Things I have Left in Hotel Rooms
“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find what I had really sought was something I had left behind.” Thomas West
iPod Nano – Panama City, Panama (It was replaced with the largest iPod available)
Shoe – Canal Zone, Panama (I got it back on the last day)
Hairbrush – Lima Peru (yes its true, no hair brushing for me in Peru)
Toothbrush – Prague , Czech Republic ( I bought one)
Toothbrush – Vilnius, Lithuania
Razor – Riga, Latvia (got one)
Passport – St Petersburg, Russia (I had to go back)
Phone – Cappadocia, Turkey (They found it but it was the biggest holiday in Turkey and no one was working to bring it to Istanbul)
Phone charger (most recent) – Edinburgh, Scotland and many other places throughout the years ( a hotel manager once showed me a box of the phone chargers they had collected that week)
Plug of country – I leave them in the outlet in every country.
New unworn silk scarf from Thailand – Washington, DC. (An expensive one – I have all the cheap stuff)
Favorite Blue Sweater – Las Vegas, Nevada (What you leave in Vegas stays in Vegas – sorry I couldn’t help myself)
Sweatpants, two shirts ,evil eye necklaces – Istanbul, Turkey
Apparently, the most common thing left behind after phone chargers is jewelry. This is followed by money, false teeth, retainers , clothing, medicine, books, laptops, iPads and wigs. Sex toys are another popular item which no one ever calls to claim. Grand Hotel Principe Piemonte hotel near Pisa once found a dog in one of their rooms, with little explanation or requests to return it to their owners. The Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque hotel in Tenerife found a caged cockatoo in a room. The owners asked for it to be flown back to them in a private jet. Travel Lodge (the UK budget chain) found 75,000 teddy bears in their five hundred hotels in a year. In Australia, a woman checked out leaving her boyfriend handcuffed to the bed post. At the Novotel in Fiji, a couple left their baby. Neither the parents nor the baby seemed agitated or surprised when they were reunited.
What have you lost when traveling?
Fly Safe,
JAZ
You seem to lose a lot of stuff 🙂