Left wedding/engagement ring in hotel

[Anonymous]

I realized this morning that I left my wedding/engagement rings at the hotel we stayed at Friday night. We went to Indiana last week for my grandmother's 100th birthday. It was our first road trip with the kids (7, 5, & 3) and our first real vacation with them. Friday night, on our way back, we stayed at the Springhill Suites in Wheeling. Before we took the kids to the hotel pool, I put my wedding/engagement rings on the button at the base of the lamp on the desk. Stupid me. If I'm not at home and have to take off my jewelry, I always put it in my coin purse. That's what I should have done but that little switch sticking up like that seemed like a mini-ring stand. I didn't realize until this morning when I went to put them on that I'd forgotten to put them on before leaving the hotel. I called the hotel and spoke to housekeeping but they didn't see them. I left message for the manager to see if they would call the guests that stayed in the room after us. I feel sick. I'd purchased the stones (sapphires and diamonds) for my ring and my DH's ring when I was with Peace Corps in Thailand. I know they're just material things and that I still have the important things with me (DH, kids) but I feel like I've been kicked in the gut.

[Anonymous]

I'm so sorry OP. I'd feel the same way. Unfortunately, I doubt you'll get them back.

[Anonymous]

Keep calling. It took a week of calling to get a jacket back one time. I know it is different with jewelry, but keep calling for a week.

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm so sorry. I would feel kicked in the gut too, and indeed felt that same way when I (inexplicably) lost my engagement ring - also diamond and sapphire - several years ago.

I would keep calling, and ask to speak with the head of housekeeping. You could consider offering a reward.

I'm so sorry.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry too. I'm not usually into things so much, but if I were in your shoes, this would really bother me too. I hope your continued calls result in success. Another thought is that you could call the pawn shops in the area so they are on the lookout for your rings. And, if you have a photo of them or even one that has you wearing them that you can enlarge, you could try to e-mail it to the hotel so that they know you aren't letting this go.

[Anonymous]

I wore my grandmother's jewelry on my wedding day and left it in the bathroom of the restaurant right before we took off for our honeymoon.

Guess what? They found them and my mother picked them up.

Sometimes luck is on your side!

[Anonymous]

Oh OP, that's awful. I'm so sorry. I don't blame you - I'd feel the exact same way. If I were you, I'd keep calling for sure - show them how important it is and put the pressure on them to help you find it. I hope it turns up!

[Anonymous]

File a police report - that should get the hotel to take it serious.

[Anonymous]

I agree 100% with PP. Then get on the phone with the general headquarters of the hotel chain and start lighting a fire.

[Anonymous]

File a police report and call around to local pawn shops to put them on the alert.

I'm so sorry OP. If you don't get them back, I would save up and take another trip somewhere special and buy new ones. Maybe get a setting with your child's birthstone incorporated.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry. If they don't turn up maybe take a stone from your husband's ring to make you a new one.

Don't know if you are Catholic but I always find praying to Saint Anthony works for me. I lost a special ring once and after a prayed to St. Anthony for a month is showed up in a box in my closet. I use St. Anthony to find my keys and iphone too! Give it a try even if you are not Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so sorry OP. I'd feel the same way. Unfortunately, I doubt you'll get them back.

Are you serious? Eeeks to live in your world. I would keep hope and keep trying to look for them--bug every employee in that hotel. File a police report. Have the hotel investigate their housekeeping/guests etc. My mom lost her ring (as in it fell to the floor when she wasn't paying attention) in a hotel lobby in a FOREIGN DEVELOPING COUNTRY and she was able to get it back THREE days later.

[Anonymous]

Those of you urging OP to file a police report, what exactly is the crime that should be reported? Who should be accused? Theft is a crime, but according to OP what happened was an accident. She made a mistake and left her jewelry behind. After that, there's no telling who picked them up.

OP, I'm sorry. I hope you get your rings back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those of you urging OP to file a police report, what exactly is the crime that should be reported? Who should be accused? Theft is a crime, but according to OP what happened was an accident. She made a mistake and left her jewelry behind. After that, there's no telling who picked them up.

OP, I'm sorry. I hope you get your rings back.

She did not leave them out in a public place. She left them in her hotel room. That means there is a very limited set of people who may have picked them up: the housekeeping crew that cleaned her room after check out and the next person to check in to the room. It's not like the general public has access to a locked hotel room.

It should be very easy for the hotel to identify and speak with these people. If they come up empty, I'd file a police report ASAP. While I'm not sure it's a crime for housekeeping or the next hotel guest to take rings that are obviously lost possessions and not their property, I'd let the police sort that out with the hotel.

Meanwhile, I'm so sorry OP! I do hope the rings resurface.

[Anonymous]

keep hope! My husband lost his wallet in a taxi in paris on our honeymoon and a month after our return we got a letter in French saying that they had found the wallet and could they use the money in it to send it to us?!! Amazing!