February 7, 2022 | Eul Basa

Traumatizing Hotel Experiences


Hotel stays are supposed to be enjoyable, but it doesn't always turn out that way. When you spend a night or two under a roof that isn't your own home, there's always the chance that something weird or out of the ordinary will happen. Here are some of the most traumatizing hotel experiences guests have had:


1. What’s That Behind Curtain #1?

My dad went to a hotel once and checked in for a first-floor room. He went in the room, put his stuff down, opened the curtains and…a man was behind them. My dad said, “excuse me,” closed the curtains, got his stuff, and left. He went to the front desk to explain that a man was hiding in his room. We found out later that the guy had somehow got into the room through an open window.

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2. Not Splitting Hairs About It

My grandfather found a clump of hair under his pillow at a hotel in Hong Kong like 50 years back. Super gross on its own, but to make matters worse, it was attached to a chunk of scalp. They got outta there real quick.

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3. Trapped on the Toilet

The bathroom locked from the outside. If you accidentally shut the door all the way, you had to have someone in the room open the door for you when you were done. If you were by yourself, you were out of luck until someone came back, or you called the front desk from the bathroom to send someone up. This was pre-mainstream cell phone usage, so you may not have had your phone on you at all times. We got our stay comped.

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4. Never Waste Food

Dirty cucumber in the sheets of a bed. By dirty, I mean used, and it was girthy.

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5. Surprise Every Time

Motel 7 in El Paso had a software problem and lost track of occupied rooms. Rather than checking, they issued keys to possibly occupied rooms and waited to see if anyone complained!

I opened my new hotel room door to find other guests in there. Went back down, got the keys to another room and opened the door. I couldn’t believe it.

It had happened again. I walked in on a whole family. Good lord.

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6. Bird Brain

My mother was a motel maid in southwest Kansas. Her awful story was that during pheasant season, hunters would clean the pheasants in the drawers of the dressers. I'm sure it was a not-so-pheasant surprise to find while cleaning a room.

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7. Worst Kind to Ever Find

I was staying at a Travel Lodge for a few nights a few years back. After I got ready, I went to get into bed, and I saw that there was a blood stain on the sheet right in the middle of the bed. And then I pulled the sheet back, and made a horrifying discovery. There was a HUGE puddle of blood on the mattress. It was still wet! Not nice!

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8. Baby’s Day Out

A baby. She just forgot her toddler, but she remembered all her baggage. She also forgot the diaper, and the kid had soiled itself. We called her up right away and she came back for him. I saw him again a few months later and learned that his grandparents got custody of him.

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9. Complimentary Cooler

The air conditioner was SPITTING OUT ICE onto me while I was sleeping. I woke up thinking I wet myself but then realized half the bed was soaked. Other than that, it was fine.

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10. Happy Birthday Not to You

It was a family retreat/kids birthday party. The adults were getting drunk while the kids were in the presidential suite raising hell. They had decided to have a fully-stocked ice cream bar and allowed the kids to do what they wanted with it. M&Ms crushed into the carpet, chocolate footprints on the walls, whipped cream everywhere.

Fruit punch spilled on the bed. In total, we had to charge them about $7,000 in damages, which they took to court, because they thought, "The cleanup would be included, that's why we did it at a hotel!" They also smashed glass all over our dog hiking trail, which I had to clean up.

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11. Doing Backflips to Get Outta There

I needed to find a hotel because of my daughter’s gymnastics competition. I read reviews online, and apparently, the Travel Lodge there had good reviews. The price was pretty good too, so I booked it. I had difficulty finding it because it was dark, and their sign wasn’t lit. The parking lot was pitch black.

And just outside the entrance, there were two iffy looking guys who seemed like they were negotiating something. When we got inside the motel, we saw that the lobby was dimly lit with flickering lights. The room was no better. There were stained sheets, holes in the bedspread, and to top it all, hair in the shower.

The fitness room consisted of one stair stepper that was broken and a TV on the ground that didn’t even work. I told the front desk that I wanted to cancel our reservation. She said to me, “I don’t blame you. This place is gross. I had an I interview at Kohl’s and hope they hire me, so I can quit this place.”

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12.Twinkle-Twinkle Little Dust Bunny

A bachelorette party came through and after they left the next night, we had a new rule that charges a $400 glitter fee. By that I mean that after they left, you couldn't see the floor, it was covered in so much glitter. It's been a few years and you can probably still find glitter in the carpet throughout the hotel.

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13. Location, Location, Location

The first time I went to El Paso to do business south of the border, I stayed at the best American chain in Juarez. On my first night there, I was having dinner in the restaurant when suddenly, there were a bunch of cars in the parking lot and a lot of banging outside. I hit the deck as one does. My waiter sauntered over, looked down at me, and said, “no worries, this happens here all the time.” After that, I stayed in El Paso. I felt very safe.

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14. DIY Housekeeping

A woman with mysophobia (fear of germs) stayed with us. She never let the cleaning ladies into the room as she preferred to clean it herself. One day she leaves to go out and removes the “do not disturb” sign. A maid calls down and says the room has a strong chemical odor, and that she found bags of pee and poop in the drawers.

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15. Classified Information

I checked into a casino hotel. We put our stuff in the room and then went to the casino. When we came back hours later, we could not get into our room. I traipsed to the front desk to make an inquiry as to why the card key was not working. I was informed that our room had to be exterminated due to "an infestation.”

When I inquired about the type of infestation, I was told that the desk clerk was not allowed to divulge that information. The hotel manager came, and he led us back to our room. He let us in, and the place was tossed. There was furniture overturned, and the mattress was not on the bed. It was just a mess in there.

Our luggage and belongings were pretty much where we had left them. The manager than took us to our new room and then gave us the key cards for it. I asked him how someone could check someone into a room only to discover that it was infested with whatever. Again, he was unable to adequately answer my question.

I asked him about the type of extermination chemicals that they used because our stuff had been exterminated as well. He, again, could not comment. We wound up throwing out any consumables, didn't wear anything from our luggage, and checked out early the next morning never to return again to that hotel. When we got home, we washed everything in the hottest water available.

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16. Where’s Iago, Jafar?

I once found bloody parrot feathers all over a room. They claimed it was a service animal—it wasn't—that had gotten too stressed and pulled all of its plumage out. The guest tried to blame the hotel for noise. We charged them for the cleanup.

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17. Something’s Feels Off

I was in a big brand hotel at one of their nicer locations. I got my hotel key card and went to my room. When I opened the door, the bed wasn’t made...I just figured whatever, they forgot to clean this one. I’d just give the front desk a call. I walked past the bathroom and saw someone’s toiletries were sitting by the sink.

Then when I realized there were two suitcases on the other side of the bed as well... and people’s stuff was everywhere. That’s when I confirmed that they messed up with the rooms and made my way back downstairs to get a different room. They gave me a free upgrade and half off what I originally was going to pay for my stay.

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18. Say Cheese and Leave a Good Tip

Pizza. And not just like leftovers. An entire pizza. And not a single slice of it in the box. The first red flag we found was the slice of pizza smeared all over on the TV. Then we saw two slices side by side like they had worn them for slippers and dragged their feet across the floor. One slice in the dresser, one in the nightstand, one in the sheets, and one in the bathroom sink.

We cleaned the room as normal and put all the pizza in the box. The whole time I'm wondering why someone would do this, was the pizza not good? Was one slice enough and you had to buy the whole thing? I'm doing the final checks in the room and it still smells like pizza. I flick the lamp on and look for the final slice. I finally find it, shadowed in the lampshade.

This individual had smeared the last slice on the inside of the lamp shade. That was the final piece of the puzzle (or pizzazule). This person bought an entire pizza just to hide it in his hotel room.

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19. Warm State

There was this Airbnb I stayed in a few weeks ago. It was just a room in the bottom of someone's house that had three other secluded rooms. It was pretty rough even by my standards, but it was late, so I just decided to settle in. And then, when I was finally able to lie down, I saw that the duvet was covered in dry blood.

I decided to sleep with just a bedsheet, and I had the heater on high. But then it got worse. I woke up in the middle of the night to hear a faint/trancelike voice speaking another language nonstop for 30 minutes and probably longer after I fell asleep. I made sure that the first thing that I did the next morning was nope out of there.

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20. You’re Grounded, Loggins!

25 years ago, I worked at a snooty part of a snooty ski resort in Park City, Utah. Most of the regular guests were just typical old rich white dudes, but during Sundance season, the celebrities come out. There is a certain musician, entertaining us for decades now, who has a disgusting hobby. Or did in the early 90s at least. Next time you're cuttin’ footloose, or getting’ close to the Danger Zone, just know that Kenny Loggins gives his entire family coffee-ground enemas, which leaves a giant mess, and leaves it for the hotel staff to clean up. Twice in one stay.

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21. Going Through a Lot

This happened over Christmas time in China. I came back to the hotel after dropping my boyfriend off at the airport, so I was clearly not in the best mood, only to find a lot of my belongings had moved around the room, and there were items missing...including my passport. There was even food left in the bathroom.

I found my deodorant in the shower, and my shower gel was on the TV cabinet. Things were taken out of my suitcase, while other items were put into my suitcase. The jewellery was on the floor. It was just really random stuff that had been moved around. I had to go to reception and try my best to speak Mandarin.

