Hotel secrets you need to know!

Assassin saphir · 09-03-2011 11:13PM #1

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 · 09-03-2011 11:15PM

On the remote!?
Mean bastards!!!

kippy · 09-03-2011 11:16PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:17PM

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

bonerm · 09-03-2011 11:17PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:17PM

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

amdublin · 09-03-2011 11:17PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:19PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:21PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:22PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:26PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:27PM

today's leftovers are tomorrow's soup

Abi · 09-03-2011 11:28PM

skittles1981 wrote: »

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

Nuhh oh. Someone got sacked.

Giselle · 09-03-2011 11:28PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:30PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:30PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:37PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:37PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:42PM

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! · 09-03-2011 11:49PM

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 · 09-03-2011 11:58PM

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 · 10-03-2011 02:33AM

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 · 10-03-2011 02:46AM

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 · 10-03-2011 02:47AM

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 · 10-03-2011 02:57AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:09AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:12AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:25AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:32AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:32AM

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 · 10-03-2011 03:44AM

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.

Hotel secrets you need to know!

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