Hotel Horror: Luffa, anyone?

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Traveling as much as I do puts me in a routine, as I wrote about on Flightster. One of the first things I do is unpack my amenities from luggage, put it in the bathroom and change out of my uniform.

A lot of my co-workers say that the first thing they do is take a shower to “get the airplane” off of them. I can’t do that, even though I know exactly where they’re coming from, because showers wake me up rather then help relax me. If I’m in on a short layovers taking a shower before bed will keep me up for hours. But, in this situation if I would have tried to take a shower first, I would have discovered the present left for me in my room.

The next morning I opened the shower curtain to find, that’s right, a luffa. Left hanging there by the previous hotel guest. I was grossed out. I didn’t touch it or even attempt to move it, and it was too late for me to switch rooms to just take a shower.. so I actually showered while the luffa kept hanging there looking down on me. Yuck!

Have you found any “surprises” in your rooms recently?

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5AP5J6VHYTFNTKHKGEJRYO56JE Frank Q

    I can outgross you. I found a used condom “stuck” to the headboard at an upscale Vegas hotel once. I made a big stink about it because I can’t imagine how housekeeping could possibly have overlooked it when changing the sheets. The sheets looked fresh but I got a new room anyway. And upgraded to a large corner room.

    • Mike

      EEwwwwwww

  • Kelly K

    I’m with you, Bobby — showers wake me up, so I often don’t do more than peek around the shower curtain during my room check until I am getting ready for my report time.

    Recently, I sleepily climbed into the shower for a very early van time, and as I pulled the curtain closed a stiff, dirty, dried out wash cloth fell off the shower rod and onto my head! Ewwww….talk about a wake up call. I can only assume it was missed by housekeeping because it got camouflaged in the folds of the pushed back curtain.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arnie-Lewis-Tharp/529896406 Arnie Lewis Tharp

    Pornography (under mattresses, in ceilings, behind drawers), six-pack of bear in the fake ceiling above a shower, can’t think of anything else right now. I typically do not shower when I get in. But I do love to rest, relax….chill. I hate running right straight out and being busy, busy, busy……

  • http://www.thesegoldwings.com Jet

    On a recent layover, I opened the mini-fridge only to find a half consumed glass of what I /think/ was Baileys and hot chocolate.