After I explained the situation, I found out that the cleaner had taken my passport with the sheets to the laundry room, which is crazy as it was actually in a cupboard because there was no safe available. My passport was the main issue, but I managed to get it back, but I had gifts from my mom that were thrown out.

I checked out of that hotel two weeks earlier than I was supposed to, and I was able to receive a full refund for all of the missing items because the maid admitted to throwing everything away. But she still wouldn't say anything about why she had gone through all of my things or why she had moved anything in the first place.

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22. I Don’t Get the Point

A syringe under a mattress, AFTER I felt a prick on the end of my finger. I was tucking in a sheet under the bed, and there were actually two uncovered "insulin" needles under there. I got rushed to the hospital; hepatitis shots and a tetanus shot, two different HIV prevention medication for a month, monthly blood tests for about a year.

I'm fine, and it barely stuck me in truth, but I was already afraid of needles and disease I still feel traumatized. I was not going to post at all, but I've always wondered if there was anything else, I should have done. The doctors assured me that they were more precautious than necessary.

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23. All Was Not Smell

My boyfriend used to work front desk at a hotel, and he said a couple who stayed there for a few days had been complaining since their first night about a really gross smell that they described as "similar to dog poop" coming from the bed. Housekeeping went in as soon as they complained and changed all the sheets. They said the sheets looked perfectly clean.

They complained the next morning saying the smell was still there and were offered a new room. When housekeeping went back in, they were asked to move everything around to see find the source of the smell. Apparently, whoever stayed there before either had an accident or used a sheet to wipe themselves because they found a bed sheet behind the bed covered in poop.

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24. Never Hurts to Be Prepared

A USB drive with two different versions of their obituary that they typed up for themselves.

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25. Free Flow All

The toilet overflowed so exuberantly that I leaped up to the edge of the bathtub to escape the flow. Then there was the tricky matter of getting from the bathtub to anywhere else without stepping in Lake Toilet. The floor flooded so quickly that there wasn't even time to walk directly out the door. I wasn't going to stand in a filthy puddle looking for the angle valve.

In Hollywood adventure movies, heroes swing from tree to tree by clinging to vines while avoiding lurking crocodiles in the swamp below. My escape was sort of like that, except it involved grabbing the top edge of a hotel bathroom door and leveraging that for extra distance in a leap that barely avoided a floating wad of used toilet paper.

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26. Next Time, Leave It to the Professionals

I worked at an upscale ski resort. One family let their toilet-training kid pee behind the toilet and under the sink throughout their whole visit, then put our white towels on top of it to "help clean up the mess." The whole place smelled like a freaking rhino enclosure. Ruined the towels.

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27. Worst Night in Vegas

A few years ago, I was staying at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip, and they had construction going on. Construction related faulty wiring or something kept causing an alarm to go off, and periodically, a recorded voice would say there was some kind of incident and to stay in your room until otherwise notified. All. Night. Long. I couldn’t get any sleep, and I had to get up early and work all day. I was dragging.

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28. Unwanted Delivery

A newborn baby with his umbilical cord still attached in the toilet. We are a 5-star hotel that is very expensive, where almost all of our guests are billionaires or top celebrities and politicians.

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29. Solving the Mystery

I had just gotten a ride to my Airbnb, which was a little guest house next to the host's main house in Florida. I guess my hosts had been confused about hearing a car pull up and then seeing an empty driveway. I was also confused because I had realized that they forgot to put extra toilet paper in the bathroom.

Then, we were all very confused when they walked into the guest house and caught me with absolutely no clothes on and walking across the living room, so I could get some paper napkins from the kitchen to solve my toilet problem. We, of course, both rated each other 5/5 stars after my stay at their guest house.

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30. Swiper No Swiping!

I found a blood-soaked Dora the Explorer doll. There were no kids in the room as far as we know. It was just one dude in his mid-30s. There were two cans of Monster energy drink beside it and $180 dollars left in tips under the pillow. No idea what was going on. Yes, the cops were called. It was really weird, but they seemed pretty satisfied that nothing crazy went down.

I didn't really deal with the cops directly. I gave my statement about how we found the room, they sent me home and that was the only time I talked to them. Never heard anything about it after that.

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31. If It’s Yellow, I Can’t Mellow

At the peak of Comdex's popularity in Las Vegas, I got stuck at the Tropicana. In those days, the infrastructure in Vegas couldn't handle the Comdex influx. My flight had landed at midnight, but it took me four more hours to actually get to the hotel and then wait again in a 300-person lineup at the front desk.

When I finally collapsed in my bed and entered that hazy almost asleep state, it occurred to me that I was wet. Why should I be wet? I thought hazily. Then my eyes snapped open—I should definitely not be wet. I jumped out of bed and pulled the covers back and found that pee that had soaked out of the mattress.

The sheets were soaked and yellow with it. Clearly the maids realized that the previous guest had wet the bed since they had placed a towel under the fitted sheet. I had been lying in someone else’s actual urine. Even worse? This was my second room as the first room they gave me was occupied by a startled man in his tighty-whities.

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32. Exit, Pursued by a Bear

A bear. First, you gotta understand that a lot needs to happen for this to occur. Our lowest floor was still about a meter and a half from the ground, and each outside room had a balcony rail. However, a guest had decided to want to unload his motorcycle from his truck and leave the ramp down, so, I’m assuming, he could ride the bike up when he was done.

The guest that was staying in the room had room service, decided to leave the food uncovered and the balcony doors open, and later went to the hotel pool/spa to relax. Upon returning, they had gone to us at reception and said that there was a bear in the room. Puzzled, we quietly approached the room and slowly opened the door.

Lo and behold, there was a bear eating room service and making a mess of my afternoon. We had to call Parks Canada to deal with it. The guest was not charged a cleaning fee.

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33. Inn Discomfort

On a work trip, I was put in the most disgusting hotel room to the point where I didn't feel comfortable and couldn't sleep. There was a pile of dirt and dust in the corner that I imagine had taken years to accumulate, brown stains on the lampshades, food under the bed, water damage in the pictures in frames.

The whole room smelt moldy, the hairdryer was sticky, and so was the TV remote, which was also covered in food. There was stuff all over the walls, and there was hair in the shower, and the toilet bowl was stained red. Everything felt gross and grimy. The hot water didn't work in my room. Cold showers, anyone?

I felt like a walking zombie that entire work trip. It felt so disgusting to be in that room that I really couldn't sleep at all. My co-worker in the next room over couldn’t fully shut his room door. He used the latch at the top of the door to close it, but the door was still open a couple of inches. So, he put a chair in front of the door and didn't sleep at all that trip either.

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34. Time of the Month? More Like Time to Renovate!

Well, I'm front desk, not housekeeping, but I get the stories. I've told this before, but I think that it deserves retelling many times over because this young lady once stuck her bloody used tampon/pad on the wall and the blood acted as a glue and cemented it to the wall. It had to be pried off. Suffice to say housekeeping was not pleased, and this disgusting young lady needs to learn some manners.

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35. Building Resentment

I was in Williston, North Dakota in the year 2000. Construction workers showed up at 11 PM, and began noisily doing work, and started talking loudly right outside our room. After I went and complained to the front desk about the construction, their mood soured, and they pounded on the walls of our room the rest of the night.

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36. Cleanliness is Next to Employer Negligence

One of my old coworkers had a second job as a housekeeper at a casino/hotel. She said they had issues with the hotel not being willing to put sharps boxes into the rooms. Occasionally people would leave used needles in the trash. Housekeepers taking care of garbage would often times get poked by needles poking out of the plastic bags.

The workers then wanted to get tested to make sure they didn't get any virus from being picked by a used needle. The hotel wouldn't even cover the costs of those tests. She'd vent about that and that is how I learned about the issue.

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37. Shower of Nightmares

I was about four years old at the time, so this is mostly based off my siblings’ stories even though I remember a few still shots. We were at a hotel with some family friends and their kids, and in total there were five of us kids with our ages ranging from 4 to 13. Parents put us all in the same room to chill in the evening as they went out to do adult things.

I was chilling on the bed watching a movie when all of a sudden, we heard a loud noise. The floor vibrated a bit, and then hundreds, if not thousands, of mini spiders started flowing up the walls from two of the bottom corners of the room. We made a butchered attempt to defend our ground by using marshmallows and ice cubes as projectiles.

After our defeat, we huddled up in the bathroom where we had the bottom of the door sealed with a towel. I slept in the bathtub with my sister that night. There were no phones to call for help since this was before kids/teens ever had cells, and we were very clearly instructed to not leave the room under any circumstances.

We really took those instructions a bit too seriously because when my parents came back and discovered the scene in the middle of the night, they probably woke up the whole floor with their initial scream. We were all fine and ended up okay though except my sister still has arachnophobia to this day because of it.

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38. Remember to Eat Your Vegetables

Freaking broccoli. Everywhere. In the bed, the tub, the toilet, drawers. It was ground into the carpet. No clue why. That's the weirdest one. The worst thing to find is when someone has died. Those are really bad days.

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39. Conflicting Parties

I stayed at a Holliday Inn in Toronto, and the rooms around us were all doing...something. It sounded like a party or whatever, but it was a lot of noise. There was a lot of people coming and going, and a lot of people slamming doors. We called the front desk a dozen times, and they didn’t do anything—didn’t kick them out, move them to another floor, NOTHING!

