1. A Man In Distress
Working at a hotel is one heck of a challenge. From ghostly encounters to guests displaying peculiar behaviors, you have got to have the guts to face all of these. Whether it’s daytime or nighttime, you will never be sure when will spooky things strike you along the way.
Some people might say that “hotel work” is boring. Well, these stories from Redditors will prove them wrong. As we delve into these, you will learn that working at a hotel is no joke. Come check these out!
One night a few hours after I had arrived for my shift a guest kept coming down and aimlessly wandering around the lobby and breakfast area. He was doing extremely odd things like talking to himself and sitting down at a breakfast table only to stand up and switch chairs at the same table every 2-3 minutes. Every time I asked him if he needed help he would jerk a little and mumble that he didn't need anything.
Well a few hours or so after he finally went to his room he came back down and said he had turned the heater on and it made him short of breath and needed me to call an ambulance. So even though I was confused I obliged. About a minute later the hotel's fire alarms started to go off. The whole time the firemen were going up and down from his room they kept asking if he had anyone with him or if he was alone and I kept telling them that he was alone and had no other guests in the room with him.
After the firemen left and everything was back to "normal," I went to look in the men's room. He had rearranged all of the furniture put the TV in the bathroom, put his trashcan in the middle of the room, and set it on fire. The thing that troubled me wasn't the fact that the man intentionally set his room on fire and could have possibly burned the hotel down. It was the fact that even though he was alone he had small children's clothes spread around the room.
Loco_Mojo
2. Mistaken Ghostly Encounter
I worked as a waiter in an old hotel in Scotland that was reputedly haunted. The restaurant, and the part with the bedrooms, were separate buildings and all ground-floor.
One afternoon we were expecting two elderly sisters to check in for a few nights. They are friends of the owner and regular guests. Though being a new-ish member of staff I'd not met them yet. Well, one of the other waiters mentioned that they'd arrived, and I needed to put a bottle of claret in their room while they were being helped out of the car.
I picked a bottle, opened it, got two glasses and a tray, and nipped out the back of the restaurant, across the courtyard, past the two old ladies getting out of their car, and into the main building. Turned into the corridor leading to the bedrooms. Now, at this point, I knew there was nobody else in the building, no other guests, and only the owner and a couple of waiters were around between lunch and dinner service.
I'd also been told the stories about the hotel “ghost.” An old woman in grey who'd hanged herself when it was a coaching inn. I was therefore perturbed to see a headless figure, in a faded Victorian dress, shuffling away from me down the corridor in complete silence.
To my credit, I didn't drop the tray, but I did eventually emit a noise resembling a Harrier jump jet winding up, causing the figure to turn around. One of the two old ladies, suffering from severe osteoporosis that caused her head to be below her shoulders, had been let in the side door ahead of me so she didn't have to walk so far. I felt like an idiot. I told her I'd tripped with the tray but saved it, not sure she believed me.
Army_of_Wombles
3. Eerie Noise
I don't work in a hotel, but my job requires me to travel a lot. The most unexplainable experience for me happened during my stay in a hotel I frequent. After a long day, I tried to get some sleep as I had to get up early the next morning, but for some reason, I would hear this noise from the room above me.
It sounded like someone dragging a table or chair across the floor as if they were rearranging their room. At first, I thought nothing of it, but this continued every few minutes for about 2 hours. I finally got fed up and called the front desk, they sent Security to check it out, turns out there's nobody in the room above. The noise continued after and I had no choice but to switch to another room.
BLUE_PIG
4. Lost and Found
I was working at a small boutique place, just starting my day shift at about 6:30 am. Hadn’t even had my coffee yet.
A woman came to the desk, visibly shaken. She tells me “I can’t find my husband. He’s not in the room, and all his clothes are still there. He’s a sleepwalker and I'm worried that he has wandered into another room.” At this point, I am starting I started to chuckle a bit to myself but quickly stopped with the thought of a screaming woman finding a naked stranger in her room. The first thought is to check the CCTV.
We head up to the first floor. Our CCTV is actually in the back of our linen storage, and I bring the woman with me, not even sure why I did, probably because she wanted to come. As soon as I got the door open and the lights on, there was her naked husband sleeping spread across our bundled duvet covers, with one open half covering him.
She woke him up, and of course, he had no idea where he was. She wrapped him up and took him back to bed. They checked out later, and the dude was angry and rude.
I told him not to worry about it as he gave me a great story to share, and let him know I would tell anyone who would listen. And I plan to!
sbouvette
5. Hotel Wedding Riot
I was a bartender. The worst ever was the wedding weekend riot. Four different wedding groups stayed in the hotel drinking until I shut down at 3 am. One bride felt a bridesmaid from another wedding was looking at her new husband. The bride and her bridal party jumped the other bridesmaid so badly her scalp was damaged and she lost sight from one eye.
Men soon got involved and cops stormed in from 8 different neighboring towns. The worst image was a man covered in blood holding a huge grey goose bottle over his head like a gladiator as he hurt one of the grooms with it.
Abun2
6. Unidentified Impossible Footprints
I worked in a motel when I was 17 or 18 years old. I was at the front desk not working when the housekeeping guy called me to check something out in a room that was being cleaned. I go up there and the housekeeping guy is standing in the middle pointing up to the ceiling.
