When you enter a hotel room you just care about how neat and clean it has been kept.
Next time when you enter a hotel also keep in the mind people who have cleaned the most unthinkable for their guests.
Here are some stories revealed by those maids in a thread on Reddit.
Click next to read the disturbing stories
Reddit user the_lock says:
"We had a lady who cleaned hotels tell us about the time she walked in and there were 10 severed heads in the bathtub with the hotel water running. Immediately left the room and had the manager call the police. Tons of police come to investigate with multiple guys with ear pieces in place. The gentlemen who's room it was came back and was immediately taken down. Turns out he was in charge of an ENT cadaver lab being held the next AM and needed to thaw the specimens. Tough to explain but it got sorted out once the heads were all accounted for.
Reddit user LaVieLaMort says
"I found all kinds of weird stuff but the thing that takes the cake was the entire toenail of someone's big toe. Found it in the bathtub. I almost vomited."
Reddit user _Belmout_ says:
"I work at a hotel but not a maid myself. Though one day a maid found a woman who committed suicide. She checked in so her family would not be forced to find the body. It was the middle of the day and the hotel was mostly clear of people. Nobody heard the gun shot and we have concrete floors that stopped the bullet from traveling out of the room. The way it was described to me was it was relatively clean. She laided in bed and put a pillow on her head and shot through it towards the ground. It wasnt until the cops came that blood got everywhere. The maid soon quit afterwards."
Reddit user SantaMonsanto says:
"So the story goes that security gets called because theres a man running through the halls yelling. They go up and find Chris Farley half naked with "powder" all over his mouth and nose, obviously intoxicated, roaming the halls at 3 am. I think there had been one or two previous complaints so at this point he was asked to leave. They go up to his room and its annihilated. Broken furniture, garbage, empty bottles, the works. He even somehow had an empty keg in the bathtub."
Reddit user saydchildofwolves says:
"My first job as a teenager I was a hotel maid. I've seen a lot of weird shit, but one situation that stood out was this creepy old man who would hit on me and my friend."
Reddit user NovelistResearcher says:
"My brother is a janitor for Holiday Inn and was once called to fix something in a guest's room while they were out. He opened the door and found what appeared to be three newborn children in the bed. Turns out the old couple liked Reborn dolls so much they took them on holiday and had added "breathing" mechanisms to them so the chests would rise and fall like a real baby."
Reddit user WaterWitchOfTheNorth says:
"One day we had to clean a room covered completely in paper towels. Everything was covered. The bed, the chairs, the floor. Not horrific, but weird. We had to clean a room covered in - Human poo. On the bed, on the towels. Every where but the toilet. TAnd to top it all off, when I asked about being able to use gloves, I was told no. Just grab the shit covered stuff by the edges where they were shit free. Gah I hated that place."
Reddit user BetterBeRavenclaw says:
"I wasn't a hotel maid, but a maid for one of those "rent-a-maid" companies where we'd have weekly appointments at people's homes. One family had a teenaged daughter who had the flu, and she had vomited all over the bathroom floor. They didn't clean it up because they knew I was coming the next day. I did it, begrudgingly, expecting to get a $20 tip or something. Didn't get so much as a "thank you". I was fired shortly thereafter for not cleaning well enough. I was not all that upset."
Reddit user meow_in_translation says:
"My Mom was a hotel maid and I worked with her during the summers. I remember one day she was done early with her rooms so she came to help me finish up so we could go home. We walked into the room and were automatically hit with the stench of faeces and vomit. The people staying there were a family of four, in a suite, and were put up because their apartment had flooded or something. Apparently they had refused cleaning for the last week and now we knew why. The bathtub was filled with garbage, one of the walls was smeared with faeces. Their 2 year old kid had apparently smeared his own feces unto the walll and they just left it like that and it had dried up. There was a corner with a mountain of diapers. The older kid had gotten sick (probably from living in that filth) and had thrown up everywhere, and I mean everywhere . My mom and I refused to clean the room, we asked the manager to come and see. It was so disgusting the family got kicked out of the hotel and we had to call a cleaning company to get the dry feces out of the wall. Child protective services also came and asked us questions."
Reddit user Tang_Fan says:
“I got a job at a local hotel cleaning the rooms the summer before university. One morning I got in early so it was just me and the front desk staff. I started setting up my trolly then thought it would be a good idea to go look at the rooms that had been checked out first so I didn't get any nasty surprises. As I was walking down a corridor a man in just his boxers stumbled out of his room in an absolute state. He was crying and could hardly breath. He was in such a panic it was scary. He ran at me sobbing "he's dead!, he's dead!".
The ambulance and the police were there in minutes and I spoke to the police for quite a while. It turned out the men in the room were young and had been to a local festival. One of them was a wheelchair user so they stayed at an accessible hotel (mine). I think they both took some drugs (don't know what) or a huge amount of alcohol the night before and the man in the wheelchair choked on his vomit in the night. His friend slept through it. They were both young, early twenties. It was unbelievably sad but it wasn't written about in the newspapers so I don't know about the details."
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