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Lost & Found: Top 10 items left behind in hotel rooms
What's the most commonly left item from guests in hotel rooms? It's not the missing peanuts from the mini-bar.
Hotel guests are notoriously walking away from some of their most private possessions when they check out of hotels, but just how personal are the items? You'd be surprised. Following a check of its 31 UK hotels' lost property departments, Novotel revealed the strange objects left behind in hotel rooms by its guests during 2010.
Because of the amount of items housekeeping has picked up in Novotel rooms, the hotel has launched a new online boutique novotelstore.com so people can purchase everything from the bed to the art on the walls, just in case they want to go home with something different.
While mobile phone chargers and underwear top the list of most commonly left behind items, amongst the more unusual items guests forgot to take with them when they checked out were a car keys, wigs, musical instruments and dinner suits. The survey of Novotel hotels reveals the top ten items guests most commonly leave behind as:
1. Mobile phone chargers
2. Underwear
3. False teeth and hearing aids
4. Odd shoes and items of clothing
5. Car keys and house keys
6. Toiletries bags
7. Adult toys
8. Electric toothbrushes
9. Laptops
10. Jewelry
We want to know: What items have you left behind in hotel rooms? Did you get them back?
1. Mobile phone chargers
2. Underwear
3. False teeth and hearing aids
4. Odd shoes and items of clothing
5. Car keys and house keys
6. Toiletries bags
7. Adult toys
8. Electric toothbrushes
9. Laptops
10. Jewelry
We want to know: What items have you left behind in hotel rooms? Did you get them back?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FlyingPhotog Feb 2nd 2011 2:45PM
I left a portable DVD player at the Las Vegas Hilton in the bedside table. I realized it and called them before my flight departed the Vegas airport. They sent someone up there to retrieve it, and shipped it back to be at my expense.
FlyAArmy Feb 2nd 2011 4:28PM
My Electric Toothbrush & No, They never returned it! =(
Grace Boyle Feb 2nd 2011 4:30PM
Sometimes if I'm driving to my hotel destination or on a road trip, I have my favorite pillow with me. Naturally, I will bring in the pillow that I love and it's ALWAYS something I leave behind (it just blends in). Such a bummer...
Amy Feb 2nd 2011 7:50PM
Grace, maybe you could make or buy a funky pillowcase so it doesn't blend in.
bjbear Feb 2nd 2011 6:59PM
pillows! people forget their pillows if they brought one from home. and washcloths and towels sometimes appear that are not our brand.
Megan Feb 2nd 2011 4:52PM
I once left an envelope in the common area of a B&B with some of my spending money it in. I called once I realized it was missing and they sent it to me at home and yes I got all of it back.
thompson.emilye Feb 2nd 2011 4:50PM
I used to work in a hotel and loved everything that people left behind. After a couple of months in a storage closet, we were allowed to take things. I got all kinds of good loot!
WorldTraveller Feb 2nd 2011 4:50PM
Pair of eyeglasses. (I wear contacts, too and forgot them on checkout.) Found by housekeeping. Sent back at my expense.
Joyce Feb 2nd 2011 6:13PM
I was a motel housekeeper and discovered the huge mirror missing from the room. When cleaning I found it under the bed with white powder on it. I was told it was a good thing I did not taste it to see what it was or I would have been higher than a kite.
Amy Feb 2nd 2011 7:50PM
I'm pretty good about checking thoroughly before I go, because when I was 7 or 8 I had this panda bear pillow that I had sewed together from a pre-printed fabric panel that I took with me everywhere... I forgot it in a hotel and my mom was able to call them and get them to mail it to me... but it was COD and cost me $3 and change. It was a huge amount to me at the time (and worth it; I still have the pillow in storage), but it was a big lesson about checking.
tripstyler.com Feb 2nd 2011 6:06PM
i just left my computer charger in Mexico, but it was found and I had them ship it back to me! {cheaper than buying new mac power cord}
PNWWANDERLUST Feb 2nd 2011 6:47PM
Once left our 2 year-old's favorite stuffed rhino at a hotel in Coeur d'Alene - he was pretty heart-broken for a couple of weeks. It showed up in our mailbox about a week later, sent at the Hotel's expense :)
TheInfamousJ Feb 3rd 2011 10:56PM
I once left my boyfriend's Playstation Portable in a hotel in New York where we'd stayed for my Father's wedding. Despite calling from the road on the day we checked out, and then again the next day after we were sure the room had been cleaned, and telling them exactly where it was left (because I remembered that, just didn't remember to take it) they claimed that no such item had existed and we never got it back.
Oddly enough, that was the most expensive hotel I've ever stayed in and we didn't get back the item I left, while when I stay in more budget locations, I've never had a problem retrieving items that were left by those I traveled with (such as night lights, their electric toothbrush, and a Nintendo DS). I'm usually the one to call because my traveling companion is ready to take the monetary loss and write it off as a lesson learned.