Wellness Heaven, a German spa and luxury hotel guide, surveyed 1,376 hotel managers to determine what items are most commonly stolen by guests. It seems most hotel customers can’t get enough of the pampering they receive during their stay as towels and bathrobes seem to be the most popular items to pilfer, with more than half of managers claiming that these amenities are taken from their locations.
Guests also commonly snuck out hangers, pens, cosmetics, batteries and cutlery from their rooms. Guests at 5-star hotels more frequently decided they couldn’t start another morning without a fancy coffee machine.
Shockingly, about a quarter of hotel guests have reportedly pulled off an art heist — though that, too, varies by how luxurious the stay is. And somehow some brazen guests have checked out with TV sets and mattresses.
Hotel workers believe these thefts happen in the middle of the night when elevators that lead to the parking lot are mostly empty. One hotelier in Italy even revealed that a grand piano was stolen straight out of the lobby in plain sight.