When it comes to weird behavior, people who work in the service sector have probably seen it all. Especiallyhotel workers, as people often like to let loose when they’re not living at home.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisticsestimatesthat around 1.7 million people work in the traveler accommodations industry. That’s probably 1.7 million people who can each tell their fair share of ridiculous stories they came across their tenure.
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the hotel guest was jumping from their fifth-floor balcony into the pool. He had to be perfect to get the proper distance to clear the pool deck with chairs, but not too much as to overcompensate and land on the opposite side. He was immediately told to check out or the police would be called
A number of years ago I worked in a hotel that was quite remote, in the Yorkshire Dales ( a beautiful part of England). Most of the clients were the more affluent walkers, country lovers and livestock dealers. So one night when a couple of models tall, blond and slim in expensive clothes and their “manager” stayed it raised eyebrows.I went to their rooms the next day, they had not used the en suite, had defecated in the waste bins, used wet towels to wash the “s*it and piss and left tons of wet wipes everywhere. They had also puked in the bed and torn the duvet cover then used it to wipe menstrual blood.About 4 months later , to my surprise I saw a magazine with images of the models obviously taken near the hotel and they looked like beautiful, mysterious angels.Bet they smelt though
We were on a trip to Machu Picchu and had stopped in Cuzco for the night. We went to a restaurant for lunch. After a while, two american women were seated a few tables away. Very soon, they started to complain about the menu (it was in Spanish)…then began to berate the waiter for not speaking English! Sometimes it is embarrassing to watch people from the United States act with amazing arrogance.. If you expect people in another country to communicate in English t maybe you should stay away for the good of the rest of us.
I knocked several times and said I was a housekeeper.There was no response, so I unlocked the door, went and opened the curtains. When I turned around, I saw something I hadn’t seen before or since.The guest had been there many times before and I knew he was an attorney, who was far from being child-like.I found him curled up, naked and sound asleep: nothing unusual there. What was unusual was the large pile of stuffed animals he was lying on top of, while holding a huge stuffed panda bear.
I haven’t told this story for a while so hear goes.A cleaner at a hotel was doing her rounds early in the morning and when she passed a room she heard a woman screaming for help. She let herself in and found a naked, middle aged lady handcuffed, spread eagle on the bed and a banging noise was coming from the wardrobe.The cleaner, thinking a serious crime had been committed called for security and the duty manager. When they arrived and unlocked the wardrobe they found a rather embarrassed gentleman dressed as superman. See, this couple were playing a game where the wife is handcuffed naked to the bed and he husband, dressed as superman, would climb on top of the wardrobe and jump on top of her. The problem was that the wardrobe couldn’t quite take his weight and the top broke, dropping superman into the wardrobe which was locked from inside.I can only assume there was kryptonite inside the wardrobe as superman wasn’t able to break out for about 10 hours till he was released and with her hands and feet cuffed without easy release cuffs, his wife wasn’t able to free herself. So there they stayed for a good 10 hours.
After nine o’clock one night I answered the complaint that there was a middle-aged couple swimming in the nude in the indoor pool. This in and of itself probably wouldn’t make the top ten. However, the guests when asked to put on proper attire became very belligerent (I’m sure alcohol was involved).While I informed the complaining guest (and her young child) that the transgressors had been provided towels and asked to change or leave the pool area I thought things would soon be under control. Pretty big misjudgment on my part.The couple eventually got up and left the pool to return to their room. Very soon thereafter the mother and child returned to the front desk to let us know they had left a couple of gifts on their way out. I had to go see it to believe it as they had pooped twice while still in the pool.Obviously the pool had to be shut down immediately and treated with chlorine. The mother and child were very upset. Fortunately, our company owned the other hotel on this corner and we were able to offer them the opportunity to utilize that facility. Not a perfect solution, but an appreciated attempt nonetheless.This moved the incident into the top five probably as cleaning another adults waste out of a pool was behavior totally unexpected.