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40. Rich Enough to Know His Limits

I worked at an 800-year-old castle hotel in the UK. This young guy checked in for the weekend, paying cash for everything. Hookers were coming in and out of the hotel asking for Room 46, and he kept ordering room service. He didn't leave the room for three days. One day, he phoned reception in distress, asking for help. I went up with my manager, opened the door and there he was, room trashed, the biggest bag of cocaine I have ever seen and condoms everywhere. He kept shouting "I can’t feel my legs!" We got him an ambulance.

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41. Turned Away by the Inn

The wifey and I were on a road trip before Google Maps, and it was late at night. We found a hotel brochure at a roadside rest stop and called to book a room. It was probably a Holiday Inn or something similar. When we got to the hotel, which was about 10 KM off the highway, it seemed nice, and we checked in.

We got in the elevator, and the door opened on our floor. There was one giant after-prom party going on with kids yelling and music playing, and there were drinks all over the place. We didn't even get off the elevator. Fortunately, the staff was understanding, but it was already late, and we had to keep going.

Later, we found a Howard Johnson and pulled in. We get to the desk absolutely exhausted. It was like 2 AM at this point. I thought it couldn’t get worse—I was wrong. The attendant was a young man. He was on the phone clearly at the bad end of a break up. The call went on for at least 20 minutes, and he was very upset. He finished with, "Well, I hope you have a nice life too." He finished his call, and let us book a room.

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42. Leave Some Trace

I own a few hotels and when I’ve walked in to see things that needed to be repaired I’ve almost thrown up—I’ve also been an EMT for 15 years now. Once, there was a giant turd smeared into the letters "Sanchez," really crudely.  The beds had been urinated all over, both of them, and there was blood on the counter.

It was drops of blood, so someone was standing over it, bleeding. I’ve found at least 4-5 condoms, used, and with some baby juice still inside. One room has been off-limits for 3 years now.

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43. Kicking Back

As customer service manager of central reservation in a resort town, a booking called our office because the kids staying in town for a soccer tournament all ran out to the pool and jumped in. They quickly realized that something was floating in the pool. According to the medical examiner, a man had drowned about eight hours before. My office refunded our 10% commission.

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44. Safe Before Sorry

I was in housekeeping for a while in the winter and a co-worker of mine found poop in a condom tied to the microwave door. Definitely the most baffling thing I'd heard of anyone finding.

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45. We Got It, Sir

The hotel had mandatory valet parking for guests. Guests couldn't park their own cars in the hotel's garage. Visitors had to use numbered parking spots assigned by the attendant. When Dad retrieved his car from valet parking, several things had been taken, including his golf clubs from the trunk even though the hotel maintained that the car had been locked and was "secure" in their parking garage.

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46. Dirty Appointment

We used to have a regular who was a doctor and I’m sure he worked with children. He came one night and took a combination of alcohol and pills and killed himself. The bit that always sticks with me is he was wearing a diaper, so he wouldn’t make a mess. I didn’t find him, but the people who did were messed up for a while after it.

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47. On the Wrong Level

Last year for Valentine’s Day, I got a room for my wife and I at a really nice hotel. It was pretty expensive, but all the reviews said it was really nice and the rooms were big. We get in, and the staff was extremely rude. We don't look like the kind of people who can afford to spend a lot on a hotel room.

The staff were just really disrespectful to us and mistreated us during our stay. They made us feel like we didn't belong there. We got up to the room, and it was super tiny. It was boiling in the room, and the air conditioning didn't work. We asked the staff if there was a way to fix it, and they just ignored us.

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48. Too Much Information

Alright. I used to work banquets in my hotel and we had a group of Shriners rent out our entire 150-room hotel. These guys were some of the horniest dudes. They had strippers and a "massage room." Cleaning up after these drunken jerks was a nightmare. In the "massage room," we found a list and notes from the masseuses.

Saying "(name) told me to choke him." and "I used a strap-on on (name)" and a list of all the guys they had sex with, and how many times over the weekend. Pretty funny and weird but mostly funny.

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49. Stranded on the Beach

It was on the beach, but the gates to the beach were locked after 10. So, after a late night on the water and visiting a crab shop on a pier, we all walked back to the hotel from the back over about two miles of beach in the dark. But that was when we found out that the gates locked us out, and the buildings were wall-to-wall.

That meant we weren’t able to cross to the front. So, my family and I saw a neighboring hotel, jumped the fence, ran across the closed pool floor, and as we opened the gate to the front of the street, a security light flashed on us, and the light immediately revealed a sign saying trespassers would be prosecuted.

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50. Cake Wars

I found huge paint buckets with mouth-marks that looked like they used to hold a LOT of red liquid and one of those giant cakes that's supposed to hold a stripper. Someone had already emerged from the cake by the looks of it. Everything smelled like fruit punch.

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51. Rough All Over

I stayed at a terrible motel in New Jersey because I wanted to go to a concert but didn't want to drive home in the middle of the night. This place was a dump. The "complementary breakfast" was a plate of stale bagels and coffee from a coffee pot that clearly hadn't been cleaned in years.

The door to our room had multiple dents in it from someone kicking it in really hard. Everything everywhere smelled weird. My favorite part of our stay was the couple who was arguing in front of our door at like six in the morning. I'll never forget waking up to "DIANE! YOU’RE AWFUL! I LOVE YOU! DIAAAAAAANE!"

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52. Bestseller in the Making

About 10 pages of a hand-written manifesto/memoir/strange doodles. It was written on the back and unused parts of various police forms. I'm not sure which guest left it, since it was under the bed. But there was some oddball stuff.

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53. Has Its Highs and Lows

I went to a Magic the Gathering tournament in Baltimore with some friends, and we had to stay in a Motel 6 because we couldn't get ourselves together and get a room at a decent hotel sooner. The place was about a block from the light rail, which went right to the convention center. That was about the highest point of the whole trip.

Apart from getting sick and my binder that was worth a few thousand dollars getting taken, the room had a decided dip in one corner where I'm sure the floor was rotting away. When it rained, the bathroom started to leak through the light fixture, and our not so bright roommate put ALL THE TOWELS underneath it.

This meant we couldn't dry off too well the second day because he didn’t use something like, I don't know, the garbage can instead of, again, all of the towels! I know the whole thing was more or less our own fault for not acting faster before hotel prices jumped, but the place was terrible even by Motel 6 standards.

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54. Cups of Fun

The aftermath of the boob implant party, including boob cake, boob confetti, boob ice cube trays, etc. Maybe someone was in the process of gender transition and this was a milestone...but I really feel like someone was celebrating going up a few cup sizes.

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55. Some Water Damage

My girlfriend and I walked into our room after being out all day and felt something wet on the floor. The lights were out, and it was night time, so we couldn't tell what it was. We turned on the lights, and my blood ran cold. The toilet was just broken. It didn't overflow. The tank was just cracked, and water was just everywhere.

The entire room was soaked. We went down to let them know, requested for money back, and asked to cancel the room for that night. They offered us another room instead. Okay, sure. We walked into the new room, and someone was already there. The poor woman looked horrified when she saw us. We got ALL of our cash back after that and left.

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56. Here for the End

I once found a dead body in a room. Well, I wasn't the first one to find it, but I had to call the police. A housekeeper reported to me that a room wasn't answering after 11 AM (the official check-out time) so they went in, and they thought the person was dead, so they came to get me. I went in and checked, and sure enough, lying mostly on the bed, was a dead guy.

He had been shot in the head. Police found the gun they believed was used in the bushes about 20'-30' from the door. This was a motel, not a hotel, so the entrances were on the outside. I never found anything else out about it, but the motel was along a strip of lodgings notorious for hookers, drugs, etc.

Between the cops, paramedics (the housekeeper went into shock) and other official vehicles, the whole scene only lasted about an hour. That was the first dead body I'd seen working for a hotel, but not the last. On a lighter note, when working at a much nicer hotel downtown, we had to evict (due to noise complaints) a gentleman and his three lovers, who left the room littered with used condoms. They also left their bag of crack in the nightstand.

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57. Over Budgets

In August, we booked a room at a budget hotel. The old lady at the desk gave us our room number, wrote it on the key card holder as they usually do, and we schlepped our baggage upstairs. When we opened the door, we found that there was already a family hanging out in the room. It was mortifying for everyone.

I went downstairs to ask for an unoccupied room, and the lady acted like I had gone into the wrong room. She was like, "no, I told you 330, not 303." I showed her the key holder, and she was still dismissive about it as if it was my fault. And even if it was my fault, I'd have noped out of there immediately.

I was mad because my room key should NOT have opened up a room that wasn't mine... hello? I found another hotel that was close to us and then canceled our second night there. I did this in favor of paying an extra hundred dollars for a hotel where I have already stayed and already knew that it wasn't sketchy.

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58. Not Checking Out

I was the front office supervisor at a hotel. One dude taped all the vents in his room, put towels under the door crack, and put the Do Not Disturb in his door. Paid up for five days and asked for no housekeeping. Drank a big glass of Drano. Five days later, we opened the door into one man's personal hell becoming all of ours. I'll never forget the smell.

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59. Senior Norman Bates

I caught the creepy old guy who ran the place behind the motel peeking through the window of my room while I was staying there. My work was paying for the place, and I told them that they had to move me now or else I was going to need bail money. I can only imagine what he did in the room while I wasn’t in there.

