People Break Down The First Thing They Do When Entering A Hotel Room
Reddit user BlundeRuss asked: 'What’s the first thing you do when you get into a hotel room?'
My family went on a lot trips when I was young, and we always stayed in hotel rooms. Around the time my brother and I were old enough to stay in a room by ourselves (our parents would stay in another one, usually across the hall), he also became a bit of a germaphobe.
At the time, I actually believed hotels changed the sheets on the beds daily, so when my brother fretted about the cleanliness of the hotels, I reassured him they were fine. He believed me at first, since I was his big sister, but by the time he was 12, he got suspicious.
During one of our trips, he decided to test this by making a mark on his pillow cover with a pen and turning the pillow cover inside out before we left for sightseeing the next morning. When we returned, he turned the pillow cover back, and his mark was still there, proving that the sheets hadn't been changed. He only had to do this one more time, during our next trip, for me to realize this wasn't a one-off.
Ever since, and even now in adulthood, my brother and I always intentionally spill something on our sheets during our first night in order to get clean sheets, at least for the duration of our stay. This, in fact, is the first thing we do.
I'm not the only person who does something a bit quirky like this when they first enter a hotel rooms. Plenty or Redditors have stories about this and are ready to share.
It all started when Redditor BlundeRuss asked:
"What’s the first thing you do when you get into a hotel room?"
Preparing For Sights
"Go to the balcony to see if it's going to be public nudity or private nudity during my morning coffee."
– hoffarmy
"I love that this doesn’t change your plans, just prepares your mind. Excellence."
– sewahyelah
Show Me The Truth
"Put my bags up on something and check the mattress. I also bought a UV flashlight but after using it at home I’ve decided that bringing it to a hotel would be unnecessary torture. Nothing is clean when you shine the thing on it. And I mean nothing."
– Fatguy73
Temperature Check
"One of my close friends travels a ton for business. She also loves to sleep in a f**king ice box."
"She has found some resource for how to basically jailbreak hotel thermostats. Each hotel thermostat has a specific key sequence that unlocks the lower temps that the hotel normally doesn’t allow guests to set because, you know, money."
– Sp4ceh0rse
"I do this in every hotel."
– jubilee__
Sweet Relief
"Set bags down."
"Look at room for cleanliness."
"Take a dump."
– PuzzledCitron8728
"I showed up early to a hotel after 12 hours straight of driving. Took forever for them to get me in the room (really it was probably only 30 minutes and they were super accommodating)."
"Anyways, I had been feeling the tyrannical gouging of a sh*t demon trying to claw it's way out for about half an hour beforehand. I ran down the hall, opened the door, threw my bag at something, and was kinda hovering over the toilet just in time. Hadn't put cheek to rim yet and my darling baby began his exit."
"It wasn't until after I looked up that I realized neither door was the self-closing kind and you could see all the way in from the hallway."
– coreylahe
"You’ve unlocked a childhood memory. I stayed in a lot of hotels while growing up and I saw someone in your position once, trail of belongings leading to the toilet. So I went and shut the door for him."
– scarfknitter
Disney Magic
"Find the bible and flip through it. When my sister and I were kids, we went to Disney, and I think she asked why is there always a bible in the drawer, waved it by the spine and 20 bucks fell out. So I always check now."
– TyWiggly
"I found $100 that way. 5 crisp 20's,. I was pretty broke at the time too."
– weisblattsnut
Always Check
"First, I look at the area between the mattress and headboard for any signs of bed bugs, then under the sheets. I’ve never encountered them, but I’ve heard so many horror stories that I’m paranoid about them."
– triceraquake
"As someone who worked in hotels, I always double check the door locks and then inspect for bed bugs."
– Chatterbxer
Yikes!
"Look for cameras. I'm a paranoid f**k."
– Gubble_Buppie
"If anyone wants to see an overweight guy in his mid-40s eat pringles in his underwear while reading Stephen King novels, then they have my flabby white blessing."
