Hotel workers have dished the dirt.
GOOD luck getting some shut-eye next time you’re at a hotel. Over on Reddit, hotel workers are dishing in a thoroughly revealing — and often revolting — thread about life in the hospitality business.
They’ve endured it all, from drunk guests to rude kids to used feminine hygiene products stuffed in the coffee maker.
Here are a few of the revelations.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU TOUCH
Yes, we all suspected the room might not be as clean as we hoped, but reading Reddit confirms it. Those glasses in the bathroom apparently don’t get cleaned sometimes (“they are just held under the tap and rinsed”), and the duvet rarely gets washed. One clerk recommends removing it from the bed and tossing it on the floor as soon as you arrive.
THE FRONT DESK CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH FOR YOU
One front desk employee recounts a late-night phone call from the penthouse suite. “The guest on the line asked if we could send a condom up to the room,” the clerk writes. “[The manager] told me no and to instead offer directions to the nearest gas station. I relayed this information to the guest. They thanked me and hung up.”
A call came in a few minutes later from the same room asking, “Could you please send up a latex glove?” A porter was dispatched.
IT’S PROBABLY BEST NOT TO MENTION YOUR AGE IN CERTAIN CASES
One clerk recounts a call from a young couple who called and asked for a room for a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old. The clerk checked the age of consent in the state and found out it was 18.
“Double no.”
HOTELS HAVE A ‘BANNED’ LIST — AND YOU’RE PROBABLY ON IT
One poster claims that in his city, an alliance of 15 to 20 hotels have gotten together to create a permanent banned list. Screw up badly at one hotel, and you’re banned from them all.
“Here are some things I learned,” the insider wrote. “Amber is a very popular hooker name. My city has a serious heroin problem. My city has a lot of dumb-ass criminals.”
BE NICE TO THE EMPLOYEES
“I had a man approach me at the desk to ask for ... a good non-touristy place to eat,” one clerk wrote. “I ... pointed him to my favourite local haunt.
“About four, five hours later ... the man returned. He walked straight to me and told me that the place I had told him about had apparently just gone out of business. I was mentally preparing myself to get yelled at (like you do), when he instead put a brown paper bag on the counter.
“He informed me that while my place was gone, there was a new place next door that specialised in dessert.
“He told me he appreciated my effort, though, and then said the following most beautiful words I have ever heard on the job: ‘I figured you might be hungry, so I ordered you one of every dessert on the menu. That way if you like them, you can recommend them to future guests instead of that other place’.”
Who doesn't' want dessert?Source:Getty Images
DON’T BE A DIVA
Normal requests are fine, and if something is not right with your room, do let the front desk know. But one guest took it a bit too far, demanding, “I need a pillow not facing north”.
IF YOU’RE GOING TO PUKE, PLEASE DO IT IN THE TOILET
The Reddit forum is filled with all manner of gross activities from guests, including using room corners as a urinal to one woman who did her business right on the floor and just laid newspaper over top of it. Another gross incident involved a drunk woman puking in the bathroom sink, apparently too drunk (or lazy) to walk another foot to the toilet.
“Plunged the sink, black-grey water and puke from last night flew out of the sink,” the clerk writes.
YOU MAY BE TARGETED FOR A SCAM
One hotel worker writes of a late-night phone call a guest got on their room phone, claiming it was the front desk calling and asking for the guest’s credit-card number.
“The guest said they’d just come down to the desk, but then the caller said, ‘Do not leave the room. If you leave the room, there are police waiting in the lobby to arrest you.’ ”
The guest gave over the credit-card information, and $3000 was quickly charged by the scammer.
This story originally appeared on the NYPost.
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