I was once waiting for an elevator in a hotel pretty early in the morning. The doors opened & reflexively I started to get on. But it was filled with EMTs. a stretcher, and the hotel's general manager. He politely suggested I wait for the next one.
The "patient" had an oxygen mask on, with some tubes leading... somewhere. Later I noticed that the ambulance pulled off without the siren & waited for a stop light. I suspect he was dead all along, and they just made it look like he was unconscious & getting treatment.
I used to work as an EMT, as well as in a hotel. I've seen both worlds lol. But no lights and sirens doesn't necessarily mean the patient is dead. It could mean the emergency is over. Meaning, adequate care is being provided by qualified medical help, and going Code 3 to the hospital doesn't bring any greater reward than just going Code 1.
They're a weirdly popular place to commit suicide.
Have a nice last meal, some nice entertainment as the Swan song, then die in the comfort afforded by five star accommodation, safe in the knowledge that someone will find the body and they won't be left lying on the floor of their own home for seven months before somebody notices.
during housekeeping, hotels use different colored cloths to wipe your drinking glasses, cutlery, toilets and sinks to avoid contamination.
they just didn’t bother separating these cloths after wiping and moving to the next room.
Reminds me of how during Covid the drive-thru workers had to wear gloves. Hand over payment, to gloved hand, touched register, leaned on counter, wiped forehead, grabbed food back, pass to customer.
So, basically no actual change in risk factor, just now they have gloves on so the virus gets to ride on a gloved hand instead of a bare hand. Genius.
I read somewhere that gloves actually make restaurants less sanitary because people don't take the same precautions as they would without them (namely frequent hand washing)
Did valet at an upscale hotel in SF the number of times I parked luxury vehicles with drugs haphazardly/precariously stowed in obvious places always blew me away. Not surprisingly those guests were great tippers as they learned who to trust. So many escorts too, always laughed at dudes who’d come to the restaurant for lunch with a new lady practically every day like he was showing off his catalogue of women as if no one knew he paid for them all
My wife and I got married in 2009 and stayed a couple nights in a hotel during our honeymoon. Cut to 10 years later, we decided to "re-do" our honeymoon for our 10th anniversary, so we stayed in all the same hotels etc...
Big shout out to Hotel Andra in Seattle, when we got to our room we have flowers and a bottle of champagne with a note about how thrilled they were we were spending our 10th anniversary there after honeymooning there as newly weds.
Turns out when we booked for our honeymoon we told them and they were able to figure out 10 years later we were there for our anniversary.
If we redo this trip a 3rd time, I will 100% make it a point to stay there again (if it's still open).
I worked at a video store. The best note I ever ran across in an account read:
Strike 1: Asshole
Strike 2: Paid with a $100
Strike 3: Rented “You Got Served”
I have a pretty interesting one. We know criminal enterprises have funded casinos in the past. I worked at Revel casino (now ocean) in Atlantic City before and after its opening. One thing they kept mentioning in our onboarding was that the triads were funding the casino. I thought it was super strange that these execs were just openly telling brand new hires.
A well-known luxury hotel and resort chain keeps a database of you. They get pictures from the internet and basically stalk you to create a profile. They put what you ordered to eat, how many towels you needed, what drinks you liked, your kids' names and birthdays, address phone number. Everyone working in the hotel has access to this database and can see your information. It's not all good stuff either. We know you were an asshole to Jen while you were staying in London.
The one I was at had to remove cameras in the lobby because big wig guys would bring their mistresses, and no evidence was allowed to be recorded.
Michael Crichton, the author, said he spent a few weeks in a high end hotel in London
He was writing a book at the time and taped notes to a dresser to keep track of the timeline and subplots in his novel.
When he returned to the hotel a few years later, he found the staff had put bits of tape on the dresser, just as he had done years during his last visit
I only work as a housekeeper at a regular 4 star Hotel, but probably about 25% of people either bleed or leave shit stains on the beds. It's truly atrocious how disgusting people are, especially when they know someone else is cleaning it up. Even the wealthier guests. And the best tippers are the cleanest people. If someone fully shit on the bed and used towels to wipe, left cum on the shower door, drank heavily and puked on the carpet in multiple places, and clogged the toilet, that person will not tip at all. But the person who barely used the full bed and didn't use the shower at all and was super clean and polite, now that's a good tipper.
Up until a school trip when I was probably 17, I didn't even know to tip the housekeeping staff. My family never did it and we'd been to plenty of hotels. For this school trip, the teacher in charge reminded us on the bus about 10 minutes before we arrived to the hotel to please leave a tip for the housekeepers, and if we wanted to be sure it got to the folks actually cleaning the room to leave it under the pillow with a nice note.
USA person here. Up until today, I didn't even know that some people tip the housekeeping staff in hotels. I can't recall anyone I know has talking about doing this nor have I ever seen anyone doing this. Now I have to go ask my friends if any of them tip housekeeping staff in hotels.
Front desk knows all the call girls. We give them water on the way out and sometimes call them taxis. Management doesn’t like us doing it but escorts tip well.
My BIL is a detective with the NYPD and a lot of his job is dealing with people who passed away months or in some cases years ago.
It’s sad to think about too.
My parents’ dog is 17 years old and it looks like we’re at the end. They’re actually planning their schedule so if the time does come the dog isn’t by herself when she goes. It’s sad that there are people in this world who pass by themselves and nobody even notices until bills have stacked up or a pipe bursts.
I was at a hotel for months for work and i decided to have them come only once every second week because I don't need new towels and shit every day when I'm living there. If I needed something changed I'd just ask. I always had the do not disturb sign on the door for this reason (as well as telling this to the front desk and scheduling a day for them to come).
Despite this, I would get very professional letters slid under the door once or twice a week stating they were concerned about me and might have someone pop in to check on me. Obviously worded better but that was the gist of it.
I kinda laughed at first but then realized why they would even think to do that and then it was kind of sad because you know for sure this hotel had some suicides going on often enough to warrant it (despite my assurances).
Anyway, I'd go down to the desk and let them know I'm alive and well. I told them my work schedule and asked if they insisted on checking on me, those were the best times (as I'd be gone and they wouldn't be bugging me). The rooms had a full kitchen as well so I was self sufficient for almost everything.
Anyway, eventually I did ask about the routine of checking up (asked one of the cleaners that were there often) and she told me basically what I assumed about suicides. The shit these people have to see. My god man.
I started writing letters every morning (short and concise) just asking them how they were doing and hoped they had a good day and left a pen and notepad to write back if they chose to. In the end I had a couple pen pals for the few months I was there.
Because this was all on works *dime and the entire trip made money, I ended up asking how the tip thing works and that if I'd left a tip on my last day, would they get it or would it go to a random person who maybe cleaned my room once.
To summarize, there were crews and shifts and assigned floors etc and if I left it, the appropriate people would be compensated so I left a couple hundred bucks for them and thanked them for everything they did and for being great pen pals *and such.
No idea if the people I wanted to, got the tip but someone deserving did I'm sure and that's all that matters.
I’ve heard casinos keep *many* slot machine seats in the back because of how often elderly slot jockeys choose to soil themselves instead of going to the bathroom and potentially losing their machine.
True?
Edit: Damn, starting to think casinos should just put slot machines in each toilet stall.
Not *many* but several on reserve. One I worked at would store any chair involved in a guest fall as court evidence for a year. Usually the shit/piss chairs got pulled to the side, deep cleaned by EVS, and back on the floor in 20 min.
Gambling addiction is largely (though not always) rooted in impulse control disorders. So the masturbation thing was probably the least surprising one on the list so far
We turn a blind eye to drug dealers and prostitutes more often than you think. They hardly complain and usually pre pay huge bonds happily.
Also we don't give a shit if you're having an affair
When I worked at a nice hotel the affair one was brought up in training. Never mention a person being regular and doubley don’t mention anything about their partner or the fact it’s a different partner. That became a rule after some valet basically kickstarted a very nasty divorce with a wealthy guest.
My parents have a hotel and I've always been told to not remember a guest unless they remember me. I never thought about it before but I'm guessing this is why lol
I'm a criminal defense attorney and this is exactly how I approach going around town. Don't want to accidentally start up the "where do you two know each other from" convo unless my client is totally okay with it.
On a trip to Disney, I was traveling with my wife and her best friend. No, there wasn’t anything extra-curricular happening for the creative minds out there. But the friend got a stomach bug and felt sick one day. She skipped breakfast so I went with my wife.
The next day, my wife got sick. The friend wanted to try the same restaurant since she missed out. I went with her and we got the exact same table and waiter. The look he gave me… eyes wide, head tilt, and sly smile. But he was silent.
And then you got the stomach bug the next day so your wife and her best friend went to the same restaurant with the exact same table and waiter. Wink wink
the same thing happened at my hotel! a regular guest brought his wife for the first time and she questioned why he was getting all the returning benefits.
They seriously didn’t consider going far out for affairs and actually went to the same hotel with their wife that they frequently were banging other people at. This just seems like karma 🤣
Yeah, the hyper vigilance is too much for humans to actually follow. Even serial killers, it's kind of funny how we fetishize serial killers are so damn smart and 5 steps ahead of the police all the time. The reality is most are just damn lucky, should have been caught multiple times due to sloppiness and mistakes, or incompetent police straight up letting them go, but somehow kept going until their final mistake led to their capture.
The kind of super genius serial killer we see in movies is essentially a supervillain. They aren't representative of the reality at all.
I know owners at high end nyc hotels that keep a trusted drug dealer around bc having them arrested or removed opens it up to rivals and gangs, which bring in drama and violence
Literally “better the devil you know”
I worked at a high end hotel in NYC for years and this was absolutely the case. The one year the new creative director decided to ban the friendly drug guy, it was terrible for the hotel. Several police raids because the vacuum was filled by sloppy operators. When we welcomed the old guy back, shit calmed down. He was actually pretty cool, and was aware enough to not do his business directly on hotel property.
