Things left behind in holiday homes
Flip Flops in the fridge, an entire room filled with pink balloons, and a twenty-four-inch machete are just a few of the belongings left in holiday home rental properties by punters guests according to a survey amongst curocare.co.uk members.
Holiday Home Owners and agents : I’m interested to know – What’s the strangest, best, or most annoying items that have been left in your property by your guests?
Here’s a list of the weirdest and most wonderful items left behind in holiday-letting villas and apartments :
- Two-foot-long machete
- Hormone replacement instruction leaflet
- An expensive camera
- Dead snake
- A “She-Wee”
- A fridge full of food
- A bible on the bedside table and religious leaflets stuffed in all the books and furniture
- A book left by an American guest titled ‘Weird England’
- A crucifix
- Mountain bike
- Flip flops in the fridge
- A room filled with pink balloons
- 50 euro tip
- The bride’s wedding dress!
- A leather thong
- An air-conditioning unit
- A set of rubber ducks
- Box of chocolates
- False teeth
- A diamond
- Cash
- Four pairs of curtains
- 3 bottles of Champagne
- A pair of wet swimming trucks with sand was found under the pillow they were sleeping on
- A real live tortoise (he now lives on the roof)
- Fluffy handcuffs
- An Internet router
- Talking gingerbread man
- A message and a tip in a bottle
- Painted stones
Spare a thought for the hoteliers too – budget hotel chain Travelodge reckons to find around 80 artificial limbs a year in its hotels and other items reportedly left behind in hotels have included a six-foot stuffed crocodile, an inflatable sheep and how about this for guests from hell? One hotel has reported that a guest left behind a wok. Doesn’t sound too bad until you hear that the work was molded to the toilet and the toilet was filled with charcoal!
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