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60. Misreading the Golden Rule

I worked for a nice hotel in Austin. A visiting professor was peeing in water bottles and leaving them around the room. He was so rude and inappropriate to the staff that we had to ask him to leave. He smelt like death.

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61. Open Concept Style

Once, I got a hotel room where the bathroom wasn't in a separate room or even closed off at all. One of the walls just had a toilet up against it, and there was a sink off to the other side and a completely glass shower stall. The third of the room that had the bathroom stuff was all tiled, and I would keep stubbing my toe on the ledge back to the carpet. It was weird.

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62. Care for a Smoke?

Crackpipes...in the backs of toilets, behind mattresses, inside chairs...all over. You'd think my boss at the time would have banned the person responsible, but nope. I even had been told off for suggesting they stay elsewhere. Got out ASAP.

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63. Quick Fix Motel

We stayed at a motel in Charlottetown, PEI. Our hotel room was in the basement down a long, dark hallway with half the bulbs burnt out, and around two or three corners, I was fully preparing to meet somebody in the dark. When we got into the room, there was a whole bunch of stuff that was duct-taped together.

The air conditioner had been duct-taped in several places and was actually duct-taped into the window. In the washroom, we found that the shower head had been repaired with, you guessed it, duct tape. There was duct tape that was holding the couch and desk together. It was as if I was staying in Red Green's motel.

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64. Before I Wake…

I found a man who had died in his sleep. The maids would have found him first had his family not shown up saying he didn't make it home when he should have, and were wondering if he stopped at our hotel for the night. Walking into that room...

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65. Boom, Right in the Head

I stayed at a cheap Comfort Inn in Kingsville, TX. When I went to use a blow dryer, I pointed it towards my head and turned it on. Then an object blew out of the dryer, slapped against my forehead, and bounced into the sink. When I realized what it was, I nearly threw up. It was actually a live cockroach that came out.

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66. Law & Disorder

I was balancing the books one day when the front was swarmed with police cars. They raided a room with no notice to us at the front desk. It turned out a pimp was cooking meth in one of the rooms with two sex workers and a dog. There was a short standoff before everyone was arrested. Their car was seemingly forgotten about in the parking lot, but it disappeared a week later. We were unable to charge for damages since all of their cards were stolen.

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67. A Whole Lot of Buzz

We choose a ground floor hotel room in Cancun. Unfortunately, there was a gap on the bottom of the front door, and the room was overrun by palmetto bugs. The things fly, and they sound like little helicopters. My girlfriend woke me up asking what the sound was, turned on the light, and they were on the floor, the walls, and on our bed.

We literally just scrambled and put on our clothes after shaking them out a few times and went through the balcony exit. We went to the concierge and demanded a room on the fourth floor. After they saw the room, they stopped arguing with us. They ended up giving us the new room and comped us for dinner and drinks.

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68. Such a Thing as Enjoying Your Stay Too Much

I worked at a hotel a few years ago, front desk. I checked out a nice couple in the morning, they were very friendly, said they enjoyed their stay. Then housekeeping got to their room, the poor woman looked shell-shocked. I got to go through the room with a camera and my supervisor to document the state of the room, which included two large, black, double-headed sex toys, lots of Ziploc baggies with powdery residue, syringes (some used, some still with caps on them, including two in the toilet), and more travel-sized bottles of baby oil than I could count.

We also found what appeared to be feces and blood smeared all over the bedding and walls and a small digital camera. Police were called, descriptions of them taken, and all the information they had used to check in. I quit soon after, so I don't know if they ever found them or pressed charges.

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69. The City of Ice

It was New York City in January. The window was jammed open, but with the heat on, it just about evened out at around 18 degrees in the room. The door had an extra interior bolt on it because the key cards weren't secure, which we found out at 3 AM when a kind security guard woke us up to ask, “if this door is supposed to be wide open?” Um, no!

The water ran brown and at one point, it wouldn't shut off. I ran to get someone and found a maid. English was her second language, but she spoke it fine. The trouble was that I'm Scottish, and in my blind panic, I forgot the word faucet and kept saying THE TAP BROKE WATER IS COMING OH GOD THE TAP, and she kept saying tap? Tap? And she kept tapping on objects in utter confusion.

By the time we got to the room, it was minutes away from flooding over the side of the tub.

None of that compared to our friends down the hall who found something scary written on their window. When they tried to wipe it off, it was written backwards on the outside, and the window was stuck shut. Great hotel.

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70. Home is Where the Heart Is

A homeless man came into some money somehow. We never quite figured out how, but either way, he stayed in the same room for about two months. Eventually, we convinced him that he needed to go elsewhere as we had a big conference, or something like that, that was going to fill the whole hotel. I was a bellman and the hotel had a courtesy shuttle for the guests.

I was instructed to give him a ride to the new hotel he would be staying at. I helped him get the remaining stuff from his room and the moment I entered, I knew the room would be out of service for a while. There was trash everywhere, the bathtub was used as a waste bin, there were dirty stained towels pouring out of the closet, and he had stripped the bed a put his sleeping bag on the mattress.

The worst part was the smell. Despite the fact that he had been staying there for at least two months by this point, I am 99% sure he never once used the shower. It was the strangest, most disgusting thing I had ever seen. The room was out for almost two weeks while it went through a deep clean, but it still had that smell for the rest of the year and a half that I worked there.

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71. Waking Up in a Strange Place

I had fallen asleep with the door locked where I was staying the night. I was sleeping in the chair because the bed was broken. I then woke up and saw that there were three homeless guys watching the TV in my room. They seemed pretty cool, and it didn’t really bother me, but it still freaked me out a lot anyways.

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72. Not on My Lunch Break

We got a call from an anonymous person asking for us to do a wellness check on a guest. I get a call from security a few minutes later, and the guy on the other end of the radio sounded pretty shook up, yelling " We need you up here ASAP" I get upstairs and the two security guards look pale. They refused to go into the room, only saying that they knew I would know how to handle the situation.

I'm a combat vet and ex-police officer. I get into the room and everything is tidy. Bags packed, beds made, etc. At that moment I see the balcony door open and what appears to be someone laying out on the balcony wearing all their clothes. Drunk? Passed out? Nope.  As I got to the balcony, I could now see the person’s lap, and a revolver in their hand on said lap.

I stop for a moment, and realize he's not moving, so I step out onto the balcony, and the gravity of the situation becomes clear. This guy blew his head off. One shot to the roof of his mouth. I'll spare you the details, but I didn't have to check much to call it. At least this was the middle of the night, one shot, no other guests were awakened, and I was able to get the police, coroners, and detectives in without anyone seeing.

I got all of them, including the body, out through the back with no one else knowing anything happened. I went back downstairs and finished my pizza.

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73. Backed in a Corner

I was staying somewhere while I was on a business trip. When I got there, I chose a certain type of room fearing a smell, but the room smelt of it anyways. In the bathroom, when I flushed the toilet, it started to overflow. The water flowed over and soaked the carpet. This added to the already terrible smell.

I tried to fix the bathroom situation because housekeeping never arrived. I found out that a load of hair was clogging the drain. I never managed to get all of the hair out. There was no Internet in my room. I didn’t have data, as I arrived late. The only place that had a strong enough signal was in my toilet.

I had to do my work on the bowl. The toilet was clogged and didn’t work. It spat everything back out on the toilet floor. There was also no hot water. I had to boil water to shower. And I learned a good life tip from the best part: check the mini bar to see if any of the alcohol bottles or snacks are opened.

I was charged for a bag of nuts and a mini wine that I did not open. After I paid for it, the receptionist quickly tried to “throw it away,” but was totally just hiding it, so they could put it back to trick someone else. I said, “no, give it to me,” and tossed it in the trash in the lobby where they could see.

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74. Under the Wear, Into Your Face

I worked as a housekeeper for about a month back in April 2010. This was fairly early in my shift and I was on my way to pull linens. Swipe in, shut the door behind me, and start to go about my routine. First order of business: do a once over of the bathroom. I should’ve known something was up because the light was off, and I couldn’t see clearly into the bathroom.

This room was on the side of the hotel that the sun hit hardest, and every other room was flooded with light so either I just needed glasses, I'm not paying attention, or both. So, I walk forward, keeping my eyes on the floor for some reason, swing my arm around to hit the light, start to walk forward onto the tile as I'm tilting my head back up.

I walk almost straight into a pair of men’s briefs, hanging from the ceiling at about face level. I scare easy and these surprise Fruit of the Looms were no exception. I yelped, about stumbled backward into a wall as my eyes adjusted to the nightmare I had just found myself in. I dust myself off, walk into the bathroom to find this guest had a laundry line running along the shower and the ceiling and the door and had been starting to wash clothes in the sink, grab the linens, and got the hell out. God as my witness, those briefs I almost faceplanted had skid marks.

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75. A Change of Suites

I went to the Luxor for our honeymoon. We got in really late, and we were exhausted from an eight-hour drive. We got to our room and checked the bed. The sheets had boot prints on them, like greasy boot prints. We called housekeeping, and they took over an hour to get there. At this point, we just wanted to sleep.

When housekeeping came, the lady had a seriously bad attitude as if it wasn’t a big deal that our sheets are dirty, so she started replacing them with other badly stained sheets. My wife said, “no, we need clean sheets.” The housekeeper took out the next few sets from her cart, and we saw stains on those.

