Posted on 12/09/2019 11:25:57 AM PST by C19fan
When checking out of a five-star hotel, thrifty travelers have been known to slip a few shower caps, mini-shampoos or even slippers into their suitcases.
But more brazen guests are managing to steal bulkier items -- including mattresses, coffee machines and even a stuffed animal, hotel and spa reviewer Wellness Heaven found in a survey of 1,157 four- and five-star hoteliers. An astonishing 49 hotels reported that mattresses had been stolen from their premises since January 2018, CEO of Wellness Heaven Tassilo Keilmann told CNN, adding that it was likely hotels could have suffered multiple thefts. Hoteliers told Keilmann that mattresses are often stolen at night.
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Back in the 1970s I took a old wall mount Coca-Cola bottle opener from a motel somewhere on the east coast.
I understand the stuffed boar’s head, but why steal a coffee machine????
During Watergate.
folks manufactured “Watergate Hotel” items to sell as real.
I knew people who used to walk in off the street and get a continental breakfast.
Well, vibrator beds are cool. Have to get the new mattresses though
Stealing hotel mattresses? I never thought of that, maybe an occasional bar of soap or some shampoo.
How exactly do you steal a mattress out of hotel room?
Although, I have to admit after sleeping in a Weston Heavenly bed one time, I did ask the person to write down the mattress brand name, the sheets, comforter and pillows.
I tried to buy the exact same things.
The coffee machines in most hotel rooms are of the $20 drip variety. Not worth stealing.
Those things where you get the second rate coffee in packets that work on nothing else. Yeah I’d steal one of those!
I think they want you to take those. It is free advertising. That is why they put the hotels name on them.
I have a shoe horn from the Cloister in Sea Island, Ga.
I had the sea shell do not disturb sign from the Grand Wailea on Maui.
Many hotels have changed the wooden hangers so they will not work on a standard closet rod because they were stolen so much.
In many hotels, you may purchase the bathrobe typically for about $75.
I bought the bath robe from Caesars Palace. The emblem is embroidered on the upper chest area.
The soap and the shampoo are consumables that came with the room. If you like the ones provided, that isn’t stealing. You paid for them.
I don’t even like sleeping on a multi-use hotel mattress much less would I steal one.
Hotel mattresses are about 4 inches longer than a regular mattress. Won’t fit an average regular size bed. I had to cut and weld in a 4 inch splice on the bed rails to make it work for the hotel mattress I BOUGHT at a thrift store.
How do you even steal a matress without anyone noticing? It’s not something you can put in a briefcase or stuff in your waistband.
LOL, I had no idea!
Taking hotel soaps isn’t stealing. It’s merely taking an item you paid for.
Just a few minutes ago I was packing for a business trip and handed my wife 20 or so hotel soaps. She includes them with Operation Christmas Child boxes to be shipped overseas.
| USA Mattress Sizes | Width Centimeters | Length Centimeters | Width Inches |
Length Inches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA Twin | 99 | 188 | 39 | 74 |
| USA Twin XL | 99 | 203 | 39 | 80 |
| USA Full or Double | 137 | 188 | 54 | 74 |
| USA Full XL | 137 | 203 | 54 | 80 |
| USA (RV) Full | 135 | 190 | 53 | 75 |
| USA Queen | 152 | 203 | 60 | 80 |
| USA Olympic Queen | 168 | 203 | 66 | 80 |
| USA California Queen | 152 | 213 | 60 | 84 |
| USA Short Queen (RV) | 152 | 190 | 60 | 75 |
| USA King | 193 | 203 | 76 | 80 |
| USA California King | 183 | 213 | 72 | 84 |
You must have got a California Queen or King. Their sizes are 4” longer.
Note sizes I posted up thread.....
“ How do you even steal a mattress without anyone noticing? “
The trick is to tear off the mattress label. That’s what the hotel staff is looking for. ;)
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