Late at night. Front desk gets a call about an overflowing toilet. My dad rushes upstairs with a plunger. Finds out the plunger won’t help; the toilet is gushing water because the ceramic bowl has cracked. He turns off the water at the valve and asks, “How in the hell did this happen?” Turns out that our lovely guests were lighting firecrackers and flushing them down the toilet to see what would happen.
I worked a short stint in a hotel once back in like 1986…and walked in behind a maid once who entered the wrong room. An orgy was taking place, with Ouija boards and other props that were over the top. A sex swing was setup in the middle of the room and being used. The guests, instead of getting mad, invited us to join in, but being the “professionals” we were, we politely declined and left.
Shortest answer possible, sex in a glass outside elevator
We had guests go on the roof and jump off 31 stories high with parachutes.
When I worked as a line staffer on the graveyard shift. Delivering condoms to a large suite. They let me right in, into an orgy. I had no idea who ordered them but I guess it was for all of them. Out of nowhere this dude approaches me half naked and screams, “You charged it to the room?” As he throws me a tip, a $Benji. As I was standing there in a stupor with probably the biggest grin on my face. The gent slaps me on the back as he hurdles away, muttering, “Stay for a while.” Come to find out it was a swingers party
Public lewdness comes to mind, but if cruise ships count as hotel guests? (A floating hotel perhaps.) Then an entire huge, loud, rude family of Russian tourists crammed into one cabin, who arrived unbathed, and departed the same way. The elevator nearest their cabin smelled like human decomposition. I took parts of Eastern Europ off of my visit list after that.
Customers Opening their room doors naked for the housekeeper or room service.
Not really wild but disgusting.I worked for a well known motel chain for while as a housekeeper. This type of motel was all serviced apartments, two housekeeps to one apartment at a time.My buddy and I unlock the door to enter the room and we’re hit with an awful smell. We couldn’t place the smell but it wasn’t pleasant, this happens though as the rooms are practically closed up all the time and I thought perhaps it was the bin.My buddy went into the bathroom to start cleaning the shower etc whilst I started stripping the bed. I removed the pillow cases first, as I went to pull off the top sheet I noticed this odd liquid splattered across the blanket. Gross I thought, thankfully I was wearing gloves. Pulled the blanket off the bed and it’s the same thing. It looked like coffee but the scent turned my stomach.I opened the balcony doors to ventilate the room and went to the bathroom to tell my coworker about it. As I was telling her I absent mindedly picked up a soap wrapper and open the bin to dispose of it. Glancing down I saw what created the mess. I was absolutely disgusted to find a nearly empty colostomy bag.Now I understand this would have been a sensitive topic for the guest, however staff are trained to be discreet and hotels have specific procedures to deal with incidents such as this and should have been notified instead of general housekeeping left to find the s**t-show.I quit not long after.
I’m not sure about something we weren’t supposed to see….but it was certainly disturbing. In 2011 during a hurricane in the Mid-Atlantic, our hotel was completely sold out. Due to the high winds many of the surrounding neighborhoods had lost power resulting in our sold out status. It was a challenging few days as nobody could leave the hotel. The building survived (except for some minor leaks) and we kept power.When the storm passed and power was being restored we began the clean up of the rooms that housed our guests for the previous 48–72 hours. In one room that was in our system as “checked out” the Housekeeper attempted to gain entry. When she did she found that the safety latch on the inside of the door was engaged. She announced herself and asked if anyone was in the room…nothing. The Executive Housekeeper made her way there and knocked louder and then opened the door (as much as possible with the safety latch) and yelled into the room. No response.My presence was requested at the room, I did the same as they did. Knocked hard and in a loud voice asked if everyone was okay and if there was anyone in the room. I had an employee from our Maintenance department come with a tool that can be used to open the door when the security latch is engaged. I was able to work the latch off and we slowly opened the door. I looked inside and saw the television on, lights off and a body under the blankets on the bed. I announced myself again but no response.I asked the staff that had assembled to stay outside, only the Executive Housekeeper and I would walk in. We went in, hairs standing up on the back of our necks and walked over to the bed. When we removed the covers we were relieved that it was not a body…instead it was pillows stacked to look like a body. In all of the commotion of trying to gain access, everyone forgot that this room had an adjoining door. What likely happened is the guests had both rooms, they staged this one with the pillows and the security latch then walked into the adjoining room to exit.I’m sure they wished they had seen this as they would’ve been proud of the prank. Fortunately for the staff it was only a joke and they didn’t have to deal with something that does unfortunately happen on occasions in hotels.
