Hotel secrets you need to know!

Assassin saphir

Worked in a hotel a few years back and saw some sick stuff

Wet pi**ed matresses being flipped and next guest none the wiser.
Chefs gobbing on food sent back.
The 3 second food on the floor rule
Putting used dried towels back in the room
Toilet bowl and tea cups in room being cleaned with same cloth
Guests who sh1t anywhere but the toilet.
Jizz on the carpets/tv remote


Would never stay in anything less than 4 star now.
Anyone else got some

aaronjumper

On the remote!?
Mean bastards!!!

kippy

skittles1981 wrote: »

Worked in a hotel a few years back and saw some sick stuff

Wet pi**ed matresses being flipped and next guest none the wiser.
Chefs gobbing on food sent back.
The 3 second food on the floor rule
Putting used dried towels back in the room
Toilet bowl and tea cups in room being cleaned with same cloth
Guests who sh1t anywhere but the toilet.
Jizz on the carpets/tv remote


Would never stay in anything less than 4 star now.
Anyone else got some

You think that stuff doesnt go on in 4/5 stars?

Goldenegg

Finding a pair of knickers in the coffee making machine in my room!

bonerm

skittles1981 wrote: »

Worked in a hotel a few years back and saw some sick stuff

Wet pi**ed matresses being flipped and next guest none the wiser.
Putting used dried towels back in the room
Toilet bowl and tea cups in room being cleaned with same cloth
Jizz on the carpets/tv remote

The guests or the staff?

Assassin saphir

true
This was a major hotel chain in one of irelands biggest tourist traps

amdublin

I worked in one of Dublin's best hotels for a year and never saw anything.

Then again, I was 17 and either drunk or hangover whenever I was at work in there

wmpdd3

Na, Worked in a 4 star, try 6 star.

Saw all of the above, but I bet you ate the food. The only thing I ate in 5 years there was wafers and Ice-cream.

Re corking bottles,
get stains out of bedsheets with baby wipes, or just remake the bed.

No tea-spoons, give them a rinse under the hot water tap and give them to the next table.

Customer takes a bit out of dish and returns it, its given to the next person with different veg.

Redlion

skittles1981 wrote: »

Worked in a hotel a few years back and saw some sick stuff

To be fair, that's just one example you're giving us, so don't assume for all similar starred hotels.

Also....NAME AND SHAME!!

themadchef

skittles1981 wrote: »

Chefs gobbing on food sent back.

Ive worked in alot of places and nothing more than a calling the person a wanker etc happens.

There's a team of people in the kitchen and the manager is usually around if there's a complaint. You think everyone's gonna sit back and giggle like their jobs arent on the line?

Urban myth from my experience.

evercloserunion

kippy wrote: »

You think that stuff doesnt go on in 4/5 stars?

I've known people who worked in various parts of different 4 and 5 star hotels and none of them ever saw stuff like this.

Most of this is bullsh*t

lil'bug

today's leftovers are tomorrow's soup

Abi

skittles1981 wrote: »

true
This was a major hotel chain in one of irelands biggest tourist traps

Nuhh oh. Someone got sacked.

Giselle

themadchef wrote: »

Ive worked in alot of places and nothing more than a calling the person a wanker etc happens.

There's a team of people in the kitchen and the manager is usually around if there's a complaint. You think everyone's gonna sit back and giggle like their jobs arent on the line?

Urban myth from my experience.

This is what I'm deciding to believe.:)

Sonics2k

Goldenegg wrote: »

Finding a pair of knickers in the coffee making machine in my room!

So it was like a bonus prize for being customer 1,000 or something?

Grats!

Joe10000

I stay in average hotels fortnightly and I would notice if towels or sheets were not fresh, has never happened, as for everything else what you don't know can't hurt.

ScumLord

skittles1981 wrote: »

Wet pi**ed matresses being flipped and next guest none the wiser.

