Sex toys, a lot of them, all under the bed in the metal box frame. Like I mean enough to start your own sex store… Also about used 50 syringes, burnt spoon and other drug paraphernalia.
Oh the stories I can tell from working in hotels for so many years.
A plague mask
Strangest? Sex toys and drug paraphernalia were pretty typical. Dildoes and glass pipes were the most common, but the funniest one for me was finding a love harness still attached to the corners of the bed, and having to explain to the poor, naive front desk worker what it was…made even more hilarious when she asked why anyone would ever want to do that.
The weirdest setup that I personally found was in a room that demanded to have 2 minifridges brought to their room. I brought both of them up to the room, and found a wall-to-wall buffet of vegan, organic, gluten-free snacks. Hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in snacks, neatly laid out. No meals or substantial food, just tons of munchie devices. And they wanted 2 fridges to store their leftovers in. They were subsisting on their snacks, and storing the food that they’d buy at the hotel restaurant.
This happened in the early 1990s. I was cleaning up after a guest who had checked out, and our manager made us count all the towels to make sure they didn’t steal any. I was missing one towel, but I found it on top of the television. When I picked it up something soft and pink fell out. I instinctively went to catch it but it was slippery and dropped right through my hands. I looked at it and I was like, “what the heck is this?” I called a couple of co-workers and we all looked at it, none of us knowing what it was. It was some sort of pink, slimy sleeve. I’m guessing you all kind of figured it out, but my young naïve mind had no idea.
So, after showing it to about five or six random employees, we collectively figured out that it was some kind of masturbation toy. We had the best laugh about it all day long. To top it off my manager called the guest to let them know that they “left some personal items in the room.” Haha! No idea if they ever returned to pick it up.
When I went with my school for the equivalent of spring break, in Spain, Calpe, some guys one night partied so hard that they ended up puking inside the bedroom, and someone thought it was a good idea to grab all the clothes that were making a pile and put it on top of the puke to “cover the stain and the smell”. Next morning they basically plead for the cleaning lady to clean it, they ended up paying 20€ or 40€ to the lady