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Hotel/period mishap - warning: gross.

82 replies

ProcrastIWillFinishThisLater · 13/01/2015 22:55

I'm pretty sure I did something unreasonable - but I don't know what I should have done!

I was at a hotel, I woke up and my period had arrived, all over the bed! I stripped the bed, folded up all the sheets etc and put them on the towel on the bathroom floor (so you couldn't see the bloody bits, and would be able to pick up the stuff without touching any blood). I left a note on the bed saying 'Sorry about the bedsheets and towel, I wasn't expecting my period, sorry' and I left a tenner on it. Obviously nobody should have to deal with that at work, on the other hand, what else could I have done? Maybe should have washed them in the shower, thinking about it. Shit. What would you have done, and WIBU?

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alltoomuchrightnow · 14/01/2015 01:16

this happened to be a few months ago in Austria. I can't speak or write any German so I washed sheet and then tried to dry it with hair dryer Hmm before putting it out...I did get a new one and nothing said but felt really bad. You were considerate though!

Bogeyface · 14/01/2015 01:39

I used to work on the bar and waiting on in a friends pub, which had hotel rooms on site. We used to help the room staff if they were short staffed and there were some stunners!

I have mentioned this on MN before but the short story is that a lady we were fairly sure was an escort used to stay regularly with her "gentleman callers". The room would always be....well used after she left but nothing major, just a bin full of condoms and lube containers usually. This one particular time she checked out, left a hefty tip and apologised profusely about the state of the room. The bed was stripped and the sheets were found soaking in the bath, absolutely covered in shit. Not skid mark shit, but as if someone had taken a dump and then rolled about in it.

After a brief discussion, the sheets were binned and no one told my friend!

Tbh, although it was disgusting, we did at least appreciate she had tried to clean up, and were more appalled at the fact that she spent the whole night with him.

Bogeyface · 14/01/2015 01:40

It has just occurred to me that it could have been chocolate, but instinct tells me that it wasnt.....

Fatalatomo · 14/01/2015 01:41

As an ex chamber maid too I say you were lovely a tender for picking up a folded sheet! Easy peasy.

I had to pick up scattered used tampons (why!)

And do not get me started on the things the Japanese buisness men must have got up to! With their ahem paid visitors Well I assume considering what I had to clean up.

Fatalatomo · 14/01/2015 01:43

Haha obviously that should have said tenner not tender

FightOrFlight · 14/01/2015 01:44

It has just occurred to me that it could have been chocolate

Ah yes, Marianne Faithful/Mick Jagger role play.

Bogeyface · 14/01/2015 01:59

Why, was he into shit as well?! :o

raspberrywhitechocolate · 14/01/2015 02:00

Another ex-hotel cleaner here OP and trust me, you did the best you could and you'll be embarrassed and still remember it long after whoever cleaned your room has forgotten it. In fact I'd be glad someone had stripped the sheets for me easily pleased
Don't worry Cake

FightOrFlight · 14/01/2015 02:14

Why, was he into shit as well?! If it was Kinnerton chocolate, then yes you could describe it in that manner. Not that Mars bars taste much better from what I remember < been a long time since I ate one >

For those mystified (doubt there's any):

ultimateclassicrock.com/mick-jagger-mars-bar-snack-gruesome-rock-legends/

BlessedAndGr8fulNoInLaws4Xmas · 14/01/2015 02:23

Bless you OP.

This unfortunately happens to me a lot in the night Hmm.

Blood does not easily wash and I keep having to replace sheets Hmm.

You sound thoughtful & kind.

Bogeyface · 14/01/2015 02:26

I never knew that!

I remember the mars bar thing being a "thing" talked about by horny lads in the 80's, which considering I was a young (and virginal) teen grossed me out massively, but I never knew it came from MJ and MF. I dont blame her for denying it!

And YY to Kinnerton chocolate being shit!

ChippingInLatteLover · 14/01/2015 03:27

blessed. These are brilliant for getting white sheets white, blood & coffee included.

Stain remover

procrast. Above & beyond the necessary. Hotel staff won't bat an eyelid. Honest. The tip really wasn't necessary, you'd already stripped the sheets. I don't know why you think you have been unreasonable? Beyond always wearing a night pad, there's really nothing you could have done differently. Washing the sheets would have made it much worse.

BathshebaDarkstone · 14/01/2015 04:44

Oh yes OddFodd I want to hear them too! Grin

OddFodd · 14/01/2015 09:21

A lot of my most unpleasant experiences have been covered by other lucky hotel maids since I posted :o Stuff like shit/blood smeared on the walls (things written in it even) is surprisingly common; shitty nappies left lying on the bed/on the floor/on the armchair (sometimes tracked across the carpet); piss sodden things; a bathroom where it looked like a very hirsute person had shaved their entire body hair off; lots and lots of women's underwear (some in large sizes) in single occupancy rooms with a single male guest; airline staff rooms where half the rooms hadn't been slept in ... Some rooms had to be closed off for days while they were returned to habitable.

I always wondered if they charged the occupants or if it was considered wear and tear (was a big hotel and I was very low down in the food chain so never found out).

Oddly, the worst was a man who lived in the hotel who shaved soap obsessively. We'd have to leave him 5 bars daily and he would walk around the room, shaving them. Absolute bugger to get off the carpet.

It was a real eye-opener that job!

editthis · 15/01/2015 13:37

Wow, this has been eye opening. Bogeyface Shock! I have a friend who used to be a chambermaid and she said she once pulled a duvet back to reveal a fully formed human turd squatting on the sheets.

Pipbin · 15/01/2015 13:59

This kind of thing makes me wonder about who the hell does this kind of stuff. (leaving a shit in the bed I mean, not a perfectly understandable situation that the OP was in)
It isn't me or anyone on this thread, yet people do it, and they walk among us, we might even know them. Who are they?

ZingTheGreat · 15/01/2015 14:16

edit

no need to be a chambermaid for lovely "gifts" like that, I found poo on DS5's bed last night.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 15/01/2015 14:32

Another ex chamber maid here. Agree that it was nothing for you to worry about, cleaners are 'usually' women and its not like its not happened to us at some point! Anyway, most hotel bedding is sent off to be washed properly, or the place itself can afford to put the washing machine on a higher wash than 'eco' Grin.

It was lovely of you to be so considerate though. I used to find all sorts, dirty nappies left in hot rooms, pee everywhere, one person had even been eating biscuits in the shower. People are gross.

editthis · 15/01/2015 14:33

Pipbin I know! Who is it?! Actually Zing has given us the answer. It was her son staying at that B&B in Bristol five years ago...

editthis · 15/01/2015 14:34

Biscuits in the shower actually sounds like an excellent idea.

Namechangeyetagaintohide · 15/01/2015 14:47

I want to know what the japanese business men did ..

TiedUpWithString · 15/01/2015 15:02

I used to be a chambermaid and this happened to a woman staying in a room. She rinsed the sheets in cold water and left them in the bath with a note apologising. I was 16 and not remotely bothered having been subject to horrendous teenage periods myself.

Chippednailvarnish · 15/01/2015 15:05

I've heard stories of people wiping their bums on curtains in hotels...

BouleSheet · 15/01/2015 15:13

I woke up in a puddle of miscarriage once - it was the middle of the night - on a ferry. All I had was a newspaper so I sat miserable on a newspaper for the rest of the night - still gushing. Trust me when I say that what the housekeeping staff had to deal with in that case was much worse than your experience. I still cringe when I think of it as in my own misery I was unable to do much more than strip the beds but it was a fair old mess.

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