20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All

Taxi drivers, croupiers, waiters... Some professions allow the chance to have a peek at human nature from an angle that would be really hard to find elsewhere. However, while most of them deal with people in person, others get to "meet" them mostly through the leftovers of their presence.

In November, Reddit user ThatSportsGameGuy made a post on the platform, asking hotel cleaners, "What is the weirdest thing you have found in a [guest's] room?" and the replies came flying in. From bees to false teeth, continue scrolling to check out the ones that raise the most questions.

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All Long long ago, I worked at a nice beachfront hotel in Wildwood Crest. The place wasn't priced for tight budgets, so we didn't have much trouble other than the semi-frequent entitled octogenarians demanding weird s**t. Anywho...

I had a nice family on my floor. A middle aged couple, their college-aged sons, and two of their son's friends. They had different friends stop by frequently, but they were quiet and there were no complaints. They were there for two weeks, never wanted anything from housekeeping, and did not let me in to clean the room because "someone is always sleeping in here." So they would leave their sheets and towels outside the door, I would replace them with a clean stack and some soaps, and they would take care of everything.

At the end of their stay I finally get to go in and do the heavy cleaning. They were so low-maintenance I was expecting a quick in-and-out. The nightmare I stumbled upon was so epic in its proportions that my brain short-circuited and I just stood frozen in the doorway until another guest happened by and asked if I was ok. He glanced into the room and was also struck dumb.

The room was covered, every surface, every inch of carpet, every ledge and nook, every millimeter of free space, with a beer can. *HUNDREDS* of them, neatly ranked in rows, less than an inch apart. And every beer can was filled to the brim with liquid. Not beer, but urine. In order to collect so much, they had to be saving their p**s this way for their entire stay, and all their friends' p**s too. Everyone had to be in on it. And two-week-old p**s sitting in open beer cans does not smell like fresh baked cookies.

So... I couldn't just wade in there and sweep all those cans into trash bags. Oh no. I and two co-workers had to tiptoe in there wearing gloves and covering our noses with bandanas, gingerly pick up each can, dump it into a mop bucket, then dump the bucket every few minutes. *For hours*. It was the nastiest most mean-spirited thing anyone has ever done to me, and this happened many decades ago.

The clincher? This was a suite. The area farthest from the front door was the master bedroom. And at the very farthest point of that room they taped an envelope to the wall. It was my tip. Twenty dollars and a note that said, *"If you got this far, you earned this!"* It was a deliberate insult. 20 bucks, for two weeks of p**s from a dozen people. Even the b****y entitled senior citizens tipped better than that.

I have no idea why these people decided some random kid deserved this treatment, but the hotel owner wasn't amused. He took photos, then charged them a 150.00 cleaning fee. When he got them on the phone and told them this, they played dumb until he told them explaining their p**s cans to a judge would be pretty embarrassing. They sent him a check (as was the style at the time) and he gave the whole thing to me. He was a nice old man. :)

Gorilla1969 , Camden & Hailey George Report

Final score:

230points

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SarDemMin 1 year ago

How can some people be so disgusting? How can you do that to another human?

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All This guest left his mom a disable elderly woman in her room for 2 days, she was unclothed, with a colonoscopy bag and catheter bag full to the max. This woman had not eaten in 2 days and could have died if we did not do a life and safety check when the bill was not paid for a 1 nighter. We eventually located her son, who tried to dump her in the hotel so he could go on a bender.

CallCenterSenator , Steven HWG Report

Final score:

171points

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Mentally unstable on a table 1 year ago

"Why do you hate people?" See above.

148points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All I no longer work the job, but when I did I thought I found a dead body because I saw a person in bed under the covers after checkout. I called out but got no response. Guy forgot his inflatable girlfriend under the covers.

Over_rated_lemon , Radoslav Bali Report

Final score:

150points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Maybe she dumped the guest, don't be too quick to judge.