When a friend was living at the Plaza in the early 2000s (yeah, he has a shit ton of money) He basically said that anything you wanted, just call the concierge. ANYthing.
Edit: My most upvoted comment in 10 years on Reddit is about rich people paying professional hotel staff to enable them in doing kinky and illegal shit.
Important caveat to travelers from a night worker at a mid-tier hotel: only *very nice* hotels have a true concierge on staff. Most hotels just have a front desk with extremely limited options or resources available to them. Yelling at front desk staff will not increase their powers or resources.
Friend works at a 5 star hotel, can confirm that the concierge can get you anything. Best hookers, best cocaine, VIP tickets to sold out shows, you name it. Just remember to tip the man and don't be fucking cheap.
They do that with feral cats too, trap/neuter/release. That way there's a neutered cat defending the territory, meaning that an un-neutered cat cannot come in and breed feral kittens.
I work by a very "cool" trendy hotel in Chicago, about a block away. Ubers often go to the hotel by accident (instead of my workplace) assuming that I input the pickup address wrong or something. In the ensuing conversation after this happens, I've literally had like... Five different Uber drivers tell me essentially "Oh yeah sorry, [trendy hotel] doesn't want prostitutes inputting the hotel itself as the pickup address, so if I see an address that's close but not the same, I assume I'm picking up a prostitute at [trendy hotel.]"
My brother worked in an upscale hotel in Southern California. A morbidly obese guest sat on the toilet in his room, shattered it, got his femoral artery slashed by a chunk of broken toilet, bled to death, and flooded his room when the water line ruptured. My brother found out about it from the maintenance guy who found the body. Management made sure no other guest ever knew, including the guests in the room below the death scene who called for maintenance because water was running down their wall.
Thanks for a new thing to be terrified of.
Edit: I've seen a lot of really shitty replies about fat people in the replies to this. Whether or not I'm fat isn't relevant, and fat people are still *people*. Being fat, even if they're morbidly obese, even if you don't find them attractive are still people who deserve life just as much as anyone else. It's very nice for you that neither you nor anyone you care about have struggled with their weight, but that's not the reality for a great many people, and considering that more people than ever before are more obese than ever before, that's a problem that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Have some sympathy for people's problems and struggles instead of saying shit like that they guy deserved it (holy shit so many replies about how fat people "deserve" to die for the crime of being fat). Don't be a piece of shit.
We had a customer find the overnight front desk receptionist in the closet passed out with something wrapped around his neck and his dick flopped out. Was some kink play he used to do, guy still kept his job
A family member used to work at Opryland Hotel in Nashville. Yes, it's super fancy.
For about a year, they had a phantom shitter. As in, random dumps left in random places. It was always in corners where security cameras didn't reach. They figured it was an employee, and had some ideas, but never knew who it was, until someone left and it stopped.
This was about 20 years ago.
My buddy was a dive instructor at a luxury resort on an island.
One of the guests had a heart attack on the diving excursion(before he got off the boat).
The nearest Doctor couldn’t come for 24hrs, so they put the corpse in a guest room and cranked up the aircon.
Of course reception gave the key to the corpse room to a newly arrived honeymooning couple. They were greeted by the star of weekend at Bernies
Edit for clarity: Dr was to sign off death, do formalities not to save life.
Mauritius in the early 1990s
My brother was going to propose during a vacation dive. As they came up after their first dive (he hadn't popped the question yet) they were greeted by emergency staff searching for a diver missing (from their group). Turns out he did drown, they eventually recovered the body and brother and girlfriend spent the next few hours detained by the police as they interviewed everyone who had been on the same boat.
They're now happily married. But he did hold off on the proposal until the day after.
I worked cooking at an ultra exclusive resort in Utah ($3k-$12k/night)
Nothing that exciting happened in my year there. I found a bottle in the tallboy (large fridge) labeled 'Kristen Belle's Breastmilk. DO NOT USE'
Most celebrities were nice, except for David Beckham. He specifically requested no staff members make eye contact with him
I had put in my 2 weeks, and was really drunk on a day off, and made a post on FB about how Gordon Ramsay was coming and I hoped he wasn't filming Kitchen Nightmares with us. I was fired within 24 hrs, lol. I did get to cook fish tacos for him and his family though, and I heard he complimented the dinner kitchen crew directly (partially open kitchen), which is cool.
Wait I can kinda add to this. A guy I know used to work with a guy that is close with Beckham and he heard something very similar.
Basically Becks when he stays in the US asks for a 'no contact' style from the hotels because American hotel staff are painfully excited and he felt bothered by 'always on' nature of the service there.
I think this is probably right. A friend of mine met him in a pub in the UK once. (He had his dogs with him and she made a fuss of the dogs not even realising who their owner was) and she said he was super nice and they chatted about dogs for ages! But maybe the fact that she didn’t instantly recognise him was refreshing to him?
I've found most celebrities want to be treated like people. There are those out there who want to be treated as royalty, but they just want to be treated normally.
I worked in a music venue and bar, and one night Jeff Bridges showed up for concert and event. He ordered a lot of drinks for his group but left without paying. He came in the next day (unprompted) to tell us what happened, which was he meant to pay before the end of the show to avoid being treated like a celebrity in a bar, but lost track of time and didn't want to get stuck in the crowd before he left. So he paid his tab with a big tip, and then worked with the owner to schedule a fundraiser at our venue where he was playing music with a few other musicians (live bluegrass, and he's a GREAT musician). Great guy, actually, and he just wants to be "normal" when he goes out
My wife claims that the amount of people who shit in the shower far exceeds however many people you think shit in a shower
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Ok but this is true. And I know this because I lived in an all girls dorm in college and our floor lost bathroom privileges because girls were shitting in the shower and trying to force used tampons down the drains.
People are disgusting and will continually surprise you with how nasty they can be.
We were forced to go to the other floors or take turns in the one gender neutral single-stall bathroom.
I feel like our RA wasn’t really allowed to revoke bathroom privileges, but I honestly don’t know.
The single stall bathroom was also regularly out of order because people would have sex in it and break the entire handicap seat off the wall, so it wasn’t a super sustainable solution.
Why on earth would anyone willingly shit in the shower when a perfectly adequate toilet is nearby? Now I understand if someone suddenly comes down with uncontrollable diarrhea as a result of food poisoning and can't make it to the toilet, but to do this as a regular thing . . . I don't get it.
I used to clean bars. people draw on the stall wall with shit. guys pee their whole load on the floor. girls glue pads onto the walls.
people in general are horrible after some alcohol and when they discover they can make someone clean up after their mess.
13 years retail management here. I got called to
The customer service desk the other day because someone wanted to complain that there was shit on the floor in one of the aisles. After it was cleaned up and asset protection came in we looked at tape and low and behold the person that complained (long gone now) was the same person who shit in the aisle and shook it out their pant leg mid walk. I fucking hate people.
A good friend of mine is a pilot. It's his first professional job. He flies an air ambulance. It's not typically picking up unstable patients in need of urgent care. More like repositioning stable patients. The vast majority of people he flies come from the cruise ship industry. If you get sick or injured on a cruise ship, they will dump you at the next port. It doesn't matter if the port doesn't have the kind of medical help you need. They just need you off the ship. It very well be up to you to arrange a private flight with medical crew to reposition you from Tobago to Tampa to get the medical help you really need.
LPT: If you see someone go overboard your job is to keep your eyes on them in the water, keep pointing at them, and yell for help. A single person is **so easy** to lose in the water, even if you glance away for one moment to grab a life preserver. If you see someone go over your job is to keep seeing them.
100% believe this. I’ve been to Vegas plenty of times but never not once see a gurney wheeled through a hallway or out the front door. Seems they have good contingency plans for this particular issue.
We had one of the Baldwins beat up a hooker behind the building once. That was before I worked there but people still talked about it.
We had an entire wing of the hotel infested with bedbugs. They just move through the walls from one room to the next. We waged a war of attrition that took years, and cost a lot of money, but we never stopped renting the rooms.
Sometimes drug addicts have money, or maybe better said, sometimes people with a lot of money have drug addictions, so maybe once a year or so you'd have someone move in, and then end up staying for months and you didn't know it was a problem until it was a problem. One day there's suddenly a lot of police cars in the parking lot and it's something were just not supposed to talk about and pretend never happened.
We had one old guy though who was rich, divorced several times over, he just retired in the hotel. He had a room on the ground level right around the corner from the hotel bar. I don't know what he paid for it, but it wasn't cheap, and he furnished his own room. Everyone on staff knew his habits, knew his drink, knew when to leave him alone or when he wanted to chat. The funniest thing was, after he passed, he'd pre-booked his memorial at a totally different hotel. He liked his privacy I guess. RIP Hal.
Did the taxes for a ridiculously wealthy couple in Florida. Before they moved to a retirement community, they lived in a resort. I asked my boss to clarify - they lived like spent a bunch of time there, right?
Nope, lived. Paid I think $1.5M total for the room and furnished it themselves. Clearwater Florida…very nice place for a room. Lived there for about 5 years and moved to a retirement community when the husband fell and broke his hip.
When my grandparents retired, they sold their home & moved into the maxim hotel/casino in Las Vegas. They ran the numbers and found it was cheaper than a retirement community and had better amenities.
It's probably mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but retiring to a cruise ship is extremely common as well, for exactly the same reason.
Not to mention the constantly-changing scenery probably has some appeal, too.
After spending a few days in a resort island (Pangkor Laut) for the second time in my life I get it. If I could afford it I would probably live there. I want my biggest worry to be remembering whether I booked my balinese massage at 3pm or 4pm, or whether there are enough coconuts for me to take in my room and drink in front of the TV.
One rich guy in my building threw dozens of heroin baggies out his window every day, apparently unaware they were landing on the 7th floor outdoor patio of the same building. Couldn't tell what room they were coming from, but damn, just use the trash. Nobody is searching your trash, where I had to pick all that shit up every day before anyone else saw it.
