Working in the accommodation sector is fun for some people. You will get to meet a diverse population with different cultures, traditions, languages, races, and more. However, it also comes with the responsibility to take good care of your guests.
It will not always be a smooth day for those workers, especially when these compiled events come into the picture. Check these workers on Reddit who shared their horrible experiences when looking at a guest room.
1. Salad Lover
As the owner of a bed and breakfast place for the last eight years, the craziest thing I ever found was an old battered notebook with "Why I love salad."
That title was written on the front, and then literally 40-80 pages on why salad was amazing. There'd be the occasional suggestion that the author believed salad to be alive in some sense.
It looked like it had been written on and off over the course of several years. It was confusing and might be a good hobby for that person.
ShaneMcDeath
2. Weird Hobby
There was this one guy who stayed at least one night every week, and he always requested the same room. Well, let me say this again: ALL. THE. TIME
We thought he was maybe making illegal deals or something, so we searched the room after he checked out one day. We’re kinda skeptical.
Lo and behold, it turns out he was hiding a blowup doll under the mattresses. We threw it away, and he only came back once after that. I kinda felt bad for him.
Lancerman360
3. Waiting Hotel
I used to serve room service in a hotel that was near a major national hospital, and the two locations had reached some sort of business agreement.
It was about people going into surgery who could stay at the hotel the night/nights before for a discount rate. Well, you might know where this is going.
During my three years there, we had about six guests die during the night while waiting for surgery. It was always handled in a really hush-hush manner, but it was always messed up to hear about.
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4. Stinky Pillow
I worked at a pretty crappy low-budget "3-star" hotel in Canada a year back. On my last month there, a guest came in to request to visit a potential room.
Now, I didn't discover this myself, but I had no choice afterward. The guest comes back after the visit, clearly pissed, and leaves without saying anything.
I go check the room afterward, only to discover a pillowhead completely covered in human feces. Someone had wiped their bum.
Hell, even the room cleaning staff "didn't" notice it, as it was clearly obviously found behind a chair. This was supposed to be a clean room ready to rent for the night.
TheGreenGrove
5. Sweet Night
So we basically set out to try and get things our guests asked for, and these newlyweds wanted a chocolate fountain. Sure, my boss thought, wouldn't be too much of a hassle, right?
No, they had to search like hell to find one. Well, after the couples stay, they check out and don't really say much. When the maid is going to clean the room, she basically goes in and starts laughing.
My boss comes into the room, too, and there is chocolate everywhere. You could see her asscheeks in the bed and on the table, and even on the roof. You could make out where they started and where they stopped.
rigurt
6.
A man was having his house deloused and deep cleaned and wound up staying at the local hotel I worked for. He was there for something like 30 days or so.
He was drunk and high on something the entire time. He never once let housekeeping in. After his departure, the cleaning staff finally entered the room.
They were horrified by the stench of the place and the utter wreck he left behind. Every single piece of furniture was severely damaged, and the floors were stained and greasy.
The linens were too far gone for further use, and rotten food was everywhere. It took a week to get the room back in rotation. No wonder it took a month to get his house cleaned up and free of vermin.
husbandofsmartache
7. Good Soul
We had an elderly (70s) couple stay with us once, who were the absolute best. We offered a complimentary dinner around 6 p.m.
The wife had come over to the front desk and brought me a plate of dinner, saying, "You're far too skinny to get any girls, young man."
I thanked her and ate it while her husband walked up, gave her a leash, and left to go walk the dog outside while her husband and I talked about what they were doing in my neck of the woods.
They go back to their rooms about half an hour later, and I go about my business. Around 8:30, he calls down crying, saying his wife won't wake up.
I went up there, calling 911, but I found that she had passed away, sleeping on his shoulder, while they were watching Wheel of Fortune.
I wept like a girl that night and kept him company while he tried to call his children, who weren't picking up their phones.
earnestlyhemmingaway
8. The Open Door
I work at a hotel in Ontario, and one of our housekeepers decided she needed to take a dump while cleaning some guy's room.
So, of course, instead of using the employee washroom down the hall, she sat down and did her thing. The guest had forgotten his briefcase.
