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Always double-check your room before leaving; you never know what you might have left behind.
In their 2022 lost and found audit, Travelodge highlighted the oddest objects left at their 580 hotels in the United Kingdom. While you may expect to find a few forgotten phone chargers, the goods discovered by housekeeping during the past year were considerably more extravagant and peculiar.
Royal artifacts and an oil picture of Queen Elizabeth II, the latter of which was booked in its own room, were among the expensive goods forgotten by visitors, according to Shakila Ahmed, a spokesman for Travelodge.
“Interestingly, the 2022 lost and found audit also revealed that we are a nation striving for a healthy lifestyle, as we have witnessed a significant increase in the number of smart watches left behind in our Travelodge hotels over the past year,” Ahmed told Hotel News.
A Liverpool Football Club-themed wedding cake was left behind at the Liverpool Central Strand Travelodge, where the wedding’s best man had been staying, while cardboard cutouts of the Shelby family from the Netflix series “Peaky Blinders” were left behind at the West Midland location.
At the Bath Central hotel, a pair of Japanese Chin puppies, named J.Lo and Ben after the reunited Hollywood couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, were left behind after their husband-and-wife owners mistook the other for having collected them. They apparently drove off in separate vehicles, only to discover their mistake upon returning home; the husband circled around to recover the animals.
Unfortunately, they were not the only remaining creatures. Daisy and Duke, two donkeys, were left behind at the Poole North Travelodge by their new owners, who had acquired them locally while staying there.
Some travelers were left with empty tummies, as 500 grams (1.1 pounds) of caviar were left behind at the Monks Cross location.
“We’re all time-crunched, juggling multiple tasks, and in a rush to get from point A to point B,” Ahmed noted as the reason why so many of our customers lose their valuables. In a hurry, it is simple to forget valuable possessions.
Unclaimed items left behind at Travelodge hotels are donated to the local British Heart Foundation Charity Shops after three months.
Other items left behind:
- Keys to a Sunseeker Hawk 38 Power Boat
- A Hóng Bāo (Chinese wedding envelope) containing 10,000 Chinese Yuan
- A five-generation heirloom family cookbook
- A life-size cut-out of German pro football manager Jürgen Klopp
- A Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee doll
- A LEGO Technic Ferrari 488 GTE
- A sleigh full of Christmas presents
- A 5-foot Chinese temple birdhouse
- A Déesse Pro LED phototherapy mask
- A box of personalized Viennese snow globes
- An oil painting of Queen Elizabeth II
- A treasure chest full of Indian Mithai sweets
- An oxygen tank
- A pilot’s license
- A dress made from the Commonwealth country flags
- A 4-foot light-up Earth
- A 50-year-old Paddington Bear
- £250,000 (about $298,206) worth of share certificates
- A barrister’s wig and gown
- A photo album detailing the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from princess to queen
- Framed wedding vows from 1946
- A Union Jack printed sari
- A suitcase full of Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee memorabilia