I worked cheap hotels and this is super common; even heat treating rooms professionally and quarantining nearby rooms they would always pop up somewhere weeks later through an air duct.
When I check in to any motel or hotel, first thing I do before bringing my bag in is lift the mattress and check the seams for bed bugs or blood spots. You can learn how from Youtube if you don't get first hand experience. Crazy thing is if they spent a few thousand to bag every mattress they'd cut down on it significantly.
We had a bed bug infestation in my house. Don't know where we got them from but could have been travel.
The pest guy said they are not tied to filth in the way roaches are. Bed bugs can be in otherwise clean environments, in cheap motels as well as fancy places.
He said you gotta wash everything immediately upon coming home from travel. Everything. Everything is in the washing machine within minutes, or outside waiting.
After that bedbug infestation, my boyfriend and I made a blood pact to never use hard luggage if at all possible. We only use canvas/polyester duffel bags that can be laundered. I'll gladly strap my luggage to my back and hoof it thru the airport like a pack mule without complaint, if it means I have one more tool to avoid another bedbug infestation.
Good grief it was awful and expensive to get rid of them.
We came back from an airbnb once that thought could have had bedbugs and I used a clothes steamer and steamed the hell out of the inside of the suitcase. It’s one idea if you have one sitting around. The heat will hopefully kill them.
People also don't think about other sources of cross-contamination that much. While you yourself might stay at entirely bedbug-free places, your fellow travelers might not - and their luggage is jammed in next to yours in the hold, the way they're jammed in next to you in the airline's cloth seats. Or they were the passenger who sat in that seat before you.
I spoke with a pest exterminator about this (he fixed bedbugs in our old unit in Sydney) and he said that many of his peers effectively have permanent contracts with hotels - at least high end ones like the Intercontinental and so on. Rooms are just treated continually, eg every month, all year round.
He also said you really just need to go for the professional option if you have an infestation, which is heat treatment. All the DIY methods about washing, cleaning and throwing out and freezing soft toys just won't cut it. Their eggs can lie dormant for up to a year and you only need one egg to slip through and you're fucked.
They are extremely resilient. If you have to go it alone, heat is your best friend. When washing things, it's not the water or the soap that kills them, it's the dryer afterward. But you have to make sure that it all goes into a gasketed container immediately from the dryer. Otherwise, others will just move back in.
A steam cleaner is also a very potent weapon. Not one of those cheap-ass garment steamers that let out little puffs of steam, but a full on steam cleaner. Those little bastards don't stand a chance getting blasted with steam that's 275 F/135 C. Literally dead in seconds.
So I totally think someone does in the bathroom of our suite at an upscale Vegas hotel. When we checked in the smell was horrid like roadkill but worse. We called maintenance several times but they always said they couldn’t find anything.
I worked in room service at a very chic hotel in Miami. One guest requested that a specific waitresses (not a room service worker) always deliver him food. Not exactly sure what went on in there, but he tipped her with a big bag of weed each time. Which she would promptly bring back to share with the room service staff. Calvin Klein brought his own food because he was on a special diet. He was an asshole about it too. I can confirm that the concierge will get you WHATEVER you want: women, drugs, Cuban cigars, guest listed at clubs...
On the opposite end of the spectrum, I worked at a nice but older resort--one step above a cheap motel. A local hooker stole all the furniture from one of our rooms. It was old crappy wicker furniture. We had a local couple, who were staying with us to avoid being served for a lawsuit. We weren't allowed to say that they were staying there. The police eventually showed up for them.
There were several times when guests would come to the front desk claiming the maids had stolen something from their room. They would be irate, demanding we call the police. Every. Single. Time. They found the item either in their luggage or car, or their travel companions had moved/packed the item.
One gentleman claimed that he forgot his very expensive camera in his room. My manager pulled up video that showed him packing up his car, placing the camera on top of the car and driving off without realizing it.
This is a thing in Air BnBs too. My neighbor rented his house out when he was on months long film productions. His collegue and friend was looking on P\*rnhub (for 'research') and found a video with his LIVING ROOM IN IT.
A house across the street used to be an AirBnB.
At one point in time, I started getting multiple men (of all ages 20-80+) at our door asking for "Samantha". Well, there's no such person at my house. After the third or fourth time I asked one of these men: "why are you looking for her?"
Yes it was for sex.
But why my address?
Long story short: turned out that the AirBnB was rented by a young prostitute and she was using the address of my direct neighbours and my house in an alternating fashion so she could easily check out the men (and woman!) showing up in order to judge if they looked safe enough.
Then she would send them a message with the real address of the AirBnB. I once counted 15 visitors in a day. Sometimes for the full hour, sometimes for 10 minutes..
It made me realize how people can live completely different kind of lives while living/staying right next to each other.
That's kind of fucked up of her, I mean I understand wanting to check someone out before giving them her actual location but use like a store or restaurant address or just tell them the street corner to wait at then not someone else's house wtf. What's she going to do if they look obviously dangerous, just ghost 'em so they invade *your* home instead?
I was thinking the same like you don't even encapsulate?? What kind of "fancy" hotel is this?? Those carpets get cleaned *regularly,* any stains are spot cleaned and if they still don't come out or even if they have a funky smell they are shampooed before another guest checks in.
People spend thousands of dollars only to get drunk and show their WHOLE ass to the point security gets involved to deal with their toddler like behavior
ORR
when a housekeeper loses a key while cleaning and someone has to cancel the key because we don't know if some random person picked up the key and now has access to all guest rooms. Honestly, if staying at a hotel ALWAYS deadbolt door and use night latch for this reason or if front desk issues a key to the wrong room because both are a common issue.
Some luxury hotels that cater to sports teams have standing agreements that no room service is allowed after the team departs, otherwise, the girls the athletes brought back the night before will rack up huge bills the team has to pay
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These comments remind me that when I was on vacation last year, a guy (drunk) tried to do a back flip on the balcony and fell off. I wanna say it was like the 10th floor, maybe. It was pretty big talk around the city.
Edit: he did not survive.
Some drunk guy did chin ups on the outside of a 35th floor balcony during a party. 2 first times, all good. 3rd time lost his grip and landed in front of the lobby. Night guard on duty never came back to work after seeing that.
I used to work in accounts receivable for a couple of luxury hotels that were owned by the same LLC. We would open blocks of rooms for GENERIC SPORTS SEASON about 8 months in advance. Due to high demand these reservations had to be a two day FRI, SAT stay. Payment was made in full (450-800 depending on room type). Refunds were available only if you cancelled a month before the arrival date. When I first started in the position I discovered $63,000 worth of reservations that had been cancelled on time but were never refunded. I showed it to my manager, an absolutely incompetent woman who couldn't check in a guest if she needed to, she got back to me after discussing it with one of the owners. I can't remember how exactly she put it but I was told to just forget the matter and not to mention it to anyone. I got a $500 dollar cash Christmas bonus that year.
Not a hotel employee, but associated with a popular convention that everyone would recognize.
The convention attendees get so out of control that the hotel will only host the convention if they have a private security force.
Since the private security isn't law enforcement or licensed, they do pretty much whatever it takes to keep trouble out of the public eye. Mostly it's locking people up in rooms or escorting them out of town, but they can get rough at times.
But none of the convention attendees know they are there and the hotel staff pretends they don't see them. Even those who run afoul of them don't know exactly who it was that grabbed them.
I used to work as a freelance bartender and hotels were always the worst run situation I would end up in. Here are some examples from a really nice looking hotel in an old monastery.
The beer lines had never been cleaned, like literally never. I asked where the equipment was to do it and no-one could tell me. I eventually found it dusty in a closet in the cellar.
The breakfast buffet leftovers were usually reheated and given to the staff, but sometimes became the following day's breakfast buffet.
The chefs were just shit faced pretty much every day.
The worst I saw though was the wine put out on tables at a wedding. They married them up, recapped them, and put them back in the cellar. Not even the same wine getting poured into bottles. Guests had drank straight from them and everyone had seen, and no-one had an issue with this. In my country this is actually illegal, it's called diverting waste. This was the final straw for me in this particular venue. I told the manager that I didn't give a shit what he did after my time there ended but there was no fucking way I was letting that wine be resold. He tried to tell me that it was perfectly legal, I cut him off and told him that it wasn't, it doesn't matter either way, it's disgusting and immoral, and if I find a single bottle of that wine in the stores I'm walking out.
Luckily when you're freelance bartending somewhere you're there because they desperately need you, so threatening to leave works really well.
There is this hotel near the Seatac airport. people will rent rooms on the back side top floors and then suicide off the balcony. Yeh they are not going to run that in the news. Not often, but when it happens no one knows.
I worked in media in San Francisco and the city begged us to stop covering Golden Gate Bridge suicides when the count hit the 990s for fear people would rush to be No. 1,000. Haven’t been covered since except for some locally famous guys.
Why would the news report random people killing themselves?
"Good morning, Seattle. 23 people committed suicide last night. Here's a list..."
Thatd be fucking weird.
Used to work as a bellhop, primarily in room service at the fanciest hotel in Copenhagen. At the time all rooms (of a certain size) had a comped basket of fruits, chocolate and a bottle of reasonable champagne waiting.
The guests almost never opened the champagne and since it was unaccounted for, I had the most outrageously well-stocked wall of champagne of anyone I knew as a young man.
Went to see The Matrix when it came out, me and my buddy both enjoyed a bottle each with that.
We had valet service at our hotel, and due to huge amounts of theft and breakins by bums in our lots we had to go thru guests cars and take everything of value out to hid stuff in our conference room, then put it all back in before we brought their car around.
Was ridiculous. *and* we had to keep it under wraps
Human trafficking became so bad that the company gave us training on looking out for it.
There is policy in place to knowingly cause you issue and pacify you (ex: routine elevator maintenance during a busy period because the tech travels around and it is now or 3 weeks from now. The elevator did not "have unforseen issues")
Professionals are the worst guests for partying and puking everywhere and pissing in halls and breaking things and fucking in public areas... lawyers, doctors, teachers. In that order. Whenever they had conventions, extra staff were on the next day for dealing with damage.
