Woken by hotel staff

Maybe yes - but people staying there can sometimes be given the wrong key to the wrong room as well. I'm not sure they would be any more dangerous than a male member of staff who knew the room was occupied by a single female.
Staff have no reason in that scenario to enter the room.

I stayed in a 5 star hotel in London. A porter showed me to my room and opened it to reveal a woman sitting on her bed in her nightie. Someone at reception had mixed up the rooms.
At those prices, she didn't get what she paid for.

This is terrible, definitely complain.

I know the situation is different, but I stayed in a hotel last summer for two days for a friends wedding. On the first morning, my boyfriend and I were still fast asleep enjoying a nice lie in around 8.10am, and were woken by a member of staff banging on the door. I got up, threw a hoodie and some shorts on and answered, and they said they’d come to look at our internet connection. I said we had no issues with it, he’d actually woken me, and we didn’t ask anyone to come and look at the internet.
The next morning, the morning after the wedding, we were woken by a knock on the door at 9am. Checkout was 11am but they’d come to clean our room. Again, we were fast asleep and hungover after a very late night. I was fuming! One morning I could forgive but both mornings was annoying. So I emailed and complained and got a £50 voucher. Luckily it was a chain hotel so we’ve been able to use it since, somewhere else!

Sorry about your experience OP, but what you have done is given other women staying alone in hotels a bit of a wake up call.

I am always very wary, but at the same time think it'll never happen here, or to me. But it can and it does.

An added worry for me is that I am deaf (when I remove my hearing aids to sleep that is) and I wouldn't hear a bomb go off, not to mind someone entering my room. Add in an eye mask and I might as well just put a sign on the door saying enter and I won't know!

So I just bring a couple of door wedges and hope for the best. I know I can get more sophisticated door alarms and so on, but I wouldn't hear them anyway.

Stay safe out there my sisters.

I had similar recently with a baby and 3 year old at a premier inn. Two staff members knocking at the door close to midnight demanding I pay the bill for dinner as they close the till at midnight and it shouldn’t have been charged to my room. Never again!

The last place I stayed was a Travelodge, just before Christmas.
It had neither a lock or a chain on the door 😱
It was very, very basic but thankfully had 2 chairs that I wedged behind the door and into a shelving unit, ensuring the door couldn't be opened without it causing a racket.
Will never stay in one again as apparently it is company policy not to have internal locks at that particular site.

So how much do you have to pay as a woman for a random man not to come in your room?

I was sexually assaulted by someone breaking into a holiday apartment at night when I was 11 and in my own op, if this had happened to me I’d have screamed the place down.

id be making a huge complaint to their head office about someone entering the room , not paying or asking for a refund.

It means you're far less likely to be at risk than if it was a random, because they have a legitimate reason to be entering rooms and mistakes can happen. I promise you, if you called the police and said 'a member of hotel staff came into my room while I was sleeping and left immediately when he saw me' they would not be attending.

That would be more logical than calling the police

I am not sure this is accurate. I once had my key card turned off, and therefore had no access to my room at midnight, in a very expensive hotel in New Orleans, on a work trip. My company was covering the cost of 150 people staying and they somehow decided that I had not paid my bill. Totally their mistake. They gave me 20% off when I checked out and then charged the 20% back through on my credit card as soon as I left. Shocking.

What a ridiculous comment. 'You get what you pay for"? So if you stay in a Travel Lodge you should expect members of staff to be entering your room? Not everybody can afford the Ritz.

No, as i said multiple times, i was only stating that it wouldn't been seen by the police as 'laughable' to have called them in an instance like this.

But yes, as we now know, he wasn't rapist; this time.

So, if it makes you feel better today, you can win this weird little internet debate.

I would be wanting a FULL refund and evidence & proof that the utter disregard for your safety is being rectified by hotel management processes.

You were treated outrageously.

It being staff wouldn't mean you weren't at risk from them

My comment was in response to the OP saying she was thinking of raising it to the police in case there was a pattern. No need for an eye roll and I didn’t mention calling them in the middle of the night.

Yes very scary no doubt about that. But by the time OP was able to get to her phone, she had already secured her door and realised she was not being attacked, so no need for police as an emergency. On the other hand it might have made the hotel take it more seriously if the police had banged on their door!

I can see you've now been offered a full refund which I think is fair. I don't see how you'd be entitled to any monetary compensation.

They are lucky she didn't smash them with the table lamp, which might be the first thing I'd do when half asleep and confronted by a strange man in a hotel room.

And the first thing you'd do before checking if it was staff would be to call the police? Really??

You should definitely get a refund. Key mix ups should not be able to actually happen in this day and age.

There is absolutely no chance police would attend a hotel where a staff member had accidentally entered the wrong room on the off chance the staff member was planning on using their job as a cover to attack guests 🙄

I don't know about you, but i would have felt 'in danger' had a strange man walked into my bedroom in the middle of the night while i was asleep.

My point is that it could have been anyone, obviously as we all know it was a staff member mistake ... but in that moment; i'd not be thinking ah well, probably a key mix up.

thats a concern to raise with the company and possibly the police eventually but not a reason to dial 999 saying you are in immediate danger.

What consequential loss are you planning to claim for?

Travel lodge are terrible. I would never stay in one again and always pick a premier inn now if there is one nearby.