There was a set of bare footprints on the ceiling which is at least 10 feet high. Bare. No shoes or slippers and only in the middle and nowhere else. There's no way he jumped that high upside down and no prints on the walls either.
Also, he left a single bullet on the bed.
Fluxywild
7. Water Bugs Attack
This isn't unexplainable, it makes perfect sense, but it was freaking scary.
I worked at a hotel in Florida, a fairly upscale hotel. One day after a particularly bad string of thunderstorms, I went to clean the pool. They had an actual pool guy they called from time to time, but only when the pool was really bad. When I first looked at the pool I brought the manager outside and told him I felt like it was out of my scope. The pool was covered in debris. leaves, plants, mulch, dirt, etc…
He told me he thought I could handle it, though, so I was like, whatever, guess I'm scooping these things out with a net all day. So I start scooping, probably had been scooping for an hour or so, and this 10/10 knockout girl comes to the pool in her string bikini and asks if it's swimmable.
I kind of looked at her like she was a fool and asked her if she wanted to swim in that. She just kind of shrugged and decided to lie down in a sun chair till I finished scooping the pool out. Which is fine by me, great scenery while I work.
We started making small talk and finally, she said she just wanted to dip her legs in. She does so and after about 10-15 seconds I notice some weird-looking things swimming around in the pool, and they're coming right for her feet. I scream "YO GET UP. GET OUT. GET OUT NOW."
She looked at me like I was crazy, but got out. I point and she looks down and about 10 to 12 of these monsters are now gathering near the wall where she was soaking her feet. She freaked out and ran off, and I assume went back to her room and had a nervous breakdown.
I went and got the manager, and told him to either call the pool guy or do it himself because I wasn't working with these monsters. He opened one of the pool filters and came across about 15 or so MORE of them in the filter. It was a sight you don't unsee.
CDC_
8. Midnight Doppelganger
Not my story, but I am involved in a way. Several years ago, my college roommate, called her E, worked as the night manager for a newly built hotel. As was par for the course, I would often bring coffee in around 1 to 2 am and chat for a while.
One night I showed up to find E sitting at the front desk shaking her head and looking completely perplexed. Allegedly she had just checked in what could only be described as the doppelgänger of our other roommate, M, who was alike down to the same height, hairstyle, eye color, and southern accent (odd as we live in the North).
E tried to speak with the new guest and show her a picture of M on her phone but was rebuffed several times. We both chalked it up to coincidence as we knew M was visiting her parents and we went on to enjoy our coffee. Shortly after 2 am, I decided to head home.
It wasn't until around 2:30 am when I pulled into our garage that I checked my phone to see a series of texts from E to M and me at 2:17 am. "Stop." "Not funny." "You guys suck." and "What the heck." Naturally, I was confused and called her back.
This is when things got weird and E sounded hysterical on the phone. M and I, in the same clothes I wore earlier, had been standing at the end of the main hallway staring at her. E thought this was a joke and kept calling out to no response. Eventually, the front desk phone rang and in the time it took to answer it, we both had disappeared.
I calmed her down over the phone and the next morning we talked through the possibilities trying to rationalize what she "saw.” The guest who looked like M did come back to the front desk later that morning to inquire about some services and much to E's surprise looked only vaguely similar.
The only thing that scares me to this day and that I never told her is that when I got into our house, the kitchen clock was stuck at 2:17 am and directly next to it sat a photo of M and I smiling that I had only developed that afternoon. Still no explanations and nothing ever weird happened at the hotel again, but it still makes me uneasy to this day.
Infinitygirl
9. Gone At the End of Nowhere
I was once in a hotel with my sister and we were walking through the halls. Then we decided to have fun and see what staff doors were open. We got into the weight room, it was 3 am and it was supposed to be locked. We started screwing with the weight equipment.
Just as we are about to leave this one employee gets up from the dark corner and walks out in front of us. We rush out just to see her walk down the stairs. Still, in the mood for adventure, we head to the stairs and see her going down and down. She went to the basement and then gone.
The stairs ended in a cut-off area, and there was nowhere to go, but he was gone. Creeped out we took a zig-zag path back to our room to not be followed.
Jeffsery
10. Amorous Adventures Went Wrong
I used to work the night audit 11 pm to 7 am shift at a hotel resort. One morning, around 6 am, a young couple around 22 to 23 years old came downstairs asking if we had bleach and towels or any cleaning supplies available for their usage. Since I have never had a request like this before, I couldn't imagine why they were trying to clean the room.
After inquiring what the mess was, they simply stated that one of them got sick. Taking pity on whichever one got sick, I told them we had housekeepers who could clean their vomit up after they checked out, and since they seemed to be in a rush to leave, to go ahead and scoot away. The pretty girl dipped, and the pretty boy dipped shortly afterward.
My best friend was our maintenance man. I got a call around 11 am from him, venting about how he was about to walk out on La Quinta. Every housekeeper adamantly refused to clean a room because there was feces sprayed on the walls, ceiling, and carpet. It had been smeared into everything.
The people occupying the room had made an initial attempt to clean their mess, then left the room to the poor cleaning ladies. Our manager forced my friend to clean it. I convinced him not to walk out on his job.
