Originally Posted by
AMDB7
Time is of the essence; as soon as you let the hotel know, they could enter the room and check immediately for you, and put the bag into safe storage once recovered. To not contact the hotel as soon as you can means that the bag is left unattended for a longer period than necessary in a room that may be entered by anyone in the hotel's employ, such as maintenance, housekeeping etc. And of course the longer you leave it the more people may come into contact with the bag.
So you are actually suggesting that some of the people in the hotel's employ may actually have sticky fingers??
CanucksHKG went trough great lengths to come up with alternative scenarios excusing the hotel staff of all wrong doing, but then insists that I should have called the hotel after realizing the bag was gone...
Well, actually I did not call the hotel because it never occurred to me that the staff from a Holiday in Express hotel in Germany could have "sticky fingers", after all we are used to pretty good standards in Germany.
To put it simply, I did not call because I was sure that the bag was there, and was confident that the hotel staff had done the right thing and stored it for me.
Now most of the people in this thread side with the cleaning staff and offer every possible excuse to exclude attempted theft. Most also insist that I should have called the hotel when we all know that the only reason/purpose for that is to avoid "sticky fingers". It looks like, at least at start, I had more faith in the hotel staff doing the right thing that anyone else posting here... So don't get all upset when I say "from my point of view it looks like attempted theft", I am not the only one pointing fingers.