She said rudely, "I guess these aren't clean enough for you either." I was thinking, “No, you dummy, we want clean sheets. Of course, dirty sheets aren't good enough.” The rest of the room was dark and dingy. First thing in the morning, we went to the Venetian and told them the deal we just went through. They hooked us up a little bit with a WAY nicer room, clean sheets, and a bright room all for about the same price.

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76. Some Things Should Stay on Basic Cable

This is a second-hand story; a buddy of mine is a hotel manager in a large downtown hotel. They had a sex worker come down to the front desk fully nude, screaming in hysterics to call 9-1-1. She had just woken up in one of their rooms strapped to the bed like it was Dexter's table. The whole room had been draped in plastic.

The John was in the shower when she came to. She managed to wriggle free and ran out of the room. By the time the cops arrived, the dude had left, but the room was still all Dexter-ed up. The security footage could see the guy leave the hotel, but he'd obscured his face on every camera angle. To my buddy's knowledge, the guy was never caught.

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77. Get A Room!

It’s late evening, and a woman comes angrily in to our lobby from the pool with three children and says, “You guys need to do something about what’s going on out there,” and gestures to the pool area. I look at her inquisitively and she just says, “Go look, you’ll see.” I walk outside and it’s pretty immediately clear the couple in the hot tub are “discreetly” having sex.

I approach just enough to get their attention and say, “Hi guys, I know everyone’s here to have a good time tonight, but we got a complaint about some hot and heavy activity in the hot tub.” They’re clearly intoxicated but apologize and say it will stop. A few minutes later, the phone rings. It’s the woman who complained before calling from her room which faces the pool.

She says: “They’re still at it. You need to do something. Children are staying in this hotel.” I go back outside and sure enough, now that the spectators are gone, they’re having sex out in the hot tub. I go back out, tell them to get out. They start giving me the story: it’s their anniversary, they’re very sorry, we won’t have any more problems with them, etc., etc.

I foolishly let them stay in the hot tub. 10 minutes later: phone rings. “Seriously!!?” Same lady. I look out the window, they’re both totally naked. “I’m sorry, ma’am, I’ve warned them, I’m calling the police.” Police arrive and head out to the pool. The officer handles it like a pro. He’s very nice, let’s them know that it’s inappropriate, but he doesn’t want to ruin what’s clearly a fun weekend for them both, but they need to go to their room and not come out for the rest of the night.

They are to stay in their room until tomorrow morning. No excuses. The couple thanks him for his understanding and promises they’ll behave and stay in their room. The officer and I wind up chatting and laughing about it all, and he asks if he can grab a cup of coffee in our lobby while he fills out his report. Of course, he can.

He’s sitting in the lobby, I’m back to work, and I hear him say, “Oh, you’ve got to be freaking kidding me!!” I’m shocked at the break in tranquility as I see him jump up and exit the lobby. He goes right to the hot tub, where the same couple is back in the hot tub making out. I can only assume they took the stairs at the end of the hall out to the parking lot and around to the pool. He arrested them both. They came back Monday afternoon—they’d been arrested on Friday night—to collect their property.

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78. Making My Bed

I found myself in a small town in Colombia and asked an officer for the cheapest place to stay the night. He pointed me in one direction but also suggested the second cheapest hotel. I dismissed his suggestion figuring I'd be leaving early the next day. I went down to a basement and then knocked on the metal door.

This elderly woman let me in but was surprised that I wanted to stay. I asked her how much for the night, and it took a minute for her to calculate it. We started walking to the room, and from the room next door, emerged a guy and a girl. The guy took out money and paid the old woman for the hour room rental.

That’s when I made a chilling realization. I was staying in a room that had a plywood bed with a blanket for a mattress, and there were some things that, let’s just say, had been freshly used in the trash. There were earrings on the sink, and the shower was just a pipe in the wall. I fell asleep on top of the bed to the sweet sound of Colombians copulating.

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79. Safe Keeping is Good for the Colon

Not a hotel worker but once stayed in a resort in the Dominican where someone had poop in the safe. Or I guess carried their poop to the safe? Not sure. Either way, I guess the staff hadn’t checked to see if anything was in there when cleaning after the last guests.

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80. Better Than Nothing

There were cockroaches everywhere. There were climbing the walls on the bed and in the shower. It was disgusting. We went to the manager/owner to tell him we needed another room or a refund because of all the cockroaches. He said there were no cockroaches in that room…as if we were just hallucinating all these bugs, right?

So, he finally caved and gave us another room. When we got to the room, there was only one cockroach that we could find in the entire place, and we went to take it outside, so we could throw it in the bushes. It was just so early in the morning that both of us stopped caring and just thought, whatever, and went to sleep.

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81. The Creepiest Staycation

There was an older woman who checked in my second week of being there, she definitely should not have been independent. She lived in town and booked a room for a week. She said that she was getting her house renovated because it was infested with “fiberglass.” She was probably in her 70s. She would walk around with one of those surgical masks and wore yellow rubber gloves.

As the week went on, she started to wear bandages on her arms—we think she was scratching herself, I bet if we asked it would have been because of the fiberglass. She shouldn’t have been able to drive. but she kept going to and from her house to get more things, basically was moving in. Our hotel was on a main road, and she would just back up into it without looking.

It was a miracle she never got into an accident. But other than that, she would spend most of her time in the room, and occasionally would walk to the office and just spout crazy stories about fiberglass and how it was everywhere and all over her room. Once the week was up she extended her stay another five days because her house wasn’t ready yet.

She repeatedly declined maid service so we could never really get a glance of the condition of the room, yet she would keep complaining that her air-conditioning had “fiberglass all over it.” One of the days, she came to the door complaining that the room was infested with spiders and she showed a tissue that she said had “spiders in it,” but there was nothing.

Like really sad stuff. Unfortunately, since we didn’t really have any real way of helping her, my boss advised me to tell her that we are booked solid for the rest of the summer, etc., so she couldn’t extend her stay any longer. We waited out those last few days dealing with her complaining and occasionally catching glances at the room as the maids brought her towels and such.

From what we saw there were pillows everywhere, a big bag of like perfumes, pills, etc. sprawled out on the dresser (like sooo many random things), etc. She was seen a few times carrying large garbage bags into the room we weren’t sure what was in them. Just imagine a room that a mentally ill person had been staying in.

She also had a few weird interactions with guests that made them complain, so we really could not wait until she was gone. But this is the freakiest part, where we get to the answer to what we found after a guest’s stay: IT WAS SPOTLESS. On her last night, we think she climbed out the window (first floor) and put stuff in her car and left—stealing the key too, but that’s common enough, we just replace them.

We went back and looked on camera and she was not on camera leaving at all, and the night manager did not see her leave. If you leave the regular way, you have to be seen by the manager, the office is in the front and it's a small hotel. The only way she could have done it was through the window. Every worker at the hotel was so curious to see what the room was like after she was gone.

It was insane, clean, with nothing broken except the air conditioner air filter (the one she’d said had fiberglass all in it). Other than that not much else. We still had a third party clean the room, but it was freaking weird man. My boss said she drove by the address and it was a beautiful house that must have cost a couple million, minimum, and there was like a metal trailer in the driveway.

We think she started living in that after the hotel. Sad, and just so, so bizarre. I really hope she got some help or something. There really wasn’t much we or I specifically could do, so we had to just move on.

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82. Wasn’t Expecting Visitors

I was staying at some seedy place in Montreal. The whole place stunk, but the icing on the cake was that someone came into the room and switched the light during the night, which woke me up. I wasn’t sleeping with any pajamas or anything else really. At the time, I was only 20 and was absolutely terrified to move.

This was my first time spending a night in Canada. So, I just stayed perfectly still while the person stood at the door. After what felt like probably 20 seconds, the light went off, and the person disappeared. I left on a bus to Quebec City early the next morning, so I never found out what that was all about.

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83. Where Is the Tooth Fairy When You Need Her?

I don't work in a hotel, but I did visit the Best Western in Florida and it was hell. I found two human teeth in my sheets, they were still bloody. Then a dead mouse in the middle of the floor, guts exposed. I found the mouse first obviously and went straight to the front desk to tell them that there's a dead mouse on my floor and I'd like it removed by the staff.

I don't think a paying customer should have to do that stuff themselves. I know that sounds snotty, but I'm paying to stay here for vacation, not to finish cleaning up dead mice from my room that the staff somehow missed. Also, I don't have any gloves or anything with me, what if it's diseased? I have no desire to touch it. They said, "Okay, we'll be in there in about five to 20 minutes."

So I left my bags inside the room, away from the mouse, then left for the store. I got back an hour or so later, and the mouse was still there. I go straight to the front desk and the same woman at the counter says that she's sorry and the janitor will be there in a few minutes. She did indeed phone him, right in front of me, to go to my room number to clean it up.

I waited in my room for over an hour and the janitor still doesn't show up. I go back to the front desk and it's a new person there. This man is the manager and I explain what's going on. He apologizes politely then leaves to go get the janitor. I leave again, I forget what for, and come back hours later. The mouse is STILL FREAKING THERE!

At this point, I am pissed off and it is dark outside. I just want to go to bed. I march up to the front desk and this time I'm fairly unreasonable. I'm yelling at the front desk woman (the third person I've spoken to about it so far) and explain that I've been waiting for hours for this dead/bloody mouse to be cleaned up from my room.

