Article: The “Idiot Check” I Do Before Leaving Any Hotel Room

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I'm paranoid about leaving something behind in the room when I checkout of a hotel room. I do multiple checks!

I once left my favourite work jacket in a hotel in Abu Dhabi. I only realised a few days later back in Sydney when I was looking for the jacket for work!

Thinking back, I then remembered hanging it in the hotel cupboard as the weather was too hot to wear. Rang the hotel, and housekeeping confirmed they had found it!

Put a post on a FB forum and a fellow traveller picked it up for me a month or 2 later!

Thanks again @Mickeyc747 :)
 
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I sometimes use the shoe in the safe trick and it did save me once.

Before leaving I specifically check among other places the:
  • minibar
  • hook behind the bathroom door and any other hooks in the bathroom
  • closet
  • sockets especially near the desk
  • bedsheets especially for any white-coloured clothes of ours
We've left things in these places - well +1 did, but then it becomes a 'we' problem
 

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