Tourists stole 14 rolls of toilet paper. Toilet paper and bidet faucet: what tourists steal from hotels

Hotel burglaries have become a global problem

Five liters of Baileys liquor, collected in plastic bottles in a glass, 14 rolls of toilet paper, several kilograms of oranges and apples, slippers, bathrobes, towels and plants, uprooted and carefully wrapped in wet rags, were found in the suitcases of spouses from Nefteyugansk by employees Turkish hotel. A little earlier, in Egypt, a Ukrainian was caught with a similar catch: light bulbs, shampoo bottles, spoons, forks, fruits, a bidet tap... They drag him out of hotels every day, and this problem is of a global scale.

"Rule S"

In expensive hotels they steal more often - in cheap ones there is nothing special to take.

We've paid! - say the guests. So, everything here is ours.

They didn't call the police, they just asked to pay for everything. Pulled on $230. Photo: vk.com

In part, such people are right: hotel owners include material risks in the price of a room. But this does not mean that the guest can take everything.

Hoteliers around the world adhere to the "Rule S": we consider small things, the name of which begins with this letter, to be consumables and do not mind if someone takes it with them - as a keepsake and as an advertisement for our hotel, - explains David Elton, co-owner of the British chain Homegrown Hotels.

FOR REFERENCE:“Rule S” establishes a list of things belonging to the hotel that the guest can take out of the room with impunity. This list includes:

• soap- soap
• Shampoo- shampoo
• shower gel- shower gel
• shower cap- shower cap
• Slippers- slippers
• stationery- stationery set
• Sewing kit- travel sewing kit
• Shoe Shine Kits- set for cleaning / polishing shoes

Somewhere they look at the theft of towels and bathrobes calmly, but most still consider it theft. Crockery, appliances, interior details - definitely theft. Whether they turn a blind eye to her, decide the matter with you quietly, or pinch her in front of other guests - depends on the situation, the hotel, the country.

If guests are suspected of something, they will be asked to open their bags during check-out. As a rule, thieves are offered to pay for what they have stolen, sometimes a fine. If the guests persist, the hotel staff may call the police, although a threat is usually sufficient. However, the hotel can simply write off the value of the lost property from the card with which you paid for the room. It's in the rules, which you probably haven't read.

How to catch hotel thieves

The fight against thieves has been going on for many years. For example, once ashtrays with a logo were dragged from hotels en masse. As soon as simple glass ones were installed, the number of thefts dropped sharply. Hair dryers were saved by making them stationary. Shampoo, soap, gel are poured into containers.

Microchips have appeared - they are sewn into towels, bathrobes and bed linen, and they squeal disgustingly if these things fall outside the building. Magnetic keys practically exclude the possibility of strangers getting into the room, which means that it will not work to blame the theft on someone else.

BY THE WAY:The international travel portal lastminute.com calculated which items are most often stolen in hotels (shampoo, slippers and other items from Rule S were not taken into account). The top ten included:

1. Towels/robes.
2. Pillows.
3. Batteries.
4. Light bulbs.
5. Food and drinks from the minibar.
6. Picture frames.
7. Paintings / photographs.
8. Curtains.
9. Kettle.
10. Bible (available in Western hotel rooms) .

Somewhere, a creative approach was taken to the problem and the inscription “Stolen in…” is stamped over the hotel logo. It makes a nice souvenir.

In large chains like Ritz Carlton or Hyatt there are souvenir shops with symbols, somewhere I even saw a sign in the bathroom: they say that in our kiosk a set of pure cotton towels costs $30, but if you want this particular one, we will add to your account $75.

The most unusual cases of theft from hotels*

Former General Manager of Starwood Hotel Group Colin Bennet spoke about the most audacious theft in his 20 years of experience:

- I went out to the lobby and began to look around: something was missing. And then I realized: our piano disappeared. They raised security, looked at the surveillance cameras. Three men dressed as movers calmly entered the hotel, pulled out the tool and rolled it down the street. Nobody raised an ear.

A guest from one of the Berlin hotels grabbed a shower head, a hydromassage nozzle, a toilet seat, a sink and faucets.

work Andy Warhol worth $300,000 was stolen from the Shangri-La Hotel in Hong Kong.

In Las Vegas, they discovered the loss of an impressive piece of carpeting.

In a five-star hotel in Dubai, the guest took away the sofa and mini-bar (fridge with all contents).

A guest of a three-star hotel in Dubrovnik cleaned out the kitchen, taking away all the crockery and cutlery.

A five-star hotel in Madrid has lost a double orthopedic mattress.

An excited guest at the Hotel du Vin in Birmingham tried to rip a boar's head off the wall in the billiard room. He was forcibly reassured, and a few weeks later his friends came to the hotel, bought the scarecrow and gave it to the unfortunate thief for the wedding.