– oppernaR
"They sell surprisingly easy to use scanners on Amazon. I found a camera in an air bb bedroom alarm clock, threw a towel over it and got the whole stay for free. Some will detect signals but the best way is there’s a looking glass that’s red and it emits a light and you turn off all the lights and look around the room. Any active camera will shine like a cats eyes when you skim over it."
– Vacation_Kinkycouple
The Things We Find
"I check in odd places to see if anyone stashed drugs or money. You would be surprised at all the sh*t I’ve found over the years!"
– Deathbot-420
"We found an axe under the bed once."
– Punkstarbabe
Ick.
"Yank the comforter off the bed and throw it in the corner. they rarely wash those things."
– whatever32657
"I discovered this recently while calling home to say good night to everyone. Dried food stuck to the comforter. Threw that bad boy off the bed."
– DuchessofSquee
"I cleaned an air BnB for a little while and I was so disturbed when they told me they didn't wash the comforter because hotels don't.... Like I guess I get it because they're heavy and they're trying to save water on the washes but yuck dude... Cleaning that air Bnb made me NEVER want to book one because of the sh*t the owners wouldn't LET me clean... I don't think I'd ever survive as a maid for a hotel, I could never travel again lol."
– ModestMeeshka
It's A Process
"Make a condom for the TV remote control. Take the ice bag from the ice bucket and put the remote in it. Now I never have to touch the remote."
– dontknowafunnyname2
"I'm sure disinfectant wipes could do the job."
– Pheobe0228
Check For Monsters...People Monsters
"Make sure no one is hiding under the bed or in the bathroom 😂😅"
– HeadInTheClouds916
"I travel a lot for work…and I’m shocked no one else mentioned this. First I check the closet, under the bed, the bathroom for a hiding serial killer…then check the mattress for bedbugs…"
– pdxmikaela
Today I Learned
"Check for cleanliness and then take pictures Traffickcam."
"Traffickcam is an app where you take specific pictures of your room and then upload them to their database. They use these pictures to check on the location of human trafficking victims."
– slappymasterson
"Take a picture of the room and post it on the Trafickcam app so if the room or similar has been used by human traffickers maybe it will help find someone."
– CatsInTrenchCoat
And thanks to those last two stories, I'm a little scared to stay in another hotel.
People who work in hotels see all kinds of people.
As people from all over the world go in and out of their revolving doors on an almost daily basis.
Though it might be the housekeeping staff who see more than anyone else, and frankly more than they would care to see themselves.
Unlike most of the staff, they have the unique position of going into the guest's rooms.
Of course, they tend to knock to make sure no one's there before entering.
But every now and again, the guests don't hear the knock or put on the "please makeup room" sign on their door instead of "do not disturb."
Leaving the poor cleaning staff with a memories they would likely do anything to forget.
"Hotel staff of Reddit, what’s the most NSFW moment you witnessed at your hotel?"
Thrills On Ice
"I worked at a hotel in a resort town in Europe."
"One of the maids called me to a room for help because it has been the location of an extremely messy sex party from the touring ice show."
"There were used condoms thrown everywhere, and half the furniture was busted."
"The poor maid was in tears, thinking she'd have to clean it."
"The hotel management called in a professional cleaning company who wore disposable suits, respirators, and eye protection."
"They got rid of most of the stuff in the room and charged a fortune to the ice show."- Abba_Fiskbullar
Get A Room! Oh, Yeah...
"I work overnights in a relatively small hotel, and at least 6/7 days a week, I hear people banging loud as hell in their rooms."
"Half the rooms have a balcony that overlooks the lobby, and those doors aren't soundproof at all."
"We had a man sleepwalk out of his room to the lobby, bucka** nude."
"We had a woman show up in the lobby in her underwear."-
Now That Takes Effort
"Night Auditor here, I've seen a LOT."