The guest walked into the room to discover a 20-year-old girl taking a dump in his room with the door open. Well, she was fired.
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9. The Spray
A woman who was showering but got sick (food poisoning) and she went to throw up. While throwing up, naked, she then got the other part of food poisoning.
She sprayed dump all over the wall, floor, cabinets, and mirror. It was stomach-churning but impressive. The smell of this was horrid.
I had to leave the room and come back twice because I needed to get some fresh air. When everything was wrapping up, and security was just getting information for their report (we record anytime we have a medical problem at the hotel), I left.
I pulled out my phone and called housekeeping right away and said, "We just had some lady go to the bathroom all over the bathroom. Send a few people out here with extra gloves, a bunch of sanitizer, and as much deodorizing spray they can find."
bwurtsb
10. Medical Purposes
I don't work at a hotel, but I used to work at a full-body donation facility. Basically, when you donate your body to science and some med students or implant researchers need a human knee or head, they would call us.
I did the actual dissections and some deliveries. Before I was hired, they made one explicit rule: no deliveries to hotels. I thought this very odd, so I asked.
A few years back, a researcher asked us to deliver his frozen specimen to a hotel for a conference. We did so, no problem… That’s what we thought.
What we didn't consider was that the researcher had decided the most efficient way to thaw a whole human torso would be to run a warm bath and let it soak.
No arms, no legs, no head. Get the image? When he left the room, some unfortunate hotel worker came to clean the room, saw this bloody human torso in the tub, and called the cops.
The guy gets handcuffed, and we are left explaining how we legally cut up dead people. The hotel worker, we heard, quit immediately. Hence, the rule.
BmorePride
11. Covered Cucumber
I'm not a hotel worker, but back in high school, I was on a trip with my crew team of about 80. The guys decide that, since we have an entire floor of the hotel to ourselves, we're gonna line up all the mattresses in the hallway and... idk do something.
It was high school. I'm just about to wrestle my mattress through the doorway when I hear the best combination of screams and laughter coming from a few doors down.
Everyone simultaneously runs to the room and immediately books it out of there when they discover... Under my buddy's mattress was about an 18" cucumber covered in crap.
Maids come, sanitize the room, my buddy gets a new mattress, and according to them, two construction workers had been staying in that room for two weeks prior.
Fatally_Flawed
12. Stench Prank
My family is in the hotel business. One day, a particular room just started to stink too high heck for no apparent reason. We were confused.
We checked everywhere multiple times, looking for the source of the scent, no dice. We sprayed everything in the room numerous times with deodorizer to no avail.
Left the room open daily for months to air it out without any change. Finally, we somehow tracked the smell to the table lamp.
We were dumbfounded, asking ourselves how it could be emanating from there. Son of a witch had broken the thing, put a fish in it, and glued it back together.
My brother and I died laughing and actually applauded this guy's ingenuity. He got us good, and I ain't even mad at that. LOL!
TyrionSwaggister
13. Forgetful Guest
We had SWAT training in town, and a lot of the officers stayed at our hotel. I got a call a day or two after everyone checked out (I worked the front desk).
It was one of the officers. He told me he had made a huge mistake and left his firearm, fully loaded, and another full magazine, on the top shelf of a closet in one of the rooms.
I looked up what room he stayed in and got the gun. I had to leave it in my manager's office for her to deal with the next day. I guess she shipped it back to him. Very irresponsible.
jenroberts
14. Wrong Ashes
Once, when I was about 2 or 3, my family stayed in this hotel. The hotel wasn't the classiest hotel. So my brother and dad are gone, and my mom is reading.
So I start crawling around on the floor, looking for who knows what, when I stumble upon a piece of newspaper with ashes wrapped in it.
I take the ashes, and my mom says to put them in my dad's ashtray. You were allowed to smoke here. So later, my dad goes to put his cigarette in the tray, and BAM! It was gunpowder, not ashes.
I go running and crying and hide in the bathroom. We weren't blamed because the last people in the room left them there. Whew!
