Sort of off topic, but the door being left open while cleaning reminded me of a rather unpleasant experience we had on a vacation a few years back...
Ok, don't tell anyone,
, but we made a weekend trip to Six Flags Over Texas. We were coming back to the hotel to take an afternoon break and as we walked up towards our room we saw a police car parked in front of our room with lights flashing. There was an officer outside the police car and a really scary looking guy sitting in the back seat. Inside our room was another police officer, the maid and the hotel manager.
The maid had been cleaning our room and said that just as she walked out of the bathroom she saw a man walking out the door of the room. She had left the door open while she was cleaning and apparently he walked right in. Her cart was just outside the door, so he had to know she was in there. Who knows why, but she said she just knew something was wrong so she called her supervisor who called the police. They must've been really quick because they caught him in another section of the hotel lurking around. The policeman had us check the room carefully, but nothing was missing.
When we got ready to leave the room a couple of hours later we did a quick room key check and lo and behold we were missing a key! I then remembered that I had only taken one set and left the other set on the dresser that morning ( a mistake I will never make again!). It immediately occurred to me what had happened to the other set. The man who had come into the room must have taken them. I called the desk and they immediately called the police ( they had said something about being sure to report anything we found missing...something about it changing what they could charge him with). At any rate, we were so shaken by the idea that this guy had gotten hold of our room keys and obviously intended to come back later that the hotel just went ahead and switched us to another room. They also comped the room, but really that didn't make us feel a bit better!
The point of all this is please shut my door while you're cleaning the room! It still scares me to this day thinking what this guy could've done had he come back in the middle of the night with only a woman and 2 young girls in the room!
Ok, don't tell anyone,
, but we made a weekend trip to Six Flags Over Texas. We were coming back to the hotel to take an afternoon break and as we walked up towards our room we saw a police car parked in front of our room with lights flashing. There was an officer outside the police car and a really scary looking guy sitting in the back seat. Inside our room was another police officer, the maid and the hotel manager.The maid had been cleaning our room and said that just as she walked out of the bathroom she saw a man walking out the door of the room. She had left the door open while she was cleaning and apparently he walked right in. Her cart was just outside the door, so he had to know she was in there. Who knows why, but she said she just knew something was wrong so she called her supervisor who called the police. They must've been really quick because they caught him in another section of the hotel lurking around. The policeman had us check the room carefully, but nothing was missing.
When we got ready to leave the room a couple of hours later we did a quick room key check and lo and behold we were missing a key! I then remembered that I had only taken one set and left the other set on the dresser that morning ( a mistake I will never make again!). It immediately occurred to me what had happened to the other set. The man who had come into the room must have taken them. I called the desk and they immediately called the police ( they had said something about being sure to report anything we found missing...something about it changing what they could charge him with). At any rate, we were so shaken by the idea that this guy had gotten hold of our room keys and obviously intended to come back later that the hotel just went ahead and switched us to another room. They also comped the room, but really that didn't make us feel a bit better!
The point of all this is please shut my door while you're cleaning the room! It still scares me to this day thinking what this guy could've done had he come back in the middle of the night with only a woman and 2 young girls in the room!
