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Has anyone found a hidden camera in their hotel room?

92 replies

SailingOnAWave · 05/10/2024 19:06

I keep reading horror stories about people finding hidden cameras in their hotel room. So now when I stay somewhere I thoroughly check the room out.

My question is, has anyone actually come across a hidden camera?

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Sarah50ButFeel21 · 22/06/2025 11:01

QuantumLevelActions · 22/06/2025 07:41

A friend of mine stayed in a holiday cottage with her partner and children about 10 years ago.

About a year after she was contacted by the police. Another guest had found a camera in the radio alarm clock by the bed.

The owner of the cottage had hours and hours of footage, including some of my friend and her family.

He went to prison and she got a big payout.

Creep!

DancingNotDrowning · 22/06/2025 11:10

I met Danielle Citron a while ago - she’s Law professor and teaches and writes about the societal price of deepening tech integration. She talks a lot about the filming of women in hotel rooms - covers it in her book The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity and Love in the Digital Age.

So I have no doubt at all that it absolutely does happen.

honeyrider · 22/06/2025 13:17

Cleanthatup · 22/06/2025 09:50

Are you serious? There’s a high profile case in N.Ireland at the moment where a 4* star hotel employee had hidden cameras in many rooms and had film of over 70 people on holidays.

Ofcourse it happens, there are perverts everywhere why wouldn’t a hotel be a prime target… head in sand much.

Which hotel is it please as I cannot find anything about it?

HighlandsExpat · 22/06/2025 15:41

Cleanthatup · 22/06/2025 09:50

Are you serious? There’s a high profile case in N.Ireland at the moment where a 4* star hotel employee had hidden cameras in many rooms and had film of over 70 people on holidays.

Ofcourse it happens, there are perverts everywhere why wouldn’t a hotel be a prime target… head in sand much.

What hotel? Can't find anything on the internet about this "high profile case".

Cleanthatup · 22/06/2025 16:22

HighlandsExpat · 22/06/2025 15:41

What hotel? Can't find anything on the internet about this "high profile case".

They don’t name the hotel to protect the victims. Here’s the picture from a local news site shared on Facebook.

Has anyone found a hidden camera in their hotel room?
marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 22/06/2025 16:34

I can’t believe anyone actually thinks that Airbnb owners have the right to install hidden cameras! Pay to be spied on naked? And your children? No, definitely not.

I also wish that they would leave a few dishwasher tablets and washing sachets. We do, but we never find them there. We normally only use one or two.

Fernticket · 22/06/2025 16:39

DanielaDressen · 06/10/2024 10:47

Can’t be arsed to get out of bed.

i also never use the mugs or the teaspoons in the room. A colleague of mine said he blocked the loo in the Croydon Hilton once and chopped it up with the teaspoon and then rinsed the spoon in the sink and put it back! Why he didn’t bin the spoon I have no idea. That stuff is never put through a dishwasher, the cleaners just rinse the mugs.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Tadahhh · 22/06/2025 17:17

Calliopespa · 06/10/2024 10:42

I’ve come across some pretty controlling behaviour in air bnbs .

We had one with just one roll of toilet tissue in each loo ( so two rolls). Fair enough, we just bought more.

However, during the stay an unexpected rainfall meant the owner phoned and asked us to please get out a plastic cover for a piece of outside furniture. They directed us to a (very) hidden key. From there we had to go to a locked cupboard in the hall. Inside the locked cupboard was a fairly rudimentary plastic furniture cover ( really nothing more than a large bin bag) AND about forty rolls of toilet tissue! They clearly kept the toilet tissue cupboard locked and reopened it to refresh between visits. I mean how much is anyone going to use ?

People pinch loo roll.

raspberrymilkshake · 23/06/2025 21:02

BiscuitlyBoyle · 05/10/2024 19:10

Never even thought about it. And if someone is going to get their jollies off seeing my flabby white arse then that’s up to them.

🤣🤣🤣same here

Calliopespa · 23/06/2025 21:05

Tadahhh · 22/06/2025 17:17

People pinch loo roll.

Surely these loo roll thieves are not that common.

I wouldn’t stoop to travelling with a stash of hot bog roll or to keeping it under lock and key.

Calliopespa · 23/06/2025 23:16

Yes exactly! Mattress theft is getting rather more interesting!

Calliopespa · 23/06/2025 23:22

Just to add, the protected loo roll wasn’t even decent quality. I felt like leaving a note saying “ no one even likes or wants your single ply. ”

You’d have to be so desperate.

I have been known to pocket those cute mini jars of bonne maman jam from a hotel breakfast tray. But I think that’s allowed?

namechangedforvalidreasons · 24/06/2025 00:09

Sherararara · 22/06/2025 07:39

“You know what really boils my piss?

Hotel kettles”.

hahahahaha

anyone else remember whatever consumer programme it was that went into a hotel room with a forensic blacklight? Whole place Jackson-Pollocked with all manner of genetic material. I don’t care for bedspreads or cushions and I ain’t too keen on chaises. Spunk and fecal matter all roads, no thanks, a hidden camera would just get me stacking soft furnishings atop the wardrobe.

Tadahhh · 24/06/2025 06:56

Calliopespa · 23/06/2025 21:05

Surely these loo roll thieves are not that common.

I wouldn’t stoop to travelling with a stash of hot bog roll or to keeping it under lock and key.

Apparently common enough that it’s got to be factored in. Also towels go walkies too. It seems people will
pinch anything.

myplace · 24/06/2025 07:10

My son’s Chinese girlfriend says you carry your own loo roll there- it’s not provided, because it will be taken. All public toilets, hotels etc. sounds very impractical.

Myblueclematis · 24/06/2025 08:06

My stay last week in a hotel, they provided two rolls of loo paper which was quite awkward to get to as it was right under your elbow but it looked about 2 ply.

I took a roll of my own loo paper with me as I like what I buy which is 4 ply and much softer than what was provided.

I have a reputation for going out anywhere with loo paper, hand wipes, paracetamol, plasters etc. I think it's why most of my friends don't bother, they know I'll have it in my bag. 🙄

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