She apologizes and says that all of the cleaners have gone home for the night and she's not permitted to clean rooms. So I give up, go back to my room, grab a towel from the bathroom and lay it over the mouse. I then tiredly crawl into bed to discover a human tooth in the bed. It looked like a little kid's tooth and I sigh in agony.

I got out of bed and went back to the front desk and explained that now there are human teeth in my bed. She says she cannot do anything about it. I inquire about switching rooms and she says it cannot be done. I'm livid at this point and just want to go to bed. I'm so frustrated that I don't know what to do with myself.

I then settle for sleeping in the armchair in my bedroom for the night. I wake up with a stiff neck, nothing serious, and go straight to the front desk. I explain to the day manager what happened the previous day (different manager). He says that he'd heard nothing about this incident before. I yell so loud and I demand that he follow me to my room and let me show him the mouse and tooth.

He followed and he's all "Wow, wtf??" and goes to get the janitor/cleaners. I wait for two hours, they don't show up. I send another notice for the cleaners then leave to go do vaction stuff. I get back late that night and nothing has been cleaned, not even the towels in the bathroom that they normally do throughout the day. I go to the front desk and scream my butt off.

The front desk lady is the same as the first girl from day one and she's like "Holy crap, they didn't fix it yet??" She leaves to go get the cleaners. She manually forces them into the room and yells at them to clean it. The janitor is just like "Uhhh, I need to go get supplies for this. I need latex gloves,” and leaves.  He does not come back.

It's now 2 AM, I'm exhausted, the janitor went home, there's a new woman at the front desk; I am pissed off. I then use a Kleenex to grab the tooth out of the bed and set it on the nightstand. I get a decent sleep in the bed. I wake up to a SECOND tooth in the bed, this one is all bloody. I immediately check my mouth in the bathroom mirror, all my teeth are fine.

I grab a towel and pick up the dead mouse, then both teeth in a napkin. I walk them down to the front desk and slam them on the counter. I raise hell. I'm not sure if I'm overreacting or not, but I am beyond enraged. I'm surprised I didn't pick up a chair and throw it against a wall. I would never hit someone, especially not the defenseless/innocent women behind the counter, it's not their fault.

I even feel bad for yelling at them. I scream at the manager that I waited two days for the tooth and mouse to be cleaned up and the manager just shrugged. I demand a refund and since there's proof (the dead mouse in a towel and two teeth in a napkin) I am instantly granted this refund. I have never been this mad before. I felt the section of my brain that controls and distributes anger going overload.

Looking back, I feel bad for yelling so much, but at the same time, I feel it was also warranted. I cut my vacation by three days because of this event. I was too upset to even stay on vacation and just went home.

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84. Ignoring the Signs

On our way back from a trip to Canada, my friends and I stopped at a Motel 6 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was by far the cheapest room we had booked for the entire trip, and we were all already wary of it before we even started seeing all of the anti-substance use billboards lining the highway that was leading up there.

It had been a long, boring day of driving, and we figured it wouldn't much matter where we stayed. We pulled into the parking lot to a shouting match between a car full of people and the management. We kind of sat there building up our nerve before the driver hopped into his car and then peeled out of the lot.

We eventually claimed our room, and we went to get situated. We ignored the crumbs on the floor and set our things down. We were too road weary and hungry to really care about the messiness. We found a menu for a pizza delivery place in our room and got that sorted out before one of us had to go to the toilet.

The bathroom was just overall filthy in general, but there was a dirty, used bandage on the floor, and a bra hanging on the hook on the back of the door. I think any normal person would've left as soon as they saw all of that, but we were young, tired, and figured we would be fine to just tough it out for the night.

For some reason, it didn't occur to us that the bed sheets might be similarly soiled and didn’t think to check, so we went outside to wait for the pizza guy to show up and wandered around a bit outside. They had a basketball hoop that had been dunked on so hard, the hoop was practically parallel to the board as well as missing a net.

We didn't have a ball handy anyway, so it was no great loss. After a few minutes, we saw the manager hastily walk by us followed by someone who we assumed to be another customer.  He was speaking in what seemed to us like an official sort of tone, and we just sort of thought someone had complained about their room.

The manager was basically a skinny dweeb with bad acne, glasses, pony tail, etc. The woman following him was rather unpleasant looking, quite large, and wearing grey sweatpants, and a Tweety bird T-shirt. They both disappeared into a room, and we forgot about them for a while. Not five minutes later, they both came out of the room holding hands. So, yeah. Motel 6 in Kalamazoo. Can't say I’d recommend it.

85. Privileged Information

I work at a small hotel in a major city. This happened on a Friday night, right before my shift was about to end. I had all my check-ins done and I was ready to get out...but then the phone rang. Me: "Hi, how can I help you?" Phone: "Ugh, hi, yeah—can you tell me if you have a guest checking in under the name of Mr. So and So?"

Me: "Oh no sir, unfortunately, I can’t tell you that. It’s against our guest privacy policy." Phone: "Are you being serious?? I’ve called every other hotel downtown and no one has ever told me that." Me: "Well, I’m not sure of their policies but I know that at our hotel we aren’t allowed to release that information."

Phone: "So you’re actually telling me that when you got hired you were told that you’re not allowed to tell someone that?" Me: "Um, yeah, actually; as well as at the other two 5-star hotels and the cruise ship that I worked for." Phone: "Well, that’s ridiculous. Can I speak to your supervisor?" Me: "Unfortunately, we don’t have a supervisor present at the moment. My general manager will be back Monday morning at 8 am."

Phone: "Okay and what is your name? Do you have an employee number?" I told them my name, but I didn't have an employee number. Phone: "And your last name? What do you look like?" Me: "Excuse me...?" Phone: "Well, if you don’t have an employee number, how will I explain to your manager who I spoke to?" Me: "I’m the only one here with my first name, so please feel free to call my manager on Monday morning after 8 am and tell her you spoke to me." Click.

And he never called. Must have realized that I was, in fact, right.

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86. Hairy Experience

I had just gotten out of the bath at a hotel in India. I wasn’t clothed to cool off. My boyfriend walks in from using the computer downstairs and alerts me to the big, real life MONKEY sitting in the third or fourth story window ledge peeping at me! I’ve never had a monkey as a peeping tom before or since, I guess.

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87. Who’s The Boss?

The owner of my hotel was a millionaire several times over, but you would never know it. His wife dressed like she was going to dinner with the President and he looked like a slightly worse-for-the-wear guest. He was a little old dude who walked around in khakis, Hawaiian shirts, and ratty shoes. But he was also an absolute shark and would wait to let you have it if he didn't like you.

He typically spent all of his time in his windowless office in the basement making phone calls and doing who knows what else. This was over 20 years ago, and the town we lived in had about 50,000 people. We rarely had a security guard on staff and no security cameras, so he would occasionally chill out in the lobby to keep an eye on things if he was concerned about something.

As long as you did your job, this wasn't an issue. He didn't often chat with us unless it was in the back office because he wanted to be taken for a regular travel-weary guest. I personally think it was a game for him. If he was hanging out in the lobby, he would just sit and people watch or read the paper. However, there were times when people would become belligerent with the front desk staff for whatever reason and they would always start with, "I know the owner, you better do as I say."

They would then go in on the fact that they were going to get him fired, etc. This guy had the best response. The owner would look up from his paper and say, "I have no idea who the heck you are, but stop bugging my staff. You aren't getting an upgrade. You're lucky I even let you stay after that." After a guest was properly chastised and left for their room, he would give a lopsided grin and go back to reading the paper.

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88. Room by the Lakeside

My girlfriend and I decided too late to spend a couple of days at the beach together, and being in full season, all of the nice hotels around were either full or really expensive at this point. The one we found was only rated two stars and was relatively cheap. We thought well… it couldn't be all that terrible.

When we arrived at the hotel, the maids were still "cleaning" the room as we had to wait for a while. After they finished, we got in, and it was still filthy. There were crumbs all over the floor and bed, the furniture peeled and dirty, and the sheets stained with all colors of what a human is capable of creating.
I won't go into what the bathroom looked like because there are still not enough words in the world to describe it. But the balcony was a lake. It was filled with water and had moss growing in it. I looked around for the drain, but there was none to see. I thought "this is ridiculous," but still wouldn't believe it.

So, I leaned over the edge to see if there's the drain pipe on the outside that came out of the balcony. It was there, but it was on the inside. Everything looked "smooth" in the water. I found a stick and scraped the spot until the drain hole started to show. The water started pouring out, and the day was saved. I ruined what nature was trying to build in that balcony for what appeared to me to be years. The view was nice though…

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89. Slow Clap

I was checking in this girl who was in town for business and as usual, her company was paying for her stay. This lady was already kind of impolite, but I didn't sweat it. It was 9 o’clock and she had bags under her eyes, so she probably was exhausted from her travels. I made small talk, which she barely partook in, but she did mention that she had driven for hours from the next major city over because of a sudden transfer.

Bingo. Her company is moving her all over the place on short notice. I asked her what her method of pay would be and immediately got an alert that the company's card on file had expired. I had to break the news. "I'm so sorry ma'am, but the card on file that we were given is expired. Is there any way you can get a hold of them and maybe we can work something out? I just need a valid card."

