You might want to check all your closets again.
A new report claims that hotel guests are leaving strange items behind after checking out, ranging from dirty laundry and pet lizards to a $10,000 Hermes Birkin bag and a $6 million Rolex.
Mobile phone chargers and power adaptors are the most commonly lost items found in hotel rooms around the world, but new research suggests some items found in lost and found boxes may raise some eyebrows. A report released by Hotels.com on sunday.
“Hotels.com knows hotels inside and out – it's even in our name,” Melanie Fish, the site's vice president of global communications, said in a statement.
“When we asked hotels what makes their stays the most memorable, we found that these 'home highlights' are actually influencing the services offered to guests today,” Fish said. “From guitar concierges to pet healers, hotels are catering to unique traveler requests that may become the norm.”
The list, compiled from reports from more than 400 hotels around the world, includes not only luxury watches and handbags, but also more mind-boggling items such as car tyres, construction pipes, teeth and even pet chicks.
In one hotel, casts for both legs were found, in another a rice cooker and in yet another a blender.
About 10% of hotels reported that guests had left their dentures behind.
But the list doesn't stop at lost and found boxes: Hotels.com also compiled some of the strangest and most extravagant room service orders.
According to the site, requests have included four pounds of bananas, a bathtub filled with Evian water for spoiled little guests, burnt toast and hot dogs topped with caviar.
At the Hotel New Otani in Tokyo, guests can stroll through a 400-year-old Japanese garden, while the Four Seasons Hotel Austin in Texas will have top-of-the-line guitars delivered to their rooms so guests can play.
