So where did they find the bags??? It sounds like they moved your bags and then tried to convince you that you were crazy to cover up their snafu.

Yes. Not saying that Hilton is very "progressive" in what they do but have never had as many problems as I have since staring to stay a Marriott hotels more.

So, when we finally get to the bottom of this, HOW MANY points should you get for compensation?. (This is FT, after all.)

I hope you specifically named him in the police report. I hope it's not part of a scam.

without being specific would there be contents of interest?

maybe there was more to this than seems apparent.

Not particularly. I had a personal MacBook Pro, work laptop, an iPad Pro and a DSLR my my backpack. Nothing else particularly valuable.

My plan is to not make a fuss about it while I am staying here as I don't want the over aggressive loss prevention guy to come at me again. I'll be speaking to a manager on check out day for sure though.

Hilton is capable of similar issues. For example, I've been given an already occupied room.

The real failure here isn't the key screwup. It's the recovery.

Losing the OP's luggage afterwards is pretty bad.

The LP Officer, on the other hand, rates somewhere between stupid (unable/unwilling to understand the situation, and accusing the OP of a scenario that makes no sense) and malicious (attacking a guest you've already screwed over makes it pretty clear you don't want their business). I wouldn't feel safe staying in a hotel that treated me like that, so I'd probably eat the cost and go somewhere else.

May I suggest that sometimes tone gets lost in translation ....

The LP guy may have in-artfully been trying to say, i always have to do this, otherwise someone could be trying to steal luggage, not meaning to suggest you were trying to steal luggage.

Remember, My Cousin Vinnie? Tone can be misunderstood.

Seems to me the real issue is that they checked you into your room, you went into your room, and someone moved your luggage without telling you. That's way more significant than anything the LP guy said.

If Marriott's system glitched and showed the OPs room as checked out, it would be pretty reasonable for housekeeping to move the luggage when they see it in a (presumably) checked out room.

Perhaps but one would think that having luggage in a checked out room would be a somewhat big deal in a mid-sized hotel like this. Also, that moving luggage would require security's involvement so they would know and OP wouldn't have had the disconnect issue with his luggage.

And on the give the LP guy a break for his comment (but not for not having any info on the missing luggage), I note that there are some hotel room luggage thefts in the news in SLC today. So, perhaps the LP had information being shared from other hotels about this issue.

It's completely unreasonable for housekeeping to move luggage out of a room and not have it *very* *well* *documented* and readily accessible to the front desk. Instead of accusing the OP, the security person should have immediately found out who else had been in the room after OP, and been on the phone with that person finding out where the luggage was taken and why it wasn't documented properly. And apologizing profusely.

And it's unreasonable for Marriott's system to glitch without any trace of the previous room that the OP not just had on his screen, but actually accessed. I'd want to hear the GM say that he was angry about this and had been working with Marriott IT to figure out what happened and escalate a fix to top levels. It just shouldn't be possible for this to happen without a trace.

Make no mistake, I wholly agree that the hotel handled it poorly (especially the security person who accused OP; assuming the guest is guilty in a stressful situation for the OP is the worst way to handle this situation). The hotel shouldn't be confused as to where the luggage is, assuming housekeeping moved it.

I'm merely saying housekeeping SHOULD move the luggage to a safe location if they see one in a checked out room (but of course they should first inform security and document it).

No. Security (or the bomb squad) should be the only ones to ever touch someone else's luggage.

Not a Marriott, but a year ago I checked into a hotel in Cancun. Went to the room and the closet had neatly packed luggage inside. I spoke to a staff member in the hall. They offered to take the luggage out. I said "no I would return to the front desk". Apparently I got the wrong room and those people were still there. If I stayed, they bags would have been missing.