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non sequitur · 08-12-2007, 09:59 PM

When I got to the airport, I realized I had left my watch in the hotel room. I called the hotel to tell them to send it me, and I just received a voicemail from the hotel saying that house-keeping did not find the watch. I travel a lot and have left lots of different things in hotel rooms. I can't remember the last time house-keeping ever found something I left behind. I'm convinced that people from house-keeping consider anything left in a hotel room as their personal bounty and that said items will ultimately find their way to a flea market. Has anyone else had similar experiences with hotel house-keeping?

hyrum · 08-12-2007, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

When I got to the airport, I realized I had left my watch in the hotel room. I called the hotel to tell them to send it me, and I just received a voicemail from the hotel saying that house-keeping did not find the watch. I travel a lot and have left lots of different things in hotel rooms. I can't remember the last time house-keeping ever found something I left behind. I'm convinced that people from house-keeping consider anything left in a hotel room as their personal bounty and that said items will ultimately find their way to a flea market. Has anyone else had similar experiences with hotel house-keeping?

Once my wife and I checked into a hotel room and there was a digital camera in a case sitting out on in plain sight on a dresser in the room. We didn't find any ID on it or in the case, so we left it at the front desk. We wondered if the owners ever got it back and how it might have still been there after housekeeping supposedly cleaned the place. It was in southern Pennsylvania, so maybe the staff was Amish.

UteStar · 08-13-2007, 03:37 AM

I left my video ipod in a rental car. Dropped off the car, took the shuttle to the airport, realized that I left the ipod...called the rental store, they couldn't find it. My wife and I know it was there but it somehow was not there when they looked. Pissed me off pretty good. Pissed that I left it and pissed that they stole it.

I just try and convince myself that the person that took it, needed the music more than I needed it. Yeah, that didn't help me much.

RC Vikings · 08-13-2007, 05:43 PM

I have a friend that has some hotels. He tried to return something one time to a gentleman who had stayed there. The problem was the wife was unaware they he had spent the night there and found out about his affair because of my friend trying to do the right thing. He was sued and they quickly made it a policy from then on not to return anything left in a room.

NorCal Cat · 08-14-2007, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by RC Vikings

I have a friend that has some hotels. He tried to return something one time to a gentleman who had stayed there. The problem was the wife was unaware they he had spent the night there and found out about his affair because of my friend trying to do the right thing. He was sued and they quickly made it a policy from then on not to return anything left in a room.

Sued for what?

MikeWaters · 08-14-2007, 08:53 PM

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Sued for what?

Sued because a lawyer thought he could make money.

08-12-2007, 09:59 PM	#1
non sequitur Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,964	I checked out of my hotel a few hours ago... When I got to the airport, I realized I had left my watch in the hotel room. I called the hotel to tell them to send it me, and I just received a voicemail from the hotel saying that house-keeping did not find the watch. I travel a lot and have left lots of different things in hotel rooms. I can't remember the last time house-keeping ever found something I left behind. I'm convinced that people from house-keeping consider anything left in a hotel room as their personal bounty and that said items will ultimately find their way to a flea market. Has anyone else had similar experiences with hotel house-keeping? __________________ ...You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in, 'Who's used all the penicillin?' 'Oh, Mark Paxson sir, he's got knob rot off of some tart.'" - Gareth Keenan

08-13-2007, 03:37 AM	#3
UteStar Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 1,817	I left my video ipod in a rental car. Dropped off the car, took the shuttle to the airport, realized that I left the ipod...called the rental store, they couldn't find it. My wife and I know it was there but it somehow was not there when they looked. Pissed me off pretty good. Pissed that I left it and pissed that they stole it. I just try and convince myself that the person that took it, needed the music more than I needed it. Yeah, that didn't help me much.

08-13-2007, 05:43 PM	#4
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	I have a friend that has some hotels. He tried to return something one time to a gentleman who had stayed there. The problem was the wife was unaware they he had spent the night there and found out about his affair because of my friend trying to do the right thing. He was sued and they quickly made it a policy from then on not to return anything left in a room.