Jason Mustian
Part of the point of a hotel is that it feels a little like a home, which is great in most cases, but sometimes, when people feel a little “too at home,” things can get weird and gross.
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A recent NSFW Reddit thread has hotel employees answering the question:
“People who work in hotels etc – What’s the worst thing you’ve seen in a room after someone has checked out??
Needless to say, the best answers get a little creepy, but here they are in case that’s your thing…
1.
Worked housekeeping for a year before moving to front desk, worst thing to clean up was an adjoining room set that had a toddler bday party. There were footprints on the tv stand. Someone got a red bull at some point and spilled it all over the desk, didn’t even try to wipe it up.
Vomit on the beds, in the tub, in the sink. Literal strata of filth on the floor; layers of big trash over layers of crums on top of a sticky goo mashed into the carpet. Found about a dozen abandoned kid’s meal toys wedged into the furniture, so that did make the laundry lady’s kids really happy. The thing that stands out in my memory most is the tiny footprints through the congealed red bull and up the side of the tv stand
– Nukeitandstartover
2.
Diapers in the microwave. It felt like a big fuck you to my cleaning staff. They also tried calling asking if we could hold their groceries at the front desk so they could swing back for them – thats why I was initially in the room. It was totally trashed. I did not give them the food back.
– No_You_7018
3.
Completely soiled bedsheet bundled up and stuffed in the nightstand
– manwithoutcountry
4.
I worked at a motel outside of a small town I live in when I was 16. I would work the room by starting with the bathroom to get the gross part done first.
When I first walked in, I hit the switch that works the lamps and head straight to the bathroom. After 10 minutes of cleaning the bathroom, I walked out into the main room to find one of the stand up lamps smoking.
I ran over, unplugged and took it out of the room. The smell was horrendous. After it cooled off, I inspected it only to find that some dickwad had taken his USED condom and slid it over the lightbulb. The smell of burning latex and semen is something I can never get out of my head. People are gross
– jaybullz_shenanigans
5.
5 star hotel. Many years ago, about half an hour after they checked in they wanted a room change. Went up to move their bags, there were 3 soiled nappies unwrapped and a plate of open curry paste, there was filth all over the room. I know it was them that did it because I delivered the bags in the first place.
– egg_beard_paste
6.
They wrote “Don’t have kids!” on the bathroom walls – with poop. Also the whole floor covered in diapers.
– Inglorious_Inge
7.
Woman kept her pet sheep in the tub. For a month. Had to replace everything including sheet rock and subfloor.
– marcusdisrealisus
8.
I live in a big tourist town. We have 3 seasons here. Stripper season, tourist season and off-season. Stripper season is when all the rich dudes come down and get a week away from their wives and play golf. They go to all the strip clubs and buy the calendars and stuff that the girls sell. I always imagine that there’s some cleaning lady at one of the hotels that has like 10 years of Cinnamon’s nude calendar that the golfers realize they can’t bring home to their wives so they just leave it in the room.
– RNN2734
9.
About 2 years ago I worked for a mid sized hotel in Germany. One day I was looking at a recently checked out room and found raw fish all over the CARPET floor! Like the fish (about 5) was cut open and smeared all over the poor carpet. Stank like hell and to this day I feel sorry for the people that had to clean it. Room was not given away for months.
– cattobeans
10.
Oh most weird things you can think of. Honestly doesn’t even matter if it’s a cheap or luxurious hotel. We once found twenty thousand euros laying around
– LoisLane777
11.
A dog massacred an entire hotel room, but the guests left three days before they were supposed to check out, 3 days IN to a week long stay. To say massacred is putting it lightly.
Linen torn and shredded, multiple piles of poop, pee stains, claws on the walls, the TV and lamps were on the ground broken with glass all over the carpet floor, there were blood and poop stains on the towels.
This was a gnarly mother and her child and dog, and we ended up fining her $2000 for the damages.
– Hemispherio
12.
Room perfectly ok except for a c*ndom stuffed with sh*t on the bed. Why? And how? And one of our night maintenance guys got called up to a room to find he was supposed to help a guy who had got a Perrier bottle stuck on his d*ck. He did not help.
– Really_McNamington
13.
I’ve only worked in one for six months so haven’t seen anything terrible yet but the weirdest was peanuts everywhere. The whole room was covered in an absurd amount of peanuts.
– Ihopeyoulikeapples
14.
The most common thing were huge stacks of pizza boxes and 30 packs of cheep beer. Like up to the ceiling. Days worth of take-out containers, too.
– The68Guns
15.
A blonde wig filled with poo, hidden on the top of the wardrobe.
– TheDoctorYouDeserve
16.
Feces floor to ceiling and a number of $10,000 bill bands. I still don’t know how to make heads or tails of it.
– THEMrBurke
17.
This one guy had checked out super suddenly and it baffled us as he had paid for a week or so. The housekeeper went up there and immediately called me to come up to the room. We found several POUNDS of shrooms and whippet cannisters.
But more interesting was that this man had taken EVERYTHING in the room and crafted a pyramid in the center of it straight to the roof. The only thing holding it together was pure tension. Anything that wasn’t bolted down was in there. Pretty impressive honestly
– theycallmeick
