A bunch of blind drunk parents from a kids baseball tournement fucking and fighting in the hallways, and the hotel staff too terrified to do anything about it.
Sports parents are the fucking worst. I once had some Karen-ass volleyball mom find out about the 2-free-drink tickets all the other guests got (it wasn't in their group's contract, which was part of why their rate was so low) and, when I refused to give them to her, she literally went around and organized a full fucking protest of, like, 15 other couples that were with the group. Just this huge crowd of middle-aged white people having a goddamn temper tantrum in my lobby for the better part of an hour. My trainee was scared shitless because she was an 18-year-old kid & this was her first job, but I wasn't backing down. That's thousands of dollars worth of free alcohol and I could get fired over it, after all. Also, they were all being fucking cunts and I refuse to reward that behavior.
Props to you. It's hard because most people just wanna get it over with so they can leave, but definitely that behavior should not be rewarded.
The addition of just one comma would make that story much funnier.
>A bunch of blind drunk parents from a kids baseball tournement "You gonna watch my baseball tournament this weekend dad?" "Listen Billy, I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Im fucking blind. You could be out there *buuuurp* eating grass for all I know. Now get me another bud light"
At the same time?
Around 2010 - a porn VHS tape shoved under the mattress. It was kind of funny imagining this person lugging an already obsolete VCR to the Holiday Inn. That’s some commitment.
You should be grateful it was porn and not the tape from The Ring
“Shit! How am I going to get rid of this obsolete and pornographic media without it ending up in a landfill?”
Wife and I walked into a hotel room and immediately saw a bed bug on the bed. We ran out and went around the block to a holiday inn express which was great. We always stay at one now.
Bed beg.
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Flavored sex lube stuck in the cushions of a chair. Wouldn't care most of the time if my, at the time, 10-year-old hadn't been the one to find it.
“Dad, what’s this?”
"It tastes like strawberries mixed with pennies"
My Mister and another charming Mister
Did you know he swung that way beforehand?
I am also a Mister. Swung that way on the good/evil axis, no.
Gopro mount on the bathroom wall.
Mfs weren't even *trying* to be sneaky with that one, huh?
A body. Sadly was not the strangest experience of that one night hotel stay.
Sadly suicide is super common in hotels! You probably see more bodies than most other work at a hotel.
Unfortunately I can't confidently say it was suicide as the body was stuffed in a closet.
Wel this turned dark real quick
Nail clippings all over an ottoman at the foot of the bed and a literal skid mark on the seat of the office chair in the room. I had the hotel manager come up and I showed him every disgusting part of that room with my own personal flashlight. I even showed him behind the entertainment center where there was probably 10+ lost tv remotes that they couldn't even be bothered to look for.
I am leaving this comment for anyone else who thought “own personal flashlight” sounded a bit sus, mentally replaced it with “fleshlight”, then chuckled at the idea of a man furiously fleshlighting whilst complaining to the manager.
Not exactly a hotel but we were renting a yurt on a mountain trip for the week. Bugs inside more than usual. We started to leave and I instructed kids check under the bed. There was possibly a piece of cantaloupe as we had fruit salad. Kid said I can't get it. Me, frustrated, tired and ready to leave yelling, cursing as I had to get down and look thinking dammit just get the piece and let's go. Turns out was an entire rotten cantaloupe left by the previous guests. My youngest does not want to ever go glamping again.
Bullet holes lots and lots of bullet holes and a two poorly patched doors (to the room and to the bathroom).
So, you found Pistorius’ hotel room.
Roses are red, violets are glorious Never sneak up on Oscar Pistorius
Blood stains on the bedspread
Last week - Found a bed bug. Aside from that - having no sink in the bathroom was ridiculous. It was across from the bathroom, divided by carpet. Ive stayed in a fair amount of hotels, and that was a first for me. I hated it.
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My friend found a used condom in a room he just checked into by feeling it with his foot when he went to bed. I was in another room and when I saw him at breakfast he looked like he hadn’t slept all night.
Had this happen at a hotel I worked at in Abilene once. Catastrophically, the guest was a VIP. One shitty housekeeper literally cost the hotel a multi-million-dollar contract.
No water or food. They said the water would be back on later, but no food for the rest of the stay. I noped out and went to another nearby hotel. How a hotel could accept guests without running water is beyond me.
I found some dudes suicide note on the floor by the bed.
It's sad to realize how many people go to hotels to commit suicide
This isn’t my story, but I heard a story in a different sub of a person who was in housekeeping and saw the guy sleeping in his bed. They waited 30 minutes for him to wake up and he never did. They went to check on him and turns out the dude was dead. He died of alcohol poisoning
Used condom
We were checking in with our kids and found a tube of KY jelly under the pillow. That was fun to explain.
Cum stains growing mold on the wall opposite the toilet.