After he cleaned it, I apologized for not giving them bleach. I learned that if a guest is willing to clean something up, they are probably having crazy intimate adventures.
Bigshocka
11. Watch Out
Right here at work a few nights ago during the night shift, I was typing up an email to a customer and saw something out of the corner of my eye. I ignored it for a moment and kept working. Then it sunk in: It was a person just staring at me through the window.
As I turned my head they slowly walked out of my view towards the parking lot. So I hauled myself outside to confront them and they were gone. Not a soul in sight for miles. I couldn't shake the feeling I was being watched the rest of the night.
Huphelmeyer
12. Bag Of Danger
I used to work for a big-name chain property in California, a highly touristy area. It was relatively safe because of the high traffic of people. The people who stayed were mainly business people and families on vacation. Not at all on the same level of sleazy motels.
One morning, one of the housekeepers comes running to the front desk and is freaking out. Turns out one of the guests discovered a bag of unattended, loaded guns in the fitness room. We have no idea who it belonged to and cops are called.
Management instructs me to sit in the fitness room, guard the gun bag, and not allow anyone to take it while we wait for the cops to arrive. They didn't even lock me into the fitness room in case the owner decided to come back and retrieve their cache of guns. Mind you, I am a 5ft, 115 lbs girl with no self-defense skills.
By then, word was sweeping through the hotel that there was a loaded gun in the fitness room, so I was half expecting some criminal dude to burst in at any minute. As someone who never encountered this, this was high of the scariest moments while working.
Ladycommander
13. Terrors in Room 8
Before I was born, my parents decided to move to the coast and open their little seaside hotel. The first thing to do when they moved in was to clean all the rooms, so they took half each to speed things up.
My mom told me this story when I was little. She was in room number 8 doing some vacuuming when the whole carpet started “rippling.” When I was little, I didn't think this sounded scary at all, as I just thought that maybe the carpet had got caught on the vacuum or something, and so I never really thought about it again.
Fast forward to about a month ago, I remembered this old story and made fun of my mom a bit for thinking it was creepy when it was explainable. She looked confused and told me I must have not understood her when I was little. Apparently what had happened was that the entire carpet had rippled in a constant fluid wave-type motion, and all the furniture AND HERSELF had been lifted up and down off of the floor for about 10 seconds.
She then screamed bloody murder at my dad down the hallway and told him they were selling the place before it had even opened. He managed to convince her otherwise, but she never went back into that room. It scares me more because my mom doesn't believe in the supernatural or anything like that and doesn't have any other creepy stories at all, just this one that she doesn't like to talk about often.
Vicerine
14. Unsettling Discovery
This story is my cousin’s experience. He worked through college by cleaning rooms.
One day, he walked into a room and there was blood all over the bed. He called for management.
A woman had a miscarriage in the room and left it that way.
JumpingBean12
15. Unwanted Advances and Confrontations
I worked in a hotel when I was 18 or so in a very rural part of northern Arizona. For a 45-minute commute was considered a great rural. Two things stand out:
We had loads of contractors in and out because people build lake houses and such. I look young, so Christ knows how old he thought I was. He repeatedly phoned the front desk asking me if I wanted to "party" with him and the few other men with him, if I would go skinny dipping in the pool with them if I would deliver things to the room, etc.
The last one was terrifying, as it was quite obvious I was alone for my 8-hour shift. This continued each day he was there. He returned a few months later and seemed rather embarrassed that I was, once again, working the front.
A male and female wanted to pay cash for their room. That's fine, we require either a $100 deposit or a valid card on file. He fought with me about it and eventually gave me a card. I ran the numbers after I'd given them their keys and, surprise, it declined.
I phoned his room to explain that we merely authorize it to ensure it's valid because we need some recourse should damage occur to the room. He went crazy. I could hear the woman in the background telling him to calm down and attempting to explain what I was saying and he wasn't having it.
He eventually slammed the phone down after growling, "I'm coming down there!" I was on my cell with a friend in another state, at which point I gave him the address and made him promise to call the police if I didn't phone back in ten minutes. The guest came down and was surprisingly calm, gave me a valid card, and I never heard a peep. It was the weirdest thing.
A bunch of other weird things happened up there, mostly stories from coworkers when I did see them.
Moxiered
16. Frights in the Savannah
I worked at a BnB in Savannah, GA for a while when I wasn't in school. It was downtown so the building was a really old house that had been converted and updated a bit. It had 4 floors including the "garden level" (slightly below street level but the effective 1st floor is the 2nd) and not surprisingly the higher up in the house you got the nicer the rooms.
As with most of Savannah, most of the buildings are supposedly haunted. Like filled to the brim, ghostbuster backpack level full of ghosts just all over the place. This BnB wasn't the worst for stories, there was an old condemned house not far away where the parents starved their daughter in the top bedroom that was pretty creepy but I don't think any bad things went down in ours.
I do remember on the top floor landing if it was really quiet you could hear what sounded like children running around and sometimes you'd hear whispers. I remember a woman I knew worked in another BnB and she claimed she opened the dumbwaiter and there was a human body part standing. She shut it and it was gone when she reopened it.