I had a guest who was an alcoholic. He drank a fifth of vodka everyday. His room was destroyed. His mattress was soaked with blood from his blood blisters. I called his family to kick him out. He died 2 days later in the same room. I had to clean it up.
About a year ago, I received a call that one of out security cameras had been ripped down. I went to the property and reviewed the tape. We had a large group of contractors staying at the hotel. What I saw was a guest come into the guest laundry area, strip naked and walk into the hallway while playing with himself. When he head a noise, he would duck down, naked, behind a large trash can, wait for the person(s) to leave the area, and then jump out again and repeat the process. Needless to say, the police were called and they removed him from the hotel. He was also fired the next morning when I showed the tape to his boss.
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One time I found a lady f passed out in my hallway. I was able to get her coherent enough to get a room number from her so I carried her up to said room. I knocked on the door and woke up the guy in the room. Being funny, I asked him “Is this yours?” Needless to say I was struck dumbfounded when he said no. Turns out the lady was a local who followed a guy back from the bar and when she was too drunk to make it to his room, he left her in the hallway. I was able to call her a taxi so she could get home to her husband
2 situations of bad behavior, both now worth laughing at:April 1981, Best Western Hotel, Anchorage, AK: it’s morning and we cabin crew have been walking across the Pacific all night (Hong Kong-Tokyo Narita-Anchorage). We’re tired, need our beauty sleep and our next flight is that same evening. Meanwhile, there’s a convention in the hotel—a regional meetup of female barbershop quartet singers whose organization shall remain nameless.We reach our floor and the hallway is choked with happy altos, sopranos, et. al. in curlers, their voices lifted in intermittent song, arms filled with frilly things and beauty supplies. Once behind my own door I am tired enough to fall in the general direction of the bed. But a light-sleeper crew member puts a sign on her door requesting quiet. All that does is prompt laughter and a stream of knocks on her door until she removes it.* * * * * * *Autumn, 1984, Omni Hotel, Harbor Place, Baltimore (now the Radisson): it’s another convention and the place is packed. We get our room keys and sidle past the crowd into an empty elevator. One of my fellow crew members pushes the button for the 18th floor where we all would be staying. Three kids jump in, see the 18th floor light, then look at each other. As the door closes, one of them pushes every floor. Every damned floor. They are snickering. We are ready to strangle them with the straps of our uniform purses.Not horrendous behavior in either circumstance. Just furiously maddening at the time and worth a broad, wry smile now.
I travel a lot and I’ve seen more than a few inappropriate and interesting things on the part of hotel guests. Mostly though, people are friendly but aloof and typically eager to get their alcoholic beverage of choice and disappear into their rooms. However, it always seems that in New Orleans you are at another level.My sister in law and I left the rest of our family at the bar and decided to try to get some sleep. Just as my door was beginning to close I heard her voice from down the hall rise dramatically as she said “you can’t be like that here in the hall!!” I turned around and grabbed the door handle just before it closed. I then looked down the hall and see her staring down at some legs jutting out from a guest room. Now I’m curious. I sort of shouted down the hall to ask if she’s ok and she just gave me this exasperated look like she didn’t know what to do.As I approached her and the mysterious legs I realized they belong to a young “lady”. A young and completely naked lady. I couldn’t imagine how long she was lying there naked in the doorway but it was clear we couldn’t leave her like that. I stepped over her into the room so I could be closer to her face. She seemed pretty intoxicated but she would talk to me, though none of the things she was saying were very nice. I couldn’t get her to move out of the doorway and we were pretty reluctant to lay hands on her. It was incredibly awkward. Eventually, my sis-in-law and I sort of folded and pushed her back into the room and got the door closed with her nakedness safely on the inside of the room. As the door shut I could hear her flop against the door and I thought that her roommate would have a pretty hard time getting in there if they ever made it back to the room that night.