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15. Two Items
Front Desk Supervisor here. We once had a guest check in at the beginning of a month. She did not come down for breakfast in the mornings.
She refused any and all service to her room for an entire month. (no new sheets, no new towels, no general cleaning) But every day, she would come down to the front desk and ask for 4 bars of regular soap and an apple. That's it.
We tried looking her up on Google to see if she was a missing person somewhere or wanted or something, but we came up with nothing.
Finally, after about a month, her bank called us to try to figure out why she was staying here for so long, suspecting fraud.
We verified the account with the ID, and it all checked out, but she refused to talk to the bank herself, so the bank wouldn't let her transactions go through. We had to evict her from the room because her card would no longer be authorized for the room.
She left the room out of the side door with no belongings, in the same clothes we had seen her in day after day, asking for those bars of soap. Inside her room, they found piles and piles of unopened soaps just sitting there.
Blood was splattered everywhere, in the bathroom, in the bedroom, all over the sheets and the duvet. And there were apple cores everywhere on the floor. We never figured out what the hell was happening, but that's the weirdest story I've had so far.
stan-theman
16. Got Caked
I did housekeeping for a summer, and it pretty much all sucked. But one day, I came into work, and my boss was overly angry this morning, grumbling about how we were low on towels or something.
How is a 4-star hotel with over four rooms low on towels? Well, I got my list of rooms to clean and went on my way. I get 3 or 4 rooms, and then I get to room 237. Still haunts me.
So I knock, "Housekeeping!" Nothing, the sign that I'm clear to go in and do my job. Just opening the door, it smells sickly sweet, and I'm already worried.
I open the door and... Cake. Everywhere. All over the carpets, the beds, the desk, even smeared all over the freaking ceiling.
At this point, I'm in awe... Who the fudge has the audacity to do this to a room? So I decided to check how bad the bathroom was, and I could barely open the door, maybe a half foot.
At this point, I'm expecting a body or something terrible. Poke in my head, and what do ya know? There's got to be all the missing towels my supervisor was freaking out about, about 50 square foot room, about 4 feet high.
Covering the entire floor, all the towels, soaking wet... This actually made me giggle a little for the irony, but still, what idiot delivered half our towel stock to one room? Either way, I just said screw it, called down to my supervisor, and told her I needed help or I quit.
Snush
17. The Photos
I was cleaning a room and found some photos stuck in the mirror. They were photos of a man. I took them down and put them on my cart to put in the lost & found.
I continued cleaning. The room was trashed. There were tons of empty condom wrappers around the room & boxes of lube, etc.
I cleaned the gross room and went about my business. Somewhere along the line, the pictures must have accidentally gone in my trash.
A while later, my supervisor called me to the office and asked if I found any photos in that one specific room because the lady called freaking out because they were photos of her husband, who died. I get being sentimental. But remembering what I saw inside the room… the things… just confusing.
omgstephanie
18. Eye Contact
A friend of mine worked at her parent's hotel. One of the guests alerted her to a bad smell on one of the floors. She went up and traced the smell to one room.
When she opened the door, a very large man was sitting on the end of the bed facing her and looking at her. She asked him what was going on.
But he didn't answer. Turns out he'd had a heart attack a few days prior while putting on his socks. It was Christmas Day when she found him.
obeluss
19. Two Messed Ups
I used to work in a hotel in Jasper, AB. One time, these guests who had checked out had absolutely destroyed their room. Oh, gosh.
There were broken wine and beer bottles everywhere. They had purposely crushed chips and cereal into the floor, along with toothpaste all over the walls and furniture.
That was not the worst part, however, cause as soon as I looked into the washroom, it was evident they had clogged the toilet and decided to use the shower to relieve themselves instead (numbers 1 and 2). SO GROSS. Luckily, I didn't have to clean it up.
Another time, I was just cleaning up a family's room when the mother informed me (rather proudly, I might add). That her daughter had just entered womanhood and her sheets needed to be changed.
Upon stripping the bed, it was evident that it had gone through all the sheets and stained the mattress. The worst part was they made me flip the mattress over before I put fresh sheets on the bed.
kkirbs
20. Strange Woman
There was a woman in town speaking at one of those empowerment conferences for women. The night after she checked in, she called the desk and told me that she wanted to go home.