Neonchinchilla
17. Tragic Mystery at Sleeping Suit
I worked as a chef for a Hilton. I remembered speaking with one of the managers of a different downtown hotel, very high-end, and he told me a story.
The manager was on his way out of the hotel after work one evening and saw a homeless guy a way out sleeping on the lawn. He decided to walk back in and tell the front desk employees to try and get him off the property.
I came back in for work the next morning and saw the same homeless guy still sleeping on the lawn. He ran in to chew out the front desk manager about how the employees didn't do as he asked. They both walked out to get the man to leave and they found the man was wearing a nice suit coat.
It turned out it was a wealthy businessman who had jumped off the 12th-story balcony and just passed away there all night and half the day. Turns out no one saw him fall. A sad story.
Thedoormatt9
18. Gastown Ghostly Encounters
This happened to me as a guest at a hotel in Gastown, the old part of Vancouver.
The first thing was that we both saw a figure walk past the window late at night. The only thing was, our room was on about the fourth floor and faced a wall. There was no fire escape outside or anything else someone could walk on.
A couple of nights later, my bed suddenly gave a massive jolt. I was lying still, updating LJ on my laptop. My friend also saw the bed move. It was a divan, with no legs to wobble or collapse. It just felt like the whole bed had been shunted hard.
We asked the desk staff whether anyone had reported anything, and they said there were stories about some of the rooms but as far as they were aware, not ours.
Rosiedoes
19. Eerie Condo Encounters
I stayed at a rented condo with my wife. The toilet broke and flooded the bathroom when no one was in it. We left the fan/light on to let the floor dry but the light switch would turn itself off. I got up to investigate. I saw a shadowy figure standing across the living room (about 15' away).
It was dark to begin with so I assumed I was seeing myself in a mirror or something. Nope, it was a doorway to an unused bedroom. This all happened in a 3-hour timespan.
Frankrizzo24
20. Ghostly Helping Assistance
The hotel I work at is an old-ish building and likes to play up the rumors of ghosts in the hotel in life. She supposedly jumped off the roof after some bad news.
Late at night, I was sent to the top-floor conference space to set it up for meetings the following day. I needed to set up a coffee station on the center wall. The large dining room/seminar space was dark. The light panel is a ludicrous assortment of dials, switches, and power levers (it had been expanded and kludged over its 50 years).
I toggle them all lights. Drop all the levers, spin all the dials, nothing. Pissed off that now I have to search for someone who knows the lights, I slammed the panel door, spun on my heel, and walked towards the lit exit as I'm walking. 3 lights directly over where I was meant to set up the station fade on.
I look around, say "Thank you, Ma'am,” and proceed to set up the coffee station.
Robin1961
21. She Had Gone Deep
I worked at a hotel for about a year. It was usually pretty good. Some people would stay at the hotel for weeks or a month at a time for business reasons.
There was this one old lady who had been there even before I started working who just stayed in her room all day, occasionally leaving to go down the hill and pick berries or something along the street. Maybe get food or other supplies. She wasn't a problem other than not letting people into her room.
About January of this year, she started acting weird. Like yelling at people walking by her room, calling down to the front desk, and being angry about things that had never happened. This goes on for about a week and then she just goes off the deep end.
She starts standing outside of her room, yelling at people who entered her sight, no matter how far away they were. She would call down to the front desk, but now she would say eerily creepy things like "You shouldn't have done that,” “You'll be sorry for that,” and “I can find you." And then she'd hang up.
Eventually, after about 2 weeks, we forcibly ejected her after her credit card declined. She threw a fit and had to be removed from the premises by her son. Let me tell you, going into that room was like entering hell.
Stains all over the carpet, blood, and feces spread across the walls in the bathroom. There was blood on the mattresses, empty cans everywhere, jarred foods that stank to high heaven, boxes sealed shut, some with black ooze dripping out of them. Light bulbs are stacked in the corner, all in perfect condition but not used in the lights. It was horrible.
Found out she went off the deep end because she had been denied her pills for some kind of mental thing.
RuskiLeader
22. Haunted Honeymoon
This is my uncle’s story.
My uncle just got married in his 40's his first marriage. For their honeymoon, he, his wife, and her daughter went to stay in a cabin in a resort in SoCal. They rented the cabin, unpacked all their things, and settled in for a 3-day stay.
On the last night, my uncle was up watching TV very late at night. His wife and stepdaughter had gone to bed and he had to use the restroom. So he gets up, goes to the restroom, does his business, and exits the restroom. The only light on in the whole cabin is that from the TV in the living room but it was bright enough to light the whole living room and part of the hallway.
As he opened the door to the restroom he saw his wife walk down towards the kitchen. He figured she'd gotten up and was hungry so he was gonna go talk with her. He followed after her and when she reached the end of the hallway she turned slightly in the direction of the kitchen and then at warp speed vaulted into the kitchen. Faster than a human could move.
This figure was wearing a long flowing white gown similar to the one his wife had worn to bed and she had slightly longer than shoulder-length hair. Kinda wigged out he took a few steps back. He peaked into the room where his wife and stepdaughter were and found both of them in bed, asleep.
