Stranger getting into hotel room

[DangerousMouse]

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?!

Because it's possible for someone drunk to stumble back, need a new key and instead of saying '112' which is their room number, confuse it with '122' which they think is their room number. This is why the hotel should always check name details before issuing a key.

But after updates it doesn't sound like this intruder had a key at all, anyway.

I had this a few weeks ago! I was getting changed and a couple walked into the room.

There was a problem with the keycard system they said, so when our keycard didn't work we didn't think much of it and the cleaner offered to let us in. I think what actually had happened was the receptionist had given people the wrong key cards so everything got jumbled up.

Bloody hell though, it was bad enough being stood there in my underwear but if someone had actually got in bed with me! I wouldn't like that at all - scary.

Work colleague accidentally went into the wrong room using his key card, dumped luggage and ran to the bathroom only then Elise’s another person was in the room. He tried all the doors and turned out they had made his key card a master and he could get in any room. Apparently happens a lot that you card opens more than just your room

DH says he's tested the door multiple times this morning and it clicks shut every time, but it must have got caught and not closed.

This has happened to me, a man walked in whilst I was changing. I now always travel with 2 little plastic wedges that you can put under the door to stop it opening (2 because i sometimes get allocated a room with an interconnecting door so I need to wedge both!)

I’ve walked into 'my' hotel room where a man was in the shower, thankfully with the door closed, and all his clothes over the bed. I made a sharp exit. I does happen a lot

As PP have said I’d be wary of using a door wedge incase there is an emergency. If there’s no chain I put a suitcase or chair (not wedged) behind the door

If they gave him a key to your husbands room they key your husband has should be useless now. As soon as a new key is issued it wipes the old one clean, tell him to check so he's not locked out.

How would he walk in in his boxers though ?
or did he get unchanged in the room ?
why was he walking the corridors of premier inn in his boxers?

I used to be a flight attendant. I learned the hard way to keep the latch on and put my suitcase (zipped up) in front of the door. Had a few creeps.

I used to be a hotel receptionist in a not terribly nice hotel. This really shouldn't happen, as we would normally check the name before making a new key card for someone locked out.

We once had a huge problem when our entire booking system broke completely and we had to use an excel spreadsheet. It was only one shift but it was awful. Total chaos with one of the other receptionists being totally unable to adjust to using a different system and putting people into the same room. Horrible shift - so embarrassing and potentially dangerous!

My takeaway from working in hotels though was that I now don't use the coffee and tea making facilities 🤢 and I wouldn't be keen on using the hairdryers either.

Also, people can be absolutely horrible. We had a few total cunts stay with us. Honestly, so many stories, but for another thread!

He was sleepwalking! I guess it was lucky he had boxers on

Just to confirm, it doesn't look like it was a key issue, it appears my DH didn't click shut the door.

Why not use a hairdryer?

Make sure he reports the faulty door to reception.

Must have been terrifying for all of them, including the sleepwalker once he was awake and made aware of that he had done. I recently heard about a woman who has started to keep her car keys in a timed safe overnight to stop herself going for a drive while she's asleep...

The last Premier Inn I stayed in had the standard key card for entry but also a thumb twist lock inside which I made very sure was turned, as I was on business and staying alone.

I ALWAYS do this 😂

We stay in Premier Inns all the time and they have a door chain as well as the internal lock. My children have been taught from a young age to check the door is closed and locked and put the chain on.

From Premier's website "Every bedroom door is fitted with a deadlock or chain."

I cannot imagine how terrifying it was for your son to have a strange man in his room in the middle of the night. Lesson learned for future hotel stays.

Or just turn the lock inside so the key card won't work. And/or use the chain device if there is one.

I've had this happen. As a solo female traveller it's fucking scary. I was in Edinburgh for work a few weeks back in a town house hotel and I piled all the luggage and chairs I could find up against the door. Only to find the findow in the bathroom was wedged open. I was on the ground floor. Didn't sleep a wink got up at 5 and got a train three hours early to get home.

This reminds me of the weekend I got married. My mum checked into her hotel room, dropped her bags off, hung my wedding dress on the front of the wardrobe and then left the room. An hour later she went back to her room and there was a couple, him in his pants, sitting on the bed. Turned out the hotel allocated them the same room as my mum. When my mum went to retrieve her things she asked did they not think it was strange there was a wedding dress hanging up? The man said he thought it was for decoration!

He didn't lick it from the inside. If he had, the card wouldn't have worked.

Why is everyone taking equipment when doors come with an internal lock? The equipment will help if someone is actively breaking in, I guess. The accidental Ket card issue is solved by locking the door from the inside!

@NotAHoot I probably don't want to know the answer to this, but what is the issue with the hairdryers?

How does a door stop protect you against gunmen??