Thinking she was homesick, I started asking her where she was from and if she would get to go home after this trip. She replied by telling me she did not want to go home in a body bag.
I had "taken one for the team" earlier in the day, so as soon as she said that, I passed the phone to my manager, who invited her to come downstairs and talk.
When she gets downstairs, she tells us the second floor is haunted, and she can't stay. We moved her to the first floor, right around the corner from the front desk. Everything was fine until I checked someone in across the hall.
As soon as they checked in, they asked to switch rooms because they could hear screams coming from the crazy lady's room. I walked to her room, and it was like she was chanting in another language.
I pulled my phone out to record her, but it sounded like she was getting closer, so I ran back to the front desk. I tried calling her, but she didn't answer. Shortly after that, she showed up at the desk with her luggage, still chanting.
Then she lunged across the desk and told me the demons were going to conquer my soul and that I would be welcomed into hell.
Then she walked out very calmly, got into her car, and drove away. I went to her room and found strips of cloth covered in scented oil and a candle.
[deleted]
21. The Glues
During my senior year of high school, I helped clean the local accommodation on the weekends. The place was kind of dumpy, but it wasn't bad. I live in a small-ish city, so not much happens here.
One Sunday, I arrived at the last room on my shift. I opened the door and was almost knocked out by the stench.. stale beer and piss.
When I got into the room, I nearly fell over laughing. They had glued pennies to every surface. On the mirrors, walls, windows, table/chairs, headboards, shower walls, shower door, sink, bathroom floor, and toilet. You name it, it had pennies on it.
There were also at least 100 beer bottles.. but oddly enough, no boxes for them. It wasn't really a very nice place to work; the hours were kind of crummy, and the staff wasn't very nice, so this was kind of the last straw.
I called the front office to let them know about the room, then just turned around, walked out, and went home. What an experience, lol.
[deleted]
22. Weak Dude
Working in a hostel in Australia, I encountered something rather wtf worthy in a room one night. Got a call from some other residents in a room saying this Asian guy was taking a crap on his bed, stuff, and floor.
Same time as he was puking all over the place. I went up to the room, thinking the whole thing was probably a prank call. I was so wrong.
Got up to the second floor, and my god, I could smell the nightmare already... Walked in and found him lying there while we cleaned the room.
Epic_Muffin
23. The Goddess
A straight-up crazy bag lady came to stay at a retreat center where I worked. She told us to call her Pele, the volcano goddess of Hawaii. She spent a week with us, refusing to interact with anyone except when berating our staff. Fast forward to the day we cleared out her room.
She had left the "do not disturb" sign-up all week, so we hadn't been able to service it. The stench was palpable. Right by the door was the towel set, untouched, indicating she hadn't showered once. Then there was the bed, its white sheets had somehow turned red.
Someone had helped her off the premises (it was a good mile or two from the rooms to the front of the property) with her four giant bags of clothes and helped her get in a taxi.
We thought we were rid of her, but oh, were we wrong. The next day, my shift manager went to clean the communal bathrooms in one of the guest buildings and one in use, so he figured he'd come back later.
Came back after lunch, still locked. Came back towards the end of the day and decided to get the key to open it. Inside was Pele, squatting in the bathtub.
It was clear that she'd been using the floor as a toilet, yet somehow the actual toilet was still a crapshow, literally. She starts screaming, "YOU CAN'T WALK IN ON SOMEONE WHEN THEY'RE IN THE BATHROOM!!! I'M USING THE BATHROOM. GO AWAY!!"
To which my shift leader responded, "You can't live here! You're not a paying guest, and you need to leave the property right now." "I'M USING THE BATHROOM, YOU WITCH!!"
This exchange went on for a good 20 minutes, but finally, we were able to get security to get her off the premises for good. Oh, and she never paid for her stay.
kittykate789
24. Old Hotel
Another dead guest story for you. Have been working the front desk at a hotel in rural central Wisconsin for a couple of years now.
