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Stranger getting into hotel room

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DangerousMouse · 12/11/2023 07:13

My son is away for the night with my husband, and he has just text me to say that a stranger got into the room and got into the bed with my husband in the night! How can this even happen? It's a premier inn, don't they have key cards?
I'm still waiting for the details from him but wow how terrible is that?!

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Boysnme · 12/11/2023 08:07

I had someone come in through the connecting doors once. Gave me a total fright.

I always check they are locked now, you’d be amazed at how often they are not.

TookTheBook · 12/11/2023 08:07

Did he lock the door from the inside? I recently found out from two separate friends that they didn't realise you could do this or thought it was a fire risk - it's not. You can lock hotel doors from the inside so key cards outside don't open them but you inside can still open them.

MollyRover · 12/11/2023 08:08

Has happened to me, I was checked into 3 occupied rooms before being checked into an empty room. Very strange though Blush

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Missingmyusername · 12/11/2023 08:09

Premier inns can be full of bed bugs too.

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unfairornot · 12/11/2023 07:18

All the cards are blank. They allocate one to a room, so it's a mistake at reception. You would think there would be an alert on the system to say the room is occupied.

I can understand reception making a mistake, but the comes in sees other people in the room and then proceeded to lie down on the bed next to her DH? Sounds like there's a lot more to the situation.

fuzzystar · 12/11/2023 08:12

Lock doors from inside
Is this the one where you can complain if you don't get a good night's sleep and they'll refund you- if so I'd ask DH to do that.

bumtrumpet · 12/11/2023 08:12

Actually got into bed with your DH? How old is your son and were they sharing a room, or did he go to your DH room to find him in bed with someone else?

FettleOfKish · 12/11/2023 08:13

The most likely scenario is that intruder has come back from a night out at 5am blind drunk and lost his key.

He's told reception the wrong room number and they've programmed him a new key, crucially without confirming his details in their system.

Or I suppose there's an outside chance they did ask his name but it's the same (I've had that in the past when I had a very common surname, a hotel gave another couple of with the same surname a key to our room. Thankfully we weren't in it).

It's for this reason, along with over-enthusiastic housekeepers, that I always use whatever secondary lock mechanism is on the inside of the door, whether it's bolt, chain or twist lock.

Loubelle70 · 12/11/2023 08:17

Did you son share a room with dh?
My first thought was if not... Grindr ..hookups etc.
Its just my thought .but im suspicious lol.
Before i commuted ev day, i used stay in hotels regularly as part of work but never had this happen once x

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DangerousMouse · 12/11/2023 08:23

Yes DS shared a room with him, DS is 12. I don't know if he locked it from the inside, I do know what you mean though and I always do this. I'll text again see if I can get info

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DangerousMouse · 12/11/2023 08:24

And yes, DS said he actually got into DH bed!

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Toddlerteaplease · 12/11/2023 08:25

Doesn't everyone love doors from the inside? I always do!

AbbeyGailsParty · 12/11/2023 08:28

After a suggestion on here I take a rubber door wedge with me. Lock hotel room door, shove wedge in place.

Andywarholswig · 12/11/2023 08:28

I have a little security gadget that screws onto the door from Amazon that I use when I am travelling to secure the door. Happens ALL the time!

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DangerousMouse · 12/11/2023 08:34

Just spoke to DH. He woke up to a man in his boxers standing in his room, the man kept repeating the same sentence and walked to the bed and got in, my DH had to physically remove the man from his room, it seems he was sleep walking. DH called security who have checked cctv and found the man who was obviously confused but returned him to his room.
DH is going to speak with a manager in a bit to work out how he got in the room.

I will be ensuring we use extra security in rooms from now on!

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CantFindTheBeat · 12/11/2023 08:35

Oh wow - sounds like your DH may have not locked the door then

Loubelle70 · 12/11/2023 08:37

Thankyou OP. Probably just as it is then .. stranger walking in pissed up and going in wrong room

FettleOfKish · 12/11/2023 08:38

If he was in his boxers it doesn't sound like he'd have had a key to the wrong room at all, assuming he was maybe aiming for the loo and ended up in the corridor.

I wonder if there's a chance your DH and DS's door wasn't actually clicked shut? Sometimes the heavy self-closing doors don't quite make it to fully closed, especially if the carpet is thick.

We came back to a hotel room last month and found our door ajar as it hadn't clicked behind us and we hadn't noticed.

Just surmising, not passing any blame.

Xenia · 12/11/2023 08:39

When we stay in hotels we lock the room from the inside - sounds like that is wise.
There was a terrible case where a man killed an intruder into his hotel room. He was found guilty although I thought really it should be self defence. I have forgotten the details now.

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DangerousMouse · 12/11/2023 08:40

TBH I think my DH relied on the door closing itself and maybe the door wasn't actually shut properly. I get what he was saying - that the doors are heavy and they do Close themselves, but he didn't check, and didn't lock it from the inside. He's learnt his lesson as he was terrified when the man was there,

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itsallnewnow · 12/11/2023 08:42

Brumbies · 12/11/2023 07:35

I recently stayed in a hotel alone - I wedged a chair under the handle to stop anyone getting in while I was sleeping!

I travel for work and have a room assigned just to me. Pre babies DH would often come meet me and stay over but now he's at home with kids. I always do this and wedge the door. Not expecting anything sinister but in the event of a mistake the noise and clatter would give me time to get out of bed ready lol

dylanschicken · 12/11/2023 08:54

I can't get my head round how a wrongly coded card would mean he got into that room. Surely he would try his own room (he definitely hasn't just arrived as no one walks into a room and straight to bed) and when that didn't work go back to reception?

2jacqi · 12/11/2023 08:54

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BadSkiingMum · 12/11/2023 08:57

I once had a man open my door in the middle of the night. Thankfully I had put the bar across, so it only opened a few inches but made a big noise. I think I called out: ‘Hey’ or something equally ineffectual. He apologised and went away.

Naturally it really shook me up and I didn’t easily get back to sleep, which wasn’t ideal given that I was leading a big training session the next day. I complained at Reception in the morning - it turned out to have been a member of staff who had been allocated a room for the night and obviously the wrong number was given.

However, having been in two hotel fire evacuations, one at night, I am a bit uneasy about using a physical block like a door wedge. Thankfully both were false alarms but both were full evacuations.