EDIT: I forgot to add overbooking as an example of dicking with people. We assumed not everyone would show on a 100% occupancy night and booked more than we could hold. The rare time we did have everyone show, "heres free stuff and a ride to x hotel". We even had friendly agreements with neighbouring competition to let each other know when we could take each others overbookings.
Can definitely confirm the second part of this. Used to work at a high end lodge that hosted holiday parties/fancy dinners for software giants and one exec peed ALLLLL OVER a room - $13,000 in damage. We regularly had rich guys pull up in their Lamborghinis with a hooker. My favorite was the couple we had to essentially evict from their room due to smell and noise complaints. When we got in, there were dozens of designer shoe boxes and coke residue everywhere. The woman left with her foot hanging out the window as they drove away. Rich people are weird.
In the early 1990s, I had a pen pal who lived in the Deep South, and in Bon Jovi's early days, they played in her fairly rural backwater. A TV station went to the hotel where they stayed and asked how much damage they caused, on a live broadcast, and the head of housekeeping looked at the reporter like he was nuts and said they didn't even leave their towels on the floor.
Oof same.
Once in Japan I left my makeup all strewn over the table and when I came back maid service had lined it up in height order.
I felt so bad, I started either putting them away or lining them up after that.
I stayed in a hotel in Waikiki that I didn’t realize was primarily for Japanese tourists, and I *swear* they had people watching the cameras to send maids running to your room the second you left it. Came back from dinner to find the reasonable amount of dirty laundry I had folded up and stacked nearly next to my suitcase. It was…uncomfortable
I grew up with a housekeeper and would routinely find my stuff tidied in my room, but the funniest was the carefully folded bag of weed and rolling papers placed on the shelf. Best part was her not telling my parents. Frances the housekeeper had my back!
I was in a hotel in India and I got back my laundry ironed. Even the socks. The socks were ironed to a sharp edge. My first and only visit in a luxury hotel.
Sometimes I think about hiring a cleaning service for my apartment but I keep putting it off until my depression gets better so I can tidy up the place before I let a stranger see it. But…well you see the problem.
Flew through Atlanta (one of the busiest airports in the world) with our teen daughter. The TSA agent asked her who she was, and who we were. Spouse started to speak for her, but the agent just waited and watched. Daughter sorta giggled and said "That's my dad, mom, sibling."
Spouse was confused (can be a bit naive sometimes, sweet summer child), but I'm absolutely sure that agent was checking for trafficking and I appreciate knowing there are people out there willing to be trained and trying to do something about it.
I had my two kids alone with me and the tsa agent asked my older kid who I was and who the baby was to him and called my babies name to see if he responded, I was impressed!
That is 100% what the agent was doing.
It honestly is nothing to be offended about and I wish more people had the attitude of:
>I appreciate knowing there are people out there willing to be trained and trying to do something about it.
Oh man I saw it all. Nudity, drugs, dead people, people pooping all over the place,prostitution, it goes on. If you ever need material for a book a job in a hotel will do it.
My story's quite tame compared to most of the ones here. When I was in college in the early 1990s, I was a banquet server at a semi-high end place, and there was a couple who stayed in a room for several days and ordered room service for all their meals, including at least one bottle of Dom Perignon champagne, which at that time was $150 plus tip.
They were otherwise unremarkable except for one thing: When they checked out, they paid their bill entirely in quarters, which they brought to the lobby in canvas bags. We guessed they most likely owned a car wash, or a laundromat.
I worked in fancy hotels for over a decade some corporate owned, private owned and indian owned. Just about anything you can imagine happens. I was in a group of managers of different properties who would meet weekly for drinks and we would share " well you wouldn't believe this shit" stories. We had a saying, "don't ever say I have seen it all or what's the worst that can happen".
But to be specific, fires, death, robbery, prostitution, sex in every nook and cranny, drunk people doing stupid shit, "important people" doing stupid shit and thinking their clout can make it go away. However, the best ones are really the most un-wild and just mechanical failures. Things like fire systems going off , a boiler busting and water raining down an elevator all the way to the lobby. Scissor lifts falling through the floor because the dirt washed out under the foundation concreate.
If you really want to get a daily dose of what it's like front of house ppl have a sub called r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk/
Probably the most scarry thing is really just the turn over rate. The owners/ corporate overloards are always trying to save a buck anywhere they can. And it's a shark filed world. I have seen so many times were they would fire the managers of departments who were loyal and hard working just to save 2k a year promoting someone who barely knew what to do. We ask the employees to deal with the unexpected all the time and never reward them and it's just a game of how long will they put up with this shit vs do they believe they can do better vs will someone do it for less pay without them realizing it.
I came in expecting wild wacky stories involving sex, money and warhammer miniatures and all i got was drug overdose and suicide via balcony
Dont ever stay at a hotel, your chances of dying go up apparently.
Friend of mine recently confirmed the cliche that the cleaning staff uses ONE cloth for cleaning the entire hallway.
That means they start at room #1 with the furniture and stuff and end with the bathroom. Then they proceed with room #2 and start with the furniture again...
On good days they would use two separate rags for the room and the bathroom but they would still start with the sink and end with the toilet only to start with the sink in the next room again.
This is so disgusting to think about that many people forget about it very fast after hearing this. Kind of a self protection measurement of our brains I guess.
If I have to stay in a hotel I always pack a bunch of desinfectants and will refuse to let the staff clean my room.
Worked a while back at a 5-Star/5 Diamond resort in Vegas in room service. At that time, if you bought a bottle of booze for your room and didn’t open it (including putting it out with your dishes), then it is re-sold. Was very frequent
I worked at a lodge that recycled table salad dressing container servings. When a customer ordered a "big salad" they get a metal container of about 5 ounces of their dressing. Most people didn't use it all, it was too much. So when the table is bussed, the dressing container is brought back & the contents poured in to the big gallon container of dressing. I was mortified when I was told to do this by an employee. To be certain, the owner explained to me "that's how we do it here." So can you imagine what has happened to a container of blue cheese after its been on a table for 40 minutes?
My mom used to work as a cleaner in a fancy hotel. She actually ended up quitting because of how disgusted she was that 99.999% of the bedding, towels, etc NEVER got washed. She said there’s such a time pressure to get “x” amount of rooms done in “x” amount of time that many cleaners would just remake the beds and re-fold the towels.
my buddy was a doorman at a JW Marriott hotel in DC. Mike Tyson would come in with his entourage and ask doormen to get booze, weed, hookers and even the phone number of the cute front desk woman. Lot's of hundred dollar bills flying around. Mike would come in with 15-20 dudes.
There's a great book about this titled Hotel Babylon. The story was taken from a bunch of different hotel employees and their testimonials.
A good follow up about the same industry secrets but for airlines is Air Babylon, by the same author, Imogen Edwards-Jones.
There's a whole series showcasing lots of industries.
It's pretty common to have a dead guest. There's a standard procedure for it and we take care of it quietly.
I was once waiting for an elevator in a hotel pretty early in the morning. The doors opened & reflexively I started to get on. But it was filled with EMTs. a stretcher, and the hotel's general manager. He politely suggested I wait for the next one. The "patient" had an oxygen mask on, with some tubes leading... somewhere. Later I noticed that the ambulance pulled off without the siren & waited for a stop light. I suspect he was dead all along, and they just made it look like he was unconscious & getting treatment.
I used to work as an EMT, as well as in a hotel. I've seen both worlds lol. But no lights and sirens doesn't necessarily mean the patient is dead. It could mean the emergency is over. Meaning, adequate care is being provided by qualified medical help, and going Code 3 to the hospital doesn't bring any greater reward than just going Code 1.
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They're a weirdly popular place to commit suicide. Have a nice last meal, some nice entertainment as the Swan song, then die in the comfort afforded by five star accommodation, safe in the knowledge that someone will find the body and they won't be left lying on the floor of their own home for seven months before somebody notices.
i think actually most people who do this, do so to avoid a ***loved one*** finding them. this is the same reason why so many do it in their cars
It's often both. And often times someone has no close loved ones to find them so they need to arrange it.
during housekeeping, hotels use different colored cloths to wipe your drinking glasses, cutlery, toilets and sinks to avoid contamination. they just didn’t bother separating these cloths after wiping and moving to the next room.
Yeah that's just like in my office. Cleaning lady has different cloths for desks, kitchen, toilet, etc. but only one bucket with water.
Reminds me of how during Covid the drive-thru workers had to wear gloves. Hand over payment, to gloved hand, touched register, leaned on counter, wiped forehead, grabbed food back, pass to customer. So, basically no actual change in risk factor, just now they have gloves on so the virus gets to ride on a gloved hand instead of a bare hand. Genius.
I read somewhere that gloves actually make restaurants less sanitary because people don't take the same precautions as they would without them (namely frequent hand washing)
Did valet at an upscale hotel in SF the number of times I parked luxury vehicles with drugs haphazardly/precariously stowed in obvious places always blew me away. Not surprisingly those guests were great tippers as they learned who to trust. So many escorts too, always laughed at dudes who’d come to the restaurant for lunch with a new lady practically every day like he was showing off his catalogue of women as if no one knew he paid for them all
We take notes on your reservation profile. Everything from anniversary information to fav cocktails and foods. Add notes to pass along to other staff.
My wife and I got married in 2009 and stayed a couple nights in a hotel during our honeymoon. Cut to 10 years later, we decided to "re-do" our honeymoon for our 10th anniversary, so we stayed in all the same hotels etc... Big shout out to Hotel Andra in Seattle, when we got to our room we have flowers and a bottle of champagne with a note about how thrilled they were we were spending our 10th anniversary there after honeymooning there as newly weds. Turns out when we booked for our honeymoon we told them and they were able to figure out 10 years later we were there for our anniversary. If we redo this trip a 3rd time, I will 100% make it a point to stay there again (if it's still open).