The couple is staying at the American Holiday Inn, which has caravan and caravan parking nearby. In the truck of the spouses, the whole situation of the room where they spent the night migrated.

A resident of the Franklin Hotel in London managed to unscrew the screws and steal the room number plate. They missed it only when they found that the guests wandered lostly along the corridor, not understanding where they should settle. Another client, who regularly stayed at this hotel, took out an item from the table service over and over again - until he had collected everything.

*According to lastminute.com. The study involved 500 hotels around the world.

What threatens for theft from the hotel

In Nigeria, a guest at the Transcorp Hilton Abuja who stole two towels was sentenced to three months in prison. And two Australians who stole a bicycle from a hotel on the Indonesian island of Gili were led through the main streets with infamous signs around their necks.

Their main loot was 14 rolls of toilet paper and dug up flowers.

In general, the Russians are not assholes. Or rather, no more assholes than all other nations and peoples. But how now to prove it to the world? After a couple of Russian tourists from Nefteyugansk got caught in Turkey stealing 14 rolls of toilet paper from a hotel room? And the news about this bypassed many news resources. Moreover, vacationers - a businessman and his girlfriend - apparently committed theft on trifles throughout the entire week-long vacation. Picking up a couple of rolls a day. Now what do people in other countries think about us?

Our tourists, of course, stole more. Together with the paper, they wanted to appropriate hotel robes and five liters of Baileys.

They also found hotel slippers in their luggage. As well as local flowers that our vacationers dug up under the windows of the hotel with a root. But all this is still somehow possible, if you don’t understand it with your mind, then at least measure it with a common yardstick. Slippers are generally a thing for individual use, they had the right to take them, and many do. And tourists from all countries come across trying to steal bathrobes, because it’s not for nothing that this is not a gift, but a thing belonging to the hotel, issued to a tourist for temporary use, is written in the rooms in three languages ​​​​at once: English, French and German. With Baileys, you can also somehow get into a position. People were supposed to have free alcohol, but they did not drink it, but took it out of the bar to their room and poured it into plastic bottles. About stock. Apparently, to, leaving, a good tug on the doorstep of the hotel. Not that the beauty is utter, but you can delve into the situation. Who hasn't grabbed an apple or an orange when leaving a restaurant after breakfast included in the price? Not five liters of Baileys. I agree. But the same train of thought in the head of the first and second can be traced. As for plants, sharing plantings for free is in the Russian mentality. To pinch off a shoot, to plant it - this is our everything. That's what people did out of habit. Guilty, but deserving of leniency. But toilet paper! How could they?! So disgrace the country!

The Turks, of course, are also cheapskates. Maybe people all week didn't... how to put it mildly... didn't lighten up in a big way - they saved paper! What they saved, in the end, they took it for themselves. They are due. And they from them - 213 dollars 43 cents. It's not worth it! Toilet paper, it is generally in fixed price stores: eight rolls - 100 rubles. That is 14 rolls red price three dollars! So for a penny they dishonored ...

In Russia, they are used to learning about major theft from the news. There they "drank" the budget, here they took the money offshore, then they deceived equity holders, then philanthropists, and stole, stole, stole. But we are always talking about millions! It is not a shame to look into the eyes of foreigners on such a scale. And then ... Fourteen rolls of toilet paper! It's kind of a shame...

That would give them a good time at home for this! You ask: for what exactly? And for the fact that they do not know how to steal gracefully. After all, in our country, they basically put people in jail for this, isn’t it?

And, of course, for the spoiled universal reputation. Expressed in the fact that the Russians now, it seems, are no longer the same. Previously, they walked so much that Türkiye was shaking, but now? Toilet paper is being ripped off! Shredded. Blown away. They came out by the fact that they do not sink either in water or in Baileys.

14 rolls of toilet paper, 5 liters of Baileys, slippers, bathrobes, towels and oranges. All this a couple from Surgut tried to take out in two suitcases when checking out from a Turkish hotel.

The staff of one of the resorts in Alanya watched for a whole week how a Russian man and woman dragged a free Baileys from a bar to a room. By a glass. The maids wondered where the toilet paper went every day. Rolls. The gardener reported to the reception that flowers had been plucked from the garden. With root.

Before leaving, the hotel security forced the couple to open their suitcases. All the loot was neatly packed. Baileys is bottled in plastic bottles. Oranges and apples preli in packages. Slippers, bathrobes, towels and toilet paper lay on top. The roots of flowers torn from the ground are moistened with water.

The Turks came up with the most terrible punishment: they made me pay for the contents of the suitcases at the market price, and then they let me go on a plane.

By the way, Aventura Park is not some seedy three-ruble note, but, albeit not very large, but a very decent 5 * hotel near Alanya.

This is a video of Maria and Rustam's suitcases being searched in a Turkish hotel.

