Get Up & Go can't get enough of this contributor who uncovers the strange facts about the travelling world! In his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and
wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says an amazing 35% of hotel
guests globally, admit they have more in their luggage when they leave their
hotel, than when they entered it.
The 2013 Hotel.com Amenities Survey asked 8,600 guests
around the world if they had ever taken anything – other than those little
shampoos and other toiletries that we all know are deliberately put there for
the taking (and in Aussies’ cases, Vegemite portions – sachets – from the
dining room tables as well).
Those from Denmark came out tops amongst the 29
nationalities surveyed, with just 12% admitting that Yes, they’d pinched
something during a hotel stay. Those from the Netherlands were second-most
honest, Norway third and Brazil, Canada and Hong Kong equal fourth.
Thieving villains
Aussies came in equal-19th with Germany, with 28
per cent of us saying we’d taken hotel property away with us after a
stay, while a tad more New Zealander's (27%) were more honest guests.
The most light-fingered of all, according to the survey, were
guests from Colombia: an amazing 57% admitting to knocking-off stuff from their
rooms or hotel public areas during a stay.
Most commonly-lifted items were books and magazines from
lounges, lobbies and reading rooms, followed by bed-sheets, pillows and towels
from guest rooms… with the Chinese showing they obviously had the most spacious
of all suitcases, which they happily filled with not only linens and towels,
but hotel bedside lamps, room clocks, radios, and even art off the walls.
And the least stolen? Gideons’ Bibles.
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