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

almin,

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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!

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 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

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.

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.

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!

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 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.

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