Help, are any mumsnetters passing the St Pancras premier inn next few days

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got an inconsolable 11 year old DS. Left his (once) white jellycat bunny, given to him when he was born. It has been temporarily lost before and he has a (almost as old) replacement but obviously it’s not the same. Anyway we are 99% sure it was left in a certain room in the premier inn st Pancras yesterday

Now back at home in Manchester. I am calling the hotel and getting no answer (they are grossly understaffed), I have got a response from Twitter but only that they will pass it on to the hotel which I can’t be sure will get through.

I’m wondering if any very kind mumsnetter may be able to pop in and try and physically ask someone - and/or if we can confirm it is there, pick it up (as I gather that they might not agree to send or just be too busy). Obviously I would pay postage plus a generous tip!

in the meantime wondering if anyone has any happy stories from lost property at the premier inn. Honestly they are so critically understaffed (perhaps deliberately so?) that only turning up in person is likely to get any result.

Well done GoldGoose 👍

I was also in hospital at a similar age, in the 1960s, and had lots of toys with me. Unfortunately in those days it was policy that, when a child went home, all toys were incinerated so they didn't pass on germs and they were all flung into the flames!

There were some I really missed, like my beloved bunny. They had personalities, dammit! I'd spend hours browsing second hand sites but always baulked at the prices. Then one day I said to myself 'For goodness sake, just buy a couple and be done with it!' so I did just that. I ended up with three new bunnies and when I told a good friend she got me another one, so now, in my 60s, I have my toys back.

You're never too old to get yourself a new soft toy.

I love a happy ending. Also I think I look/ feel like that rabbit 😂

my husband never got over losing a dinky toy truck given to him in Cyprus 60 years ago.
we recently passed an antique shop with one in the window- I sent him in to buy it immediately. He’s so happy to have it (despite the £125 price tag!) as it fills a 60 year heart hole. I was so happy we could do it for him.

My beloved teddy also drowned at sea decades ago and I'm still devastated.

@saraclara I'll PM you - fingers crossed

Gosh is it the one or just one very very like it?

Omg that policy is inhuman

I’m so pleased this had a happy ending. My DD left her teddy in a Premier Inn at Gatwick once - we were off to Lapland. I called the hotel before we left the airport and was assured they would find it and keep it. They didn’t 😞 I was devastated for my DD - it was a gift when she was born and she had never slept without it. Her Dsis has her bear ‘twin brother’ & there’d been so many travel puppet shows it was like losing a family member 🤦🏼‍♀️ So Sophie bear went on a Kafka-esque trip of her own while I frantically tried to find a replacement. Postcards arrived from friends all over the world … and she finally returned home having been re-fluffed in New York and wearing new, more fashionable pyjamas she was gifted for modelling at Bear Fashion week in Paris … DD is fourteen now and around the same time Santa and the tooth fairy became unbelievable so did the travels of Sophie 😂

This is amazing.

DD lost her was once white jellycat in Manchester after she dropped it out of her buggy. Someone picked it up and put it on a phone junction box outside Russell and Bromley and we were reunited. To that person, a million thank yous. Xxx

This is so weird! My boy lost his teddy on 23rd. We searched everywhere on Xmas eve and then again for the preceding week.

I read this this morning and again was like ahhh! Poor ted is gone.

And then I just got a phone call! It’s turned up 🥰🥰🥰🥰

So thank you OP for the thread. You never know it might have prompted the ether.

That’s fantastic news! Well done, @GoldGoose 👏✊❤️
My DS is almost 18 and we lost Teddy when we were coming home from a villa holiday; the last week of the summer season.
DS must have been about 7 or so.
Teddy was naught but a rag at that point, so he was probably caught up in the sheets and carted off to the laundry.
I tried calling the villa company from the airport. Tbh if I’d had time, I’d have gone back to look!
I also emailed them.

I was absolutely heartbroken and cried my eyes out back home!
I did actually post on here and there were many kind suggestions to have Teddy send postcards from his travels.

In the end up, I got him Teddy’s Cousin.
DS2 has Teddy’s Brother and he’s almost 17.
If ever we had a fire here, I’d have to rescue Teddy’s Brother!

Great job GoldGoose.

Such an uplifting story.

Awww you are fantastic!! What a lovely thing to do ❤️

So glad bunny could be found, hopefully he will soon be reunited with your DS 😍

Is DS old enough to accept its safer for Bunny to stay at home rather than go on adventures in future? It's what we started doing with my "Blue Bunny" because he was getting a bit fragile and I'd have been distraught if anything happened to him. Maybe Bunny could be in charge of looking after the house, and could choose a "Deputy" who can go with DS on his adventures?

I still have Blue Bunny, he sits on the top of my book case in the bedroom 😍

@TressiliansStone thanks for posting the House of Commons Bunny story - I couldn't remember all.the details. I loved the MP updating MN about all.theadventures Bunny as having before she was safely reunited with her special person

How long ago did you leave the toy at Drayton Manor? I live close by and am happy to go and see if they have it?

@GoldGoose what a star!! That made me cry in a good way. The best of Mumsnet!

I live in the US and postage is INSANE, but if you want to get him delivered to me I'll bring him back to the UK and post him to you the next time I'm home. Might be a few months, mind.

We were travelling to Scotland for Hogmanay when my twins were just over 2 years old. We stopped at Tebay Services (fabulous place!!!) and my boy twin left his soft toy behind! As we travelled towards Scotland I rang them and they said they would ring me back. They found it and saved it until we could collect it Tebay Southbound a week later. Fabulous staff and so helpful.

Excellent work @GoldGoose so nice that Bunny has been restored (and will now be permanently grounded to prevent further adventures 😁)

I'm so pleased Bunny has been retrieved. But surely there's a MNer travelling from London to Manchester who could escort him back up north? That's all that's needed to make this thread complete with loveliness.

I read my DDs the story from the Teddy Robinson compilation where Teddy gets left at the beach after a day at the seaside, and it completely cured them of taking their teddies with them everywhere at a relatively young age. Just as well, as they were both terrible for leaving stuff behind wherever they went.

I want to find someones lost teddy!

DD lost her a piglet once. I'd bought a second as soon as I realised how much she loved him and then she lost both on the same day, one outside and it was her first time she'd ever taken him hidden under her coat. I wish I had said leave him at home as I thought..

Lovely thread! I lost my oldest teddy when I was 24 - he was in an overnight bag which got taken off the coach at the wrong stop. Heartbroken! Had just started to kind of accept it & hope that he had gone to a good home when I got a call to say the bag had been traced! Thank goodness there was something in there with my address on it. My bear is treasured every day 🧸

Yep, something like that!

The very same one he lost! (Ie same model / age not the ACTUAL one!) original box etc just like the one given to him 60 years back!