Hotel maids of reddit, what was the most disturbing thing you found while cleaning out a room?

1. When I worked at a hotel, the maids went in one morning to discover.....(drum roll).... NOTHING! As in, the room had been totally stripped. The art, the furniture, the bed, all of them were gone. The hairdryer had been ripped out of the wall, anything that wasn't nailed down was taken. There was no TV, no coffee pot, no table lamps. At first we couldn't figure out how they accomplished this, but security footage revealed a pickup was backed up to the side of the building, the room window locks were removed, and all of the goods were *thrown* from the *second story window*. The most ridiculous thing about all of this was that the lady who had rented the room had done so under her *real* name and with her *real* credit card. I don't know what she expected to happen. After we contacted her, she attempted to return the busted stuff that hadn't fared well on the 30 foot drop to the concrete below. She ended up getting arrested instead.
   — PhilosophicalFarmer


2. Ahh now that would be the bath full of skin....this old guy had stayed in the room, obviously used the bath and managed to shed like 90% of his leathery skin in it. It had dried on to the sides and base of the tub and took me so long to scrub off. It wasn't creepy or anything but was definitely the most disturbing thing I had to deal with.
   — razzle_dazzle_em


3. My grandmother was a motel maid for managed condos on a golf course. It was a very bad job. She once told me that she found that someone had runnily crapped in the wastepaper basket, AFTER they had removed the liner bag. They removed the liner bag to puke in, but the bag leaked so they just chucked it into the corner. She said there was vomit running all down the wall. To make matters worse, it was about 90 degrees and the place had been closed up with no air flow for 3 days. She said it smelled terrible.
   — Two_kids_two_pugs






4. There was one room a guy stayed in for over a month that no one ever got to clean because he always had the "do not disturb" sign on the door. When he finally left.... the horror. The smell was so bad. He never asked for new linens and odor gets trapped easily in the sheets. This guy also chewed tobacco and spit it all over the bathroom, like the tub, sink, floor. There were like 20 cups and bottles of used chew. Dried urine and poo on and around the toilet. A nest of old towels because he would get new ones, but not give us the old ones, which smelled awful. There was mold growing all over the bathroom. He also sat in the desk chair so much that the wheels tore through the carpet. As a bonus but not really disturbing story, my coworker once had to scrape a pizza off of a ceiling.
   — byebirdy


5. My mom once walked into a room to see a completely naked man waiting expectantly. He was furiously touching himself.
   — nebuchadn3zzar


6. I wasn't a maid, but had to help handle some of the more interesting finds. Among the more memorable things the staff found: 1 Real Doll. Very, very used. It was missing clumps of hair, and had chunks of silicone bitten right out of it. A dog, and a litter of puppies that had obviously been born on the bedding. Mom and babies were all healthy black labs, but the owner literally abandoned them. Refused to return phone calls, but did not contest the cleaning charge we added to his bill. The dogs were taken in by the Humane Society, and eventually were all adopted by staff of the casino. So. Many. Guns. The oddest of which was a .50 calibre handgun, fully loaded, and jammed between the bed and box spring. We had no idea who might have left it there, as the last occupants swore it wasn't theirs, and I was inclined to believe them. That was handed over to the police, because what else do you do with a random, giant gun? But we also came across rifles, shotguns, and so many fucking glock handguns, that it just became routine. 1 head of lettuce, under the bed. 1 whole, room temperature chicken, in the safe. 6 passports, all for the same guy...with different names, and all for different countries.
   — casinogirl2001






7. To the cleaning lady who tucked my daughters Woody doll in bed. Thank you. She loved it.
   — lulubugbug


8. Nothing disturbing, but one guest was nice enough to leave an unopened box of ice cream sammies in the freezer. It was a good day.
   — automaton_woman


9. Stayed in a hotel in rural Missouri. A small town that had a small college. Kirksville or Kerrsville, something like that. As I'm Australian and didn't know anyone in most of the places that I stayed I usually became very friendly very quickly with the hotel/motel staff of where I was staying. One early Saturday morning I get a knock on my door. Its the lovely receptionist. She says no one else is on and her partner is gone to St Louis. But she wanted me to witness and offer advice at what was in the next door. They'd been rowdy so I never knew what to expect. Turns out they'd left and checked out about an hour before. They'd been there less than 3 days. Room was almost floor to ceiling high with junk. Dirty clothes, wasted food packages, etc, etc. I was there 90% of the time and never saw anyone come and go. Just a young couple with a small sedan. I will never understand how they packed the room with junk.
   — Steamified






10. Wasn't a housekeeper but was an Assistant Mgr at the time and had to check rooms before housekeepers went in. The two most disturbing things I found 1) Blood. Not a little blood stain...it was on the walls, all over the bed, even puddled up on the carpet. It was like something from Hellraiser. Called the police of course. Couldn't find the guest anywhere. Don't know if they ever found her. Police kept the room blocked off for a while though. 2) Ice bucket full of shit. Just sitting there on the dresser like it was the most normal thing in the world. LOL...I worked in some pretty bad hotels. Could probably make a top 100 disturbing things list.
    — DaveyDoes