Stuff Left in Hotel

[boylero]

I recently got back from travelling and realised I'd left behind my laptop charging transformer and power cable.

This made me think if items are found in rooms would it be not that great a deal for Hotels to contact you and inform you of your error? I have left behind a few things in the past but they never bother to contact you, probably just throw it in the lost and found locker?

Whats your thoughts

 

[casanovawa]

Probably easier for them to just dump in lost and found... If you were planning to go back sometime they might hold it for you if you let them know???

I've left a towel or two, pair of bathers, thongs etc... Probably cost more to send it to me than to just go buy some new ones...

 

[tuapekastar]

IMO they should make a reasonable effort to contact the owner. The owner should, of course, also make a reasonable effort to contact them.

 

[Jkyn]

When I have left things in the hotel they posted back COD, think they usually keep them for a few weeks before disposing of them. I think it should be up to the individual to contact the hotel.

I did have a country hotel where I stayed regularly phone when I left a book behind.


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[Mwenenzi]

A lot of items get left in hotels that is broken and/or rubbish (in the view of the owner) or/and that have been replaced by new items
All hotels - motels have boxes of left behind items.

 

[TonyHancock]

in the last twelve months I have left two shirts, one Blackberry charger and USB cable, one multi country adapter, socks, and various cables!! Problem is I rarely remember which hotel I hve left them in on any given trip.

 

[The Rok]

Would a hotel have time to make up to 20 calls a day?

 

[TonyHancock]

in the last twelve months I have left two shirts, one Blackberry charger and USB cable, one multi country adapter, socks, and various cables!! Problem is I rarely remember which hotel I hve left them in on any given trip.

Oh and my Avis Preferred card is somewhere out there too!!!

 

[ChrisDPom]

I suspect if you left your phone adaptor at the last hotel, the next one would have a spare in their lost luggage box - heaven knows I have left a few over the years.

Found a full suitcase in a cupboard at one hotel - cleaning staff obviously didn't do a good job and no one had realised they had left it yet.

Took it down and told the reception staff who were not happy - probably wouldn't fit in their lost luggage box.

Most scary thing I have found, (though I hope no previous occupier left it) was a dugite - was country WA but they didn't say they were an optional extra when I booked the room.

 

[Simo]

I am pretty good at getting everything out of the hotel rooms but Hire Cars are a different story.

I have lost count how many Car Chargers I have left in them.

I always have a spare one in my bag somewhere and also have a spare one in my car to drive home.

 

[meloz]

Hotels tend to have a policy of not contacting you regarding lost items lest they give you up to your partner regarding your dirty weekend he or she did not know about.

Meloz

 

[serfty]

I suspect if you left your phone adaptor at the last hotel, the next one would have a spare in their lost luggage box - heaven knows I have left a few over the years. ...

I used to travel with a rather absent minded exec.

Often he would arrive at a hotel sans phone charger; never a problem though as reception would generally be able to give him one that another guest had left behind!

 

[richie9x]

I had one motel in Auckland ring me up say that I had left a charger in my room. I was passing by it later in the day so said I would drop by and pick it. When I get there I saw it wasn't even my charger.

I guess that brings another issue if they do find something it might be from the most recent guest, but it is also possible it could be from a guest prior to the most recent one and housekeeping didn't notice the item until now. In that case probably best to sit and wait until someone claims it.

 

[UP4014]

Forgot a pair of shoes once, the hotel boxed them up and sent them to me.

Nice effort from them.

matt

 

[haydensydney]

Hotels tend to have a policy of not contacting you regarding lost items lest they give you up to your partner regarding your dirty weekend he or she did not know about.

I believe this to be true - privacy is more important than lost property. If someone loses something of value, they will contact the hotel directly.

Nothing good can come out of direct 'out of the blue' hotel>customer contact particularly in those 1% of instances where it was a dirty weekend / affair lol

 

[Heleigh]

Last May sitting in AKL F lounge wanted some info on phone - no phone - Gwen at reception arrange for Novotel to bring to security and QF staff on outside to meet and bring thru all within "your flight is is boarding ...". So lucky it was beginning of RTW.

Slightly OT but what has been stolen from hotel rooms - in Bejing (2006) had a lovely black top and a ten pack of silk zip up jewellery holders taken by cleaning staff; and a pair of shoes in (Nile?) Hilton Cairo (2008) can't say I wasn't told to leave and lock everything in suit case. They must have needed them more.

 

[Blinky]

For some reason, I have left four or five ties behind. I rang the hotel each time and only one had a tie which sounded like mine. It turned out being a cheap polyester one worth less than the COD I paid.

 

[TonyHancock]

I see an opportunity here! with all of the intrepid travellers here on AFF we could start a "Anyone staying at the xx_x in xx_x this week? If so could you pick up my xx_x, I left it there last week."

So on that note if anyone is staying at the Formule One (Might be renamed as Ibis Budget or something like that) in Belo Horizonte could you grab my Marks & Spencer Blue Comfort Fresh Socks for me please? (drron I'm looking at you.....aren't you over that way soon?)

 

[Sprucegoose]

I constantly donate phone chargers, mont blanc pens, dunhill ties and cuff links and driving glasses at hotels around the world in an attempt to stimulate the world economy.

Do I bother chasing these items? No it's my stupidity tax.

I will say Avis did call me and sent my sat nav back to me the other day, full marks Avis!

 

[awilcockson]

I left my wife and my passports in a hotel room in Edinburgh once, had put them on the top shelf of the cupboard under the spare blankets for "security". Then completely forgot about them until a couple of hours after checking out. Was a very worrying 24 hours until we got them back, as the hotel wouldn't check the room until the new guest had checked out.