Hotel staff share their most disturbing experiences
Hotel rooms hide all sorts of disturbing stories from previous guests if this article is anything to go by. Here are just five examples of some of the worst:
1. Nude surprise
A hotel maid shared her horror of finding a naked man in the bath, who sat there "with a big creepy grin" on his face.
And this was after she already knocked on the door and calling out that she was walking into the room.
A former hotel security guard said this was quite commonplace, but the perpetrators were usually sprawled on the bed.
They are often "strategically deaf" and "didn't hear" anyone at the door.
2. The deal-breaker
One Reddit user detailed the job that made them quit and it involved an entire room full of human excrement.
It was on the bed, towels: anywhere but the toilet.
When the cleaner asked if they could use gloves, the manager said no.
3. Sex toys
User "r4tgrl" used to go with their grandmother to clean hotel rooms and on one occasion she opened the freezer and found a "long, purple dildo".
Another user spent a summer cleaning hotel rooms in Sweden and their colleague found three sex toys in a room with a note saying, "Please wash".
4. Nasty and amusing things
One user worked as a cleaner in a hostel in Amsterdam and listed some "nasty things" they had found, including: used condoms, tampons and pads; a box of nail clippings; bags of drugs and a sticky rubber duck.
5. The stuff of horror movies
Reddit user "the_lock" described a moment when a cleaner walked into a room and found 10 severed heads in the bathtub with the water running.
Police were called and it turned out that the room guest was in charge of a cadaver lab being held the next morning and needed to thaw out the specimens.
Have you ever come across something unexpected while working in a hotel?