That's a load off my mind I know the person using this room next.

lil'bug wrote: »

today's leftovers are tomorrow's soup

I'd have no problem with that, it's what should be done.

ejmaztec

skittles1981 wrote: »

Stayed in a homeless hostel a few years back and saw some sick stuff

Wet pi**ed matresses being flipped and next guest none the wiser.
Chefs gobbing on food sent back.
The 3 second food on the floor rule
Putting used dried towels back in the room
Toilet bowl and tea cups in room being cleaned with same cloth
Guests who sh1t anywhere but the toilet.
Jizz on the carpets/tv remote


Would never stay in anything less than 4 star now.
Anyone else got some

That's better.

marcsignal

I worked for Rentokil in the early 90s, and can tell you that, back then, Jurys in Ballsbridge was the dirtiest filthiest cockroach ridden shithole in the western hemisphere. Full of jumped up duty managers who didn't want to take responsibility for anything.

Normally a pest control would spray a hotel every month. I, as part of a team, sprayed Jurys 104 times in 1990, and even at that, we were firefighting. The roaches in that place would be chewing the ankles off you as you worked.

Aoifey!

I'm just going to choose not to believe most of what you said, I'll live in blissful ignorance thank you very much.

wmpdd3

themadchef wrote: »

Ive worked in alot of places and nothing more than a calling the person a wanker etc happens.

There's a team of people in the kitchen and the manager is usually around if there's a complaint. You think everyone's gonna sit back and giggle like their jobs arent on the line?

Urban myth from my experience.

I worked there from age 13 to 18.

OK, most nights the manager was around but on a Monday in April lunch service with all training Cert guys in the kitchen, mad **** happened.

The duty manager only came down to give out at us putting 4 bread rolls on a table with 4 covers, should have been 3!

Unpossible

Sonics2k wrote: »

So it was like a bonus prize for being customer 1,000 or something?
Grats!

*writes that down for the excuses pile*


Honestly honey, while you were at the shops and I was in the *cough* gym they must have come up and left it there for us

eternal

I have to agree that people dont have a clue whats going on in hotels.I have worked in really posh hotels and nearly all the people I was working with had very bad drug problems .One kitchen had maggotts on the veg which wasnt refrigerated and the floor was manky ,place Id say had never been cleaned properly.
All people know is the image which is created ,they dont know whats really going on.Its true ,yeah the leftovers does become the soup but I have never seen anyone spit on food .I can only say for the kitchens ,havent worked in the other areas .The crap I put up with was unbelieveable ,I was robbed ,threatened ,abused.The staff were horrible .Its ok to say that I have found decent jobs since but it wasnt in the upmarket hotel area.

newmug

To people who go on about cockroaches in Ireland, are you sure they're cockroaches? I didn't think they could survive here. I've seen some in other countries as big as your hand, so I know what they look like, but I've never seen one in Ireland. You sure you're not just confusing them with woodlice?

qz

newmug wrote: »

To people who go on about cockroaches in Ireland, are you sure they're cockroaches? I didn't think they could survive here. I've seen some in other countries as big as your hand, so I know what they look like, but I've never seen one in Ireland. You sure you're not just confusing them with woodlice?

Really? You're asking the guy that worked in Rentokil whether or not he was called out 104 times to kill something which he'd mistaken for cockroaches?

Unpossible

newmug wrote: »

To people who go on about cockroaches in Ireland, are you sure they're cockroaches? I didn't think they could survive here. I've seen some in other countries as big as your hand, so I know what they look like, but I've never seen one in Ireland. You sure you're not just confusing them with woodlice?

A quick google led to the disturbing news that they are in Ireland. Looks like its only asian cockroaches

Senna

I've worked in about a dozen or more hotels from the age of 15. Most of the stories are urban myths.

Worked with many chefs, they all take food very serious, they may joke about doing something to an annoying customers dish, but never seen anyone actually do anything.
I have seen cockroaches in one hotel, but those were in a wine celler under the back of the hotel, no-where near the kitchen and they are hard to get rid of, but they were all gone after the place was stripped out.
Seen bedrooms cover with all types of bodily fluids and excrement, but never seen a guest checked-in again unless the room is cleaned to the housekeepers standards.