"Multiple times I've had guests come to my desk completely naked because somehow they locked themselves out.... naked... this one always confuses me."
"But probably the most NSFW was a guest who had gotten violently ill."
"We're talking projectile vomit on EVERY surface of the room, blood all over, feces, pee... everything was just destroyed..."
"Obvious call to paramedics, but I can never unsee it."- thefuzzmuffin
Vomit Reaction GIF by MOODMANGiphyAmazing He Wasn't Hurt...
"I was a night shift security guard for a motel right next to the biggest casino in my state."
"It was common for addicts to hang out around the property."
"One time, this guy staying in a room did a lil too much and had a freak out."
"He was running around the walkways naked."
"I had to ward him away from peoples rooms so they wouldn’t be disturbed."
"He ended up jumping off the second story balcony and splatting on the pavement."
"He scampered up and hauled a** across the street into a car dealership."
"Not my problem anymore."- Carniverousphinctr
Will Someone Think Of The Children?!?!
"Sex party in the hot tub while children were playing in the indoor pool steps away."
"I had to break that up and throw them out."
"And deal with the numerous lengthy yet justified complaints about it."- mbgal1977
When Wigs And Disguises Won't Cut It...
"Many years ago worked at a very nice casino resort as a valet."
"Regular pulled up in his nice BMW and went to help."
"Wrote up his ticket got his keys and offered to help load up his luggage on a bell cart while we waited for a bellman."
"Opened the trunk and went to lift the suitcase and I about threw my back out."
"I wasn’t prepared for it to be so heavy."
"Gave it another go and heaved it onto the bell cart and heard a sound."
“'Mr, did your suitcase just make an oof sound…?'”
"Long story short a sex worker who was banned from the property was stowed away in there to get up to his room."- thatryanguy1
Why Stop When The Getting Is Good?
"When I was young and worked at a hotel, I was delivering a room service meal and when I got there, the door was closed but had been left just shy of being latched."
'I knocked and the guest yelled 'come in'."
"I pushed it open with the cart, walked in and he was standing there with a big grin on his face watching my reaction as I wheeled in the cart, butt naked with a woman, also naked."
"He smiled and reached out and handed me a $20 he had in his hand and said to just leave it there and close the door on the way out."
"I guess part of their kink was to show off and see my reaction."
"I was shocked, but never said anything to anyone at work."- TXjoedog
NSFW? More Like Safety Hazard!
"The most NSFW thing that I recall was the manager getting on a cleaning kick and accidentally mixing the wrong chemicals in the pool area."
"A toxic gas started to form and the whole hotel had to be evacuated at like 5 AM."- DtotheJtotheH
What Haven't They Seen?
"I did security for a hotel for a number of years."
"I've seen naked guests locked out of their rooms, wedding parties break into the pool area and jump in fully clothed."
"Had a drunk woman climb out her 3rd-floor window and chill on the roof just below."- silverwarbler
Storefront?
"Best friend was GM I was manager."
"He found over the years 4 guns, 5 lbs of weed (at once)."
"The amount of guns is what surprises me."
"Only one out of the four guns found over the years was reported stolen."- Drewpacabra
So Many Questions...
"I wasn't working at this hotel and was just a guest, but I wish I had asked the staff for the backstory."
"I'm checking into my hotel in Los Angeles and was given my keycard."
"Head to the room, open the door, and there's a naked buff dude standing next to the bed just staring at me."
"He says nothing."
"I apologize and quickly leave, assuming somehow I'd gotten the wrong room."
"I go back to the front desk and say, 'I'm sorry, but I think you gave me the wrong room. There's a naked man already in there'."
"The worker at the front desk says, 'Sh*t, not again'."
"He pulls out his walkie talkie and says, 'Security? He's back again'."
"They assigned me to a different room and I was on my way."- telarium
How I Met Your Mother Comedy GIF by LaffGiphyWhat hotel guests do within the privacy of their own room is their business and no one else's.
