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i was just reading a fascinating report from HotelsDotCom about the weird and wonderful items guests have left behind in their hotel rooms.
Evidently phone chargers are the most common followed by, yuck, dirty laundry. I don’t know about you but I’ve have both those things left behind.
But in the report, other items have been a Rolex (!!!), a baby chick and a pet lizard.
I wouln’t have minded the Rolex at all. 
Disco lights. They must have brought them and we’re a fly-to location.
A working iphone with a cracked screen, along with drug paraphernalia (and I’m not talking a marijuana vape- it was for heavier duty drugs) in the bathroom garbage can.
I once found a syringe under the sofa and assumed a diabetic… 
Plenty of medical conditions that require regular injections. Unless I noticed burn marks on my spoons I wouldn’t be alarmed.
A brand new toilet plunger.
A guest from Mexico apparently brought it with him, the label was on it and it was witten in Spanish.
Maybe he has big poops and decided he needs to travel with one?
It is still in the bathroom, unused as far as I know…
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A baby rat, in a small carrier and heating pad. I am not even kidding!
A young man coming from Paris to Bucharest called me, after checkout, from the airport, to tell me he forgot a cosmetic bag with personal things. It was too late to come back and recover it, but he asked me to keep it for a while… he will come back. I found the bag and kept it. The man went back after a few months and recovered the bag… Inside? Nothing else than two dozen condoms 
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Unless he was really trying to save money by not buying more condoms, I’d assume it was the bag itself that was something he wanted back, rather than the contents.
Possible reason for this mystery- there are many toilets in Mexico that can’t handle flushing toilet paper. You put the used TP in the basket. Not being able to handle TP is due to old, inadequate plumbing or using plumbing pipes that are too small in diameter. Mexicans are so used to this that they consider it normal not to flush TP, even in a newer construction where flushing it wouldn’t be a problem.
So maybe this guest had stayed in other rentals before where the toilets easily plugged up and overflowed because of poor plumbing and previous guests having clogged the pipes, and assumed that travelling with a plunger was a smart thing to do. Then once he realized toilet clogs aren’t a normal issue in the US, he just left it behind.
A rhinestone-encrusted thong, caught up in the bottom of the sheets. Not just a simple thong, mind you but one that has a second level of purely ornamental “thonginess” that collective minds decided sort of goes around the upper midsection. Not a prude or anything, whatever floats your boat (except using silicon sex lube on high-quality cotton sheets). But it doesn’t seem like something you would forget.
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I’d assume it was the bag itself that was something he wanted back, rather than the contents.
[/quote] Yes, I think that synthetic bag with zipper was in a rare colour… or a gift from his wife
A bed pillow. Not that travelling with one’s own pillow is weird, it was the condition of the pillow. It was gross! flat and stained, no pillow case. My husband threw it out immediately. The guest reached out and asked me to send it to them.
A Glock handgun (the guest asked me to mail it to him but turns out that is a federal offense. I took it the local police dept.) ; an unopened 50 lb (!!) bag of rice plus 10 cans of spam and all the makings for musubi; a collection of sports trading cards. So many chargers I can’t even count (I co-host 8 properties).
Not left in the rental but bought there and brought as a gift: Very fancy 2 boxes of chocolates from Dubai!
Locals left behind their wet dirty towels. They didn’t even shower, so I have no idea how the towels got wet. They also stole my FireStick… something guests like to take stuff.
By far the most common item left behind here are men’s underwear, always discovered at the foot of the bed between the sheets when the bedding is stripped for washing. No one ever seems to miss them . . .
Weirdest is probably the guest who left a crystal under one if the beds. Some believe it improves sleep quality.
Best items left by a guest, over $2000 in unopened bottles of Scotch (one of the bottles alone was worth over $400). The same guest also left a brand new Breville espresso machine and an envelope with $800 hidden under the couch.
I have had an oxygen tank with tubing and on one occasion a Clamydia test unopened. Also 4 Nord8c walking sticks and a vacuum cleaner for spiders which the guest thought might be helpful!
My cleaners found a plastic bag filled with illegal drugs. When I contacted the guests, we found out that their adult son was a K9 police officer, and the drugs were for training the dog. Since it was a “no pets” house, I was immediately told the dog stayed in the police van …
Vandyne so you returned all that tout suite, right? 