Needless to say, he couldn't sleep after that and they left the next morning. He called up the guy that he had rented the cabin from and said "Hey, you didn't tell me the cabin was haunted!" and the guy said, "Oh, you saw her." He said, "Her", though my uncle hadn't specified what he had seen, proving that he knew a whacked-out speedster she-ghost was haunting the cabin.
Zushiba
23. Nightly Disturbances at Room 303
My wife used to work night audit at a hotel on the Oregon coast. She experienced quite a bit there with guests and the unexplained.
Mostly room 303 was their least rented room. Whenever she walked past it at night the alarm clock in the room would go off. Housekeeping would claim that it was unplugged.
The front desk has a log book of guest complaints and most of those complaints were about room 303. Some examples are: pounding on the walls, feeling watched, seeing people, phone or alarm going off, TV turning on or off, bathroom light going on or off, hearing whispers or breathing, and many more.
Not of the unexplainable but she had creepy guests try and pull her into their rooms, invite her to parties, and call her at all hours of the night. I can't imagine how stressful it would be to be there alone at night as a 100-lb girl.
RainSoaked
24. 3 am Shadow Figure
I used to work in my Aunt and Uncle's hotel in a Scottish village about twelve years ago. The freakiest thing that happened to me was one night when I was sleeping in the staff quarters and heard a banging noise from along the corridor. This was about 3 am after, most of the staff had gone to bed.
I got up to go and tell whoever was coming in late to shut the heck up so I could go back to sleep but the corridor was empty. Well lit I have to add, this is key. So I walk down the end of the corridor to see if it's folk coming up the stairs drunk or whatever, I look down to see a figure stomping up the stairs.
The only way I can describe it is as though a shadow of a solid person. There were no features on the face or clothes on its body. Imagine someone in a black morph suit walking along but you could see things through them.
I turned and ran back to my room and shut the door. I could still hear the stomping for some time and I don't think I got a wink of sleep at all that night. I didn't leave my room until the sun was shining through my window.
I asked a few of the other staff if they heard the banging the night before but nobody else had, and like heck was I gonna mention seeing shadow men coming up the stairs at 3 am.
Mythrin
25. Mystery Peeking Guy
I work the front desk. About an hour after checking a guest in, she came back downstairs asking to be moved. She happened to be in a room that connected to another room. After getting settled in she said she started to hear noises coming from the other room which weren't a concern until the other people tried to open her connecting door from their side.
The gap between her door and the door frame was just wide enough to see just a sliver into the other room, so when she went over to tell the other person to stop. Curiosity got the best of her and she peeked through and saw a man staring at her from the other side. She told him to cut it out and he just stood there at the door, trying the handle every once in a while.
Not wanting to deal with it anymore she came down and asked to be moved away from this creepy dude. So I checked the computer and noticed that there was no guest registered in that room, so either someone at the desk goofed and didn't complete the check-in, or someone was in the hotel that shouldn't be.
No one answered when I called the room, so I sent security up. He called from the room saying that no one was in there. Our engineer happened to be at the front desk when I was discussing all this with another agent and he mentioned that he had to go into that room to fix something.
Mystery solved, he was in there fixing the door, making a racket, and spooking this poor woman. Except he was never able to get into the room because the door lock wasn't working, even with his master keycard. No idea why it started working again for security.
Throughout the night nothing else happened and no mystery man was ever found. The guest was a regular so I didn't think she was screwing with us, although I'm sure she could have just seen something in the shadows or whatever. Still pretty creepy at the time.
Godisasquid
26. Night of Deception
This happened roughly four years back. My wife worked at a Holiday Inn, and this isn't unexplained, but more horrific. A guy was staying there for more than a month. I picked my wife up at night and often used their lounge which is where I met him.
He was early twenties, and a marine based on the uniform he always wore. To be frank, he kind of annoyed me. One day while I was there waiting on my wife, he called down to the front desk and asked that they call the police. He says someone's going to get hurt.
They make the call and then see through their system that he also called 911. My wife and the assistant manager, really can't do anything at that moment but continue with work. Police came about pretty regularly, mostly dealing with drunks.
The assistant manager had to deal with something out in the hotel, and a minute or two later the police showed up. My wife went out to show them to the stairs when she went by the lounge, the marine was there with a pistol pointed at the the assistant manager, who was face down on the ground. Then he pointed it at my wife.
A moment later he spots the police, and she manages to hide back in the office. She heard two shots, and that was it. The marine had a pellet gun. There are a lot of details left out here. My wife is fine these days. The marine had a rough go, and I hate to this day that I didn't take the time to talk with him.
Enjoiturbulence
27. Bloody Revelation
I was once given a great piece of advice, by a teacher nonetheless. Her story detailed how she once rented a hotel for a business trip. Trying to fall asleep her hand slipped onto the side of the bed and she felt something off.
She flipped out thinking it was a bug or something weird like that, but upon inspecting she decided to flip the entire mattress over. The moment she flipped it she realized it was absolutely soaked in blood and someone simply flipped the mistress to not get caught.
Steple
28. Slamming Bathroom Door
I used to work in a hotel in Southern California, doing Security. Every night we would get a printout of what rooms were vacant. It was my job to go through all the rooms and ensure all lights were off and all windows were secure. I went into a room and found all the lights on, typical of housekeeping after they clean.
