Why do so many people hide adult-oriented magazines behind drawers in hotel rooms?
Nov 26, 2005, 5:19 pm
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Originally Posted by stef315
Oh, and thanks eastwest for mentioning the bathroom hiding place too because now I suppose I'll be climbing up on the toilet to check. I'll probably fall and break my neck eventually and then the hotel staff will find me on the bathroom floor with dirty magazines spread around me.
Nothing to report here at the Sheraton Bilbao; not even in the "Nuevo Testamento."
I'll be sure to tear apart the room at the Waltham Abbey Marriott next week.
Nov 26, 2005, 6:54 pm
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NWA-Plat is right. Funniest thing going. Asked my SO if he'd found anything interesting in hotel rooms, he said sure, magazines etc. all the time (and thanks you all for the behind the drawers and above the toilet ideas). But the best thing was the video.... Made the mattress all lumpy.... I decided I'd rather not know more at that point except that it was the Holiday Inn South in Lansing MI....
Nov 26, 2005, 11:45 pm
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Hey everybody, please be careful in your searching. Don't go reaching into anything you can't see, like the back of a desk drawer, it could just as easily be a discarded needle from somebody as a discarded porn magazine. It's fun to search, but not fun is somebody gets way more then they wanted from it.
I really like the idea of leaving stuff behind though.
I really like the idea of leaving stuff behind though.
Nov 27, 2005, 1:42 am
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It's true, it's true. This is a certifiable FT Classic thread, speaking as founding member and all.
Note to self: Add hotel treasure hunting to travel rituals. That is all.
I've got at least two different stays booked in Munich and Berlin next month, and maybe as many as four. I may just leave some, uh, Christmas cheer behind if you all promise to be good little boys and girls.
That said, any requests?
Note to self: Add hotel treasure hunting to travel rituals. That is all.
I've got at least two different stays booked in Munich and Berlin next month, and maybe as many as four. I may just leave some, uh, Christmas cheer behind if you all promise to be good little boys and girls.
That said, any requests?
Nov 27, 2005, 1:51 am
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Originally Posted by LLM
Wow. Now I know why Starwood Lurker said it is part of housekeeping's responsibilities to check under the mattress and even in the Bible for porn.
Last edited by essxjay; Nov 27, 2005 at 4:15 pm
Nov 28, 2005, 8:09 am
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I was at the Ontario, CA Doubletree this past weekend and found nothing there. they recently remodeled so maybe there hasn't been eough time for "stashers" to have stayed in the room I was in.
Nov 28, 2005, 8:38 am
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Nada at the Fallsview Sheraton...
...doing a matress run to get PLAT and have been staying there the last 3 weekends...I'm 1/3..see previous post.
Nov 28, 2005, 8:58 am
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I haven't read the whole thread but I was looking through Pg. 5 and I think that was a wise advisement to not go reaching into places you can't see. I think it's also paranoid , but like Mama always told me; "Just because you're paranoid , doesn't mean they're not out to get you"[Mom has a quirky sense of humor])
As for marking the porn with an FT , I think I would be grabbing my side from laughter if I found that. It's certainly prudent to say that FlyerTalk shouldn't be associated with this , but who else but folks on this board would know what a cryptic "FT" in the magazine meant.
As for the whole thread , I too have succomb to the insanity , and I didn't find anything at the 4Pts. Pleasanton on a recent mattress run.
As for marking the porn with an FT , I think I would be grabbing my side from laughter if I found that. It's certainly prudent to say that FlyerTalk shouldn't be associated with this , but who else but folks on this board would know what a cryptic "FT" in the magazine meant.
As for the whole thread , I too have succomb to the insanity , and I didn't find anything at the 4Pts. Pleasanton on a recent mattress run.
Nov 28, 2005, 9:57 am
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Can't remember which hotel it was, but I was crawling under a desk once to plug in a charging device of one sort another, and I noticed something: someone taped a sign to the underside of the desk that said "Move along, there's nothing to see here."
Room 1907 in the Marriott Santiago Chile is porn-less. Methinks I just didn't look hard enough, though.
Room 1907 in the Marriott Santiago Chile is porn-less. Methinks I just didn't look hard enough, though.
Nov 28, 2005, 11:21 am
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Hey, that's my quote ....
Originally Posted by Rexly
"Just because you're paranoid , doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
Nov 28, 2005, 4:13 pm
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wow - thats a lot of disclaimers sharon (& an unusually large number of "i'm not interested ... really" .. dont you think? .. Think I figured this one out - the reason why you dont care to check is because you leave it behind??
Just kidding..
.. Think I figured this one out - the reason why you dont care to check is because you leave it behind?? Just kidding..
Originally Posted by SkiAdcock
Disclosure up front - I didn't read 5 pages of comments on this.
2nd disclosure - it would never have occurred to me to actually LOOK for an adult-themed magazine anywhere, whether female or male adult-oriented. Don't disapprove- just quite frankly don't care/not interested.
I'm usually more into the *%!@ where the heck is the ethernet/modem connection grrr. btw - even w/o ethernet still wouldn't have occurred to me - i'm not into porn really.
3rd disclosure - i'm guessing from the title of this thread that some of you look for said items so go for it, but do hide it in case there are kids in the room the next time
4th disc - won't check back on this thread again due to travel i think, so wish you all the best.
Cheers all.
2nd disclosure - it would never have occurred to me to actually LOOK for an adult-themed magazine anywhere, whether female or male adult-oriented. Don't disapprove- just quite frankly don't care/not interested.
I'm usually more into the *%!@ where the heck is the ethernet/modem connection grrr. btw - even w/o ethernet still wouldn't have occurred to me - i'm not into porn really.
3rd disclosure - i'm guessing from the title of this thread that some of you look for said items so go for it, but do hide it in case there are kids in the room the next time
4th disc - won't check back on this thread again due to travel i think, so wish you all the best.
Cheers all.
Nov 28, 2005, 4:26 pm
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I've taken up the habit of looking under couch/chair cushions, but in Vegas only.
Why you ask? Because a buddy of mine found a black $100 chip under his chair in our room
But NOW I'm definintely checking between the mattresses and behind the drawer and in the ceiling tiles in all cities lol
Why you ask? Because a buddy of mine found a black $100 chip under his chair in our room
But NOW I'm definintely checking between the mattresses and behind the drawer and in the ceiling tiles in all cities lol
Nov 30, 2005, 9:51 pm
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Originally Posted by rc408
I was at the Ontario, CA Doubletree this past weekend and found nothing there. they recently remodeled so maybe there hasn't been eough time for "stashers" to have stayed in the room I was in.
I just stayed at the Read House in Chattanooga and didn't find a thing in the drawers (no ceiling tiles to move). It's been remodeled fairly recently, so I'm guessing that does drop the odds of finding anything dramatically.
Dec 1, 2005, 3:53 am
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At this very minute, I'm in Casino Royale in Vegas... and nothing 
Wait, why am I ""?
Wait, why am I "
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Dec 1, 2005, 7:05 am
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An exchange with my wife last week, while at the Aladdin in Vegas...
Wife: "Why are you taking the drawers out"
Me: "Looking for porn. According to Flyertalk posters, people are regularly finding magazines behind hotel drawers."
Wife: "Oh, good luck" {major sarcasm in the way she said it}
No joy, BTW.
Wife: "Why are you taking the drawers out"
Me: "Looking for porn. According to Flyertalk posters, people are regularly finding magazines behind hotel drawers."
Wife: "Oh, good luck" {major sarcasm in the way she said it}
No joy, BTW.