Hotel bosses are reeling from shocking levels of thefts from rooms including TVs, coffee makers, paintings and even bed mattresses.
They said guests had graduated from bath robes and towels to anything that isn’t nailed down.
Nine per cent of managers said TVs had gone missing from their establishments and another 10% said remotes disappeared as well.
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Eleven per cent said coffee makers have been stolen and 18% said computers were also stolen from rooms and 3% said mini fridges kept disappearing.
A shocking eight out of 10 – 79% said towels went and 66% regularly replace stolen bathrobes.
Another 25% said artworks disappeared all the time from rooms including paintings and vases.
Five per cent even said mattresses had been spirited out of rooms in the dead of night and that light fittings and brass bathroom fittings had been unscrewed and stolen.
The shocking report revealed thousands of guests are like the famous Paul Whitehouse character in The Fast Show who brags: “I’m a geezer, I’ll nick anything.”
Guests even open the back of clocks and radios to get at batteries with 30% of hotel managers reporting their theft.
Another 9% of managers said they have had hair dryers stolen.
The Wellness Heaven hotel guide asked 1,376 hoteliers who run four and five star hotels what items have been stolen to come up with the findings.
A spokesperson said: “Even expensive luxury mattresses – often worth thousands of pounds – are not immune.
“How the bulky items are transported unnoticed remains a mystery but some hoteliers informed us this only happens in the middle of the night using elevators leading directly to underground parking.
“Missing bathrobes, towels and toiletries have become the least of their worries.”
Researchers also found expensive hotel are just as likely to be targeted by thieving guests as economy hotels.
Computers are six times more likely to go missing from a five star hotel than a four star and artworks four times more likely.
Overall another 49% report hangers being stolen, 41% pens, 36% toiletries and cosmetics, 27% cutlery, 18% blankets, 16% pillows and 12% dishes.
Most commonly stolen stuff
Hangers:49%
Pens: 41%
Toiletriesand cosmetics:36%
Cutlery:27%
Blankets:18%
Pillows:16%
Dishes:12%
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