Some weird things found in hotels

Katybug

Katybug

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This was attached to the croc/hotel story, LOL

For fun, we did a little search on the weirdest things found in hotels and this is what I found…

Cats – A room attendant found a hefty cash tip along with a small herd of cats. The owner never returned.

A Goat Dressed like Abraham Lincoln – Seriously, one housekeeper confessed they found the animal after a bachelor party.

Blow Up Doll – A repeat customer who requested the same room every time was hiding a blow up doll under the hotel bed until staff discovered it and threw it away.

Gourmet Cheese Platter – It was left under the bed and discovered by housekeeping.
 

The weirdest thing an Aunt found while working in a Motel was a bloke who'd hung himself in the shower.
She was also a nurses aid/carer in her other job in a hospice so it didn't shock her quite as much as it might some.
Occupational hazard.
 
Diwundrin said:
The weirdest thing an Aunt found while working in a Motel was a bloke who'd hung himself in the shower.
She was also a nurses aid/carer in her other job in a hospice so it didn't shock her quite as much as it might some.
Occupational hazard.
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Good thing for her re Hospice, Di, as it's an image I may not be able to get out of my mind.

And the goat thing reminds me of a trip to Marco Island, FL about 25 yrs ago. Some severe nutcase(s) attempted to cook goat meat in their bathtub of a high rise hotel we were staying in. They had to be on a lot of some illegal substance, fire alarms/fireman were everywhere. This was no Motel 6, it was a Radisson.

Dear God, who would want to eat anything prepared in a bathroom, and a public one at that??!! I'm sure drugged up & crazies stay in nice places often, but wouldn't ya think you might have given that a 2nd thought at some point along the way?
 

Tub Goat is a delicacy in certain parts of Florida, or so I'm led to believe. You rarely find the real thing, though - most of the time you're buying Shower Goat, which is vastly inferior. Only Tub Goat has that long-soaked flavor and the seven secret herbs and spices; Shower Goat always tasted like Irish Spring to me. :(
 
Talking about baths Katy, when i was about 16 and living in the country the local Chinese Restaurant was fined for mixing their food in the family bath, imagine all the the creepy things that ended up in the food like pubic hair OMG

 
SifuPhil said:
Tub Goat is a delicacy in certain parts of Florida, or so I'm led to believe. You rarely find the real thing, though - most of the time you're buying Shower Goat, which is vastly inferior. Only Tub Goat has that long-soaked flavor and the seven secret herbs and spices; Shower Goat always tasted like Irish Spring to me. :(
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It is sooo good to have tears in my eyes from a good thing -- laughing at you.....
 
Jillaroo said:
... imagine all the the creepy things that ended up in the food like pubic hair OMG
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How do you think they make Curly Chicken? :cower:

Chinese restaurants have a bad rep when it comes to food prep, but American restaurants are just as bad if not worse.

When I did commercial cleaning one of my contracts was for a lakeside restaurant that had a reputation as a high-class establishment. Judges, doctors, lawyers, politicians all went there on a regular basis and the local papers would write glowing reviews about their food. In fact, the food critic for the paper wrote a review that sounded like he was having a sexual release as he wrote it - that's how highly-regarded this place was.

Well, don't look in the kitchens, because you're going to first be sick and then disappointed.

The grease accumulated almost an inch thick in many areas. There were hairs of all lengths and colors throughout the kitchen. Their industrial mixers had rusty parts, not just on the outside but on the food-contact surfaces as well. No one washed their hands after using the bathroom. They would routinely cough and sneeze while prepping food, wiping their noses to add insult to injury. Food that had thawed out was often re-frozen several times. They even kept a cat in the kitchen to keep the mice away!

One of the many reasons I no longer eat out.
 
Jillaroo said:
Talking about baths Katy, when i was about 16 and living in the country the local Chinese Restaurant was fined for mixing their food in the family bath, imagine all the the creepy things that ended up in the food like pubic hair OMG

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Doesn't it make you more than sick even thinking about it? And the first fraternity party I went to in college....they mixed the beverage of the evening in the tub!!! I almost throw up remembering it and so glad I didn't drink back then. Can't imagine ever being that desperate for a little high, but young people do really CRAZY stuff!
 
