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What is the most unusual item you’ve found in a hotel room on your travels?

This question came about as I was thinking back to a hotel I stayed at in Amsterdam in 2017.
The room had a medium sized Tupperware-type lidded storage box , in which guests were asked to store any food that they had brought into the hotel room.
Brilliant idea, as no one wants to attract bugs or rodents to their space.
I’m thinking I’ll find a shop to buy such a thing after arriving at my hotel on my next trip.
I like to keep some snacks in my room, but don’t want a mouse to join me as happened in London two years ago!

What strange things have you found in hotels around the world?

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A yellow rubber duckie, at the Milan Berna Hotel. Intended to bring a smile…and it did!

New management did away with them some years ago.

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Laurel, I loved the yellow duck! I had a tiny single room, and it was waiting for me in the bathroom sink. I took a photo of it.

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Someone else's luggage.

We checked in at the front desk, were assigned a room and given keys. We went to the room unlocked the door and found that someone else's things were all over the room and the bed wasn't made. We quickly backed out, went to let them know that they had made a mistake. It didn't make me feel very confident in this hotel. I kept thinking, if it were our room they gave someone the key to, they could have taken anything or everything from our room.

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At my former favorite hotel in London, I checked into my favorite room a few days before Christmas only to find it decorated for the holidays.

At the Alex Johnson Hotel in Radid City, SD, I opened the door to my room only to find a large table able to seat 10. No bed. I searched and found a connected bathroom. On the far side of the bathroom was another door. I opened it and there was the bedroom. That room had a door to the hallway. It, and the room with the table, had the same number.

Nadler Hotels, which became Resident Hotels, also had rubber ducks.

At a hotel In Turin, my room had an exercise bike.

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Not so much a strange item, as what was on the items. I stayed at a hotel in Hong Kong which had price tags on many of the items in the room, presumably for any guest who wanted those items. That included the art work on the walls and the slippers as well.