An Imgur and Reddit user shared a photo of a note that was left on his hotel bed.
The user wrote that as they were trying to sleep, they “heard something crinkle when I settled in for the night.”
The Daily Mail reported that the user stayed at the Courtyard Marriott hotel.
“If you’re reading this, then housekeeping did not change your sheets!” read the note, suggesting that the bedsheets were dirty and reused.
Some users commented that they found more disturbing items in their hotel room and bed.
“My husband found a pair of used underwear and a couple bottles of nips [miniature spirit bottles] in the bed side table,” said one.
Another added: “I walked into a hotel room once with an unmade bed, a half-drunk case of Busch [beer] under the sink, damp towels everywhere and the TV was on. It wasn’t even the wrong room. Housekeeping just didn’t even go in that day.”
The Redditor’s note points to a commonly held notion that hotel rooms aren’t as clean as one might think, as maids have to go through dozens of rooms each day and may not be able to clean them properly.
In 2013, a maid gave an interview to the Huffington Post about common practices and the amount of work hotel staff have to do, saying “sometimes it’s so busy and management still expects everything to be cleaned just as fast as a day that isn’t as busy.”
