Stuff Left in Hotel

[NM]

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

Then why not at least send an email if there is an email address provided during the reservation process. Surely if the customer is happy to use email for reservation confirmation then they should have no issue with using the same email address for correspondence regarding lost property.

I think its just laziness personally.

 

[NM]

I left my wife and my passports in a hotel room in Edinburgh once

I assume your wife was not happy about being left in the hotel room

 

[haydensydney]

I assume your wife was not happy about being left in the hotel room

Nor being stuffed in the cupboard... (must be a Queenslander thing) :mrgreen:

 

[awilcockson]

I assume your wife was not happy about being left in the hotel room

That possibly wasn't the most grammatically correct sentence I have ever constructed

 

[NM]

That possibly wasn't the most grammatically correct sentence I have ever constructed

Indeed it was not ... but I did enjoy the chuckle as I read it. Luckily coffee mug was firmly planted on the desk at the time ...

 

[NM]

Nor being stuffed in the cupboard... (must be a Queenslander thing) :mrgreen:

My wife is a reformed Mexican living in Qld. Perhaps that is why she complains about being stuffed in a cupboard ...

Anyway, back to the topic. My wife once left her travel wallet, including passport, in a hotel room safe in HK. We noted when going to check-in at the Airport Express station. Luckily there was plenty of time and I jumped back on the MTR to central, grabbed the wallet and back to the Airport Express station in less than 30 mins. She still had plenty of time for check-in and travel to the airport.

On a brief visit to Sydney, she left her purse in the hotel safe (see a pattern here??). Didn't realise until we were home in Brisbane. Called the hotel who retrieved it from the safe and couriered it back to us and charged the courier fee to our room as an additional fee - all done very efficiently.

Perhaps I should consider trying to use the hotel room safe instead of the cupboard and see if I get the same complaints :mrgreen:

 

[ozmille]

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.

Did they put it in the lost and found box? I would be out of the door running and screaming like there is no tomorrow though

 

[toottifruitti]

On a recent trip to Hong Kong we stayed at Salisbury Hotel for a couple of days then went to Disneyland for a couple of days then back to Salisbury. What we didn't realise that on our first departure from the Salisbury I had left a pair of my husband trousers hanging up. I was a bit flustered at the time as we were travelling with family of 8 including Grandmother, so this was understandable. On our return to the Salisbury nothing was said to us about the trousers and we didn't miss them till we arrived back in Oz. I emailed the Salisbury and asked if they had been left there, they answered in the affirmative and said that they would post them back to us which they did.

 

[drron]

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?)

I think Brazil is a large country isn't it?
But if there is a Formule One or some similiar flea infested:shock: place in Manaus and they could get them there it would be my pleasure to pick them up for you.:shock:

 

[Geegeela]

A few months back my wife left her mobile phone, in our room on departure, at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, Honolulu.

Arriving back in Australia about 24 hours later I gave them a call and advised them what had happened.

I got a phone call from them the next day saying that it had not been handed-in and a search of the room was also negative.

Well I was a bit disappointed that either housekeeping or maybe the next occupant thought their need was greater than mine.

However, what I did find refreshing was that 3 days later I received a follow-up phone call from the Sheraton advising that it had still not come to light but if at some stage it was discovered then they would post it to me free of charge.

 

[jwak]

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.

Tony I suffer the same problem! In the last 2 years about 10 pairs of cufflinks, a suit, chargers galore and somewhere $500 in a safe ;-) Never remember until I get home and then can't remember what hotel....

 

[Blinky]

I assume your wife was not happy about being left in the hotel room

I was going to make the same comment but thought "undergraduate humour".........

 

[ChrisDPom]

Originally Posted by ChrisDPom 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.

Mille

Did they put it in the lost and found box? I would be out of the door running and screaming like there is no tomorrow though

Not sure. The Ranger came and collected it (I had changed rooms by then). He did say that was the 3rd snake in the rooms in the last month (spring).

Needless to say, I haven't stayed there since.


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[ozmille]

Originally Posted by ChrisDPom 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.

Mille

Not sure. The Ranger came and collected it (I had changed rooms by then). He did say that was the 3rd snake in the rooms in the last month (spring).

Needless to say, I haven't stayed there since.


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When we first visited Australia 5 years ago we stayed in Kings Canyon and SWMBO ddn't want to go to bed because there were Geckos on the wall, just imagine the reaction if there had been a snake

 

[knasty]

I left my wedding suit in a hotel in Tokyo. They sent it via express courier to me in London without charge...very impressed.

 

[horseman]

Almost left my blackberry charger in a room, I always check and triple check for such things. Wish sometimes I could just loose the coughberry itself almost did on a qantas link flight, almost got to the terminal then did a upturn back on to the plane when I realised

 

[codash1099]

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

If wishing could make it so......

 

[meloz]

Then why not at least send an email if there is an email address provided during the reservation process. Surely if the customer is happy to use email for reservation confirmation then they should have no issue with using the same email address for correspondence regarding lost property.

I think its just laziness personally.

I would be happy for them to do that but you might be surprised by the number of couples that share an email address. Crazy in my opinion.

Hotels value a guests privacy.

Meloz

 

[irv]

When we first visited Australia 5 years ago we stayed in Kings Canyon and SWMBO ddn't want to go to bed because there were Geckos on the wall, just imagine the reaction if there had been a snake

OT Remember staying outside Alice Springs quite a number of years ago, Geckos were in the bed and one ran up my wife's leg. For some reason she didn't appreciate me rolling on the floor in laughter .

 

[Sprucegoose]

I was going to make the same comment but thought "undergraduate humour".........

Which as we know doesn't change!!


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