That very hotel is closed now, but we had a closed-off wing of the building that had all but charred the walls from a fire some years prior.
Apparently, the owners never wanted to put any money into it for renovations or fixing the burnt wing and let the place go to hell. It's about 3 am, and I'm working night audit, the only one in the entire hotel (300+ rooms and convention center).
I had just printed our express checkouts (bills for guests that we slide under the door), put up the "Will be back shortly" sign on the desk, and started delivering them to the rooms.
Now I still get chills thinking about what the hallway looked like (and if I can find the pictures I took of it, I'll edit in a link to them; don't hold your breath, though), but every morning that I had to deliver checkouts, I had to walk through that desolate, dark wing.
I get halfway down the hall, and I see a small box on the hallway floor. I really didn't think anything of it, seeing as our maintenance man has access to the hall, and they would store odds and ends in there now and again.
I get closer to the box and realize it's what looks to be a small jewelry case. A few steps closer, I see that there is a picture on top of the box. It's a picture of a little boy wearing jeans overalls, sitting on the floor, looking up, and smiling at the camera.
I get a little creeped out, but even more when I realize it's a freaking urn. I somehow felt as though I had an obligation to pull a cliche stupid movie stunt and take the box with me to the desk (mind you, this is a little boy's urn in the burnt, closed-off wing of our hotel).
Fast forward, the boy's mother calls in, saying she left it there, but we never found out how and why it got into that wing of the hotel.
Beenhadballs
25. Tons Of Jizz
The first one was when I was cleaning the public lobby restroom. I walked in on Thanksgiving Day to clean the men's restroom, and it stank of the most awful smell of fecal matter you can imagine. Seconds later, I discovered some lovely gentleman had dumped on the floor of each stall.
Another time, a large group (maybe 10 or 12) of Middle Eastern guys stayed in a single bedroom. I walked into the room to clean and, once again, was attacked with the smell of fresh crap. Turns out, they had been crapping in the potted plants we had in the room.
The last and final story I feel truly worth mentioning was "The Mystery of the Jizz on the Toilet Back." Almost every day when I would clean the public men's restroom, the last toilet stall would have a huge amount of dry or drying jizz, and it was disgusting.
And sadly, it was my job to clean it. So I mentioned it to my supervisor (who was also my mother-in-law), and we couldn't figure out which guest it could be.
It went on for some time, and then one day, our coworker with whom we had been buddies got fired for secretly placing cameras around the hotel, specifically the housekeeping locker room, where we all changed. After he was fired, there was never another drop of jizz I had to scrape off that toilet.
[deleted]
26. The Red Room
A guy came down to the front desk to check out and said, "You might want to wash the comforters." (ProTip: Most hotels don't wash anything but the sheets and towels... FYI)
As the laundry guy, I get up to the room first to clear it of the dirty sheets and towels. Both beds are soaked through with blood, and the bathtub is filled with ice but otherwise spotless.
I gathered myself and went to talk to the manager about the room. Unfortunately, the man paid cash, and we had no way to track him or ask him any questions.
The maids cleaned the room, and that was the end of it. I still sometimes wonder what really went on in that room. So disturbing.
Gabrielfall
27. Worst Pranks
I worked the front desk, so I didn't personally discover it, but the housekeeper did. We had a high school soccer team stay at our hotel.
They did all kinds of stupid pranks, including taking wet coffee grounds and throwing them all over the hallway, making them stick to the walls and ceilings.
But the worst thing was that one of them dumped it in a plastic bag and then microwaved it (presumably right as they were leaving). From what the housekeeping staff said, the stench was unbearable and permeated the entire floor.
[deleted]
28. Troubled Hotel
One time, a housekeeper was complaining about three days in a row. She went into the room to clean it to find the man in the room sleeping naked on the bed. He was dead.
Another time, a man was cheating on his wife. She came in while he was gone and was able to verify all his info and get a spare key for the room.
She went in there with. Ketchup and mustard bottles, squirting them all over the place, tore up his clothes, broke some of the appliances in the room, AND broke the big glass window(outdoor corridor hotel).