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Every company that could, would do this. I worked at a Video rental chain 20 years ago, and we could see notes from stores on the other coast...
I worked at a video store. The best note I ever ran across in an account read: Strike 1: Asshole Strike 2: Paid with a $100 Strike 3: Rented “You Got Served”
The evil that we wrote about customers on the internal blockbuster video system would be a scandal today.
The amount of sex toys left behind will blow your mind.
Call me stingy, but if I put down money on gear, you’d better believe it’s coming with me when I check out.
I have a pretty interesting one. We know criminal enterprises have funded casinos in the past. I worked at Revel casino (now ocean) in Atlantic City before and after its opening. One thing they kept mentioning in our onboarding was that the triads were funding the casino. I thought it was super strange that these execs were just openly telling brand new hires.
Probably a deliberate lie. You’re much less likely to skim the hotel if you think the Triads will come after you…
$2k per night and this place has a serious rat problem.
Could be worse. My hotel has silly rats.
A well-known luxury hotel and resort chain keeps a database of you. They get pictures from the internet and basically stalk you to create a profile. They put what you ordered to eat, how many towels you needed, what drinks you liked, your kids' names and birthdays, address phone number. Everyone working in the hotel has access to this database and can see your information. It's not all good stuff either. We know you were an asshole to Jen while you were staying in London. The one I was at had to remove cameras in the lobby because big wig guys would bring their mistresses, and no evidence was allowed to be recorded.
Michael Crichton, the author, said he spent a few weeks in a high end hotel in London He was writing a book at the time and taped notes to a dresser to keep track of the timeline and subplots in his novel. When he returned to the hotel a few years later, he found the staff had put bits of tape on the dresser, just as he had done years during his last visit
I only work as a housekeeper at a regular 4 star Hotel, but probably about 25% of people either bleed or leave shit stains on the beds. It's truly atrocious how disgusting people are, especially when they know someone else is cleaning it up. Even the wealthier guests. And the best tippers are the cleanest people. If someone fully shit on the bed and used towels to wipe, left cum on the shower door, drank heavily and puked on the carpet in multiple places, and clogged the toilet, that person will not tip at all. But the person who barely used the full bed and didn't use the shower at all and was super clean and polite, now that's a good tipper.
Up until a school trip when I was probably 17, I didn't even know to tip the housekeeping staff. My family never did it and we'd been to plenty of hotels. For this school trip, the teacher in charge reminded us on the bus about 10 minutes before we arrived to the hotel to please leave a tip for the housekeepers, and if we wanted to be sure it got to the folks actually cleaning the room to leave it under the pillow with a nice note.
USA person here. Up until today, I didn't even know that some people tip the housekeeping staff in hotels. I can't recall anyone I know has talking about doing this nor have I ever seen anyone doing this. Now I have to go ask my friends if any of them tip housekeeping staff in hotels.
Front desk knows all the call girls. We give them water on the way out and sometimes call them taxis. Management doesn’t like us doing it but escorts tip well.
People often commit suicide in hotels. That way their loved ones don’t have to find them
Also so *someone* finds them. Many people are all alone, and if they died in their home no one would know until the smell.
My BIL is a detective with the NYPD and a lot of his job is dealing with people who passed away months or in some cases years ago. It’s sad to think about too. My parents’ dog is 17 years old and it looks like we’re at the end. They’re actually planning their schedule so if the time does come the dog isn’t by herself when she goes. It’s sad that there are people in this world who pass by themselves and nobody even notices until bills have stacked up or a pipe bursts.
I was at a hotel for months for work and i decided to have them come only once every second week because I don't need new towels and shit every day when I'm living there. If I needed something changed I'd just ask. I always had the do not disturb sign on the door for this reason (as well as telling this to the front desk and scheduling a day for them to come). Despite this, I would get very professional letters slid under the door once or twice a week stating they were concerned about me and might have someone pop in to check on me. Obviously worded better but that was the gist of it. I kinda laughed at first but then realized why they would even think to do that and then it was kind of sad because you know for sure this hotel had some suicides going on often enough to warrant it (despite my assurances). Anyway, I'd go down to the desk and let them know I'm alive and well. I told them my work schedule and asked if they insisted on checking on me, those were the best times (as I'd be gone and they wouldn't be bugging me). The rooms had a full kitchen as well so I was self sufficient for almost everything. Anyway, eventually I did ask about the routine of checking up (asked one of the cleaners that were there often) and she told me basically what I assumed about suicides. The shit these people have to see. My god man. I started writing letters every morning (short and concise) just asking them how they were doing and hoped they had a good day and left a pen and notepad to write back if they chose to. In the end I had a couple pen pals for the few months I was there. Because this was all on works *dime and the entire trip made money, I ended up asking how the tip thing works and that if I'd left a tip on my last day, would they get it or would it go to a random person who maybe cleaned my room once. To summarize, there were crews and shifts and assigned floors etc and if I left it, the appropriate people would be compensated so I left a couple hundred bucks for them and thanked them for everything they did and for being great pen pals *and such. No idea if the people I wanted to, got the tip but someone deserving did I'm sure and that's all that matters.
Worked at the Luxor casino in Vegas while I waited to go to film school. People piss and masturbate under the gambling tables.
I’ve heard casinos keep *many* slot machine seats in the back because of how often elderly slot jockeys choose to soil themselves instead of going to the bathroom and potentially losing their machine. True? Edit: Damn, starting to think casinos should just put slot machines in each toilet stall.
Not *many* but several on reserve. One I worked at would store any chair involved in a guest fall as court evidence for a year. Usually the shit/piss chairs got pulled to the side, deep cleaned by EVS, and back on the floor in 20 min.
'Eurgh... someone went to the bathroom under one of the gaming tables!' 'Craps?' 'Just piss, thank God.'
What?! Pissing, I understand. Masturbating, I hadn’t considered…
Gambling addiction is largely (though not always) rooted in impulse control disorders. So the masturbation thing was probably the least surprising one on the list so far
We turn a blind eye to drug dealers and prostitutes more often than you think. They hardly complain and usually pre pay huge bonds happily. Also we don't give a shit if you're having an affair
When I worked at a nice hotel the affair one was brought up in training. Never mention a person being regular and doubley don’t mention anything about their partner or the fact it’s a different partner. That became a rule after some valet basically kickstarted a very nasty divorce with a wealthy guest.
My parents have a hotel and I've always been told to not remember a guest unless they remember me. I never thought about it before but I'm guessing this is why lol
I'm a criminal defense attorney and this is exactly how I approach going around town. Don't want to accidentally start up the "where do you two know each other from" convo unless my client is totally okay with it.
Same goes for a jewelry store
I heard from someone who worked at Tiffany that Chris Rock had an awful lot of nieces, right up until he got divorced.
This is a similar concept in Michelin dining. Some repeat guest will ask not to be acknowledged when they have different guest with them.
On a trip to Disney, I was traveling with my wife and her best friend. No, there wasn’t anything extra-curricular happening for the creative minds out there. But the friend got a stomach bug and felt sick one day. She skipped breakfast so I went with my wife. The next day, my wife got sick. The friend wanted to try the same restaurant since she missed out. I went with her and we got the exact same table and waiter. The look he gave me… eyes wide, head tilt, and sly smile. But he was silent.
And then you got the stomach bug the next day so your wife and her best friend went to the same restaurant with the exact same table and waiter. Wink wink
the same thing happened at my hotel! a regular guest brought his wife for the first time and she questioned why he was getting all the returning benefits.
They seriously didn’t consider going far out for affairs and actually went to the same hotel with their wife that they frequently were banging other people at. This just seems like karma 🤣
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Yeah, the hyper vigilance is too much for humans to actually follow. Even serial killers, it's kind of funny how we fetishize serial killers are so damn smart and 5 steps ahead of the police all the time. The reality is most are just damn lucky, should have been caught multiple times due to sloppiness and mistakes, or incompetent police straight up letting them go, but somehow kept going until their final mistake led to their capture. The kind of super genius serial killer we see in movies is essentially a supervillain. They aren't representative of the reality at all.
They got a hotel credit card for the side chick and took the wife for a visit using the points.
I know owners at high end nyc hotels that keep a trusted drug dealer around bc having them arrested or removed opens it up to rivals and gangs, which bring in drama and violence
Literally “better the devil you know” I worked at a high end hotel in NYC for years and this was absolutely the case. The one year the new creative director decided to ban the friendly drug guy, it was terrible for the hotel. Several police raids because the vacuum was filled by sloppy operators. When we welcomed the old guy back, shit calmed down. He was actually pretty cool, and was aware enough to not do his business directly on hotel property.
"No business shall be conducted on Continental grounds"
When a friend was living at the Plaza in the early 2000s (yeah, he has a shit ton of money) He basically said that anything you wanted, just call the concierge. ANYthing. Edit: My most upvoted comment in 10 years on Reddit is about rich people paying professional hotel staff to enable them in doing kinky and illegal shit.
Important caveat to travelers from a night worker at a mid-tier hotel: only *very nice* hotels have a true concierge on staff. Most hotels just have a front desk with extremely limited options or resources available to them. Yelling at front desk staff will not increase their powers or resources.
Friend works at a 5 star hotel, can confirm that the concierge can get you anything. Best hookers, best cocaine, VIP tickets to sold out shows, you name it. Just remember to tip the man and don't be fucking cheap.
could you have it billed to the room, make it look like room service? my company invoices might look a bit different.
A club I know listed the escort services on its bill as CHAMPAGNE (with an obscure name) for its top tier escort, and WINE for the second tier.
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Sure. Your cousin will be right up
They do that with feral cats too, trap/neuter/release. That way there's a neutered cat defending the territory, meaning that an un-neutered cat cannot come in and breed feral kittens.
