When leaving hotel rooms, it’s customary to have a thorough look to make sure everything is packed, but apparently not for many guests at Travelodge.
Indeed, the cat’s out of the bag quite literally in one case as the hospitality company revealed the craziest items its business customers have left behind in hotel rooms.
Let’s hope that more care is taken with the running of these hapless travellers” businesses, however, as some of the most lucrative goods left behind include a keys to a Delhi mansion, a Rolex, a three-piece Tom Ford suit, a Swarovski charm, keys to a Mercedes AMG and, most alarmingly, annual company accounts and invoices.
Seemingly this forgetful trend is only like to continue Travelodge said there has been a threefold growth in the number of business customers staying in its hotel rooms across 525 locations than ever before.
Taking monetary value out of the lost items, factoring in personal value, one CEO left behind his teddy bear of 40 years. Moving onto real animals and one customer left their shitsu, Harold, behind and realised after getting 40 minutes up the motorway, while a British blue shorthair cat called Yoda was forgotten in Cardiff.
As more business travellers than ever before are staying in our 525 Travelodge hotels, we are seeing some new and interesting business related items make our annual lost and found audit,” said Shakila Ahmed, Travelodge spokeswoman.
All lost items that haven?t been claimed within three months are donated to local charities.
Decide the weirdest forgotten possessions ?And in general, the most common items left in Travelodge hotel rooms on the next page.
?Our business customers tell us that the pace of modern life is fast and furious and time is off the essence especially when getting from A to B therefore valuable possessions are easily being forgotten,” continued Ahmed.
“This year’s top finds include: a set of annual corporate accounts, a suitcase of invoices, a brand new Mercedes AMG car, a Swarovski encrusted waving lucky cat charm belonging to a successful businessman and a forty-year-old teddy bear whose owner is a CEO.
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? Hotel ? |
? Item |
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? Heathrow Terminal 5 |
? Keys to a haveli (mansion) in Deli India ? |
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? London Covent Garden |
? Barristers Forensic wig & gown ? |
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? Bicester |
? Swarovski encrusted waving cat good luck charm? ? |
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? Edinburgh Central ? |
? A forty year old teddy bear belonging to a CEO |
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? Cambridge Central ? |
? Littmann stethoscope |
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? Oxford Abingdon Road ? |
? Mercedes AMG car |
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? London Bank ? |
? Annual set of company accounts |
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? Birmingham Airport |
? A Louis Vuitton brief case ? |
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? Chelmsford |
? A Rolex watch ? |
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? London Docklands |
? Three piece Tom Ford suit ? |
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? Guildford |
? A personalised set of Mont Blanc pens ? |
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? Coventry |
? Sikh ceremonial helmet and shield ? |
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? Cardiff ? |
? British Blue Shorthair cat called Yoda |
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? Canterbury |
? Antique stained glass window ? |
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? Bradford |
? Necklace made from £50 notes ? |
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? Huddersfield |
? Brass octagonal gramophone which had just been repaired to its full glory ? |
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? Harrogate |
? Shitsu called Harold ? |
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? Chester Central |
? A large vintage cuckoo clock ? |
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? London Aldgate East |
? Gold portrait of Elvis Presley ? |
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? Newcastle ? |
? 3ft Cheetah ornament |
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? Birmingham Newhall Street ? |
? Suitcase of rupees |
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? Portsmouth |
? Monkey puzzle tree ? |
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? Leeds |
? Film footage from a documentary TV programme ? |
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? Dundee Strathmore |
? A family of three generations of garden gnomes ? |
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? Manchester Piccadilly |
? Three prosthetic legs (Each leg wore a different designer shoe. This included a Valentino, Gucci and Mui Mui shoe) |
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? Liverpool Strand |
? Wedding cake in the design of a Disney castle ? |
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? Burford, Cotswolds |
? A pair of 4ft pillars covered in fresh white roses ? |
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? Blackpool South Shore ? |
? 4ft stick of rock ? ? |
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? Bath |
? Wedding vows from the 1950s ? |
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? Manchester Central |
? Scrapbook of Coronation Street memorabilia ? |
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? Portishead |
? Suitcase of invoices that need to be posted out to customers ? |
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? Southampton Central |
? Round the world cruise ticket |
And in general, the top ten most popular items left behind in Travelodge hotel rooms during 2016 were:
(1) Chargers for mobile phones and electronic devices such as laptops
(2) Tablets
(3) Mobile phones
(4) Business papers / notepads / presentations
(5) Teddy Bears
(6) Toiletry bags with contents
(7) Sat nav
(8) Pyjamas
(9) Socks and ties
(10) Books
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