Found a bra when I checked in...anyone else find underwear in their hotel room?
May 16, 2006, 10:48 am
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Originally Posted by Efrem
No bra?
May 16, 2006, 11:01 am
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Originally Posted by OB one
on the flip side, last week I was in Santa Fe with Mrs OB one and we took a nap after sightseeing all day. When we started to get dressed for dinner, she couldn't find her bra anywhere. We tore the room apart with no luck, looked everywhere, under the bed, behind the headboard, in the closet, in the pillow cases, bathroom, everywhere - nothing. She was forced to go to dinner au natural and make a stop later for support. 
When reading the thread title, I couldn't believe the coincidence. The only thing I can remember finding is one or two books left in the desk drawers bt previous occupants.
When reading the thread title, I couldn't believe the coincidence. The only thing I can remember finding is one or two books left in the desk drawers bt previous occupants.
May 17, 2006, 9:07 am
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Originally Posted by UAVirgin
You sure you only took a nap?
May 17, 2006, 10:14 am
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At the Emerald City Wyndham in San Diego last April, we found bra, panties, t-shirts, wallet, and purse in a dresser drawer. We called security and gave it all to them - we didn't touch a thing.
May 17, 2006, 10:47 am
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Anybody find this guy's shirt?
May 17, 2006, 1:37 pm
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Originally Posted by AAaLot
Very serious. It is an efficient way to get rid of old clothes...especially for the kids.
We just came back from a 2 week holiday...we left with 3 bags and came back with 2
We just came back from a 2 week holiday...we left with 3 bags and came back with 2
I tend to pack heavy, but on vacation it is carry on only, as in "I have no checked bags, am in no hurry, you're overbooked?, sure, I'll go wait in the CRC for six hours for a bump up to FC to AMS".
Some advocate packing light, and buy what you need on your trip, but some things cost too much to buy overseas. Going on holiday I carry a huge cotton beach towel and flip flops, but they take up a lot of room in a carry on. To make room for souvenirs, I leave them behind at my last hotel. At the KMart end of summer clearance, a nice beach towel is $6, flip flops $1.98. (That same size cotton towel in Berlin was $30.) $7.98 for "disposable clothes", heck that's less than the cost of one beer at NRT.
I consider it an additional tip for the housekeeper, a nice towel she can take home.Warning: Be careful what you leave. Overseas, less expensive rooms do not have refridgerators, but in wintertime crack the window and store food between the window and curtin, it will stay at 42° just like at home. I bought a sausage in Nuremberg, but it had too much garlic, I left it on the window ledge. I left my room, and no more than 90 seconds later am at the desk checking out when the phone rings and the clerk says "Housekeeping wants to know if you left a sausage in your room". How did she find it so fast?
May 17, 2006, 1:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
but it had too much garlic How did she find it so fast?
May 17, 2006, 8:52 pm
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not just undies...
but a complete shave kit and rollaboard and a closet full of clothes, the trip before last, while at the Hacienda Hotel, a crew hotel close to LAX. the night before an early morning departure.
Reception had misassigned us to a room already occupied, electronic key and all!
As it happens though, there was/weren't also ()a *body*/ies in the room too, so we quietly closed the door and dragged our luggage back down to the reception area and asked for another room...and keys! IIRC they deducted 10% from the bill....
the night before an early morning departure.Reception had misassigned us to a room already occupied, electronic key and all!
As it happens though, there was/weren't also ()a *body*/ies in the room too, so we quietly closed the door and dragged our luggage back down to the reception area and asked for another room...and keys! IIRC they deducted 10% from the bill....
May 18, 2006, 7:12 am
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My absent-minded husband left a drawer full of clothes behind on one of our vacations. He managed to get the hotel to FED/EX them to us, and now I double-check to make sure he hasn't left anything behind!
May 18, 2006, 8:43 am
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Found a bag of seedy looking clothes including $2000 stuffed into a bra at a travelodge near O'Hare.
May 18, 2006, 1:51 pm
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Yes I have
My secretary (a man) was staying in the Mayflower Hotel in DC. A few days later his wife joined him, and she found a pair of red women's pumps underneath the bed. They had been left by a previous guest, and the hotel went so far as to show his wife a letter of complaint sent by the previous guest re the hotel's failure to find the shoes, in order to to show that they didn't belong to a "guest" of my secretary's. What a lucky break for him that they had such a letter.
At the same hotel, I found a porn magazine under the bed once. It was so vile that I didn't throw it in the trash because I didn't want the housekeeper to find it. I took it down the hall and threw it down the trash chute.
At the same hotel, I found a porn magazine under the bed once. It was so vile that I didn't throw it in the trash because I didn't want the housekeeper to find it. I took it down the hall and threw it down the trash chute.
May 18, 2006, 2:16 pm
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Originally Posted by 60614
At the same hotel, I found a porn magazine under the bed once. It was so vile that I didn't throw it in the trash because I didn't want the housekeeper to find it. I took it down the hall and threw it down the trash chute.
May 18, 2006, 2:24 pm
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Originally Posted by elCheapoDeluxe
Found a bag of seedy looking clothes including $2000 stuffed into a bra at a travelodge near O'Hare.
May 18, 2006, 3:19 pm
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Originally Posted by 60614
What a lucky break for him that they had such a letter.
May 18, 2006, 4:11 pm
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A few weeks back, in SouthBeach ~ found a little plastic placard under the bed "Yes, We Cleaned Under Here Too!".
Guarding a bottle-cap.
We added another.
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Guarding a bottle-cap.
We added another.
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