{"id":8750,"date":"2012-01-22T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-hotels-lament-light-fingered-guests-2\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T21:00:00","slug":"struth-hotels-lament-light-fingered-guests-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/01\/struth-hotels-lament-light-fingered-guests-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Hotels lament light-fingered guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9kCfgzOxp1M\/TxyaCIntZcI\/AAAAAAAASsY\/Za80GfusFQY\/s1600\/Suit%2Bof%2Barmour%2Blrg_rsz-703791.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9kCfgzOxp1M\/TxyaCIntZcI\/AAAAAAAASsY\/Za80GfusFQY\/s320\/Suit%2Bof%2Barmour%2Blrg_rsz-703791.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>STRUTH!<\/p>\n<p>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says light-fingered hotel guests in the UK helped themselves last year to enough goodies to start a second-hand shop \u2013 and it was anything than just soaps and toiletries.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst items that the country&#8217;s Best Western hotel group reported stolen by guests last year were a 20kg suit of armour, a two-piece leather sofa, a\u00a0 4m-long model of the Concorde supersonic jetliner, a decorated Christmas tree, a life-size model of a man made out of papier mache, TV sets\u2026 and a cigarette machine.<\/p>\n<p>Head of Marketing with the company, Tim Wade said the hotel was so proud of its soaps that it actually printed &#8220;So good you&#8217;ll want to steal two&#8221; on the wrappers \u2013 but he never expected so many other large-as-life items to go as well. &#8220;Goodness knows how they got them past Reception when they checked-out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>And while soaps and toiletries were still generally considered the most fair-game for pinching, many guests also helped themselves to their hotel room&#8217;s energy-saving light bulbs, batteries from the TV remote controllers, towels and bathrobes \u2013 and at one Best Western in the UK a bedspread and a matching set of curtains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christmas gave us a particularly busy time replacing items,&#8221; Mr Wade said. &#8220;Our managers reported partying guests nicking off with a decorated Christmas tree from one hotel, a nativity scene from another, strings of Christmas lights, baubles and tinsel from yet others, and at one a whole garden bed of Christmas-time plants \u2013 including the bark chip mulch around them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems Some Mothers Do &#8216;ave &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>(Image: Moira Burke courtesy Flickr\/Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRUTH! IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says light-fingered hotel guests in the UK helped themselves last year to enough goodies to start a second-hand shop \u2013 and it was anything than just soaps and toiletries. Amongst items that the country&#8217;s Best Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[376,377],"class_list":["post-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-ellis","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}