That did it. She broke. She turned around, paused, and started clapping. She clapped loudly and proudly. She clapped all the way out of the lobby. I paused for a moment and thought if I should be angry. But, you know what...no. She released her anger in a physical manner, rather than directing it at me or anyone else. You let that anger out, girl. You do you.

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90. Delayed Arrival

The worst experience I ever had was when I was traveling and ended up in staying at a place halfway to my destination. I was in my room just hanging out. I ordered a pizza from the place on the pamphlet on my bed and waited for it to arrive. That’s when I got the call from the pizza delivery guy apologizing.

He was saying he didn't think he could deliver my food. I asked why, genuinely curious and awaiting a good story about how he ate it or something. No, he said there was about 30 guys in the parking lot creating a bunch of havoc. I walked outside, looked down from the balcony, and watched about 30 guys have it out.

The pizza guy walked the long way and brought me my pizza. I tipped him big for being a bro and taking the long way, and we watched these guys in the parking lot. The pizza guy left. I sat down to eat pizza back in my room and decided to call someone to handle it because, well, someone should. I ended the call and went back to watching TV. Pizza was not good.

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91. Ya Done Goofed

I had JUST gotten in for my 7 am to 3 pm shift, and my night auditor had just left for home. Within the first five minutes, I had one of the worst jerks I’ve ever walk up to me and flip his lid. We'll call him Chad. Chad came downstairs and wasn't very nice from the start. It was like 7:05 am, and I hadn't even had my second cup of coffee yet.

Before I continue with the tale, I just want to say that Chad yelled at me a lot. I also didn't tell him to stop, but for a good reason. Me: "Good morn—" Chad: "YOU SERIOUSLY CHARGED ME?! WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU!!" Me: "I'm sorry, I'm conf—" Chad: "YOU CHARGED ME FOR THE ROOM?" Me: "Yes?" Chad: "DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID?! Me: "I charged you for your stay?" Chad: "NO, YOU DESTROYED MY MARRIAGE!"

I was so confused. What the heck was this guy going on about? Chad: "YOU DESTROYED MY MARRIAGE." Me: "...How, may I ask?" Chad: "YOU CHARGED MY CARD AND NOW MY WIFE IS GOING TO FIND OUT I WAS HERE!!!" Me: "Okay?" At that point, things were starting to click into place.

Chad: "I WAS HERE WITH A DIFFERENT WOMAN!!! WE SHARE A BANK ACCOUNT!" Me: "...I don't see how I am at fault for you cheating on your wife?" Chad: "BECAUSE YOU CHARGED MY CARD. I NEED A REFUND RIGHT NOW." Me: "No?" Chad: "YES, YOU NEED TO SWITCH IT TO MY AWARDS POINTS RIGHT NOW BEFORE SHE SEES THE CHARGES." Well, I took a deep breath, because this was going to be bad.

Me: "Sir, I do not have the power to switch any reservation to a points reservation. You either have to do that online or through our reservation service. Once you are checked into the system, there is no switching to points or any way to do a refund unless for a very valid reason, and it has to be a valid reason." Chad: "THIS IS A VALID REASON."

Me: "Was there anything wrong with the room?" Chad: "No." Me: "The check-in process was fine?" Chad: "Yes." Me: "Nothing happened during your stay?" Chad: "No, it was fine!" Me: "Then why would I refund you?" Chad: "BECAUSE MY WIFE WILL KNOW I WAS HERE. THAT ISN'T MY WIFE IN THAT ROOM WITH ME,  YOU KNOW."I got really annoyed and I knew this was just going to go around in circles.

Me: "Okay dude, this is seriously your own fault. You chose to make the reservation without points, you saw the authorization go through, we charged your card for payment...You knew this would all happen. This is entirely your own fault." Chad: "I NEED YOUR MANAGER RIGHT NOW." Me: "No, you can call her tomorrow."

Chad looked very confused and angry. I just slowly sipped my coffee, staring back. Chad stood at the desk for a minute, just staring at me. He then took out his phone and started playing on it. Me: "Is there anything else I can help you with?" Chad: "Yeah, a refund." Me: "So, if that is all, I need you to please step aside so I can help the next person in line." And then at that moment, Chad had a huge realization. 

He realized the entire lobby was full of firefighters and other people waiting to get help from the front desk. At that moment, my day was made. He looked horrified because he just admitted to an entire lobby that he cheated on his wife and he was blaming me, the front desk person, for his own horrible move. That is why I didn't have him stop yelling. After he ran out of the lobby, he never came back down. He never called the desk. He quietly left the hotel. At one point, the firefighters and other guests started asking about him. I just smiled and said, "He messed up."

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92. Stay Hairs

I did a long term stay at a really old motel converted into ''temporary housing'' in Oklahoma. It was across from a cemetery, never got colder than 85F inside, and there were tarantulas and the occasional snake outside the only exit. It was rampant with mice that did not mind crawling on the stove or up your phone charger into your bed.

So, I ended up putting steel wool under each of the legs of the bed and the kitchen table and sprinkling cat hairs around those areas. I had been going to the local liquor store that had cats, so I that’s how I got the cat hair. I bleached everything constantly. I also took power naps in the car when I could.

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93. Stay Safe

I was at the front desk when I got a call from one of my regular guests. He’s a sweet guy and I’ve never heard him complain about a single thing. He’s also a businessman, so he enjoys our low-cost, low amenity hotel. Guest: "Yeah, there’s a woman screaming near my room—it sounds like she’s really in distress." Me: "NO PROBLEM! I’ll check it out!"

I raced down the corridor towards the fire exit. His room was situated as far away from the other guests as possible, so I knew it had to be someone using the fire exit system. I burst through the door and saw a strange, disturbing sight. A very large man was pulling a small woman by the elbows up the stairs.

Me: "What’s going on here? Sir, this is a fire exit." Big Guy: "Sorry, it’s all good here." Small woman: "I don’t know where I am, where are my friends? The woman was extremely intoxicated. She couldn’t stand up straight. The moment she started speaking, the guy let go of her. She kept repeating herself and stumbling up and down the stairs."

Big Guy: "Go with him, he’s trying to help you, he works here." He then quickly disappeared up the stairs. She kept shouting that she didn’t know where she was or who we were. She was staring off in random directions and I had to grab her arm to lead her back to the lobby. She was completely out of it.

Me: "Do you have a hotel room?" Small woman: "No, no. "There were multiple attempts to try and get some information from her. I sat her down in the lobby and asked if I could call anyone for her. She fell off the chair. I tried to give her water, but she just dropped it. Clearly, this woman’s drink had been spiked. I mean, she was completely incoherent in a strange way.

So I called for an officer to assist and he was able to find the whereabouts of where she was staying. Her story never developed past that, thank goodness…but I did see the big guy who tried to lead her upstairs after a good few hours. Me: "So, was that your friend…or?" Big Guy: "No man, I just found her like that outside one of the clubs"

Me: "So you tried to take her to your hotel room?" He just shrugged and smiled. My blood went cold. The worst part is, we had two more incidents just like this happen in the span of two weeks, with the manager being responsible for stopping the other two.

For what it’s worth, I told the officer everything I saw; though, he never made a follow-up call with me. I would hope that this was due to the officer taking the proper course of action; that is, getting her medical attention and speaking to her once she was of sound mind.  I could've done more definitely, but I'm confident I did all I could do under the circumstances. It was quite a situation to be in and I was definitely not thinking clearly. I did send a report to corporate and my manager and heard nothing further.

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94. The Better Choice

When I checked myself in, the clerk handed me the remote control for the TV in the room. I thought that was strange, but whatever. In the room, there was a flyswatter just in case we needed it. The water was brown, and everything was dingy. The worst part was that there were only two hotels in the city, and the one we were staying in was supposedly the good one.

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95. Come Closer, Little Girl

As I pulled up to work last night, I saw the girl who worked the swing shift being led to our second building by a very creepy-looking dude. She was young and petite and he had the look of a spider who had just caught himself a nice, juicy fly. Her eyes were wide with fear and she kept trying to make excuses, but he was insistent that he couldn’t get into his room and needed her to help him.

Reading the situation, even though I was still in my motorcycle gear and not yet technically in uniform, I told her that I'd escort him down. He still insisted that she do it, though he couldn’t give a good reason why. I said fine, but I stayed right behind them. At one point, he actually put his hand on her lower back and I politely but firmly asked him not to touch our employees.

He took his hand off of her, but he was obviously not happy about my presence. We finally got to his door and he made a half-baked attempt to use his key card as if to prove he wasn’t lying about not being able to get in. I could tell he was about to ask her to do it for him, so I stepped in and said, “Allow me, sir.” I took the card from him and what do you know—the door unlocked on my first try.

He gave me a half-hearted “Thanks, buddy.” Then he went into his room, slamming the door behind him. She thanked me and told me he’d been creeping her out for a while. Maybe I was reading too much into the situation, but I shudder to think what might have happened if I’d shown up just a couple of minutes later. I considered calling the authorities but I figured they couldn’t really do anything because they can’t detain someone for being a creep.

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96. DIY Hotel

My insurance company booked me a stay at a hotel as temporary housing when my house flooded. The bathrooms were messed up so they were unusable and made the house unlivable, and the floor repair company wouldn't be able to fix anything for two or three weeks. So, what does insurance do? It books us two days at a hotel.