PS. The man's name is Rustam Fakhtlislamov, he is 25 years old, his wife is Maria Kasyanova, she is 35. They live in Nefteyugansk. Rustam is a businessman. He has two firms. Three years ago, he received a master's degree in the specialty "Oil and Gas Business", he really wanted to work at Rosneft, but it did not work out.

The island's police are looking for two foreigners who stole an elephant statue near a restaurant

Police on the popular tourist island of Koh Samui are looking for two young Americans who stole a statue of a large wooden elephant that stood at the entrance to a restaurant. The theft occurred late at night from Sunday to Monday.

When the restaurant staff arrived at work, they immediately noticed that one of the two ornamental elephants was missing and checked the security footage. According to the results of the viewing, it turned out that two foreigners approached the restaurant at 2 hours 25 minutes on the night from Sunday to Monday, together they lifted a heavy elephant and carried it along the street.

The theft was committed by American tourists Drew Davidson and John Johnson. They came to Thailand at the beginning of June with a friend.

All three are in their early twenties. Friends stayed at The Lodge Bophut Beach Hotel. Corso rented a truck using a Virginia driver's license. A study of his social media profile helped identify two of his former fellow students.

After committing the theft, friends, not realizing the seriousness of the crime, continued to explore the island. During Monday, they actively explored local attractions and shared photos. Friends will certainly be tried for theft, and before that, the case will surely receive wide publicity in the media.

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Update: Three American tourists who stole an elephant statue on Koh Samui in Thailand were arrested tonight on Koh Phangan. Drew Davidson, John Johnson and Andrew Corso were pulled over by police in a rented pickup truck with a kidnapped elephant hidden in the back of the car.

All three were taken into custody and will be sent to Koh Samui, where they committed a crime and are charged with theft.

The administration of one of the Turkish hotels on the eve detained two tourists from Surgut who tried to take away 14 rolls of toilet paper, five liters of liquor, fruits, slippers, bathrobes, towels and even uprooted plants that grew in the hotel garden.

All this time, hotel security was watching the couple. And on the day before departure, she demanded tourists to open their suitcases and show their contents.

Everything stolen was neatly packaged. Liquor was poured into plastic bottles, fruits were packaged in bags, slippers, bathrobes, towels and toilet paper lay on top. And the roots of the uprooted plants were moistened with water and wrapped in polyethylene.

After the unfortunate thieves were caught by the hand, they were forced to pay for the stolen goods and only after that they were released on the plane.

Such situations are not uncommon. We remembered the most that took place in hotels.

Light bulbs and bidet faucet

In March of this year, a Ukrainian tourist was caught in Egypt trying to take a whole set of things out of the hotel: toilet paper, fruit, cutlery, light bulbs, and even a bidet tap. Before leaving, the hotel staff asked to show the contents of the suitcase to the thief, as they suspected him of theft. During the inspection, the missing items were found. As a result, the man was fined ten times the value of all property stolen from the hotel.

Toilet seat

Last year, tourists from China stole a toilet seat from a Japanese hotel. The couple found a spare seat under the bed and packed it into a suitcase. When the hotel administration asked to see their luggage, the tourists said that the previous guest had left the seat in the room. But the hotel management said it was a backup. Why the couple chose such a souvenir is not clear. However, after the incident, the couple apologized to the hotel staff for what they had done and promised that this would not happen again.

TV and sneakers

In 2015, a 49-year-old resident of Barnaul stole a TV, tuner and sneakers from a private hotel in Crimea. At about two o'clock in the morning he made his way to the hotel, had supper, and then lay down to rest. Waking up in the morning, an uninvited guest found a plasma TV on the wall. Having removed it from the wall, the attacker took it away, taking the tuner with him and changing his shoes into someone else's sneakers. Police officers detained the thief in hot pursuit. The man confessed to the theft and wrote a confession.

Bike

At the end of last year, a young couple from Australia was held by authorities on the small Indonesian island of Gili for a "march of shame" for theft. As it turned out, the Australians stole a bicycle from the hotel where they lived. Young people, surrounded by police, were led through the streets of the city with signs on which it was written: “I am a thief. Don't do what I did." Thus, the authorities punished the couple for stealing someone else's property. After the "march of shame" young people were expelled from the island. With all this, the couple was never formally charged. According to the city administration, this practice of punishment for theft has been practiced on the island for many years.

Lived for free

In May of this year, the French police detained a homeless man who lived for free in a five-star hotel for four days, while owing more than two thousand euros. As the 61-year-old man said during interrogation, he “wanted to please himself and not spend the night on the street”. The homeless man presented his documents and checked into the hotel, saying he would pay later because he had been robbed. The man was detained when he wanted to move out and told the hotel staff that he had no money, as someone had stolen his personal belongings. At the same time, the man promised the hotel staff to transfer money through the bank.

Tatiana Poddubskaya