Any positive stories about calling hotels about an item you left behind?
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Anonymous
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Realized tonight that I probably left a favorite pair of earrings in a hotel a week ago—we left in a hurry because I needed to take my son to get medical attention.
I’ll call the hotel tomorrow but in the meantime has anyone ever called a hotel about a left-behind item and had it turn up? They weren’t expensive, maybe $30, but I bought them on a trip and they can’t be easily replaced. It was a Marriott Courtyard if that matters. |
Anonymous
| My husband has left just about everything in hotels, and gets them back at his expense. Many hotels use an outsourced company (forget the name), and they are happy to ship whatever you left at a ridiculous amount of money (think $40 for a phone charger or the pants he left hanging on the closet). |
Anonymous
| My DD left her lovie doll behind at a big name hotel. I called the hotel and asked for lost & found, they transferred me to security. He had the doll and sent me an email with a link to third party vendor - all I had to do was type my address and credit card number in. |
Anonymous
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Marriott is pretty good. They shipped me my Clarisonic once and my husbands pants another time. You do have to pay shipping. |
Anonymous
| Left some Bose Noise Canceling headphones behind. Hotel put in an uber and sent to me at airport. Worked fine. |
Anonymous
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I called the hotel from the airport when I realized I left my apple charger and bar charger on the desk. I told them my room number and exactly where I left it. They mailed it to me immediately. Easy peasy.
It probably helped that I called before housekeeping had a chance to come through and pocket whatever was left behind. |
Anonymous
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Not a hotel story, but an airport one:
Flew out of Dulles a couple of weeks ago, and dd was carrying a really nice camping mat. Forgot to pick it up when it went through the X-ray machine at security. When we returned several days later, it was waiting in lost & found (located behind baggage claim 2). |
Anonymous
I did not pay for shipping, fwiw. |
Anonymous
Your story was really nice until I got to the part where you made an assumption that people who clean automatically take things that aren’t theirs. |
Anonymous
| Left an IPad at Great Wolf Lodge and got it back without a problem. |
Anonymous
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I once left my kindle at a Marriott in Florida. I fell asleep reading the night before, and it got lost in the sheets so I didn’t see it when I was packing.
I realized as I was driving to the airport (like an “oh crap, I didn’t put my kindle in my purse” moment). I called the hotel, and they radioed housekeeping, and housekeeping met me in the parking lot with the kindle so I didn’t have to park and walk into the lobby. I was so grateful that I almost cried (I was also really tired), and gave the woman a $36 tip (all the cash I had in my wallet). I read a lot when I travel, and I felt lost without my kindle. |
Anonymous
| Left a bunch of chargers in a hotel in NYC around Christmas. Housekeeper found them. Hotel called us and we were able to go back and pick them up before we left to go home. |
Anonymous
Similarly, I left a laptop charger, and the hotel was able to find it and pass it along to a coworker who hadn't left yet. |
Anonymous
| I realized on my drive back to D.C. from philly that I left a pair of boots in room at Ritz Carlton. Called & spoke to security. They checked & found my boots. Fed exed them back to me at their expense. |
Anonymous
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Yes my engagement ring! Insured for ~12k.
The hotel air mailed it to us. It's still unbelievable to me that the maid or whoever didn't just pocket it to pawn or whatever. |