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Many travelers have probably forgotten personal belongings in hotel rooms at least once in their lives. Often this is not a deliberate action, but because of something that just flew out of my head!
In a recent study conducted by Hotels.com, which surveyed more than 400 hotels around the world, researchers discovered an interesting trend regarding the items that travelers often leave in their hotel rooms. The results reveal a wide range of forgotten items, from basic necessities to surprisingly extravagant items.
The strangest things people forget in hotels
The most common items left by guests are:
- phone chargers,
- clothes,
- power adapters,
- makeup,
- toiletries.
At the same time, hotel guests left behind a lot of strange personal items. Among them: two full plaster casts of legs and an amazing number of dentures, enough to cover the hotel floor.
Several hotel guests also inadvertently forgot their pets, including a lizard and a chicken. Both pets were safely returned to their owners.
Guests also left behind several valuables, including a Rolex watch, an Hermes Birkin bag and another watch worth more than $6 million.
In addition, some hotels found a car tire, a blender and construction pipes after the departure of guests.
The survey also showed that hotel staff make significant efforts to return items left by guests. For example, one employee drove 160 miles to retrieve a forgotten passport, while another ran several hundred meters to deliver items to a departing cruise ship. Another dedicated employee drove 4 hours to return a forgetful guest's lost suitcase.
And what is the strangest thing tourists have asked for in a hotel?
The report also details some of the more unusual hotel room service requests, including:
- baby bath filled with Evian mineral water,
- individual menu taking into account allergens for a pet,
- burnt toast, hot dog with caviar, fresh goat milk, 1,8 kilograms of bananas,
- "high five" from a team member "to make sure their room service request was read."