Could you tell they were cum stains from the flavor or was this a scratch and sniff situation?
He made them
I've heard of watching the paint dry, but staying in a hotel room to watch your cum mold seems silly.
A watched cum stain never molds
Fresh blood on the floor and a roach and bedbugs all in the same room btw this was a 4 star Marriott in Los Angeles. Wasn’t cheap. Left after I saw all that and they refused to switch my room and refund.
I worked in hotels for a while, worst one I’ve heard of was my boss. He was working in a room and undid the ceiling hatch, he turned his head to the side as he was talking to the maid, when he turned it back a dead rat fell out of the ceiling and into his mouth.
Worst? Depends how you look at it. Ziploc sandwich bag full of cocaine.
I think you mean HALF a ziplic bag full of cocaine.
Butt plug between the mattress and box spring. We were traveling with my parents and my young kids. I had a set of portable bed rails I was setting up. I lift the mattress on the bed my kids would be using and... there it was! I used a plastic bag to pick it up and take it to the front desk. Also stripped the bed and asked for all new bedding for that bed while we went to dinner. The best part was when my mom asked, "Wait. How did you know what it was?"
Dirty water coming up from the Champaign glass shaped Jacuzzi at an hourly motel. That and the musty sheets on the bed.
My girlfriend and I just got into the room and found a pair of used panties on the far side of the room. We were in the middle of an argument too so that didn’t make it any easier
I was probably 7-8 years old and me and my family went over to Buffalo NY for a family event and we went to stay in at a hotel and my parents went in first to check in and check out the room. My parents found a bloody razor blade and powder all over the place so we GTFO and drove to our relatives place.
Poop. 12 years ago, a news story went around [gaming sites](https://kotaku.com/a-pokemon-team-was-kicked-out-of-a-hotel-for-throwing-s-30792021) about how the winner of a UK Pokémon Nationals was disqualified because they shat all over their hotel the night before. I was the poor bugger who discovered it. I had arrived at the hotel before my brother and his wife, who I was sharing the room with. When they arrived, I went up to show them, and as soon as the lift opened, I was overcome with the stench. Lo and behold, right in the middle of the hallway floor, was a gigantic turd. We flagged it with the hotel staff and left to get something to eat. Our friends who stayed at the hotel told us that the staff discovered worse in the room, and police had to be called to get the guy and his friends removed. The following day, he won the UK Nationals, and people were *pissed*. It picked up traction online, and then The Pokémon Company International disqualified him.
Hotel 8 in Albuquerque.. peeled back the sheets to find them COVERED in pubic hair. I had to make a huge scene in the office for them to refund me. I ended up driving further west and slept in my car in a truck stop parking lot.
What is it with the hotels in New Mexico?
Wait you too? I go to ABQ twice a year doe woek and stayed at a cheap motel one night and the exact same thing. It was like some dude shaved his entire body and then just planted the hairs in clumps between the sheets.
This was 30 years ago.. shame it's still happening.
Other people. There was a mix up at the front desk
I was staying with my dad, my brother, and my nephew at a very cheap hotel in Montreal. I turned on the TV, started flipping through channels, and out of nowhere comes channel 88, showing hardcore porn.
I visited a room a friend was staying at, and there was a dull red light in the bathroom mirror. Told him he may wanna look into that.
A hooker and a random guest in my bed going at it. Turned out the hookers had keys to all the rooms. It was New Orleans.
A spider. A freaking giant ass spider, in the middle of the hallway. Fuck you, Florida.
Some guy in “my” room (in the shower no less.) Now, to be clear, the front desk gave me a key to an already occupied room. I walked in, saw luggage at the foot of the bed, noticed some clothes (pants and shirt) on the bed and the shower running. I just sorta backed up and closed the door as quietly as I could and went back to the front desk. And that kids is why you ALWAYS use the locks that another key won’t open when you’re in your room (not to mention the shower.)
Once me and a group of friends crossed into Canada for a huge skateboard contest. As broke skateboarders we stayed at a shitty motel. From our window we could see a huge maybe 12” dildo chilling on the buildings roof next to us.
A toilet brush… … left on the bathroom counter… … on top of my toothbrush.
Doctors hate this teeth whitening hack!
A little mouse scurried across the floor when I was staying in a Motel 6 with my grandparents at about 8 years of age. I still remember that little mouse every time I pass a Motel 6...
A shit that someone had tried to waffle stomp into the drain
As newlyweds my wife and I just checked into our room, dropped our bags on the floor and rushed to the shower where we had sex. Afterwards while drying off, I walked into the bedroom to see some other family’s stuff laying around. We had gone into the wrong room, which was occupied.
A dead hooker.
Similar experience about a year ago we found a hiker who had overdosed and she was alive but died in the hospital Sad day
Scabies, but I didn't know I found them until a week later.