I started turning the lights off from the left side of the room, around to the windows, and up to the bathroom. The bathroom has French-style doors that open outward toward the room. The doors themselves have only hinges and two handles to pull them open, with no other devices attached. The doors are also the very light-weight slatted wood, like this one.
Anyway, I opened the left door out all the way so I could reach around it and turn the light off in the bathroom. After turning the light off I realized it was freezing in the room, which is not uncommon being housekeeping liked it cold when they worked on a room. I reached up for the thermostat and when my hand was within 4 inches of it the door I just opened in the bathroom slammed shut.
Terrified, I ran out of the room immediately. While pulling the door shut behind me the door deadbolt pushed itself out of the lock and it slammed into the door frame. I was petrified when I had to reach inside the door to disengage it.
I stood there for a minute or two with my eyes watering wondering what just happened. I decided to go back in and look to be sure of what happened. I went in and looked at the door, it was shut.
I moved it around to see if it would close on its own, which it wouldn't. I tried throwing the door to slam it and the door is so lightweight it caught a lot of air and wouldn't even shut after throwing it closed. As far as I see it there isn't any explanation for what happened, I stopped going into that room.
Scumbag760
29. Shocking Room Cleanup
I was cleaning rooms one summer, entered the checkout guest bathroom, and noticed rolled-up towels on the floor, pretty common. I started picking them up, hidden underneath, a pile of human feces. I open the shower curtain as I begin to smell an overpowering stench of smell.
I find at least 10 dumps in the shower, mixed with piss. The toilet is clean as heck. It doesn’t look like it was even used. I quit that day.
Letsbeguin
30. Abandoned Cat Scare
I have a friend who owns a small motel just off a highway. I would hang out with him and chat on some late nights. One night, he got a call that one of the guests heard a loud crash in the room next door.
I checked the computer and saw that the room was unoccupied. My friend and I go to check it out. We knock and there is no answer. He opened the door and there was a cat in the room. It knocked over a lamp and smashed it. It was super friendly and came right to us.
We took it back to the office and looked at the room records. The prior person who was in the room abandoned the cat when he checked out three days earlier. He was already on the other side of the country when we called him, and he said he was not coming back for the cat.
My friend took ownership of the cat and now she is the motel cat. She walks all around the property and takes care of any mice or critters. She even has her picture on the wall as one of the "employees.”
Not sure why the maid service did not see it when the room was being cleaned. We think that the vacuum scared the cat and she hid somewhere. Still was a bad move of the old owner to leave the cat behind.
Mrsheikh
31. Old Nude Party
When I was 15 I was a busboy at a local resort in Cheyenne, WY. Occasionally, the restaurant I worked in would ask one of the bus staff to deliver room service to one of the rooms. They always asked male staff for safety reasons.
On one occasion I was asked to deliver a tray to a room. I took the tray to the room and a scantily clad woman answered the door. I never went in the room but could see there were about 8 to 9 men and women in their 60s and 70s. Almost all of them are nude in the room.
When I was 15 I was a busboy at a local resort in Cheyenne, WY. Occasionally, the restaurant I worked in would ask one of the bus staff to deliver room service to one of the rooms. They always asked male staff for safety reasons.
On one occasion I was asked to deliver a tray to a room. I took the tray to the room and a scantily clad woman answered the door. I never went in the room but could see there were about 8 to 9 men and women in their 60s and 70s. Almost all of them are nude in the room.
Even at 15, I knew the room smelled like copulation. I remember I was tipped well. I went back to work, no one ever asked how things went and I never really mentioned it to anyone because I didn’t think anyone would believe me.
Wyoflyboy68
32. Unforgettable Encounters with Unruly Guests
I used to work at a hotel. I post on these guests often and I always intend on doing so. Three guests come to mind:
The first set of guests wiped in the towels smeared them on the walls and laughed at housekeeping when they came in for service. Another guest, a young lady (who was certainly no lady) stuck her used tampon on the bathroom wall. It had to be pried off.
The last set of guests I remember, left three-week-old expired milk in the fridge. But they were only in-house for three days so that means it was already two and a half weeks expired when they checked in.
Llcucf80
33. Hotel Affair
Lots of hotel guests were in for a conference. One night, at about 10:30 pm, a guy walks down from his room to the bellhop desk in nothing but tight whities, a bed sheet wrapped around his body from head to toe, and blood dripping from his face. This guy sounded out of it, either from being concussed, inebriated, high on substance, or a mix of the three.
He informed security that he and his boyfriend got into a fight. So, two security officers, one a supervisor, went to the room to question the other boyfriend. At the same time, another security officer waited with the injured boyfriend behind the bellhop desk for an ambulance to arrive.
Up at the room, security was informed that the bloodied boyfriend had been passed out drunk and had crapped in one of the beds. The other boyfriend had walked into the room with his wife and two kids, all of whom had been enjoying a night on the town. Both men were coworkers who were in for the conference.
Supposedly, the family man had given the suite room key to his boyfriend with the expectation that they'd do the deed during conference hours, all the while the wife and kids explored the city during the day. Back at the bellhop desk, the security supervisor relays the discovered info to the injured boyfriend, which sets the guy off.