SifuPhil said:
How do you think they make Curly Chicken? :cower:

Chinese restaurants have a bad rep when it comes to food prep, but American restaurants are just as bad if not worse.

When I did commercial cleaning one of my contracts was for a lakeside restaurant that had a reputation as a high-class establishment. Judges, doctors, lawyers, politicians all went there on a regular basis and the local papers would write glowing reviews about their food. In fact, the food critic for the paper wrote a review that sounded like he was having a sexual release as he wrote it - that's how highly-regarded this place was.

Well, don't look in the kitchens, because you're going to first be sick and then disappointed.

The grease accumulated almost an inch thick in many areas. There were hairs of all lengths and colors throughout the kitchen. Their industrial mixers had rusty parts, not just on the outside but on the food-contact surfaces as well. No one washed their hands after using the bathroom. They would routinely cough and sneeze while prepping food, wiping their noses to add insult to injury. Food that had thawed out was often re-frozen several times. They even kept a cat in the kitchen to keep the mice away!

One of the many reasons I no longer eat out.
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Yuck, Phil, but I don't question it at all. I'm always checking the ratings clearly posted at any restaurant I eat in. Can't speak for the rest of 'em, too many, but you're so right about Chinese restaurants. My friend's husband worked as a salesman for Swisher, a huge professional cleaning service, for decades. He said our stomachs would turn at the manner in which Chinese restaurants maintain their bathrooms. Not meaning to slam a culture here, but he talked about it for years, with no other overall bad reports from any of them....and Japanese restaurants being the cleanest. (Same thing my career Coast Guard uncle said about their country.)
 
I suppose on the whole you could reasonably say that Japan is more manic about cleanliness than China, so the restaurants reflecting that don't really surprise me.
 
SifuPhil said:
I suppose on the whole you could reasonably say that Japan is more manic about cleanliness than China, so the restaurants reflecting that don't really surprise me.
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Not only that, they're pretty darned good with any and everything technical & especially car mfg. Just overall extremely bright people! Notice there is nothing ever stamped..."made in Japan." I was just p.o'd to find my new Camry was made in California, but they swore it was "exactly as if made in Japan." So far, so good, 12 years later.
 
Don't care about their bathrooms, I don't eat in them, and the kitchen staff don't clean them as a rule, but as I mentioned, I've never had a Chinese meal make me sick. I've been in a few of their kitchens and they were certainly no worse than mine. (Not a high benchmark perhaps, but...) Indian food makes me squeamish just from the smell of it but that's not a reflection on their kitchen hygeine so much as their tastes in food.

Best/worst restaurant story was a family friend who left a job waitressing in an Italian Restaurant in a largish country town. She went chasing the owner/chef to come in for a phone call and found him out in the little yard at the back of the restaurant. He had the day's meat supply on the concrete and was hosing maggots off it! Needless to say the word got around town even faster than she handed in her notice and it was bankrupt, up for sale, and they were goooorn within a month.

The wife of another old friend worked for years waitressing in a rural Chinese restaurant and she said they kept their kitchen like an operating theatre so we shouldn't generalize I guess. They do lead the ratings in dodgy though. (and I would never eat a pork roll or the canned prawns in the fried rice.)

But we do tend to get a bit precious about what we may be eating. Anything cooked is safer than raw.
Salad bars were found to be the highest risk for salmonella and other food poisoning. Go figure.
 
Diwundrin said:
Don't care about their bathrooms, I don't eat in them, and the kitchen staff don't clean them as a rule, but as I mentioned, I've never had a Chinese meal make me sick. I've been in a few of their kitchens and they were certainly no worse than mine. (Not a high benchmark perhaps, but...) Indian food makes me squeamish just from the smell of it but that's not a reflection on their kitchen hygeine so much as their tastes in food.

