Hotel housekeepers discover teeth, sex toys and big bucks left by guests KEN BECKER Canadian Press Sunday, September 29, 2002 (CP) - There is evidence that even the best hotels put up guests who are very weird, very forgetful, or both. Just take a look in any hotel's lost-and-found department. It is full of the usual collection of underwear, pyjamas, cosmetic bags, jewelry, sunglasses and dozens of cell-phone chargers, which have become one of the most common items left behind by departing guests. There are also abandoned sex toys - one luxury hotel in Vancouver found a suitcase full of handcuffs and other tools of the bondage trade - and drug paraphernalia, mainly pipes. But artificial limbs? False teeth? A glass eye? A check with some housekeeping departments at the Fairmont chain, which has 39 landmark hotels and resorts across Canada and around the world, illustrates that even the most prestigious properties accommodate the absent-minded. "I don't understand how people can leave crutches behind," says Patricia Kelley, director of housekeeping at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess outside Phoenix. "If they came in with a broken leg, how can they leave without a broken leg?" The lost-and-found department at the Arizona resort also has a box containing about 60 pairs of prescription eyeglasses, "some with Coke-bottle lenses," says Kelley, suggesting people checked in sighted and checked out blind. The hope is they're not driving. There's also a concern that the person who left the Fairmont Newfoundland without his prosthetic leg did not try to walk out. At the Fairmont Winnipeg, a housekeeper discovered a full set of false teeth - in the guest room toilet. "It looked like someone was going to the washroom and their teeth fell out," says executive housekeeper Jody Lemon. Another housekeeper at the downtown hotel found a catheter. "It was the whole setup, with one of the bags full," says Lemon. "We managed to contact the guest. Otherwise I don't know what we'd do with bodily fluids." The Fairmont Vancouver Airport recently had a guest who left "a glass eye on the night table," reports executive housekeeper Florencio De Dios. "It really freaked out the room attendant. We phoned the guest and he came back for his eye." With exceptions such as body parts and bodily fluids, Fairmont's policy is to log every item found in a guest room and keep it in the hotel's lost-and-found department. Most people retrieve their possessions by phoning the hotel, which arranges to have the items returned at the owner's expense. (There are rarely inquiries about sex toys or hashish pipes, or other belongings which might be embarrassing to claim, including false teeth left in a toilet in Winnipeg.) Valuable items are kept up to six months, though the owner usually calls much sooner, except for the guest at the Fairmont Dubai who left behind a box filled with six diamond rings, a diamond necklace, three Rolex watches, two Cartier watches, and diamond earrings. Also found in the room was 80,000 United Arab Emirates dirhams - the equivalent of about $34,000. The hotel called the guest, who nonchalantly said he had "forgotten" the items and would pick them up sometime in the next week, the hotel says. Items with sentimental value are often claimed quickly, as was the case with the wedding dress and marriage licence left in a room at Calgary's Palliser hotel, where a guest once forgot a book titled: How to Improve Your Memory. -------------- funny stuff!!
My wife lost her virginity in a hotel room on our wedding night...We called the hotel, but they couldn't find it...
Only the fact it was jammed into the door latch in an effort to keep the door locked. Other than that, nothing.....
So, I take it by that response that you find frequently find shotgun shells in hotels at which you stay? Why don't you send me a list of hotels you have stayed at, so I can stay away from them!
You know, its getting to the point you can just look at a thread title and know its a rockHEAD thread.