He tackled the security supervisor to the ground. Blood and crap stained the hotel carpet and the supervisor's suit as he finally cuffed the injured boyfriend. Cops are called, and the guy gets taken away before getting inspected by medics. The story's moral: if you want to cheat on your wife with someone else in a hotel, do your business in the smaller, uglier room, and not the large, expensive suite you share with your family.
Nunnigan
34. Bat-crazy
I was just about to start my shift in the morning and was chatting with a co-worker outside while she had a smoke.
It was still dark out, and out of nowhere this guy muttering something about his family who passed away came up to us with a 2x4 and raised it to hit my co-worker in the head. I just reacted and stepped between them and raised my arm to take the blow. The guy just stopped mid-swing. He was face to face with me, with this 2x4 raised baseball bat style, and then he just ran off and dropped it.
My co-worker ran up and grabbed it after so he couldn't use it again, and when we brought it inside, that's when we realized it was full of nails. We were glad neither of us got hit with that!
I have plenty of other crazy stories, but that one takes the cake for the scariest for sure.
Youpunyhumans
35. De-escalating Hotel Brawl
I worked the night shift and was the only employee in the entire hotel from 11 pm to 6 am. Around 3 am I get a few calls about a fight in an upstairs hallway. I grab a pair of scissors, tuck it up my sleeve, and make my way upstairs to see what is going on.
When I get there 2 guys are having a full-on brawl. I'm 6’2 and very broad-shouldered, but these guys were taller and ripped as hell. As I approached a 3rd guy, just as large as the other 2 came out of a room with a knife yelling "Get off him.”
I stop a ways away and just shout at them. They all stop immediately and look at me. I'm getting ready to run for it when they all just deflate. The knife guy drops the knife, the others let go of each other, they all hang their head, and one mumbles "I'm sorry." under his breath.
They looked like a bunch of toddlers who had just gotten caught stealing cookies. I told them they would have to leave right now, or I would call the police, and they all just nodded. They followed me onto the elevator and spent the whole time apologizing and pouting while I escorted them out. I have never seen a situation go from 100 to 0 so fast.
Vypernorad
36. Vintage Vices
I worked in a restaurant that was part of a hotel, so I guess this kind of counts.
I had a sommelier (wine expert) who worked in our restaurant. He was in his 50's, had a couple of kids, was divorced, and living in a ski town for the past 15 years. One night a guest came in, and for about 2 hours, ordered around $6,000 worth of wine. He bought 3 $2000 bottles, not unheard of in our fine dining restaurant, but not common either.
Our sommelier sat down and drank all of it with him, getting hammered, while running up a huge food tab (again, not uncommon for the sommelier to have a glass of wine, but not three bottles). Overall tab was around $8000 with tip, and my manager was stoked about the big sale. About an hour later, he's flipping out. Our sommelier left with the guy to 'go get his credit card at the hotel' and never came back.
The manager has one of our bussers track the sommelier down. Turns out the guest was a disgraced exec who was in a massive amount of debt and couldn't pay the bill. When the sommelier found out, he was too embarrassed to come back and face the music. Our manager fired him.
About six months later a friend of my girlfriend went up to visit my old sommelier at his cabin. The guy had ended himself. Ski towns are fun, but boy, they are sad places
StaleBiscuit13
37. Lost In Translation
I was working in a pretty fancy hotel, with international guests. One morning I was walking down a hallway with a room attendant's trolley and a guest came to me trying to explain something. We didn't speak the same language making it awkward.
So, eventually, he gestures to me to come to his room, so we go and I follow him to the bathroom. I noticed the smell immediately while he points at his toilet and when I look there is just this massive turd there. He's still kinda talking to me in his language but I don't understand.
Finally, he presses the button to flush, the toilet flushes, his turd leaves our company and he looks at me with a weird proud expression. I just smiled put 2 thumbs up and left.
Maciejk8
38. Chicken Conundrum
A guest called the police for a noise complaint about another room. The police got there and went up to the noisy room with a front desk receptionist. When they got there they found a stripper, her 2 kids, her ex-husband, her aunt, and another random man.
They were deep frying chicken in the room at about 10 pm on a Tuesday. I remember seeing a man run out of the lobby with his deep fryer spilling oil all over the place.
Coochiegoo
39. Easter Egg Hunt Backlash
I have some longer stories, but I have a short crazy one. I worked at a waterpark hotel, and for Easter one year they decided to host a massive Easter Egg hunt with over 500 eggs, including a smaller Golden egg that was worth a cash prize.
They went all out for the marketing campaign on it; it was all over the website, TV, and radio ads, they even went so far as to get local news stations to mention it at the end of segments. The hype was huge, locally and otherwise.
The planners unfortunately overlooked a massive detail. One of the major perks of staying at the hotel was guests could enter the park 2 hours before the general public. The big day arrived, and it only took minutes to realize their mistake as hotel guests immediately began hunting down the eggs.
By the time the doors officially opened to the massive crowd of excited kids and expectant parents 2 hours later, more than 500 eggs had already been found. To top it off, the heating system for the water broke down. So the park was packed to capacity, with no eggs, and without heat in snowy Minnesotan April, the water was ice cold.
