anyone accidently left an item at a hotel and recoverd it ,lost property etc

I don't leave things behind because I always check cupboards and drawers at least three times!!!

I did mislay an earring once at a hotel I was staying at for Company training once and when I got home and realised it was missing phoned them and they kindly had a look for me and found it, they posted it to my Head Office for me,I always wonder if I had left the pair would I have got them back but I like to think so,I too knew I had left it in the room prior to checking out.

My DDH mislaid his fold up travel alarm clock in a B & B last year. We searched and searched, under the bed, behind the bed (he has heard something fall off the bedside cabinet in the night!) We mentioned it at breakfast to the owner who said that he would go and search while we finished breakfast. We finished breakfast and my DDH went to help followed by the wife of the owner of the b & b. I sat in the lobby waiting and decided to go up to bring down the cases. When I entered the room it looked like a burglary. The mattresses were up against the wall. The lady was stripping and shaking the duvet covers. every item of furniture had been moved away from the wall, rugs pulled up. It was a case of if it was not nailed down - move it. The upshot was that it couldn't be found. It had disappeared, vanished!!! They promised to forward it if found.

We arrived home and I sneaked up into the bedroom to find the 'lost ' object sitting happily on OUR bedside cabinet. Say no more.

A friend lost her late mother's wedding ring in the bathroom of a b&b in Glasgow, it slipped off her finger and rolled between the floorboards to disappear forever it seemed. The land lady had to call out a carpenter to lift the floor boards to retrieve it. I don't know if she charged my friend for the carpenter's fee.

I lost an earring in a B&B in Carlisle several years ago. I fully expected it to he hoovered up after I left, but asked the proprietors to look out for it anyway. Amazingly, when I got home after a week in Scotland, there was an envelope with my earring in it. Come to think of it, I'm wearing that pair today!

Not in a hotel but DH left his keys on a boat we had hired for a week on the broads a few years ago. We rang the boatyard and they put them in the post that day. Very impressed.

My husband left a jacket in a hotel in New Zealand We phoned the place and they said they would send it to the town we were travelling to.
When it arrived, not only was the jacket there but the tablets and Chanel I had left in the bedside table!!!
We were delighted and much relieved. We paid by credit card for express delivery but we were most impressed that all the stuff we hadn't mentioned was added to the parcel.

I lost my camera when walking near a small town in New Zealand.. Two friends did the walk again (I was recovering from a broken leg at the time) but failed to find it. Meanwhile I gave my details to the tourist office but could not inform the police as their office was shut. Friends went to the police office just in case to find it hanging on the door knob. A chap in the garden next door would not let them take it as they could not tell him what the first photo was. I could remember and so got it back !! Never been so pleased as it was near the end of our trip and had oodles of pics on. Gave my thanks to the tourist office but still feel a bit bad that I could not thank the finder properly

A few years ago, DD and her partner had had a weekend away in an Edinburgh hotel. They'd apparently had a really good time, and DD said so when she wrote in the comments book before they left and according to her, she wrote something like "We've had an absolutely fantastic weekend...etc."
A few days later a little parcel arrived from the hotel. It contained a pair of her 'naughty knickers', which she hadn't realised she'd forgotten!

I left my house keys on the Queen Elizabeth, she sailed to New York from where a returning crew member flew them to England then posted them to me!

have rung 3 times now and still no sign of my jacket! whats bugging me is!! the three times I have rung..not once has the person whom I have spoke to asked for my telephone number or address! as though they have just dismissed it...this is "very well know chain of hotels" and we enjoyed every minute, couldn't fault the hotel itself.. but they didn't have my name or contact number as it was a block booking...of course I have no proof and cannot accuse anyone of taking the jacket, but I did leave it ion the room...should I just put it down to experience?

No - keep on at them, biker! Email them and ask for a reply within 2 days (or something). Say that you'll be contacting their head office if you don't get a suitable reply. Can you claim on your insurance, perhaps, if you don't get any joy?

think I shall email them and try but if the jacket isn't there then it isn't there it isn't the cost of the jacket (well in a way it is ) it's one of those little black jackets you can wear dressed up or with jeans....I rem buying it from Matalan it was priced at £35 but when I got o the till it had gone down to £9 !!!! so a real bargain and I hadn't wore it much..ok thanks all.