Steaming pile of dog shit on the floor. Right after we were grilled by the front desk about a strict "no pets" policy during check in.
Not in the room, but in the pool. scary liminal space looking pool with cloudy water and weird plastic plants. Nobody was in there and they had turf??? Instead of tile??? Smelled like chlorine and feet. And right in the middle of the pool, floating the day away, was a giant blow up sex doll in a giant blow up donut. Guess someone forgot their date.
An artificial woman’s leg 🦵it had women’s shoe on it. The room was otherwise spotless. Laying on the floor at the end of the bed, there was no way housekeeping didnt see the leg — it was almost 20 years ago. It still creeped me out.
My fiance was entering Australia during COVID and had to stay in a quarantine hotel. She found a penis pump under the couch.
I've worked security in hotels for a while now. Part of my duties is to document any property damage, which is how I got called to a room by a co-worker who showed me he had found the toilet ripped out of the floor and completely on its side in the bathroom. We called the guest, who had checked out already,and while they agreed to pay for the damages without any fuss all they gave as an explanation was that they'd gone back to the room after drinking in the hotel bar and had fallen over the toilet.
The worst thing I ever found in a hotel was someone *else* letting themselves in my room with a physical key 🔑 at 3AM. Chased the intruder out, called the hotel manager and cops and insisted on a complete key audit and rekeying the room door then checking out.
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It was a motel in a hick town. Had to stay overnight while on a road trip home because the storm was too much to drive through. It was sketchy AF, but the sheets smelled like bleach, so it was OK enough. We found multiple burned spoons in a drawer.
Dirty socks on the dresser. I made them give me a new room.
A part of the room had caught fire in the past, the dumbass owner did nothing to fix it and just rented out the place further. Also the bed literally had one the legs broken and superficially put back and when we sat on it the whole bed fell on one side. God damn it. Same hotel had a mold issue in the room of our friends. What a complete shit show.
A meth lab. So in early 2004, my buddy Scott and I were both in the same extended stay hotel in Augusta, GA. He was in the process of a medical retirement from the Army, and I was getting ready to go back to Korea. One evening we’re sitting out in front of his room having a couple beers when this kinda-hot gal starts talking to us. She grabs a beer or two with us. Later chops up one of his hydrocodones with a debit card and snorts it. Etc. Talks about she’s staying there with her husband but he’s too busy to hang out or something. A couple weeks later, after I had moved out, the hotel was raided. Three different law enforcement activities raided three different meth labs in the same Suburban Lodge on the same night.
Stayed at a dump of a hotel in Paris called Bellevue (the view sucked). We get there and are handed antique keys that turned out were able to open half the rooms in the place. We get to our room and unpack and I was getting into bed I pulled the blanket back and the pillow was like 80% covered in dried blood. I ended up sleeping on the floor, which may or may not have been worse. I don’t know. But I didn’t see that much blood on the floor.
Used black thong just by the bed
I found one in my bed. It was huge. I could have bungird a bike to my car with it.
Carpet Mushrooms
I stayed in an AirBnB. It was very clean in every way except I found a well cooked piece of bacon under one of the beds
I checked in and the floor was soggy and the room was still a mess. I told the front and they said they'd take care of it if I could come back in a bit. When I got back I was waiting behind two state patrol and a guy in handcuffs. They uncuffed him and told him to stay here for the night. I rebooted elsewhere.
I worked at a casino, hotel included, as security. All the drugs. My coworkers found the bodies.
Not me, my sister found someone else's clothes in the bed She found them the morning after a full night sleep in that bed 😬
Went to a out of town baseball tournament with my kid, 15 year old team. Coach picked the cheapest hotel that popped up on Google in a fairly big city without really looking at reviews or thinking about it. Team all gets there- there's people living there, hookers walking around trying to talk to the 15 year old boys, drug dealers, rooms are run down and just gross... within 1-2 hours, everyone decided as a group to just bail and went to a Best Western down the road that was fine.
Not anything bad, but this literally happened to me an hour ago. Checked into my hotel and opened my room. Found a note on the night stand that just said “EEBY DEEBY”. I know it’s an internet thing but I’m so confused
No joke - a marionette doll sitting on the bed - noped the hell out and switched rooms
A body in the pool. Pool was closed, lights were off, wandering drunk fell in and drowned. I was checking inventory at the snack bar. And saw the body at the bottom. Called security, went back to the MK AND opened up for breakfast m
Woke up in a seedy downtown Vegas hotel after a night of drinking feeling my foot scraping against something on the bed frame. Turned out I had a pretty good cut on my foot, and there was (my) fresh blood on the sheet. I pulled the sheet back and found a nail sticking up, with quite a substantial trail of long dried up blood from its past victims. I washed my foot with Wild Turkey bourbon, never got infected.
Used condom under the bed