We got swapped around three different hotels only one of which was appropriately sized for our family of four. After the third one, I decided to redo the bathrooms by myself because we couldn't handle even more stress of needing to swap hotels again because they refused to get us a place any longer than a couple days.

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97. It’s Quittin’ Time

I used to be a property manager at a major motel chain in the US. The general manager was a company rock star who spent a lot of time helping other properties, so I was the acting GM a lot (like I was that night). This was a 96 room property—a four-building box layout with a swimming pool in the center. We had a lot of construction contracts.

These were easy guests who worked all day, came back, played cards and drank, and turned in early.  I was at home when my phone rang at 3 am. It was Josh, the night auditor. Josh was reliable, but he drank a lot every week and was typically loopy. Josh: "Hey man, you probably want to come down here. Someone just drove a truck into the swimming pool."

Me: "That's...impossible. It's fenced in." Josh: "Dude, they crashed through it." Me: "How could a truck even get in the courtyard?" Josh: "They drove through the gap between buildings two and three." I started visualizing the scene—Building #2 is on a hill above one and three, and there's a gap there. Someone determined enough could point a truck downhill, put the pedal down, and build up the momentum to crash the chain link and go into the pool. So yeah, it was possible.

Me: "Josh, you had better not be screwing with me." Spoiler alert: Josh wasn’t screwing with me. I got to the motel and there was a construction company pick-up truck nose down in the swimming pool and its tailgate in the air. I had to blow up the phones at corporate, get the authorities out, start documenting everything, photographing everything, deal with the other guests, etc. until way past dawn.

It turned out, two of the crew members had been drinking and decided to quit in the most spectacular way they could think of. We even had an eyewitness. She told the officers that one guy drove and the other guy rode standing up in the flatbed, holding on to the top of the cab and yee-hawing all the way down the hill. The construction company did the repairs themselves.

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98. Fail to Chain

My now husband and I were driving from St. Paul to L.A. and stopped in Rapid City the first night. We had reservations, but they somehow got "lost," so they charged us more for a bigger room. We had been driving all day, it was freezing cold outside, and all we wanted was a hot shower and some food to eat, really.

There was no hot water. There was no room service after 8 PM, and they wouldn't tell us if any restaurants nearby would deliver. At checkout, I tried to get them to reduce our bill AT ALL and pretty much got laughed at. This wasn't even a seedy motel either; it's a large chain that I'm sure could afford to take off $50 for generally being awful.

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99. Karen On Tour

This happened yesterday. I’m a bellman for a tourist hotel that has had a mask policy, but with the updated mandate, we now also have a health questionnaire that must be filled out upon check-in. A group of three had checked in and were wandering around the lobby, one with his nose out, one holding a mask against her face, and one without one at all.

Me: "Hey, folks, if we could wear those properly it would be very appreciated." Karen: "But I’m staying in this hotel." Me: "It’s a state mandate, I’m sorry." Karen: "Well, the mandate says if you have a medical condition, you don’t have to wear one." Me: "So you’re stating you have medical issues?" Karen: "Yes, they give me headaches, so I won’t be wearing one."

Me: "I’m sorry for that inconvenience." At this point, she got a huge, smug smile that let me know she thought she had won. Me: "You’re staying here? Did you check in yourself or did someone else check you in?" Karen: "I checked myself in, I’m not a child!" Me: "Well, then you remember signing the health questionnaire when you checked in? The one that asked if you had medical issues preventing mask-wearing and if you planned on wearing a mask?"

Karen: "I didn’t sign anything like that" Me: "What room are you in?" Karen: "I don’t have to tell you that, you’ll stalk me!" Me: "No, I just want it so I can find your questionnaire. If you’ll come to the front desk, please." My supervisor now came to my side. Supervisor: "I have it here, I remember them checking in."

"He slid it under the sneeze guard and I grabbed it." Me: "Your name is Karen McDoobie? Is this your signature?" Karen: "I didn’t know that’s what that was! You expect me to read every little thing you idiots hand me?" Me: "Just the five-foot sign about masks and the check-in paperwork, which states that you have no medical issues and that you agree to our mask policy."

Karen: "What can you do about it? Are you the manager?" Me: "No, I’m the bellman. But I have a duty to our guests and staff." Karen: "I’m a guest, you idiot, I just told you that!" Me: "If you break hotel policy, that can change. So which is it? Are you a policy-abiding guest or do you have medical issues that will prevent your stay with us tonight?"

Karen: "Ridiculous! I would never have come if I’d known I’d be harassed like this. My town doesn’t have any mask policy and everyone is fine!" Me: So you’ll wear the mask? Karen: "I made these reservations last week! Everywhere else will be full!" Me: So you’re okay wearing the mask inside the hotel?" At that point, I was the one with a smug smile under my mask.

She grabbed the mask that was hanging on her wrist and held it on her face. Heading for the elevator, I could hear her mumble under her breath. As the doors closed, I saw her pull the mask away and wave it at me. At least she didn’t come out of her room all night, thank God!

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100. Outside the Terms of Your Rental Agreement (and Morality)

I worked for a downtown metropolitan hotel for a long time, and I’ve seen a lot I wasn’t supposed to see. Probably the worst was a kid with an old man. I checked this guy in at like one in the morning (not uncommon, because people travel at different times), but he was alone. Like an hour later he asked for something like a towel or blanket.

Anyway, I dispatched our runner to deliver it. Afterward, the runner comes to me and says he thinks something is wrong because he caught a glimpse of someone, and the old guy was trying hard to block the entrance. Since we were supposed to take stuff like human trafficking seriously, I asked our maintenance to cut his power so we would get a call to come up to try and fix the problem.

He does, and I go up with him to apologize for the inconvenience because the guy was also a top-tier member. Sure enough, we hear a kid in the bathroom hiding. I tried to ask who the kid was, and the old guy tried everything to shut us down from throwing his status around to bribing. So I called the cops and let them deal with it.

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101. Zero Stars For Lurking

My worst hotel experience ever happened when I was traveling for work. I was alone in a cheap room, but it wasn't horrible. My work was paying for it, so no complaints. But one night, I made an awful realization. The creepy old guy that runs the place behind the motel was peeking in my window, while I was there. I called my work and told them move me now, or I'm going to need bail money. I can only imagine what he did while I wasn't there.

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102. The Call Is Coming From Inside The Pool

I worked as a night auditor at an old hotel. One night at around 2am, I got a phone call from the pool room, which was supposed to be closed. I picked up the phone to answer and all I heard was very heavy breathing. I hung up the phone to check the cameras, and all the lights are on in the pool room. So I go down the hallway to kick out whoever it is in there.

As I get close to the glass door, it’s so cold that I can see my breath, the door is completely fogged over, and all the lights are out. I open the door and the light above me comes on, because they’re motion sensor lights. I am looking around but I don't see anything. Then the light comes on across the pool from me, but again, nothing is there.

Then every light in a path begins to light up around one side of the pool as if something is walking towards me. I ran out of there so fast and locked myself in my manager's office and stayed until sunrise—but the worst was yet to come. I had played it off in my head as insects causing the motion sensor lights to go off.

I was telling my manager about my whole spooky experience, thinking he would get a good laugh. When I told him about the phone call from the pool, he didn't laugh at all. He asked me if I was 100% positive the caller ID said the pool room, and I said yeah. Then he told me there hasn't been a phone in the pool room for 30 years.

I told him there was no way, because that would be impossible. I knew what I saw on the call display. He told me to go look for myself. I looked and there was no phone. I didn't believe in the supernatural at all before that. But to this day, no matter how many ways I try to rationalize it, I just can't. It is completely unexplainable.

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103. Hotel Havoc

I used to work as a front desk agent at a boutique hotel. A guy who was obviously very full of himself came in with an online reservation that he had booked at a shockingly cheap nightly rate. He proceeded to give me a hard time about EVERYTHING, from telling me he shouldn't have to give me his credit card info since he had prepaid his reservation, to telling me "Um yeah, I'm pretty sure I can find the elevators, I'm not stupid."

He was just being an all-around jerk. About 10 minutes after checking him in, he came down and demanded that we give him a bigger room with a king bed and a view, even though he had booked a standard queen bed online. I complied, as we had extra king beds available. 10 minutes later, he came down again to complain about the size of the room.

He told me, "I'm only going to give you one more chance to make me happy," and asked for the general manager. After much arguing between him and my manager, we ended up giving him our nicest suite AND free parking since we had "Given him trouble." He got all this for a way cheaper rate, like $40 per night! Oh, but he outdid himself.

Get this: He informed us shortly after the ordeal, while on his way out to dinner, that he was not even going to be in the room for the majority of his stay, as he was visiting friends and would be staying at their home. What the heck! So I made it my personal mission to make his life a living nightmare from that point on.

I reset his room keys every time I saw him leave the hotel—which was quite frequently, 3-4 times a day. It was particularly funny when he came back tired from a night out and had to come all the way down to the front desk to get his keys fixed. Needless to say, he was very frustrated by the end of his stay. I doubt he'll be staying with us again.

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104. Let’s Go To The Tape

A colleague checked out of the mediocre but adequate hotel where we were having a conference and checked into a 5-star luxury resort. She then submitted an expense report for her stay. She claimed that she felt unsafe in the original hotel, but did not elaborate. Someone called the hotel, which checked the security camera footage. We all thought she was crazy, but we were proven way wrong.

At least four separate men tried to enter her room that first night. No wonder she left.

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