What have you forgotten from a hotel room?

[CactusAndCacti]

I have just got back from an overnight stay and have realised I left my little bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the bathroom.

When we got married we left dh's wedding suit hanging in the wardrobe (luckily realised quite quickly and went back)

One hotel stay we discovered the remains of someone's takeaway in a drawer.

So what have you forgotten?

Dilkhush Was the book called "The celestine prophecy"

It was very popular about then and people raved about how it changed their lives..

An iPad (got posted to us)
A Rolex watch (we went back for it as soon as we realised and it was still just sat there in the bedside drawer)
A marathon medal (got posted to us)
DC1’s favourite teddy bear (by some miracle, our nanny had a friend who had just started working at that resort so she arranged for her to retrieve it from Lost & Found and then hand it over the next time they were both in the same city)

My work laptop. Didn’t realise until I couldn’t find it Monday morning and had to do a three hour round trip to get it back. Thank god hotel was reasonably close!

My absolute favourite dress - and it was only the second time I had worn it. Took me a week to realise that it must have been left behind, contracted the hotel - nothing.

Gutted. Not even expensive, and I periodically search for it online but no joy. I haven't worn a dress since (it was bought for a wedding and I've never found another dress I've liked enough to buy since - I don't 'do' dresses)

It seems so silly, but at the time it really was annoying. On our wedding night, we stayed in an a hotel at Gatwick, I said to my dh to check the bathroom. Landed in Venice, unpacked, couldn't find shampoo or conditioner. He, thought my lovely bottles were the hotels and didn't pick them up. . I managed to buy shampoo straight away, but finding conditioner was ridiculous, it took nearly a week and I looked like I had a birds nest on my head! 16 years later, and I make sure that I'm the one who checks we've packed, every, single, time.

I stayed in a one bedroom apartment that had a big cupboard for the weather tank, thought great for drying our coats, yep left mine behind

It was a nightmare to get back, tried to use a courier and they were hopeless, failed to collect about four times then wouldn't wait for them to put the loo able on. The loo very loo day ended up taking it to the post office for me

Passports. Luckily we were in Boston & the distance between the airport & the city is v small. Plus this was before 9/11 so check in times were shorter.

I found some Airbuds last week in Charlotte Square Hotel & gave them to reception.

Expensive prescription glasses. Never got them back in spite of offering to pay for postage.
It was a few days later when I realised and I suppose they just got swept into the rubbish.
Dammit.

Oh and my Mum left her Insulin in a room in the airport hotel and only realised when she was 100 miles away. Cue frantic call to me to phone and sort out.

Luckily it had been found and not thrown away so they had to turn back. She was in bloody Florida at the

We never forget anything. Once we're packed and at the door one of us takes a good look, and then the other. It takes a matter of seconds.

My favourite cardigan, left hanging in a hotel in Athens. I was so upset to have left it and only realised them I got back to the UK.. It was quite a few years ago and I still think about it. I was gutted at the time. I have a picture hanging in my hall of DS 1 and myself standing in Greece and I am wearing it, so its memory lives on 🥺

A couple we were travelling with realised on the way to the airport they’d left their passports behind. We called the hotel and arranged a taxi to take the passports and meet us at the airport. We cut it fine but made it

Loads of things but the two worse were:

2 bikinis that actually fitted (I struggle). Cost about £80 each.

Our house keys. We only noticed when we arrived home at 4 am and looked at each other to open the door. Luckily a neighbour had a spare key but we didn’t want to wake him up so stood in the porch freezing until we saw a light go on (at 6:45; we were going to wake him at 7 anyway as we thought it was more acceptable than 4!). I only had summer clothes, no shoes or socks and no coat.

A watch ( went back, only about 10 minutes and the room hadn’t been cleaned) my Kindle multiple times because I read it during the night when I can’t sleep and have the bad habit of slipping it under the pillow. It’s been posted back from Canada and other places. I always consciously check I’ve got it now so it’s been a couple of years since I lost it.
I was once trying to leave a book behind because I’d finished it and didn’t want to carry it round, twice people brought it out to me as we were packing up the car.

A book, a bottle of wine (not my fault, as the guy I was away with took it out of the bag to put something of his away and left it out ) a personalised towel (again, same guy took it out of the bag because he said he thought I was trying to nick it - with my name embroidered over it?) in the end I left him behind as I realised he was just a wanker.

Phone chargers seem to be easily missed but DH does an almost fingertip search of the room before we leave anywhere so the chances of missing something are remote!

I left my comforter when I was about 6. I'm nearly 40 and still feel sad about it!

@katewhinesalot
I've just looked up the Celestine Prophesy and it wasn't that.
I suppose it was an early version of mindfulness in that it promoted taking your happiness in small things, trusting to the instincts of your body and mind. I think it's the only self book I have ever read.

Phone chargers a couple of times. Luckily I got one lead back. Did find a stash of flavoured condoms and a vibrator in the bedside drawer once. Had a laugh with reception, think they had found worse.

Passport & purse in the safe! Luckily we were staying at another hotel and between the tour company drivers they got it back to me before I had even realised!

My hot water bottle.

my Kindle multiple times because I read it during the night when I can’t sleep and have the bad habit of slipping it under the pillow. It’s been posted back from Canada and other places. I always consciously check I’ve got it now so it’s been a couple of years since I lost it.

I've done this so many times it's now a family joke.

My passport in the safe. Went back and asked the staff to look and they said it wasn't there. Was making plans to visit an embassy on monday for an emergency passport (it was saturday at this point) for a replacement as was travelling to another country a few days later so was a bit of a nightmare particularly as my country didnt have an embassy so had to go to the 'next friendliest country's embassy'... that's a real thing

Luckily I insisted on checking the room and lo and behold there it was in the safe. Whew!

My IPad

A lovely pair of sandals that were amazing in every way, I can't even begin to describe them as they were so unusual and one of a kind. They went home with who cleaned the room /or were handed in to . This was in New Zealand so no chance of returning them to me.
I too used to work in hotel receptions and our lost property was a treasure trove.

Not a hotel room but last year we were in Florida at the Blizzard Beach water park. Dd1 was almost last to finish changing and come out of the loo she’d had to change in as the changing rooms were full. Got back to our apartment and realised she’d lost her tankini top. Couldn’t ring the park so had to email lost property. Apparently all lost property at each park is relocated to a central depot. They emailed back to say it hadn’t been found so they considered the case closed. It must have been the last thing left there. I assume someone else found it and kept it. She was so annoyed with herself, she really liked it.