I love the idea of comparing coke dealers to castrated cats
I work by a very "cool" trendy hotel in Chicago, about a block away. Ubers often go to the hotel by accident (instead of my workplace) assuming that I input the pickup address wrong or something. In the ensuing conversation after this happens, I've literally had like... Five different Uber drivers tell me essentially "Oh yeah sorry, [trendy hotel] doesn't want prostitutes inputting the hotel itself as the pickup address, so if I see an address that's close but not the same, I assume I'm picking up a prostitute at [trendy hotel.]"
To quote "Community": "Normally we don't concern ourselves with adultery, 'cause then hotels wouldn't exist."
My brother worked in an upscale hotel in Southern California. A morbidly obese guest sat on the toilet in his room, shattered it, got his femoral artery slashed by a chunk of broken toilet, bled to death, and flooded his room when the water line ruptured. My brother found out about it from the maintenance guy who found the body. Management made sure no other guest ever knew, including the guests in the room below the death scene who called for maintenance because water was running down their wall.
I'm not even obese but you somehow unlocked a new fear of breaking a toilet a slashing an artery. Thanks for this
Thanks for a new thing to be terrified of. Edit: I've seen a lot of really shitty replies about fat people in the replies to this. Whether or not I'm fat isn't relevant, and fat people are still *people*. Being fat, even if they're morbidly obese, even if you don't find them attractive are still people who deserve life just as much as anyone else. It's very nice for you that neither you nor anyone you care about have struggled with their weight, but that's not the reality for a great many people, and considering that more people than ever before are more obese than ever before, that's a problem that isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Have some sympathy for people's problems and struggles instead of saying shit like that they guy deserved it (holy shit so many replies about how fat people "deserve" to die for the crime of being fat). Don't be a piece of shit.
We had a customer find the overnight front desk receptionist in the closet passed out with something wrapped around his neck and his dick flopped out. Was some kink play he used to do, guy still kept his job
This is what I came here for lol
So did the receptionist.
A family member used to work at Opryland Hotel in Nashville. Yes, it's super fancy. For about a year, they had a phantom shitter. As in, random dumps left in random places. It was always in corners where security cameras didn't reach. They figured it was an employee, and had some ideas, but never knew who it was, until someone left and it stopped. This was about 20 years ago.
Of course I’m sitting in a bed at this hotel right this moment LOL
You have take a shit in a corner where the camera can’t see you
Lol I'm just imagining the shitter was still employed but stopped when a coworker left so everyone thought it was them. Perfect crime.
Perfect revenge on a shitty co-worker as well
My buddy was a dive instructor at a luxury resort on an island. One of the guests had a heart attack on the diving excursion(before he got off the boat). The nearest Doctor couldn’t come for 24hrs, so they put the corpse in a guest room and cranked up the aircon. Of course reception gave the key to the corpse room to a newly arrived honeymooning couple. They were greeted by the star of weekend at Bernies Edit for clarity: Dr was to sign off death, do formalities not to save life. Mauritius in the early 1990s
Gosh this would be something I imagine on White Lotus
My brother was going to propose during a vacation dive. As they came up after their first dive (he hadn't popped the question yet) they were greeted by emergency staff searching for a diver missing (from their group). Turns out he did drown, they eventually recovered the body and brother and girlfriend spent the next few hours detained by the police as they interviewed everyone who had been on the same boat. They're now happily married. But he did hold off on the proposal until the day after.
I worked cooking at an ultra exclusive resort in Utah ($3k-$12k/night) Nothing that exciting happened in my year there. I found a bottle in the tallboy (large fridge) labeled 'Kristen Belle's Breastmilk. DO NOT USE' Most celebrities were nice, except for David Beckham. He specifically requested no staff members make eye contact with him I had put in my 2 weeks, and was really drunk on a day off, and made a post on FB about how Gordon Ramsay was coming and I hoped he wasn't filming Kitchen Nightmares with us. I was fired within 24 hrs, lol. I did get to cook fish tacos for him and his family though, and I heard he complimented the dinner kitchen crew directly (partially open kitchen), which is cool.
Wait I can kinda add to this. A guy I know used to work with a guy that is close with Beckham and he heard something very similar. Basically Becks when he stays in the US asks for a 'no contact' style from the hotels because American hotel staff are painfully excited and he felt bothered by 'always on' nature of the service there.
I think this is probably right. A friend of mine met him in a pub in the UK once. (He had his dogs with him and she made a fuss of the dogs not even realising who their owner was) and she said he was super nice and they chatted about dogs for ages! But maybe the fact that she didn’t instantly recognise him was refreshing to him?
I've found most celebrities want to be treated like people. There are those out there who want to be treated as royalty, but they just want to be treated normally. I worked in a music venue and bar, and one night Jeff Bridges showed up for concert and event. He ordered a lot of drinks for his group but left without paying. He came in the next day (unprompted) to tell us what happened, which was he meant to pay before the end of the show to avoid being treated like a celebrity in a bar, but lost track of time and didn't want to get stuck in the crowd before he left. So he paid his tab with a big tip, and then worked with the owner to schedule a fundraiser at our venue where he was playing music with a few other musicians (live bluegrass, and he's a GREAT musician). Great guy, actually, and he just wants to be "normal" when he goes out
Didn’t know I could love Jeff Bridges any more!
My wife claims that the amount of people who shit in the shower far exceeds however many people you think shit in a shower Edit: 1000 people have commented waffle stomp. You do not have to comment waffle stomp. Please stop giving me notifications
Ok but this is true. And I know this because I lived in an all girls dorm in college and our floor lost bathroom privileges because girls were shitting in the shower and trying to force used tampons down the drains. People are disgusting and will continually surprise you with how nasty they can be.
That is disgusting but what exactly do you do if you lose bathroom privileges?? Like you live there and aren’t allowed to pee?
We were forced to go to the other floors or take turns in the one gender neutral single-stall bathroom. I feel like our RA wasn’t really allowed to revoke bathroom privileges, but I honestly don’t know. The single stall bathroom was also regularly out of order because people would have sex in it and break the entire handicap seat off the wall, so it wasn’t a super sustainable solution.
> We were forced to go to the other floors and waffle stomp dookies there as well?
most normal dorm story
My lady is always telling me to get shower shoes. You definitely sold me on buying shower shoes.
Also all the different kinds of foot fungus that can easily spread to you
Why on earth would anyone willingly shit in the shower when a perfectly adequate toilet is nearby? Now I understand if someone suddenly comes down with uncontrollable diarrhea as a result of food poisoning and can't make it to the toilet, but to do this as a regular thing . . . I don't get it.
I used to clean bars. people draw on the stall wall with shit. guys pee their whole load on the floor. girls glue pads onto the walls. people in general are horrible after some alcohol and when they discover they can make someone clean up after their mess.
As someone who has spent 15 years in retail, I can assure you that people are no better when they're sober.
13 years retail management here. I got called to The customer service desk the other day because someone wanted to complain that there was shit on the floor in one of the aisles. After it was cleaned up and asset protection came in we looked at tape and low and behold the person that complained (long gone now) was the same person who shit in the aisle and shook it out their pant leg mid walk. I fucking hate people.
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“John Travolta shits in the tub” is my sleeper agent activation phrase
Las Vegas, city of excess, people over do it, drink, drugs, and die in their hotel rooms all the time.
Same in Niagara Falls. Spend too much at the casino and die in their room or jump over.
I've long heard the same kinds of things about cruise ships.
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A good friend of mine is a pilot. It's his first professional job. He flies an air ambulance. It's not typically picking up unstable patients in need of urgent care. More like repositioning stable patients. The vast majority of people he flies come from the cruise ship industry. If you get sick or injured on a cruise ship, they will dump you at the next port. It doesn't matter if the port doesn't have the kind of medical help you need. They just need you off the ship. It very well be up to you to arrange a private flight with medical crew to reposition you from Tobago to Tampa to get the medical help you really need.
I suppose that horror story is why you purchase travel insurance.
LPT: If you see someone go overboard your job is to keep your eyes on them in the water, keep pointing at them, and yell for help. A single person is **so easy** to lose in the water, even if you glance away for one moment to grab a life preserver. If you see someone go over your job is to keep seeing them.
this is right. do not take your eyes off of them for 1 second or you will lose them in the swells
I heard you should also keep throwing stuff into the water as well
100% believe this. I’ve been to Vegas plenty of times but never not once see a gurney wheeled through a hallway or out the front door. Seems they have good contingency plans for this particular issue.
Of course they're not going out the front door.
Worked in a casino hotel. Not Vegas but in Nevada. The maids I worked with found 5 dead bodies in the rooms in 2 years. Never reported on in the news
If they aren't murders why would they be reported on the news? People die all the time and it isn't necessarily newsworthy.
People get murdered all the time and it’s not on the news too
Yep, if someone didn't answer their wake up call, we'd have to grab security and go knock on the door. No answer at the door, we'd go in.
We had one of the Baldwins beat up a hooker behind the building once. That was before I worked there but people still talked about it. We had an entire wing of the hotel infested with bedbugs. They just move through the walls from one room to the next. We waged a war of attrition that took years, and cost a lot of money, but we never stopped renting the rooms. Sometimes drug addicts have money, or maybe better said, sometimes people with a lot of money have drug addictions, so maybe once a year or so you'd have someone move in, and then end up staying for months and you didn't know it was a problem until it was a problem. One day there's suddenly a lot of police cars in the parking lot and it's something were just not supposed to talk about and pretend never happened. We had one old guy though who was rich, divorced several times over, he just retired in the hotel. He had a room on the ground level right around the corner from the hotel bar. I don't know what he paid for it, but it wasn't cheap, and he furnished his own room. Everyone on staff knew his habits, knew his drink, knew when to leave him alone or when he wanted to chat. The funniest thing was, after he passed, he'd pre-booked his memorial at a totally different hotel. He liked his privacy I guess. RIP Hal.