Even so, it couldn't hurt for them to remember to lock their doors.
Hotel Employees Describe The Worst Thing They've Ever Discovered In A Room After Check Out
People are gross. That's something you learn very quickly whenever you work a public-facing job, especially in the hospitality industry.
I recently stayed in a low-end hotel with lovely staff. I was comfortable and slept well. I made friends with the manager and I hung out in the lobby while she told me stories about some of the nasty people with nasty habits who'd come and go. Safe to say she'd seen a lot of gross things in hotel rooms in her day.
People shared their stories after Redditor ThorBjorn asked the online community,
"What's the worst thing you've seen in a room after someone has checked out?"
"A blonde wig..."
"A blond wig filled with poo, hidden on the top of the wardrobe."
TheDoctorYouDeserve
I was wondering where I left that, sorry!
"I was
"I was on a business trip to Lansing, MI several years ago, maybe back in 2005 or so. I walked into my hotel room and a dark splotch on the wall caught my attention. It turned out to be black mold that crept into the bathroom ceiling. I stood under it for a moment stunned by it. When I turned and looked at the bed, the comforter was covered in blood."
"The blood was dried and set in on the comforter. It looked like nobody had been in the hotel room since someone was murdered on the bed - this is what it looked like. I have no idea. Looking closer, there was dried blood on the carpet and splattered on the wall."
"I took my things and went back to the check in desk and told them there was something very wrong, told them about the mold and the dried blood everywhere. They told me they didn't have any other rooms and didn't seem concerned about the dried blood."
"Roomless, I was sitting there in their lobby at 10PM not sure what to do since I had nowhere to stay. But that was a lot of blood. The longer I sat there the longer I realized something was seriously very f**ked up. So I called the cops and reported it. The police showed up in minutes."
"They got access to the room. The desk staff glared at me as if I had committed some sort of terrible affront to decency the entire time. I was asked to give a statement, which I did."
"Having done my part, I was outside trying to find other hotels to call to check for availability. Call after call, booked hotel after booked hotel. A woman eventually walked over to me and started chatting me up. The short of it is that she was a sex worker and offered to take me in and show me "a good time until the sun rises."
"I wound up going back to the airport and flying home after all of that."
FluidWarthog1613
This story took me on a journey.
An actual journey.
"There was a larger lady..."
"There was a larger lady in the room. When she checked out she told the front desk she made a mess in the room and she apologized, I was the housekeeping manager. When we went into the room I’ve never seen so much s*it in my life."
"It was on the bed, all over the floor, on the bathroom counter, all over the toilet, on the walls, and everywhere in the shower. Me and the housekeeper both start gagging so bad. She told me I could write her up if I wanted to but she wasn’t cleaning it."
"Ended up having to call one of those biohazard companies in."
samiam871
When the biohazard unit gets involved, you know it's serious.
"This one guy had checked out super suddenly and it baffled us as he had paid for a week or so. The housekeeper went up there and immediately called me to come up to the room. We found several POUNDS of shrooms and whippet cannisters."
"But more interesting was that this man had taken EVERYTHING in the room and crafted a pyramid in the center of it straight to the roof. The only thing holding it together was pure tension. Anything that wasn’t bolted down was in there. Pretty impressive honestly."
[deleted]
Sounds like he was on quite the trip and then frightened himself!
"He was on the last little..."
"A dead guy. He was on the last little bit of life he had left. Turns out he had some horrible blood cancer or something and he decided to go on vacation."
Arrowtica
This is so sad. Sorry you had to witness that.
"Tore..."
"Tore the flimsy towel rack apart and made a pipe out of it by stuffing wool or something."
Black38
I feel like we have to respect the ingenuity at least... but cleaning that up does not sound fun.
"Feces floor to ceiling..."
"Feces floor to ceiling and a number of $10,000 bill bands. I still don't know how to make heads or tails of it."
TheMrBurke
You lost me at "feces floor to ceiling."