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All Blood, lots of blood. Literally on everything. Me, and the person cleaning with me, got out of there and reported it. Customer had gotten extremely drunk and sliced his hand open, then freaked. Also found various weapons and one time a raccoon trap. This was my first job, in high school.

Lurking_On_Toast , mahalie stackpole Report

Final score:

108points

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DEW 1 year ago

You got a great welcome to adulthood. So sorry this happened. Not a great start in to the world of adulting..

41points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All I used to work on housekeeping at a children's theme park called Gulliver's kingdom, I remember going into a room and it STANK, soon found the source, 3 dirty nappies floating in a bathtub. That is disgusting but unfortunately not completely abnormal, what was wierd was the sight of an untouched large fish from one of the fish&chip shops tucked up in the double bed like a small child, around it a murder scene had been painted with tomato sauce, and placed carefully in a equally spaced ring arround the bed were chips all printing towards the fish.
It looked like some sort of satanic ritual to summon the god of the god of chip shops.
It was a pain in the a**e to clean up but it was defo a memory.

Dashie_2010 , mangocyborg Report

Final score:

106points

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WindySwede 1 year ago

Do these humans think that the cleaning means they can do whatever they want with the room??

54points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All A hole cut in a mattress because the "platinum level" guest s**t the bed drunk and then used a butter knife to cut it out and flip the mattress over.

tomsaiyuk , Cleaner Croydon Report

Final score:

91points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Just curious - how drunk do you have to be to cut out poo from the mattress?

61points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All Bees and bee c**p literally covering every single spot in the place. The guy was a beekeeper and was delivering a hive. He brought it into the room, where the hive tipped over and broke. It took days of scrubbing with some harsh chemicals to get the poo off. Even had to repaint walls

ReleaseThat2638 , Annie Spratt Report

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87points

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Lauren S 1 year ago

I’m not sure I know what bee poo looks like. And I’m okay with that.

94points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All The item wasn't weird just the whole situation. I walked in and every inch of the floor was covered in rubbish(except one, guess which). We had to walk on the rubbish it was like an extra carpet on the floor, but bot just the floor. On the bed and under the bed, on every surface, even in the bathroom and in the bath too. They had only been there one night. Where did all this rubbish come from?!? Food wrappers, pizza boxes, shoe boxes, cans, magazines, rubbish all over.

The strangest part was the trash bin. It was absolutely empty, and so was the floor around it. Like a perfect forcefield was erected that stopped the occupants from being able to get anything near it and yet everywhere else. F**k that guest. It smelt rancid and took ages.

ohno_spaghetti_o , Phillip Goldsberry Report

Final score:

86points

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Awkward Lady 1 year ago

Makes you wonder what their own home is like?!

35points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All A pile of human skin, on the floor beside the bed. It was like sunburned skin peelings or something. Truly f*****g disgusting.

in_essence , Anna Tarazevich Report

Final score:

75points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Half-human half-snake perhaps? Let's keep our minds open (just not too wide to avoid brains falling out)

56points

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#10

20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All A giant ring of salt on the carpet like straight out of Supernatural. A toilet completely filled with chewing tobacco, so much it was clogged. A mom locked her 1 year old daughter outside of the room leaving her to bang on the door crying for way too long. People FREQUENTLY wipe their asses with our towels. And I once had a homeless person up on the 7th floor raiding my cart trying to steal my belongings, not for soap or any hygiene products which I would have happily gave to him.

malmalforever , Sue Thompson Report

Final score:

74points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

"People FREQUENTLY wipe their asses with our towels." Let's contemplate that, all travellers using hotel towels.

67points

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20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All We had a guy stay in the hotel who was in town for a competitive eating contest. Um when he checked out, he s**t all over the bed. Like ALLL over. I think he wiped his a*s with the sheets. We threw everything away. it was so gross

also the day after valentine day is always weird. I didn't know some people could have sex THAT MUCH. so many condoms just all over the floor.

uwuimapotatoo , Jp Valery Report

Final score:

70points

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OnAFreakingRollercoaster 1 year ago

🤮

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#18

20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All Broccoli and spinach in the shower on two separate occasions. THREE jars of mustard on the bedside table (this was in a suite that had a full kitchen and separate bedroom.. no logical reason why the mustard would be in the bedroom).

ritmoautunno , Annie Spratt Report

Final score:

50points

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Anyone can advise how to use broccoli in the shower? Asking for a friend.