As for the star rating of Irish Hotels, its nothing but a joke. Most 3 star hotels could move up to 4 star with very little done, But most 4 star hotels couldn't move to 5 star without being demolished and built again, even thought they have a better standard than the few real 5 star hotels in Ireland. I know a lovely 12 bedroom hotel that can not call itself a hotel because 3 of its rooms are not wide enough, they fall short by 4 inches. If those 3 rooms were 4 inches bigger it would be a 4 star hotel. But i'd rather stay in a good established 3 star than a "tax break" 4 star build during the bubble. Their normally soulless dumps with fancy art hanging on the walls and rubbish food and service.

s3129

Worked in a hotel in Limerick for awhile. It was A1, the chefs took their food seriously, even dishing it up to me as they would a customer, they gave nothing but their best. Every bed was changed every day, everywhere was cleaned. I saw nothing out of the ordinary anyway, so I'm wondering how is it possible for ALL of that to be going on in the one hotel OP.. Must of been a pure dive...




or else you got the sack and this is your revenge..

(...waits for OP to accidentally on purpose name the hotel....)

mikemac

A lot of urban myths from the OP

I've worked in a few hotels and as said, the chefs take it very seriously. That is always people around in the kitchen, a chef isn't going to gob into food in front of others under the hot plate.

The rooms were always cleaned correctly and hygiene standards were taken very seriously.
I know I was did several jobs and one was kitchen porter, powerwashing floors and scrubbing counters at 2am.

What does happen though is gouging customers on prices.
In a wedding there might be "drink of choice", the wedding couple buy a drink for everyone with their meal. That bill is rounded up severly.

And if you bring your own wine, likely the hotel may keep some and charge for corkage.
But that is not everywhere, just the odd rogue place

Dunjohn

Sonics2k wrote: »

So it was like a bonus prize for being customer 1,000 or something?

Grats!

Sounds more like he was customer 1,001.

Yakult

I worked in a 3 star hotel and it was nothing like that. Very well kept and organised work force. Three managers on from 9am-11pm, over the kitchen, bar and rooms making sure employees are in line.
Dont know what kinda **** hotel you worked in.

marcsignal

newmug wrote: »

To people who go on about cockroaches in Ireland, are you sure they're cockroaches?

Yes, German Cockroach and Oriental Cockroach. Most commonly found in Hotel Kitchens and Laundrys because of the humidity. Here's a tip, if you see a cafe or restaurant next door to a laundry, there is a higher possibility they may be more susceptible to a cockroach problem. They will live in the laundry, and feed in the restaurant kitchen.

In the early 90s out of 220 pest control contract calls I dealt with, per 6 week cycle, maybe 10 of those calls were contracts relating to cockroaches. The other 210 were relating to Rats and Mice. However, from talking to people I know who are still in the pest control game, the amount of contracts relating to cockroaches has shot up in the last 10 years. Today in Ireland, your average pest controller will have nearly as many calls for Roaches to deal with as Rats and Mice, particularlly in City Centres.

People travelling from exotic parts of the world (Africa, Far East) are fairly likely to bring cockroach eggs home with them in the folds and lining of their luggage. They also get here on ships carrying fruit like bananas etc. They lay eggs in the joints of the containers they're transported in which end up being delivered to hotel kitchens. The heat and humidity in the hotel kitchen will allow the eggs to incubate.

Having said all that, if a hotel is clean, and sprayed regularly by a professional, there isn't much chance you'll see one.

LighterGuy

Am I the only one who would use a hotel for a few hours then check out?
you know, with female company (and no ... not hookers)

eternal

you gotta be the dude jizzing everywhere

Senna

LighterGuy wrote: »

Am I the only one who would use a hotel for a few hours then check out?
you know, with female company (and no ... not hookers)

No you're not the only one, just most of us stay the night anyway, middle of the night sex, then morning sex etc etc

eternal

^ Obviously more of a gentleman than the man who comes and goes as it were

KnifeWRENCH

Eugh. Until I read this thread, I didn't even know we had cockroaches in Ireland...

marcsignal

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Eugh. Until I read this thread, I didn't even know we had cockroaches in Ireland...

