At all times scan your room before you take a look at — you never know what you will have left behind.
Hotel chain Travelodge revealed the strangest items left across their 580 hotels within the UK, as tallied of their 2022 lost and located audit. While it’s possible you’ll expect an abandoned phone charger or two, the items that housekeeping got here across prior to now 12 months were a bit more extravagant and curious than that.
With big-ticket items left behind — like royal memorabilia and an oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II, the latter booked in its own room — Travelodge spokeswoman Shakila Ahmed said guests’ forgetfulness actually had a positive side.
“Interestingly, the 2022 lost and located audit also revealed that we’re a nation striving for a healthy lifestyle, as we’ve seen a major rise in smart watches being left behind in our Travelodge hotels through the last 12 months,” Ahmed told Hotel News.
While there have been several weird and whacky items left behind after their owners went home, among the most notable included: a Liverpool Football Club-themed wedding cake on the Liverpool Central Strand Travelodge, where the marriage’s best man had been staying, in addition to cardboard cut-outs of the Shelby family from the Netflix series “Peaky Blinders” on the West Midland location.
On the Bath Central hotel, a pair of Japanese Chin puppies — named J.Lo and Ben, after rekindled Hollywood couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck — were left behind after their husband-and-wife owners mistakenly thought the opposite had picked them up. They reportedly drove off in separate vehicles, only to get home and realize their error; the husband turned back to retrieve the forgotten furry friends.
Unfortunately, they weren’t the one animals left behind. On the Poole North Travelodge, a pair of donkeys, named Daisy and Duke, were forgotten by their latest owners, who had purchased them locally while staying there.
Some travelers were left with empty stomachs, too: On the Monks Cross location, 500 grams (1.1 kilos) of caviar were behind.
“On the subject of why so lots of our customers forget their treasured items, it’s mainly as a consequence of us all being time-poor, juggling multiple tasks and being in a rush to get from A to B,” Ahmed explained. “In the frenzy, worthwhile possessions are easily forgotten.”
All items left behind at Travelodge hotels which have not been claimed inside three months are donated to the local British Heart Foundation Charity Shops.
Other items left behind:
- Keys to a Sunseeker Hawk 38 Power Boat
- A Hóng Bāo (Chinese wedding envelope) containing 10,000 Chinese Yuan
- A five-generation heirloom family cookbook
- A life-size cut-out of German pro football manager Jürgen Klopp
- A Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee doll
- A LEGO Technic Ferrari 488 GTE
- A sleigh stuffed with Christmas presents
- A 5-foot Chinese temple birdhouse
- A Déesse Pro LED phototherapy mask
- A box of personalized Viennese snow globes
- An oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II
- A treasure chest stuffed with Indian Mithai sweets
- An oxygen tank
- A pilot’s license
- A dress comprised of the Commonwealth country flags
- A 4-foot light-up Earth
- A 50-year-old Paddington Bear
- £250,000 (about $298,206) price of share certificates
- A barrister’s wig and gown
- A photograph album detailing the lifetime of Queen Elizabeth II, from princess to queen
- Framed wedding vows from 1946
- A Union Jack printed sari
- A suitcase stuffed with Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee memorabilia