I don't ever want to see that.
"Room perfectly ok..."
"Room perfectly ok except for a condom stuffed with s*it on the bed. Why? And how?"
Really_McNamington
Do you really want to know the answer to that question?
"One of our night maintenance guys got called up to a room to find he was supposed to help a guy who had got a Perrier bottle stuck on his penis. He did not help."
Really_McNamington
Don't want to know how they did that. Noooope. Sounds painful.
If these stories put you off of working in hotels forever, we understand. The hospitality industry in general? Yeah, we get that, too. It's not easy.
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People turn shameless when they're on vacation.
Hotel guests can be careless about their personal possessions and strange behaviors. Besides, they may figure that they'll never run into any of the other guests or hotel staff, and so the impressions they make don't really matter. But the impressions some guests make are, frankly, unforgettable. When gross belongings and strange habits are discovered by hotel workers, best believe that the story will be shared forever.
Redditor u/LucasSkudy asked hotel workers, "What was the strangest thing you've found in someone's room?" And it proved that hotel staff remember everything.
10. This trashy rearrangement
"Well its not exactly something that was there but more like something missing. I had to call some guests to see why they havent checked out with the front desk but I didnt get a response. I went to the room (the room being a 2 bedroom suite and they actually had 2 suites booked) and when I entered there was no one there. The room was trashed with garbage everywhere and literally a pizza slice stuck to the ceiling (which I'm assuming was made purposefully as a joke?) but one thing stuck out. The fridge was missing. I looked around but couldnt find it. 'Did they steal it?'. The moment I entered the other bedroom suite, which was as well trashed but not as bad as the previous one, and went in one of the bedrooms I finally saw it. The fridge was there. They moved the fridge from one suite to the other and put it next to the bed."
9. Dirty things under the bed
"Sex toys, a lot of them, all under the bed in the metal box frame. Like I mean enough to start your own sex store... Also about used 50 syringes, burnt spoon and other drug paraphernalia.
Oh the stories I can tell from working in hotels for so many years."
8. This guest that missed the toilet
Giphy"I worked as a part time small hotel cleaner. I found someone's piss in the kettle in one of the rooms."
6. This contaminated kitchen
"Frequent traveler here. I was staying at a full suite hotel and had a kitchenette. In the back of the utensil drawer there was a butt plug mixed in with the small items like the wine opener, measuring spoons, and such. I stopped cooking at that point and just went with carry out food."
5. How'd they get this past the lobby?
"I worked overnight at a best Western. Checked a guy and girl in. Got a noise complaint about 3AM. They somehow managed to get his motorcycle in the room (this still confused me as i really believe i would've noticed) and were revving the engine and heavily intoxicated. Wtf are some people thinking man?!?"
4. The butter game
"I worked in a hotel/casino as overnight MOD. I had to issue a noise complaint one night and after about 5 minutes of standing outside the room knocking and the guest not coming to the door myself and security let ourselves in. This dude had like 6 girls in the room with him and the bed was covered in visqueen and the visqueen was covered in butter and on top of the butter was thousands and thousands of dollars. Dude was having these women cover each other in butter and then roll around in the money. Whatever attached to them they kept."
3. This comfy doll
"Doesn't quite fit in here but room service once tucked in my stuffed animal when I wasn't there. Just thought that was super cute."
2. A muffin stuntman
"Was a part-time housecleaning service in a hotel, this is a bit weird, but not gross, some guy standing in swim trunks on the bed, with 5 fricking muffins balanced on his head, I just left and did it the cleaning an hour later, and the guy looked a bit embarrassed outside of the door."
1. This illegal operation
Giphy"Knocked, no answer, walked in to see 2 sweaty men with guns around them. In the middle the ironing board open with different trays of green dye, paper everywhere, and a photo copier. They were attempting to make counterfeit money. I slowly shut the door and went about my business. I got a good tip when they left, and yes it was real money."
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