Here’s one of their favourite Hiding Places in a hotel or restaurant kitchen.

Twee.

lil'bug wrote: »

today's leftovers are tomorrow's soup

The special is most likely made of ingredients that are about to go out of date so they can get rid of them. And fish on a Monday is never fresh.

SomeFool

marcsignal wrote: »

Here’s one of their favourite Hiding Places in a hotel or restaurant kitchen.

That's rank, I'm already having trouble getting to sleep, is the pic from an Irish kitchen?

marcsignal

SomeFool wrote: »

That's rank, I'm already having trouble getting to sleep, is the pic from an Irish kitchen?

No thankfully that pic is from Arizona, but you can tell if a place is infested, by looking for their droppings. Usually found around skirting boards of a kitchen behind fridges etc. They look like This, not unlike spilt filter coffee grains in size.

chicken fingers

No real 4 star hotel will hire a 13 year old.

flanum

marcsignal wrote: »

I worked for Rentokil in the early 90s, and can tell you that, back then, Jurys in Ballsbridge was the dirtiest filthiest cockroach ridden shithole in the western hemisphere. Full of jumped up duty managers who didn't want to take responsibility for anything.

Normally a pest control would spray a hotel every month. I, as part of a team, sprayed Jurys 104 times in 1990, and even at that, we were firefighting. The roaches in that place would be chewing the ankles off you as you worked.

roaches? you mean like off the movies? or in warmer climes??

Cú Giobach

I worked for a while in one of London's top hotels and while the chefs did indeed take the food very seriously and were fastidious about hygiene, the waiters not so, I did see food dropped a few times and put back on the plate if it could be arranged back to presentable standards.

I worked in Corrib Village before for a summer and I didn't see anything like that really... The worst I'd do is not change a bed that wasn't used.

Great job, was friends with my supervisor so I could goto sleep on a bed for half an hour before changing it if I was hungover.. Those were the days.

up for anything

I worked as a chambermaid (room operative or whatever they call them now) back in the early 80s in Dusseldorf in a big hotel. We were supposed to change the sheets every day but the beds were so big and heavy to move that we routinely just stretched the sheets to make them look like they hadn't been slept in. Fun days.

ch750536

Personally witnessed or involved in during my 10 years of hotel work:

Eggs poached in piss <but they deserved it>
Hotel cat that sleeps on the veg.
Returned food sent to another guest.
Steak deep fried to cook it quicker.
Staff member fapping under the bar counter.
Guests secretly spitting on the breakfast buffet.
Theft of Corrs bandmember underwear.
Staff hiding under the bed in a guests room.
Beds not changed.

Uriel.

ch750536 wrote:

Theft of Corrs bandmember underwear.

poor Jim has never been the same since

ch750536

We had much worse goings on with the guests, examples:

The lottery winner who moved to the hotel to avoid attention then walked out of his room each time he intended to go to the bathroom. 9 times he walked to reception starkers.
The wedding where the brides mother died at the table.
The wedding where the groom was caught banging a bridesmaid on the bonnet of his BMW.
A guest who kept shouting '****' all the time. No other words, just '****', quite loudly.
Stephen Hendry not threatening me with violence if I didn't allow him room service <have to be careful legally here, the pain... the pain>
Entire rooms stolen.

ch750536

ch750536 wrote: »

Entire rooms stolen.

Lol
"I'd love to check you into room 114, but unfortunately it was stolen"
"oh that's terrible, the whole room?"
"yes, there's just a big gap in the wall now..."

cock robin

I'm with most posters who think this is all urban myth. With hidden cameras and such like it would be very dangerous for staff in hotels to act the bollix in this day and age. However when I was in the Defence Forces back in the 80s I did see a steak wiped under and around the rim of a toilet then trod on before being cooked and handed to a certain company segrent cos he was a wanker. He ate it and survived. Ah! those were the days. Revenge is a dish best abused and trodden on