Hey, look, we've all pinched a towel or two from hotel rooms, maybe even a bathrobe, but a piano?

A freaking GRAND PIANO!? How do you get THAT out of a hotel?

Here's a list of the strangest things pilfered from hotel rooms around the world, including a hotel owner's pet dog. WTH?

People take stuff from their hotel rooms for lots of reasons. Maybe they feel like it’s justified because they’re paying a lot for the room. Maybe they just want a souvenir of the trip. Whatever the reason, its costing hotels a fortune. The American Hotel and Lodging Association estimated a few years ago that hotel theft was costing hotels as much as $100-million a year. That’s a lot of robes!

What exactly are people stealing from their hotels? There are little things like bud vases from room service trays and towels. Pillows get taken a lot as well. Some of them cost up to $80 each, so hotels do care when those end up missing. According to Bjorn Hanson, clinical professor with the New York University Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, “If a guest takes pillows, about half the time the hotel will send a letter saying, ‘We hope you’re enjoying the pillows — here’s the invoice.’” They even have trackable microchips to put in the pillows now.

But there are legendary things that have been swiped from hotels, as reported by “The Telegraph.” Here are some of the most unusual things hotels reported stolen:

    • A $300,000 Andy Warhol artwork -- Taken from the W Hong Kong. Maybe it's best not to leave the good art out.
    • A 12-foot model of the Concorde -- Taken from a Best Western hotel, according to a survey of that chain’s housekeepers. Just how do you walk out without anyone seeing that?
    • A grand piano -- Former Starwood GM Colin Bennett told The Telegraph about when three people wearing overalls came into a hotel lobby and wheeled the piano out and down the street. That one takes some guts!
    • Serious plumbing -- One guest stripped a Berlin hotel room of its Monsoon shower heads, hydromassage shower units, taps, toilet seats and sink.
    • A stuffed boar’s head -- A guest tried to abscond from the Hotel du Vin in Birmingham, United Kingdom, with the mounted head.
    • A minibar fridge -- Lots of people empty it, but one guest at a five-star hotel in Dubai left the bottles and took the unit itself, along with the sofa.
    • A marble fireplace-- A guest at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills was alleged to have lifted one. I don’t even understand how that is possible!
    • A medieval sword -- According to a survey by “Caterer and Hospitality” magazine. You can’t exactly fit that in the overhead bin on the flight home.
    • A hotelier’s pet dog -- Say what?! It’s pretty low to steal someone’s pet.

       

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