Best/worst restaurant story was a family friend who left a job waitressing in an Italian Restaurant in a largish country town. She went chasing the owner/chef to come in for a phone call and found him out in the little yard at the back of the restaurant. He had the day's meat supply on the concrete and was hosing maggots off it! Needless to say the word got around town even faster than she handed in her notice and it was bankrupt, up for sale, and they were goooorn within a month.

The wife of another old friend worked for years waitressing in a rural Chinese restaurant and she said they kept their kitchen like an operating theatre so we shouldn't generalize I guess. They do lead the ratings in dodgy though. (and I would never eat a pork roll or the canned prawns in the fried rice.)

But we do tend to get a bit precious about what we may be eating. Anything cooked is safer than raw.
Salad bars were found to be the highest risk for salmonella and other food poisoning. Go figure.
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Have to agree, eat Chinese at least once a month as long as I can remember and have never been sick from it. I just don't use the bathrooms....I can wait!

I've been bitchin' for years that my favorite salad, Caesar, can no longer be made at the table because of raw egg. I would be happy to take the risk to get them as they used to be. Interesting to read that salad bars that most give no thought to re health issues are such a high risk.
 
Diwundrin said:
... Anything cooked is safer than raw ...
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Not always.

There's a chemical reaction that takes place at high cooking temperatures for some foods that converts amino acids, creatines and sugars into carcinogenic and mutogenic substances. This can happen with such innocent foods as potatoes, fish and whole grains, so again I suppose the motto should be "moderation in everything". :eek:

ETA: And, cooking often destroys many of the nutrients in foods.
 
I feel the health in cafes and takeaways leave a lot to be desired, just look what they do when they make a sandwich for you yes they have the gloves on which is the normal requirement, after they have made the sandwich what do they do, they take your money in their gloved hand and place in the till and give change if needed, now how many germs of all sorts are on that money, it makes me sick just to think about it, by rights they should have one person operating the till and handling the money, one must ask why haven't the health authorities taken steps to stop this practice
 
When i lived in a motel my mother was managing i saw my neighbour from the city i used to live in and rang her to say hi, she disappeared quick smart as she was having an affair with another guy, i spoilt their fun and wasn't upset about it.
 
I spotted two co-workers, both married to other people, in his car on their way to work from the bus I was in one day. No one else knew that was 'on' until they got sprung in spectacular fashion months later by her husband and it was divorce lawyers at 10 paces. Maybe I should have tipped them off to watch their step but figured it wasn't my business. I never was a soapie fan.
 
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That Guy said:
Come play with us, forever and ever ...
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I just watched that again the other night - what a classic! My favorite scene is when he's describing to his wife Wendy what her interruptions do to his writing - my roomie does the same thing ... every ... single ... day ... and sometimes I just want to recite Nicholson's lines to her. :mad:
 
Jillaroo said:
When i lived in a motel my mother was managing i saw my neighbour from the city i used to live in and rang her to say hi, she disappeared quick smart as she was having an affair with another guy, i spoilt their fun and wasn't upset about it.
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Oops!!!! Don't you know you ruined her day? Bet she worried herself sick over being found out. LOL, hope so!
 
Some years ago, in Memphis, a maid found a body underneath a bed. It was the kind of bed with boards all the way around to the floor; and she only checked because the last guests had complained about a smell in the room. UGH.

Only thing I ever found was a pair of old eyeglasses, 1950's style, behind the tv. I always used to look since I know they aren't always so thorough at cleaning the rooms.
 
Well, in all my travels, and hotel accomodation,never, ever, nothing exciting happened.
I came across a few fleas , roaches and bed bugs. That's about all.
 
babyboomer said:
Well, in all my travels, and hotel accomodation,never, ever, nothing exciting happened.
I came across a few fleas , roaches and bed bugs. That's about all.
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I would far rather find a dead body than a bed bug, but that's just me. Please notice I didn't include roaches, tho the regulars know how squeamish I am. LOL

Off topic, but we stay in the same condo every year on vacation and the dear owner mailed back a box (at her expense) of a half doz lightweight things g'daughter left behind. aaarrrrgghh, teenagers!:rolleyes:
 

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