A Reddit user recently asked hotel employees to share some of the craziest things they had seen guests do. Here are our top three.
- The ‘Pie Guy’. “We had a guest we ended up calling ‘Pie Guy’ – he would come into the hotel without a reservation, pay in cash + the $100 cash deposit and the next day we would find his bathroom and bathtub full of the remains of several expensive pies. He never came to the desk for his deposit, as he knew he wouldn’t be getting it back. We added his name to our ‘do not rent’ list, but he kept coming back and using different names. One time we found a torn up list in his room with the words ‘pie’ and ‘pants’ scribbled over and over again.
- The toilet wine connoisseur. “I had a weird guest who was part of a land survey crew that would come in every week. One time she called the front desk and said: ‘There are bubbles in my toilet. Why are there bubbles in my toilet?’ I told her they might have flushed the water pipes (stalling). She then says, ‘Hold on, I’m going to bring some down’. I said, ‘Ma’am, that’s really not necessary,’ but she was already off the line. About five minutes later she comes down the elevator with a wineglass full of clear water. ‘Well, it was bubbly a minute ago!’ I had to walk into the back room and beat my head against the wall for a bit.”
- Salad Fetish. “As the owner of a bed and breakfast place for the last eight years the craziest thing I ever found was an old battered notebook with ‘Why I love salad’ written on the front and then literally 40-80 pages on why salad was amazing. There’d be the occasional suggestion that the author believed salad to be alive in some sense. Looked like it had been written on and off over the course of several years.”