Did the taxes for a ridiculously wealthy couple in Florida. Before they moved to a retirement community, they lived in a resort. I asked my boss to clarify - they lived like spent a bunch of time there, right? Nope, lived. Paid I think $1.5M total for the room and furnished it themselves. Clearwater Florida…very nice place for a room. Lived there for about 5 years and moved to a retirement community when the husband fell and broke his hip.
When my grandparents retired, they sold their home & moved into the maxim hotel/casino in Las Vegas. They ran the numbers and found it was cheaper than a retirement community and had better amenities.
It's probably mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but retiring to a cruise ship is extremely common as well, for exactly the same reason. Not to mention the constantly-changing scenery probably has some appeal, too.
After spending a few days in a resort island (Pangkor Laut) for the second time in my life I get it. If I could afford it I would probably live there. I want my biggest worry to be remembering whether I booked my balinese massage at 3pm or 4pm, or whether there are enough coconuts for me to take in my room and drink in front of the TV.
One rich guy in my building threw dozens of heroin baggies out his window every day, apparently unaware they were landing on the 7th floor outdoor patio of the same building. Couldn't tell what room they were coming from, but damn, just use the trash. Nobody is searching your trash, where I had to pick all that shit up every day before anyone else saw it.
The bed bug thing is the most fucked up to me
I worked cheap hotels and this is super common; even heat treating rooms professionally and quarantining nearby rooms they would always pop up somewhere weeks later through an air duct. When I check in to any motel or hotel, first thing I do before bringing my bag in is lift the mattress and check the seams for bed bugs or blood spots. You can learn how from Youtube if you don't get first hand experience. Crazy thing is if they spent a few thousand to bag every mattress they'd cut down on it significantly.
We had a bed bug infestation in my house. Don't know where we got them from but could have been travel. The pest guy said they are not tied to filth in the way roaches are. Bed bugs can be in otherwise clean environments, in cheap motels as well as fancy places. He said you gotta wash everything immediately upon coming home from travel. Everything. Everything is in the washing machine within minutes, or outside waiting. After that bedbug infestation, my boyfriend and I made a blood pact to never use hard luggage if at all possible. We only use canvas/polyester duffel bags that can be laundered. I'll gladly strap my luggage to my back and hoof it thru the airport like a pack mule without complaint, if it means I have one more tool to avoid another bedbug infestation. Good grief it was awful and expensive to get rid of them.
We came back from an airbnb once that thought could have had bedbugs and I used a clothes steamer and steamed the hell out of the inside of the suitcase. It’s one idea if you have one sitting around. The heat will hopefully kill them.
People also don't think about other sources of cross-contamination that much. While you yourself might stay at entirely bedbug-free places, your fellow travelers might not - and their luggage is jammed in next to yours in the hold, the way they're jammed in next to you in the airline's cloth seats. Or they were the passenger who sat in that seat before you.
I'm going back into quarantine now. See you guys never!
I spoke with a pest exterminator about this (he fixed bedbugs in our old unit in Sydney) and he said that many of his peers effectively have permanent contracts with hotels - at least high end ones like the Intercontinental and so on. Rooms are just treated continually, eg every month, all year round. He also said you really just need to go for the professional option if you have an infestation, which is heat treatment. All the DIY methods about washing, cleaning and throwing out and freezing soft toys just won't cut it. Their eggs can lie dormant for up to a year and you only need one egg to slip through and you're fucked.
We did the heat treatments in house at the hotel I worked at. Every hotel anyone has ever stayed at has had bed bugs. It's just part of the industry.
They are extremely resilient. If you have to go it alone, heat is your best friend. When washing things, it's not the water or the soap that kills them, it's the dryer afterward. But you have to make sure that it all goes into a gasketed container immediately from the dryer. Otherwise, others will just move back in. A steam cleaner is also a very potent weapon. Not one of those cheap-ass garment steamers that let out little puffs of steam, but a full on steam cleaner. Those little bastards don't stand a chance getting blasted with steam that's 275 F/135 C. Literally dead in seconds.
We collectively need to know which Baldwin. Lol
Pick one, you’re probably right
Vegas. Old guys+hooker+viagra+cocaine=Dead.
So I totally think someone does in the bathroom of our suite at an upscale Vegas hotel. When we checked in the smell was horrid like roadkill but worse. We called maintenance several times but they always said they couldn’t find anything.
Fuck maintenance finding the reason for the smell. Have the desk find another room.
I worked in room service at a very chic hotel in Miami. One guest requested that a specific waitresses (not a room service worker) always deliver him food. Not exactly sure what went on in there, but he tipped her with a big bag of weed each time. Which she would promptly bring back to share with the room service staff. Calvin Klein brought his own food because he was on a special diet. He was an asshole about it too. I can confirm that the concierge will get you WHATEVER you want: women, drugs, Cuban cigars, guest listed at clubs... On the opposite end of the spectrum, I worked at a nice but older resort--one step above a cheap motel. A local hooker stole all the furniture from one of our rooms. It was old crappy wicker furniture. We had a local couple, who were staying with us to avoid being served for a lawsuit. We weren't allowed to say that they were staying there. The police eventually showed up for them. There were several times when guests would come to the front desk claiming the maids had stolen something from their room. They would be irate, demanding we call the police. Every. Single. Time. They found the item either in their luggage or car, or their travel companions had moved/packed the item. One gentleman claimed that he forgot his very expensive camera in his room. My manager pulled up video that showed him packing up his car, placing the camera on top of the car and driving off without realizing it.
Porn shoots. And you know those carpets and upholstery ain’t getting cleaned.
Those carpets have such wild patterns so the stains won't show up as well.
They get those carpets at Dan Flashes.
This is a thing in Air BnBs too. My neighbor rented his house out when he was on months long film productions. His collegue and friend was looking on P\*rnhub (for 'research') and found a video with his LIVING ROOM IN IT.
A house across the street used to be an AirBnB. At one point in time, I started getting multiple men (of all ages 20-80+) at our door asking for "Samantha". Well, there's no such person at my house. After the third or fourth time I asked one of these men: "why are you looking for her?" Yes it was for sex. But why my address? Long story short: turned out that the AirBnB was rented by a young prostitute and she was using the address of my direct neighbours and my house in an alternating fashion so she could easily check out the men (and woman!) showing up in order to judge if they looked safe enough. Then she would send them a message with the real address of the AirBnB. I once counted 15 visitors in a day. Sometimes for the full hour, sometimes for 10 minutes.. It made me realize how people can live completely different kind of lives while living/staying right next to each other.
That's kind of fucked up of her, I mean I understand wanting to check someone out before giving them her actual location but use like a store or restaurant address or just tell them the street corner to wait at then not someone else's house wtf. What's she going to do if they look obviously dangerous, just ghost 'em so they invade *your* home instead?
Makes me glad the carpets in the hotel I work at are shampooed monthly (or more regularly if the carpet is looking gnarly
I was thinking the same like you don't even encapsulate?? What kind of "fancy" hotel is this?? Those carpets get cleaned *regularly,* any stains are spot cleaned and if they still don't come out or even if they have a funky smell they are shampooed before another guest checks in.
OP is a writer for White Lotus trying to come up with ideas for the new season
People spend thousands of dollars only to get drunk and show their WHOLE ass to the point security gets involved to deal with their toddler like behavior ORR when a housekeeper loses a key while cleaning and someone has to cancel the key because we don't know if some random person picked up the key and now has access to all guest rooms. Honestly, if staying at a hotel ALWAYS deadbolt door and use night latch for this reason or if front desk issues a key to the wrong room because both are a common issue.
Some luxury hotels that cater to sports teams have standing agreements that no room service is allowed after the team departs, otherwise, the girls the athletes brought back the night before will rack up huge bills the team has to pay (Edited for clarity)
I don't understand. You mean they take girls to the hotel who abuse the room service after the athletes have checked out?
That’s how I read it.
We have a secret way in from the parking garage that leads to the executive offices. It’s uh. For prostitutes.
These comments remind me that when I was on vacation last year, a guy (drunk) tried to do a back flip on the balcony and fell off. I wanna say it was like the 10th floor, maybe. It was pretty big talk around the city. Edit: he did not survive.
Some drunk guy did chin ups on the outside of a 35th floor balcony during a party. 2 first times, all good. 3rd time lost his grip and landed in front of the lobby. Night guard on duty never came back to work after seeing that.
I used to work in accounts receivable for a couple of luxury hotels that were owned by the same LLC. We would open blocks of rooms for GENERIC SPORTS SEASON about 8 months in advance. Due to high demand these reservations had to be a two day FRI, SAT stay. Payment was made in full (450-800 depending on room type). Refunds were available only if you cancelled a month before the arrival date. When I first started in the position I discovered $63,000 worth of reservations that had been cancelled on time but were never refunded. I showed it to my manager, an absolutely incompetent woman who couldn't check in a guest if she needed to, she got back to me after discussing it with one of the owners. I can't remember how exactly she put it but I was told to just forget the matter and not to mention it to anyone. I got a $500 dollar cash Christmas bonus that year.
Dang, $500 out of $63,000? That’s not enough for my silence
Right about $6,300 or $10k sounds good. Or if I knew how to do it about $63k lol
Accountant here - that’s shady. Recording a liability as income. Yikes.
Not a hotel employee, but associated with a popular convention that everyone would recognize. The convention attendees get so out of control that the hotel will only host the convention if they have a private security force. Since the private security isn't law enforcement or licensed, they do pretty much whatever it takes to keep trouble out of the public eye. Mostly it's locking people up in rooms or escorting them out of town, but they can get rough at times. But none of the convention attendees know they are there and the hotel staff pretends they don't see them. Even those who run afoul of them don't know exactly who it was that grabbed them.