The backlash was spectacular.
Wolvensong
40. Front Desk Struggles
I used to work the front desk at a hotel. I would get unwanted advances almost every day. I know it's the craziest, but it’s crazy compared to my normal WFH job.
I had one regular who would try to flirt with me and get me to bring things up to his room. I told my good manager about this. The next time the guest asked me to bring a towel to his room, the manager went instead of me. The guest was waiting naked in his room.
Another time I had a different guest (a long stay contract with multiple guys staying together) who seemed like a nice shy guy who I think liked me. His other friends tried to trick me into going into an elevator with just me and him, and I only used the stairs after that.
Other drunk people would openly say they wanted to be intimate with me no matter what. I had to lock myself in our office until my managers came to help me. It was the absolute worst job.
Sauce
41. Bizarre Hotel Encounters
We hosted a waste management company's holiday party. They had an open bar for more than 200 garbagemen. One of them got incredibly drunk, wandered into the kitchen, and decided to smash all the plates he could find and other various things. We found him in the morning passed out naked in a stairwell.
We also had an elevator that just went between the two meeting room floors. It was tiny and was a piece of thing that was super slow, and you were only supposed to have like 5 people at a time in it. Indian weddings are very popular at that hotel.
One time during a wedding a good 12 people or so decided to cram into this tiny elevator. It got stuck between floors for like an hour with all these folks stuffed in there against each other. The hotel finally decided to renovate the elevator after that.
Also, this hotel has a lot of genuine art and historical pieces. Like baby grand pianos, statues, and old original paintings. Once the upstairs kitchen pipes got clogged, which ended up in a massive leak of disgusting, nearly black-colored, and horrible-smelling water bursting through the ceiling into the lobby. A good amount of that water splashed onto the 200-year-old paintings they had hung up.
We had a noise complaint once about a couple having loud intimate noises in their hotel room, so security had to go ask them to keep it down. Turns out the room in question was the head planner's room for one of our repeat conferences. She was fooling around with the company's married COO. She was pretty attractive.
The housemen punched a hole in the wall of the back hallway and would steal beer from the bars and hide them in the hole to drink when they worked late. They liked yuenglings, so it'd pretty often be "Chingy-Lingy Time!" I'm sure there's plenty more I'm missing or aren't worth typing out. I'm glad I got out of working at hotels.
Acedelgado
42. Hotel’s Code Blue
I was working at a hotel when all of a sudden I got a call on the radio that we had a code blue. This meant to shelter in place and that police were on the premises. Turns out a guy who had been wanted for a case was staying at our hotel, but what keyed the front desk to his presence and they called the cops was the obvious prostitutes he was bringing to his room.
We trained to spot human trafficking and had started to get some clientele like this, so we wanted to put a stop to it. When the cops ID’d him from the desk info and security footage they brought in more support and tried to corner him in his room since he was armed. Somehow he managed to slip out of a side emergency exit and escaped. I don’t know if they ever caught the guy
TheThornell
43. Skinny-Dipping Shenanigans
One of the craziest stories I have from working in a hotel was the time a group of five guys booked a suite for a weekend getaway. It was the middle of the summer and the hotel was pretty busy. I guess that didn't stop these guys from having some fun.
When they checked in, they were all wearing matching Hawaiian shirts and seemed to be in a great mood. When I went to check them out at the end of their stay, I asked them how their time was and one of them said “It was great! We all got so drunk that we decided to go skinny dipping in the hotel pool!”
At first, I thought he was joking, but then the other guys began to chime in with details of their drunken escapade. They all stripped down and jumped into the pool while the other guests were still in the pool area.
They said they had a great time, but needless to say, I was a bit shocked. I asked them if they had seen anyone else in the pool area and they said they hadn't, which was a relief. I asked them to please not do anything like that again and they said they wouldn't.
Jim_fromTheHospital
44. Unfortunate Elevator Incident
I was a bellman at a hotel in my city during my college days. Occasionally we had conventions and whatnot and this particular one was centered around horses.
I was helping this old lady with her luggage and waiting for her. Before we got to the front desk, she asked to use the restroom in the back behind the front desk but was not allowed. The front desk told her there was a bathroom down the hall. Honestly, it wasn’t too far maybe a 20-second walk. She declined, checked in and we headed to the elevators.
We get to the elevators, luckily it’s just her and I. She starts squirming when we get in the elevator saying, “Oh god,” “Oh no,” that sort of thing. All of a sudden I hear gurgles, farting, and noises. Not super loud but enough to get her embarrassed. She’s apologizing telling me to leave her stuff there and not worry about it.
Let’s just say I didn’t get tipped and I was nice enough to just push her cart to her door.
CREAMYcreamyWETT
45. Birthday Celebration Took A Drastic Turn
I had recently graduated and worked as a receptionist for a small town 2-star hotel. A pair of twins a couple of grades below me in high school checked into a pool room with some friends and family to celebrate their birthdays. The next day, I came in to work to multiple cop cars and an ambulance.
Their mother passed away in the bathroom from mixing drinking with one or more of their medications. I still think about them, and how traumatic that must have been, they were only 15 or 16 at that time.
EssVeeUU