31points

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#19

20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All S**t stains on the lampshade. I just spun it around so the stains faced the wall

FARTlNG , Joel Henry Report

Final score:

39points

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Just Jeff 1 year ago

That's disgusting and you're disgusting for leaving it for other guests

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#20

20 Things People Left Behind In Their Hotel Rooms That Surprised Even The Cleaners Who Have Seen It All 5 pairs of yeezys he traveled alone

cirelia , Morgan Mafu Report

Final score:

15points

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Jaaawn 1 year ago

And? I take multiple shoes when on holiday.

31points

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17points

Mitchell 1 year ago

I’ve been gently mocked most of my life for traveling with my pillow. Read this post and understand what disgusting things people do in hotel rooms. Pillows aren’t only used for heads, they are props for sex and who knows what else. And while I’m sure housekeeping changes the pillow case between stays, how often do you think the actual pillow gets washed? How often is it replaced? Sure it’s bulky, to cart everywhere, but I will never sleep on a hotel pillow.

9points

Benita Valdez 1 year ago

I bring my own because I require an unusually thin pillow and I'm not fond of using hotel pillows; pillows are never washed at hotels

Jack S 1 year ago

We tend to get lots of swingers staying in my hotel due to there being a local club nearby. We've found all sorts of wierd s**t like dildos, butt plugs, condoms, lingerie. My favourite one is, after checkout, housekeeper went into couples rooms and found a broken sex swing on the floor a hole in the ceiling where we believe they had tried to put up the sex swing and a broken desk. I'm sure I'll find stranger stuff in the future.

2points

Destinee Davis 1 year ago

My stories aren't half as bad as any of these (thankfully) in the short while I was a hotel housekeeper 8+ months pregnant one of my rooms had the very distinct smell of a hard drug. I obviously got some of my coworkers to assist me (I wasn't permitted to leave until we found -"evidence" of drug use- yes seriously -) I opened one of the dresser drawers to get a full face of said drugs smoke, they put it in there recently and just left it I guess. I left shortly after so my baby wouldn't get affected (my coworkers had no problem with me leaving) but I did get fired for not completing my room. 😂

Salty_Sasquatch 1 year ago

WTH!! Probably just as well you didn't/don't work for these guys any more.

1point

Mari 1 year ago

I really can't understand why people are so dirty.

IamMe 1 year ago

I tried doing housekeeping for a fancy hotel right out of highschool. A lot of rooms with food deliberately thrown on the floor and walls, vomit in trash cans and stuff like that. But, the day I walked into a bathroom that looked like someone's butt had exploded was the day I quit. Floor, ceiling, in the tub, on both sides of the door. I don't know how they managed to do it, but I did not get paid enough to clean that.

Angeline Shalyn 1 year ago

Oh boy I used to work housekeeping and I found all sorts of weird things lol, entire bottles of scotch, love gloves on the floor, but the best of all was when I went into the room to do a daily cleanup and someone left their giant bear skin with the head still on, on the bed. And they had it facing the door so when I walked in it was looking straight at me , I almost passed out

BatPhace 1 year ago

I worked resort housekeeping summers in highschool. A certain old school r&b and funk artist had a show in our town and stayed at our resort, and when we went in to clean the room after he left, there was marijuana and cocaine all over the room. Under the pillows, in the bathroom, in the air vents. There were perfect lines of white powder on the table with a note that said 'your tip, thanks for a great stay' with the person's signature. Our manager had come with us because the artist had a rep for things like that, he sent us all out of the room and got out the vacuum 😂

Paul Richards 1 year ago

its posts like this that make me celebrate that sperm counts are falling worldwide and human extinction isnt that far off!

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