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Craziest Thing That Ever Happened to You in a Hotel
Posted by gtally • 2/19/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: accommodations, b&b, bed and breakfast, Hotel, inn, lodging, travel
Through the years as a hotel owner, I've seen some pretty freaky things happen around hotels.
There was the man who snored with his mouth open while awake and checking in. Then there was the naked guy whose TV remote control I had to fix late one night, and he had his bed covered in stuffed toy koalas. (And the whole time I was touching the remote, I was thinking, I know where were your hands were last. Yuck!) And what about the 500 pound man who showed up wearing nothing but pinned-together bedsheets and wanted us to hand feed him pizza while he lay in bed? (He did everything in that bed, and I mean *everything*. We had to burn the mattress after he left).
But what about from the traveler's perspective?
What's the weirdest, strangest thing that ever happened to you in a hotel? Tell us, and don't spare the gory details!
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For me, its not at the hotel, but the guesthouse, because I am a friendy little guy and I forget to bring along my card, Its 01:30am, I can't enter the building, do shout but nobody heard my voice, so I wait in front of the door for about 30++ minutes. After that the owner of the guesthouse saw me and OMG I am again inside, but not in my room, befriend, talking to him for about 3 1/3 h, I am so tired, so sleepy at that moment but don't know why, I am just being so match with the talk. So, expect me to wake up on the afternoon next day. What an unplanned things ruined my morning plan that next day, made up to an extra one more day excuse to stay in the guesthouse, also goes to my plane schedule. -
So you went to a hotel where they didn't want you to sleep? How lonely was this guy, anyway?
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A friend of mine got married in the middle of nowhere and the only available hotel (which was a motel) was sketchy as hell.
When I hung my dress up in the closet, the whole top shelf fell down and there was a good two inch gap under the front door that probably let in more bugs/mice than any "sanitary" conditions would allow.
It was almost laughably bad until we noticed the grime ring in the bathtub and the ants in the sink. I literally slept in my car after the wedding.
I so wish any part of that wasn't true.... lol-
Was this place like the Bates Motel, or what? I would have been afraid to touch anything in that room. What color were those bedspreads, anyway? Any clown art on the walls? I recently stayed in a hotel in Germany with clown art. It also had a pink flamingo shower curtain and a shower head that kept falling off every five minutes. Priceless.
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Something similar happened to my family on vacation when I was about 12. We checked into a motel and when we got in the room, I flopped down on the bed and my dad (apparently without thinking) snapped at me not to lie on the dirty bedspread. When I pointed out that in a short time I'd be SLEEPING in that bed, my parents took a look around the room, gathered our stuff up and asked for their money back. -
There was another time I stayed at a Hampton Inn outside of Dallas where the hotel art had mashed, dried spiders trapped between the glass and the print. I think something hatched inside the picture, but couldn't escape.
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god i know right? the inside looked like it had been decorated in the early 90's - nothing awful (decor wise) until the room started falling down around us....... i called the corporate offices when i got home and let them HAVE IT!
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Yes. no doubt he was a hardworking single. thumbs up for him. He was so excited because I introduced my friend the day before to change her check in from a big rival hotel to his so cute guest house.
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the same here - big gap under room door and no other clients in whole big hotel.-
Was it interior corridor or exterior entry? If it was interior, many hotel chains like at least a little bit of a door gap so that they can slide your checkout bill under the door. Many businesspeople like this expedited service because they can leave quicker. But I say it takes a lot of the hospitality out of the hospitality industry. It's so impersonal.
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But a big, empty hotel is decidedly spooky, like "The Shining" or "Barton Fink."
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It was interior corridor. Head or small dog can go through door gap. Maybe not so much customers want to stay in such hotel, so less vacancy.
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True. If it was all comfortable and familiar, why travel at all? It's good for us to be thrown out of our element from time to time.
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When I was in my late thirties I was in a hotel room with three girlfriends (my age or older) just talking and laughing at about midnight. Hotel security came to the door and asked us to keep the noise down. All being middle-aged professionals, moms, etc., none of us had had anything like that happen in years, and we laughed out loud. One of my friends demanded to see identification and suggested that someone had put him up to this. Eventually, it emerged that a bunch of 8th graders on a field trip had complained about the noise level.
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I once had an eighth grade kid from England evacuate my entire hotel. He wanted to see what happened if you put a chocolate chip cookie in the in-room microwave for 30 minutes.
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It was probably when I was down in DC for a software user conference my company was putting on. I was coming down the hallway as a well-dressed man with an earpiece was messing with the keycard on a room.
He tried it, tried it again, no avail. He was so frustrated, he appealed to me for help. I got it to work and then he laughed embarrassedly:
"And to think I'm Secret Service!"