We were in a Florida beach area hotel during spring break several years ago. This was not an expensive hotel. We were there with our,at the time, young children. The rooms next to us were filled with high school seniors from a southern bordering state,on their senior trip. We checked in and during the afternoon everything was normal. That night the high school kids were loud, rude, vulgar and usually drunk. There was also screaming, banging on the walls and other noise at night. As we stood to open our door in the hallway,after a day of the beach,pool and sun, the next afternoon,we saw a young, very drunk woman. She had somehow lost her underwear or bikini bottom and she lifted her skirt. She started to urinate in the hallway. Her friend gave her a beach towel quickly and she urinated on it instead. Later that night we heard someone vomiting in the hall near our door. A few moments later we opened the door to a pile of vomit. We then immediately checked out of that hotel.
One of my female guests was pestering my head waiter wanting him to take her for a good night out.the waiter refused but she kept on at him. His wife came to collect him and found the woman trying to get fresh with her husband, a big row broke out and the wife left coming back with a kitchen knife. The woman went off to her room not seeing the wife with the knife. The wife told me that if she saw the woman near her husband again she would kill her.So I quietly told the woman that she shouldn’t speak to my head waiter again.She became incensed with me accusing her of wanting to go out with black African man.!! ( we were in Africa) Two days later head office rang the hotel and had me sacked.She was a personal friend of the company’s owner, so I had no voice in the matter. I left and went for a walk about around Timbuktu.and never worked again in any hotel since.
My best friend and I worked at a hotel as front desk clerks in DeLand, Florida. The Orlando Magic used Stetson University for their summer camp practice sessions and would stay in our hotel. My friend was in the process of checking in Shaquille O’Neal who was eating crackers over the very tall part of the front desk where guests would sign paperwork and so on. He proceeded to brush all the crumbs over the ledge and onto her paperwork that my friend was completing to get him in his room. She let out a sigh and without even thinking twice pick the paperwork up that was covered in crumbs and pushed the paper over the edge of the counter and the crumbs went all over shacks shoes. Everyone gasped and was worried he was going to be mad but he laughed it off and said “You’re a pretty Bad As! Bi@%h, I like you!” LoL Sidenote: every player used an alias that we had to learn and their wives were constantly calling us at the front desk to spy and report any extra curricular activity! Which we never did! If the players brought a guest to their room and we were both standing there and greeted him he’d push $100, to each of us, over the edge and thanked us! We made MAD money that 2 weeks. Her and I showered in vacant rooms and worked almost 20 hours a day!! They trusted us because we were a few years younger than them. We did a lot, arranged things, ordered services in and covered up a great deal of things and saved approx 9 marriages when their wife “Popped In" to surprise their husbands. We had about 15 pics of wives taped behind the desk that only we saw. If one of us thought it was a match, the other would confirm and we’d immediately call up and offer their “guest” a private suite! On the hotel of course. After those 2 weeks in 1990, I bought a brand new car! Paid with cash!!!! Man I miss those days! TY for reading.
One couple checked in without telling the hotel desk that one of their carry on bags contained their pet snake. The front desk found out after the woman called from her room and explained that the snake escaped as they were feeding it, and that they couldn’t find it in the room and needed help. Needless to say, there were no female staff volunteers, only guys who went to room armed with waste baskets and towels as nets and brooms. After about fifteen minutes, the three-foot, non-poisonous snake was located, wrapped around the underside bed frame. Everyone’s worst thought was that the snake had made it through the central air vent in the wall, but it was caught before it could make it there.