The price doesn't matter. A guest has lost something while under their roof (or just left) and they are doing nothing about it. It doesn't take much time to contact you and say they are very sorry but they have looked and it is not where you said you last saw it.

Someone has seen it and thought you would not make a fuss because it is "just Matalan" That is the thin end of the wedge, leading to the path that the Saatchi/Lawson employees took.

I don't remember leaving anything behind, but I once found something in a bedside cupboard on holiday in a remote Orkney establishment that I had to ask the owner to put her rubber gloves on and remove.
I understand that the previous occupant was a lady on her own. The battery must have run out.

almin,

Touch Wood I have NEVER left anything behind .
We have now been Stateside 20 times for 5 weeks a time . We usually only stay once at a time at each hotel . So we unpack then pack up again next morning.
I can honestly say we have never left anything behind , because as we leave I go round the room and "tidy", so if anything has not been packed I spot it .

DD3 left a favourite, expensive dress in a hotel at Canary Wharf. She realised she had within an hour of leaving, so rang the hotel. She was told it had been found and would be returned by post. It never arrived and on phoning again for about the 4th time was told that as 3 weeks had past and the item had not been claimed it had been given to 'charity' -oh yes? Many letters and emails flew back and forth and the upshot was they offered a derisory £50 (it was worth considerably more to replace) or a night in the hotel with dinner. DD tried to hang out for both, but the hotel weren't having it so she opted for the hotel option which had to be taken within 6 months. By that time what with work commitments and having a 2nd baby she was out of time moral of the story, never mind how hungover you are, always check every cupboard and drawer before departing. I was particularly upset as it was I who bought the wretched dress in the first place!

Gally makes you sick to think of it eh !!

Many years ago a very distraught DD1 rang me from her French exchange visit because she'd left her beloved Ryan Giggs football shirt in the bathroom on the ferry over there. I didn't have high hopes of her seeing it again, but rang the ferry company and they sent it back to us first class, for which we were both very grateful! On the other hand I have "left" items in hotel rooms without my knowledge - ie, they've been taken. Once a £20 note from its hiding place, and this year two items of silver jewellery, which I discovered were missing from my jewellery case when I got home. I'm obsessive about checking the room two or three times before I leave so know this wasn't a case of me forgetting about them.

I was in a hotel when a gold crown came adrift (don't know why I was persuaded to get the damn thing anyway) I put in a drawer in the bedside table and forgot to take it home. No, no-one had seen it and it was not there . . .

I left a new jumper in a drawer in a hotel and called the next day and it could not be found! On a trip to Tunisia we left son's buggy in the hotel lobby. Thomson flew the buggy back to Luton then a member of their staff who lived locally delivered it to our door!. Excellent service

I was told this story by a tour manager whilst on holiday in China many years ago.
His tour group at the time were moving from Beijing to Shanghai. He told the group to put their suitcases outside their doors so the hotel could collect them to go in the bus to the airport.
When they got to Shanghai one of the guests rushed up to him and said where are my clothes. He said that he had counted all the cases and had the right number. No she said I have my case but where are the clothes.
She had put her case out but as he had not said," pack your case and put it outside" she had only put the case out. A phone call to Beijing revealed that her clothes were still in the room. They packed them up and flew them down.! Is it me!!!

I once left a winter coat hanging in the wardrobe of a hotel in Hungary.
When finally remembering it, about a hundred miles further on, we turned back but could not find the hotel, let alone the coat!
This made it a very expensive coat indeed! Also, Hungary can be a very cold place without your winter coat. I've been more careful ever since.

I have twice left a nightdress in a hotel and each time it was returned, laundered and cost nothing.
I also left an anorak in a cabin on North Sea Ferries and never saw that again although on disembarking only the cleaning staff could have been in the postion to take it.