Um... some secret!
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Was at the Four Seasons in Toronto - top floor.
Hall was full of big guys in dark suits with thingies in their ears. watched us as we used our key card to get in our room.
Early next morning, opened the door to get my paper, and the guy right accross the hall was doing the same thing...both in our "shorts". We both looked up and laughed.
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Excellent story!
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The craziest thing that happened to me in a motel was a modeling shoot. I was posing for a San Francisco photographer who had me in various poses like something ominous was about to happen.
One of the best was where I was kneeling on the bed wrapped in only a green veil, and looking over my shoulder. My main figure was blurred while the image in the lavatory mirror was starkly clear (and not showing the photographer). It was a picture worthy of Gorgio de Chirico and Alfred Hitchkock.-
Model, divinity school student, supporter of cyborg rights, catnip tea drinker...you are one interesting person, LynneaUrania! Someday, I'd like to read your biography.
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The year was 1969. A friend and I had been on a motorcycle trip from D.C. to Nova Scotia. We were on the return leg, spending the night in a hotel in Bangor Maine. Due to hassles at the border (routine for long-haired hippies on motorcycles) we were late getting in, and I fell immediately into a deep sleep.
What I hadn’t noticed was that there was a radio embedded in the center of the bed’s headboard, which was an enormous piece of carved mahogany that had to be at least 4 feet high. The previous occupant had set the radio to come on very early in the morning. Slowly I came awake to the sound of this soft sepulchral voice coming from somewhere above me. At some point I realized that the announcer was talking about the sudden death of Jim Morrison of the Doors in Paris. At first I thought I was dreaming, but then I realized that it was true. The whole experience was surreal.-
I had a similar experience staying in the cheapo motor court motel affiliated with Circus Circus Casino in Las Vegas. It was for budget travelers and I was in college and broke. I had just participated in an Elvis wedding the night before, and I had to get up very early in the morning and drive the bride and groom to McCarran Airport so they could fly on to their honeymoon in Hawaii. My room was a connecting room, and halfway around the planet, Princess Diana's funeral was taking place. My anonymous next door neighbor was blaring the service and sobbing loudly and uncontrollably.
So I drove my friends to the airport while we listened to this high Anglican, very English church service, and it was dawn in Vegas. While the pipe organs played and the hymns were sung, the hotel workers swarmed in and out of the casinos at the shift change and the lights on the Strip winked off, the hookers packed up shop and headed home, while those who had lost their shirts gambling the night before wandered the street aimlessly, with no place to go. It was surreal.
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The cleaning lady walked in on my girlfriend and I having sex. There had been some kind of mix up at the front desk and the room was thought to be empty.-
The landlord of my apartment did that. No warning letter posted to the front door in advance so it wasn't a planned visit. We ignored the door, hoping whoever it was would go away. Oops! -
My parents went on their anniversary to this fine, old grand hotel in Colorado. The front desk sent no less than three other couples to their room. What exactly did they think my parents were planning to do?!
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It probably is best to stay at the $300 a night hotels I think to avoid the weird people.-
Then again, the rich folks are often more dangerous than the poor ones.
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Trust me, mikeny07. The freaks are in every class, price range and star level of hotel in the world. There's no escaping it! When you check into a hotel, you are agreeing to sleep in close proximity to the entire, sad spectrum of humanity, and all the sordidness that entails.
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My dad's uncle used to own a hotel not far from the beach in California. One of the couples there had an argument and he locked her out of their room. It was past midnight and she had no option but the bang on the owner's room/apartment. He answered the door and she was stark naked! Quite a shock!
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Domestic violence and bad arguments are fairly common place at all hotels, and most properties have standard procedures for dealing with it. But sometimes you simply can not control what your guest does, after hours. You have no idea who you're checking in, and they seem normal at the front desk during check-in, but become freaks after dark. Once, we had a naked, drunk mortician at one of our hotels chase a prostitute through the parking lot. Apparently she had just stolen his wallet. But her pimps intercepted the guy and beat him up in front of our lobby. So then he was naked, drunk *and* bloody. Try explaining that to your guests!
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ew!
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I know. But don't get the wrong idea. These are the exceptions, not the norm, and memorable for their freakiness.
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Ah, the ever-lovely Janet Leigh, mom of Jamie Lee Curtis, and the reason why generations of Hitchcock watchers gave up bathing for a while.
"Norman? Norman, Come here!"
Creepy in a good way.
My favorite of Hitch's is "North by Northwest."
You ever notice how hotels are usually not very sunny places in the movies, but cavernous hell holes full of creepy crawlies?
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