This thread has seriously put me off staying in hotels. I'll make sure I hide my toothbrush and wash glasses and cups in future. When I was staying in a hotel a couple of years ago for my granddaughter's christening, my younger daughter was going to be staying in the same room as me. I got there at least an hour before her and when she arrived she said either that ottoman is removed or we change rooms. I'm not staying here otherwise. It was upholstered and had stains all over it. I had noticed it and just thought I'll avoid it, but it did make me wonder what the stains were! YUK!! We changed rooms but that meant the new room was freezing cold (it was beginning of February). I had to ask for a fan heater because the radiator in the bathroom wasn't working, but the cable didn't reach that far, I wanted to warm the bathroom up before using it and would have removed the fan heater before having a bath. Not a good experience at all. Annoyingly it is the only hotel in the town (Datchet near Windsor), won't give the name of the hotel, so they have a captive audience.