Revealed: 35 Shocking Secrets & Tips By Hotel Employees They Never Tell Guests

Hotel maids are always finding and turning in forgotten items to the front desk. The most common items left in rooms are usually small electronics and phone or laptop chargers. If you forgot yours at home, a housekeeper will usually let you borrow (or keep!) one that was left behind by a prior guest. Just ask next time and you shall receive!

Hotel workers also admit that complaining is always the best way to go and will most likely score you a discount on your room rate. If it’s an older person they are dealing with, they very rarely will question their claim. If you give the clerk a complaint about your rate, you are surely going to be given a 10% discount, and the hotel understands that selling the room at even 30% of a discounted price is still better than having an empty room. But they also reveal that you need to know the right time to haggle, not in front of a large group of other guests.

A hotel worker revealed some valuable information for anyone that was planning on misbehaving at a hotel – some hotels actually have a blacklist for people who do not respect the rules of the hotel, and they share them amongst other hotels. So if you were ever planning on not paying or not leaving your room on time, and you manage to aggravate them enough you might never be able to stay in many hotels again. You might want to think twice before doing anything.

Hotels often have great relationships with the local police… for the most part. This seriously helps them protect themselves with all of the thousands of people coming in and out of the hotels all the time and helps keep things safe and sound. You can sleep well tonight. However, if the police department isn’t a fan of the hotel for one reason or another, they can have a pretty hard time.

Many hotels will try to respect the privacy of celebrities and other high-profile guests and offer them a quiet stay at their hotel. So you probably won’t know if you are staying in the same hotel as a celebrity. Apparently, these kinds of people check in at quieter times and the hotel management helps them enter discreetly.

It is the hotel’s job to make you feel welcome and happy. Therefore, there are some standard lies they have to say basically on auto-repeat to all guests, such as that all the rooms are the same, that they surely remember you, that there is nothing they can do, that they appreciate your feedback, they are sorry you were made to feel uncomfortable, that they did not mean to come off as rude, they hope to see you again and they are deeply apologetic.

Hotel maids know that there is a much better way to case a pillow. Since they would rather not have 50 pillows touch their faces every day, they throw a karate chop down the middle of the pillow and shove it in, folding it like a bun. This way is much better than the standard way of tucking under your chin and pulling the pillowcase on similar to a pair of jeans.