We’ve all been there: you come home after a vacation and realize you’re down a pair of socks or an iPhone charger. Even after triple-checking the hotel room before heading out, it’s possible to let an item left under the bed or next to the sink slip through the cracks. Hotel staff members, especially those in housekeeping, are no stranger to uncovering these forgotten artifacts once their owners have flown the coop.
But sometimes, guests abandon more important and, shall we say, interesting oddities in the mad dash to catch their flights out. And whether these belongings were left behind by accident or with intention, it’s the hotel staff that’s left to deal with the mess — or, worst-case, the crime scene. To uncover some of the most bizarre things discovered in hotel rooms, we looked to the TalesFromTheFrontDesk subReddit to hear from hotel staff.