We called the man and let him know what had happened, and he turned over his credit card to pay for it all, no questions asked.
Okay, last one. We've had people steal ALL kinds of things. That's to be expected.. it IS a hotel. But one time, a large group came in and stole a bunch of stuff, including several of the king and queen-sized beds.
McMillanCat
29. Held A Grudge
We had a long-term guest living in the motel that I work at, and he never showered. Every time he would come down for breakfast, his stench would follow.
Our manager finally decided to tell the guy that he would have to leave because his odor had ruined the bed, and the room had to be disinfected over a two-week period.
After he checked out, he came back because he said that he had forgotten something in his room. He went to the room, took a dump, and spread his feces all over the walls. Luckily, I didn't check the room after, but I do feel sorry for the maid who had to clean his dump off the walls.
EvanVelez
30. Man With A Dog
The weirdest/grossest thing I found was when I was a housekeeping supervisor. There was a man who apparently became suddenly wealthy (we think because he acquired an inheritance).
He rolled up to the hotel in a nice new Corvette, paid in cash for everything, etc. He rented a room for himself and his pet pug - dogs were well taken care of there.
But after a few days, we noticed that his room had not been serviced due to his privacy sign. He was also leaving his dog in the room during the day for extended periods.
I grew worried for the dog, and we ended up entering his room to check on the dog only to find... his room COVERED in human and dog feces.
It was everywhere. He smeared crap all over the walls, sheets, lampshades, tv, and floor. The smell was horrible. I don't know how we hadn't smelled it before.
When he returned to the hotel, we had the police escort him out. Btw while packing his bags as the police waited, he was complaining about the poor service at our hotel.
The worst part was, after throwing everything out everything in the room and 'deep-cleaning' it several times, there was still a smell...??
Turns out he coated the bottom of the sink, also. I had never heard about or seen anything like this before. Somethings you just can't forget.
noblebarnes
31. The Girls
Basically, we had a couple in their late 20s staying in room 14 on the top floor. In the morning, they came down and reported seeing two ghosts holding hands, apparently looking like sisters around the age of 9 and 6.
They said something woke them up in the early hours. They heard the door handle turning, and as they looked up, they saw these two young girls walk up to the end of their bed and look over them. Then, they basically turned around and left the room.
At the time, I was like 14, so I figured they were just either crazy or trying to scare me. (I wasn't fazed) Just said ah, weird and they left.
About two years later, we had a really old couple in their late 60s. Come down reporting ghost, two girls, holding hands, same ages, as they handed the keys in it was to the same damn room as the couple before.
I thought, what in the freaking heck! Then, I was rather gob-smacked because it instantly made me think about the younger couple two years before. Oh well.
A couple of days later, one of the cleaners bought down a photo that had been taken in the room when the old people were staying.
It was one of those old instant print cameras, and it contained the two girls overlooking them in bed. My mind was totally blown, and to this day, I still don’t know what to believe.
Evolutionsic
32. The Youngsters
Apparently, one day, they noticed on the cameras an excessive number of high school-aged kids walking through the lobby carrying bags. They would come in groups of two, three, or four every few minutes.
Eventually, one of my co-workers followed a group up to a room that had some pretty loud music playing. He knocked on the door to stage a "noise complaint" in order to see what was going on, and when they answered, he saw a large group of high school kids and mountains of beer.
Literally mountains of beer. He plays it off like it's no big deal and tells them to simply keep the music down. They end up calling the police and going back up there.
By now, more kids have shown up, and so the cop has started to shut the party down. They find out it's a graduation party, and all the bags contain as much beer as the kids could pack in them.
The tub and sink were filled to the brim with ice and beer. The closet was packed full of cases of beer. There was even a wall of beer forming.
The cop had all the kids sit down and put their cell phones on the bed. Then the cop and my co-workers just sat there and waited as more and more kids would knock on the door and be greeted by a police officer who would sit them down and have them put their phones on the bed.
After they had a group of about two dozen kids, they had them all open up every single can and bottle of beer and pour it down the drain.
It apparently took them hours to drain everyone. The cop thought that was punishment enough, and my co-workers then kicked them out of the hotel.
