Indeed a great post, but also one that shows a hotel might be a little slow to take any kind of action, I've heard of hotels reading the log of the electronic entry system to your room and finding keys being used that were not meant to be, or securuty checking footage of staff that had entered the room. Just because the hotel is ignorant and says they have nothing to do with theft doesn't mean there isn't anything you can do.

If hotels are this arrogant in theft, I'm sure they won't mind me taking the TV and CD player next time I stay there, surely that too won't be covered? The game shold work both ways, and it does't...