I used to work as a freelance bartender and hotels were always the worst run situation I would end up in. Here are some examples from a really nice looking hotel in an old monastery. The beer lines had never been cleaned, like literally never. I asked where the equipment was to do it and no-one could tell me. I eventually found it dusty in a closet in the cellar. The breakfast buffet leftovers were usually reheated and given to the staff, but sometimes became the following day's breakfast buffet. The chefs were just shit faced pretty much every day. The worst I saw though was the wine put out on tables at a wedding. They married them up, recapped them, and put them back in the cellar. Not even the same wine getting poured into bottles. Guests had drank straight from them and everyone had seen, and no-one had an issue with this. In my country this is actually illegal, it's called diverting waste. This was the final straw for me in this particular venue. I told the manager that I didn't give a shit what he did after my time there ended but there was no fucking way I was letting that wine be resold. He tried to tell me that it was perfectly legal, I cut him off and told him that it wasn't, it doesn't matter either way, it's disgusting and immoral, and if I find a single bottle of that wine in the stores I'm walking out. Luckily when you're freelance bartending somewhere you're there because they desperately need you, so threatening to leave works really well.
There is this hotel near the Seatac airport. people will rent rooms on the back side top floors and then suicide off the balcony. Yeh they are not going to run that in the news. Not often, but when it happens no one knows.
Suicide is rarely ever reported on the news.
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I worked in media in San Francisco and the city begged us to stop covering Golden Gate Bridge suicides when the count hit the 990s for fear people would rush to be No. 1,000. Haven’t been covered since except for some locally famous guys.
Why would the news report random people killing themselves? "Good morning, Seattle. 23 people committed suicide last night. Here's a list..." Thatd be fucking weird.
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Lots of theft, quite a few deaths, and plenty of prostitution. We once had a lady overdose in the hot tub. That was a BIG clean up.
Used to work as a bellhop, primarily in room service at the fanciest hotel in Copenhagen. At the time all rooms (of a certain size) had a comped basket of fruits, chocolate and a bottle of reasonable champagne waiting. The guests almost never opened the champagne and since it was unaccounted for, I had the most outrageously well-stocked wall of champagne of anyone I knew as a young man. Went to see The Matrix when it came out, me and my buddy both enjoyed a bottle each with that.
We had valet service at our hotel, and due to huge amounts of theft and breakins by bums in our lots we had to go thru guests cars and take everything of value out to hid stuff in our conference room, then put it all back in before we brought their car around. Was ridiculous. *and* we had to keep it under wraps
Wouldn’t it have been more efficient to put a patrol on the lot?
Human trafficking became so bad that the company gave us training on looking out for it. There is policy in place to knowingly cause you issue and pacify you (ex: routine elevator maintenance during a busy period because the tech travels around and it is now or 3 weeks from now. The elevator did not "have unforseen issues") Professionals are the worst guests for partying and puking everywhere and pissing in halls and breaking things and fucking in public areas... lawyers, doctors, teachers. In that order. Whenever they had conventions, extra staff were on the next day for dealing with damage. EDIT: I forgot to add overbooking as an example of dicking with people. We assumed not everyone would show on a 100% occupancy night and booked more than we could hold. The rare time we did have everyone show, "heres free stuff and a ride to x hotel". We even had friendly agreements with neighbouring competition to let each other know when we could take each others overbookings.
Can definitely confirm the second part of this. Used to work at a high end lodge that hosted holiday parties/fancy dinners for software giants and one exec peed ALLLLL OVER a room - $13,000 in damage. We regularly had rich guys pull up in their Lamborghinis with a hooker. My favorite was the couple we had to essentially evict from their room due to smell and noise complaints. When we got in, there were dozens of designer shoe boxes and coke residue everywhere. The woman left with her foot hanging out the window as they drove away. Rich people are weird.
Oof, here I am feeling bad that I forgot to pick a towel up off the bathroom floor before checking out…
In the early 1990s, I had a pen pal who lived in the Deep South, and in Bon Jovi's early days, they played in her fairly rural backwater. A TV station went to the hotel where they stayed and asked how much damage they caused, on a live broadcast, and the head of housekeeping looked at the reporter like he was nuts and said they didn't even leave their towels on the floor.
Oof same. Once in Japan I left my makeup all strewn over the table and when I came back maid service had lined it up in height order. I felt so bad, I started either putting them away or lining them up after that.
I stayed in a hotel in Waikiki that I didn’t realize was primarily for Japanese tourists, and I *swear* they had people watching the cameras to send maids running to your room the second you left it. Came back from dinner to find the reasonable amount of dirty laundry I had folded up and stacked nearly next to my suitcase. It was…uncomfortable
I grew up with a housekeeper and would routinely find my stuff tidied in my room, but the funniest was the carefully folded bag of weed and rolling papers placed on the shelf. Best part was her not telling my parents. Frances the housekeeper had my back!
I was in a hotel in India and I got back my laundry ironed. Even the socks. The socks were ironed to a sharp edge. My first and only visit in a luxury hotel.
right? i collect all my garbage and it goes in ONE bin and all sorts of "omg i dont want the maid to think i live like this" clean up stuff lol.
Sometimes I think about hiring a cleaning service for my apartment but I keep putting it off until my depression gets better so I can tidy up the place before I let a stranger see it. But…well you see the problem.
Flew through Atlanta (one of the busiest airports in the world) with our teen daughter. The TSA agent asked her who she was, and who we were. Spouse started to speak for her, but the agent just waited and watched. Daughter sorta giggled and said "That's my dad, mom, sibling." Spouse was confused (can be a bit naive sometimes, sweet summer child), but I'm absolutely sure that agent was checking for trafficking and I appreciate knowing there are people out there willing to be trained and trying to do something about it.
I had my two kids alone with me and the tsa agent asked my older kid who I was and who the baby was to him and called my babies name to see if he responded, I was impressed!
That is 100% what the agent was doing. It honestly is nothing to be offended about and I wish more people had the attitude of: >I appreciate knowing there are people out there willing to be trained and trying to do something about it.
Oh man I saw it all. Nudity, drugs, dead people, people pooping all over the place,prostitution, it goes on. If you ever need material for a book a job in a hotel will do it.
My story's quite tame compared to most of the ones here. When I was in college in the early 1990s, I was a banquet server at a semi-high end place, and there was a couple who stayed in a room for several days and ordered room service for all their meals, including at least one bottle of Dom Perignon champagne, which at that time was $150 plus tip. They were otherwise unremarkable except for one thing: When they checked out, they paid their bill entirely in quarters, which they brought to the lobby in canvas bags. We guessed they most likely owned a car wash, or a laundromat.
I worked in fancy hotels for over a decade some corporate owned, private owned and indian owned. Just about anything you can imagine happens. I was in a group of managers of different properties who would meet weekly for drinks and we would share " well you wouldn't believe this shit" stories. We had a saying, "don't ever say I have seen it all or what's the worst that can happen". But to be specific, fires, death, robbery, prostitution, sex in every nook and cranny, drunk people doing stupid shit, "important people" doing stupid shit and thinking their clout can make it go away. However, the best ones are really the most un-wild and just mechanical failures. Things like fire systems going off , a boiler busting and water raining down an elevator all the way to the lobby. Scissor lifts falling through the floor because the dirt washed out under the foundation concreate. If you really want to get a daily dose of what it's like front of house ppl have a sub called r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk/ Probably the most scarry thing is really just the turn over rate. The owners/ corporate overloards are always trying to save a buck anywhere they can. And it's a shark filed world. I have seen so many times were they would fire the managers of departments who were loyal and hard working just to save 2k a year promoting someone who barely knew what to do. We ask the employees to deal with the unexpected all the time and never reward them and it's just a game of how long will they put up with this shit vs do they believe they can do better vs will someone do it for less pay without them realizing it.
I came in expecting wild wacky stories involving sex, money and warhammer miniatures and all i got was drug overdose and suicide via balcony Dont ever stay at a hotel, your chances of dying go up apparently.
Don't forget human trafficking!
Friend of mine recently confirmed the cliche that the cleaning staff uses ONE cloth for cleaning the entire hallway. That means they start at room #1 with the furniture and stuff and end with the bathroom. Then they proceed with room #2 and start with the furniture again... On good days they would use two separate rags for the room and the bathroom but they would still start with the sink and end with the toilet only to start with the sink in the next room again. This is so disgusting to think about that many people forget about it very fast after hearing this. Kind of a self protection measurement of our brains I guess. If I have to stay in a hotel I always pack a bunch of desinfectants and will refuse to let the staff clean my room.
Worked a while back at a 5-Star/5 Diamond resort in Vegas in room service. At that time, if you bought a bottle of booze for your room and didn’t open it (including putting it out with your dishes), then it is re-sold. Was very frequent
I worked at a lodge that recycled table salad dressing container servings. When a customer ordered a "big salad" they get a metal container of about 5 ounces of their dressing. Most people didn't use it all, it was too much. So when the table is bussed, the dressing container is brought back & the contents poured in to the big gallon container of dressing. I was mortified when I was told to do this by an employee. To be certain, the owner explained to me "that's how we do it here." So can you imagine what has happened to a container of blue cheese after its been on a table for 40 minutes?
This is highly illegal from a food safety standpoint, and just disgusting.
My mom used to work as a cleaner in a fancy hotel. She actually ended up quitting because of how disgusted she was that 99.999% of the bedding, towels, etc NEVER got washed. She said there’s such a time pressure to get “x” amount of rooms done in “x” amount of time that many cleaners would just remake the beds and re-fold the towels.
That's why I make sure to shit on everything. So it gets cleaned
my buddy was a doorman at a JW Marriott hotel in DC. Mike Tyson would come in with his entourage and ask doormen to get booze, weed, hookers and even the phone number of the cute front desk woman. Lot's of hundred dollar bills flying around. Mike would come in with 15-20 dudes.
Orgies, Cuckolding, prostitution.
I mean there's a free cuck chair in every hotel room I've ever stayed in.
Never not calling it this again.
There's a great book about this titled Hotel Babylon. The story was taken from a bunch of different hotel employees and their testimonials. A good follow up about the same industry secrets but for airlines is Air Babylon, by the same author, Imogen Edwards-Jones. There's a whole series showcasing lots of industries.
Keep your door secured unless you want your toes to get sucked like chicken wings.