Evil_Toast
33. Lifeless Body
I’m a former hotel housekeeper/executive housekeeper here. The craziest thing we found was a dead body that had been decomposing on the bathroom floor for well over a week, maybe over two weeks.
We were an extended-stay hotel, so it was pretty common for people not to get service on a regular basis. My boss at the time dropped the ball on checking the rooms, and the day I was in charge, I became very concerned and contacted the desk about it.
They had gotten a call that day from the guy's mom looking for him, and he hadn't been to work. I went in with the GM and the maintenance guy...
I walked in last (thank goodness). The boss walked in, and the maintenance guy walked in. We looked around the room (the smell was sickening).
The boss turned around, saw the bloated, black body on the floor, said, "YUP," and turned around and walked right back out - I followed because I had no desire to see it. Cops came, all that stuff.
The twist was my direct boss, who was off at the time, lived above the same funeral home the man was sent to for cremation. What a small world.
He died of a heart attack. He was a heavy, white man, but my boss said when we found him, he looked morbidly obese (300+ pounds) and black. From what I heard, his skin slid right off of him when they moved him. We had to renovate the entire room.
200lbsoffun
34. Huge Reveal
I was a night auditor. I received a guest complaint of a woman screaming and had to go investigate. I knocked on the door, and no one opened it.
I used the entry key and went into the room to find a woman in the tub. She had a miscarriage/stillborn birth in the bathtub.
The woman's SO had the stillborn in his hands, shaking it, screaming at the woman that she could not do anything right, not even give him a son.
record_man
35. The Creep
We once had a guy check in with his wife and young daughter. They had no reservation, paid in cash, and got a room on the 12th floor.
About three hours later (around 10 pm), he called down to reception to tell us someone was looking in his window. Since he was on the 12th floor, this was impossible, but one of the guys went to go see him.
He came to the door and told the receptionist to leave and that he had never called (the switchboard shows the room number).
Two hours later, we got another call saying someone was trying to attack him. This time, three managers went to the room, including myself.
The wife and child were nowhere to be seen (it turns out they had left not long after he checked in). There were two hypodermic needles in the bathroom, and the guy was lying on the bed, giggling insanely.
The weirdest part was that the room was filled with feathers and stuffing. He had torn the pillows, quilt, and mattress apart with his bare hands and coated the room in the contents. Police were called, and he was asked never to return.
eggs_benedict
36. Shocked Eyes
I worked serving breakfast in a hotel last summer, and sometimes, my job meant running food up to people's rooms. So one morning, I make a tray of food, carry it up to the room, and knock on the door.
The guy who opens it is completely naked. He took the tray and thanked me while another guy in the bed smiled and waved at me.
I was a little shell-shocked, so I just stood there stupidly and waved back. The first guy just handed me a tip and closed the door like it was no big deal.
MissKelsi
37. Long Gone
I live in Niagara Falls, NY, and used to work at one of the larger chain hotels right by the tourist attractions. It was one of the cheaper ones, too, so we got weirdos on occasion.
ANYWAYS (that was foreshadowing) One summer night, I'm working the front desk, and a middle-aged sad man comes to the counter.
Business, as usual, gets his room key, and I direct him where to go. He declines any tourism info. As he walked away, I noticed his really old Buffalo Bills jacket- like vintage old.
The next day, a man wearing a Buffalo Bills jacket makes the jump. It didn't click because Buffalo is 15 minutes from Niagara Falls, and a lot of people own jackets with the town's team logo.
Until he didn't check out three days after his supposed check-out time, the room was clean but mostly empty. Just a bag of his stuff. No note, no pictures. Just clothes and whatnot. It stuck with me for a long time.
nextxoxexit
38. Wet Surprise
One time, I had to make a room service delivery, a full bottle of Bordeaux. I knocked on the door, and an elderly woman who identified herself as an artist opened the door.
I opened the bottle for her, handed it to her, and she asked me if I wanted a "Haitian blessing." Being in the service industry, I said sure, and she asked me to take a step back.