A lady who twice got employees fired. She stayed with her husband and two kids then the husband left and she continued staying at the resort for a few more weeks. She flirted with an employee, a bellman, invited him back to her room after hours and they had sex while the kids took a nap. The next day she called Security to report the incident that she is a married lady and one of our employees went to her room. The employee was fired. The next year she came back. Prior to her return we put out a memo to all employees that they are not allowed in guest rooms except for work business. Again she flirts with an employee, invites him to her room, the next day she calls and reports it to security. He gets fired.
Had a company have a Christmas party and the owner of that company invited some employees back to his room for drinks, his wife went to bed and then he left the room with his wife sleeping and two male employees still in the room drinking. The owner of the company went down to another lady’s room and then one of the two men r***d his wife. The wife wanted to press charges, the husband did not. The police believed it was a wife swap where he did not inform his wife.
I worked the front desk and did lot security at a motel. One night I was noting a car that was not registered to a guest.The owner of the car came out and started swearing at me. He was using language that would give Andrew Dice Clay hives. I kept trying to explain that he needed to register the car at the desk.
Hahaha. That would be my own. I was in college, I think my senior year and we had a trip to Atlanta to see the High Museum. There were 27 girls and 3 of us guys so they put us 3 guys in 1 room and the girls were 3–4 up in the other rooms to save money. That was a HUGE mistake. First of all, none of us guys wanted to “sleep together” so we took it upon ourselves to rearrange the room. We moved the two queen beds and put them end to end against one wall creating a HUGE 13-foot long bed that was about 5.5 feet deep. We were all of the legal drinking age back then since the age was 18. We made a quick trip to the liquor store, borrowed all the ice bins from the other room and opened the hotel room for the party. There were about a dozen girls that joined us and we were drinking and carrying on and having fun the entire weekend. We would not let housekeeping in the room. When we were done, the room was trashed. We left the room like it was too thinking it was a pretty cool way to turn a downside into a HUGE upside and we had fun doing it. The only problem was that we didn’t give a lot of thought as to how the hell the poor hotel maids would reset the room given that there is no way the 5′-2″ 98 pound maid could ever have moved those beds since it took three of us guys to move them. It was a real d**k move and I still feel bad for them. It did however answer the critical question of how many people can you sleep in one hotel room with two queen sized beds… the answer is 8 you just have to move them end to end.
People wearing their pajamas to the public dining room.
I caught two teenage kids banging each other in a fire escape when I was pulling a weekend MOD shift one time in the ‘90s. They were about 15–16 years old and were doing it standing up, sort of like Sonny Corleone in one of the opening scenes of The Godfather. They were part of a religious youth group staying in our hotel at the time and were so engrossed in their activity, they didn’t hear me coming (no pun intended). I stood and stared for a second thinking they would have heard me and stop, but they kept after it. So, I cleared my throat and scarred the hell out of both of them. As they tried to regain their composure and straighten their clothes, I told them I knew they were with the church group and if they didn’t want me to call their chaperone, to stay the hell out of the fire escapes.Lucky for them, we didn’t have cell phones with video cameras back then and there was no Porn Hub.
For me, It was a wild and weird thing. That time, I was working as a intern at the hotel. It was just 2 more hours before I got off from work. Then, my manager told me that a guest who is my friend requests for me to be in her room. That’s why I find it weird. Because I never told anyone that I’m working as an intern at that hotel. Only my girlfriend knows. When I went to her room, the room was filled with 4 girls wearing bra and panties. That was when I saw my girlfriend who is 1 of them. She then told me the early birthday surprise. She arranged for her classmate who had a crush on me for this surprise. She allowed me to have sex with them as long as my heart belongs to her and only her.
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