She took a big swig from her 45-dollar bottle and spit in my face. I said, turned around, and walked back to the floor dripping with formerly delicious, old lady-filtered red wine.
Danjour
39. The Rude Guy
A dead guy. A couple of weeks ago, an elderly man with diabetes stayed at our hotel. He was really grouchy and rude to all of the workers.
He fell, trying to come through our double doors, and yelled at the people who ran to help him get back up. That night, he took a bottle of wine to his room.
From what I understood, he drank himself to death without giving himself his insulin shot. It really freaked our housekeeper out when she opened the door to his room and saw him lying on his bed, lifeless, wearing a diaper and no shirt.
SummerSam
40. Horrible Hobbies
Top spray painted a bullseye on one of the walls and ordered up three sets of steak knives to their suite. I had to repair the damage. We did not know they’d do that, though.
Also, a wedding in a room costs $15,000 a night. The wedding party decided to have a fire extinguisher battle. I don’t even know what was going on in their minds.
The next day, a 6,000 sq ft of the space looked like it had snowed overnight. It took three days to clean.
SlowTurn
41. Mystery Bag
Concierge at a ski resort here. A few months back, a lady came up to my desk with a worrisome look on her face and explained to me that she accidentally left a bag in her closet when she checked out and asked if someone could grab it for her.
My bellman was busy at the time, so I just ran up to the room real quick to grab what she wanted. Got to the room and found the bag.
The bag was slightly open and showed what appeared to be a glass trinket of some sort. Being in a ski town, I pretty much assumed it was some kind of pipe, bong, etc.,
My curiosity got the best of me, and I reached in, took it out, and immediately regretted the decision. It was a glass form of man’s jewels.
bctowler
42. Worst Liar
I worked at a hotel for about five years, and crazy stuff happened pretty often, but the story that immediately came to mind was a guy who had checked out of his hotel room.
A few hours before, he called me to say he "forgot" to tell me he had found a pipe the night before, so if we saw one in the trash, it wasn't his.
When it came time to clean the room, the housekeepers said the pipe was lying on the bed. It's not the weirdest thing you could find.
I just loved the idea of this guy being paranoid as hell once he realized he had left it to the point where he'd call and make up some stupid story!
jkhamilt27
43. Stone Cold
So it was checkout day for this room, and if they hadn't come to the front desk by 11:30 am (checkout is 11 am), then we called the rooms.
This particular room had no response, which isn't that unusual as sometimes people just leave without checking out. This one’s different.
Anyway, we sent the houseman to go and check that the room was clear/empty, but he couldn't open the room with his master swipe key. It was deadbolted from the inside.
So we get the all-clear from management to open the door and get maintenance to open it with their override keys. The houseman walks in to find the woman still in bed asleep! He says, "Ma'am, it's time to wake up," and touches her leg. Stone cold, rigor mortis.
creeksider
44. Hidden Treasure
We had a guest check out, then come back the next morning hollering about how he really needed to get back in his room. We had checked other people into his old room, so I told him that he wouldn't be able to access the room.
He asked if housekeeping had found anything in there, and I looked in our database and said no, they hadn't. And the guy sounded frustrated.
He said, "You need to call the people in the room and have them let me in because I have $10,000 in cash under the mattress in there, and I forgot it yesterday." WTF!? Why would you leave $10,000 cash in your hotel room??
He started causing a scene and was super insistent we had to wake up the family in the room at 7:30 a.m. He ended up retrieving it after security got involved.
jimbeckwourth
45. Big Guy
So, I worked at a pretty old hotel in Manhattan. It was popular for tourists and staff to stop by for a few nights because it was cheap and near to most of the good stuff in NYC.
So, first off, this guy checks in, and he is freaking HUGE. Like 8 feet with long hair and a beard. And some kind of Australian or British accent.
But terrifying looking. He checks in and calls down to see if he can smoke in his room, and that's all I heard from him for a few hours.
He picks up this girl (who looks really young), and they go off to do whatever. The next morning, our housekeeper comes down and says the room is a mess, stinks of beer and cigarettes, the bed has moved, and the headboard has been ripped off the wall. He then stayed for a week.
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