The fun never ends

[Desk clerk knows all]

Sunday afternoon a guy checks into the hotel, several hours later he comes to the desk and tells the clerk that the room smells like it's been smoked in and it's giving him a headache, so clerk moves him to another room.
About 11:30pm this guy and a girl are having an argument in the hallway so I go up there and the girl says he won't let her go to the lobby, so she's going to come down with me. As we are walking she tells me they have a troubled relationship and she's afraid of him. The guy is in his 50's the girl is in her 20's and wearing thigh high boots with 5 inch heels. (Draw your own conclusions)
So she calls around and finds someone who says they will come pick her up but it's going to be about 45 mins.
Meantime the guy comes down and gives me the room keys and says he is checking out and to make sure the girl doesn't go into the room because she will trash it, he signs for his credit card and leaves.
The girl then comes to the desk and says that a friend is coming to pick her up but he's not sure he has enough gas and could I loan her some money. I of course tell her no.
When the guy gets there he's driving a fancy sports car, so don't know why he doesn't have gas money.
The next day when housekeeping goes into the rooms they find that the guest were the ones who smoked in the first room, and they also smoked in the second room and damaged the comforter. So he is getting charged 2 smoking charges and a comforter charge.
But wait there is more...he actually called and ask to not be charged for the room since he didn't get to stay all night. I would so love to see his face when he sees all the extra charges on his credit card!

[taxguykarl]

The phone calls, when SC gets the bill, will be interesting....

[Kristev]

Can't wait until his wife finds out.

[Mr Hero]

Hope there's a sequel. This should be good. Pass the popcorn.

[LillFilly]

I was wondering how you knew he was the one that smoked in the room that he claimed had already been smoked in and was giving him a headache. Did she find fresh butts or something, knowing that it had been cleaned (by her perhaps?)

[AccountingDrone]

I was wondering how you knew he was the one that smoked in the room that he claimed had already been smoked in and was giving him a headache. Did she find fresh butts or something, knowing that it had been cleaned (by her perhaps?)

The motel managers I know will walk the rooms as a quick check - you can tell when a nonsmoking room is smoked in. Yuck. Though I have no issue taking a smoking room if there is not a nonsmoking room available. I just spray some febreeze around to cover the smoke residue. It usually lasts long enough for me to get to sleep if the smoke smell is especially heavy.

[Cia]

When my family and I went on vacation in 2010 we stayed in non-smoking rooms. When we checked into the motels we were told the fees for smoking in a non-smoking room ranged from $75 - $150. One lady explained to me that some smokers want to sleep in a room that doesn't smell of smoke yet they smoke in the room.

[Ree]

I'm staying in a nonsmoking room right now that absolutely reeks of cigarette smoke. I have gone nuts with air freshener, and it helped slightly, but it's pretty bad.

[PepperElf]

I'm staying in a nonsmoking room right now that absolutely reeks of cigarette smoke. I have gone nuts with air freshener, and it helped slightly, but it's pretty bad.

oddly enough your avatar really fits that post... I have a mental image of you banging your head on the side of the hotel room in frustration. (ouch! sorry!)

Can't wait until his wife finds out.

That could really call for some . Especially if he has a wife who doesn't know he was in a hotel in the first place. Not to mention the damage fees will probably be more than the cost of one night.

anyway it should be some interesting dramarama

[EricKei]

I'm staying in a nonsmoking room right now that absolutely reeks of cigarette smoke.

Awww. Have you spoken to the manager (or whomever) about it? If not, let them know.

[Desk clerk knows all]

Update

This guy called about his charges and claimed he did not smoke in the room. When told there were butts and ashes and a burn hole in the comfortor, he claimed that his mother-in-law must have smoked in the room after he checked out. So he not only had his mother-in-law in the room with his little hussy, he left her in the room after he checked out in the middle of the night and told me not to let anyone in the room.
And what did the mother-in-law tell her daughter about the evening?

[dalesys]

And what did the mother-in-law tell her daughter about the evening?

That her hubby is great in a threesome?

[DGoddessChardonnay]

That her hubby is great in a threesome?

And while he's dealing with the cc charges he'll really have an even bigger headache after the wifey tosses him out and gets a lawyer!

[bhskittykatt]

This guy called about his charges and claimed he did not smoke in the room. When told there were butts and ashes and a burn hole in the comfortor, he claimed that his mother-in-law must have smoked in the room after he checked out. So he not only had his mother-in-law in the room with his little hussy, he left her in the room after he checked out in the middle of the night and told me not to let anyone in the room.
And what did the mother-in-law tell her daughter about the evening?

Oh, boo hoo. Room is in your name, you're responsible. That includes whatever your guests do. Your name, your signature on the registration, your responsibility.

Ugh. A few months ago, we had a room absolutely trashed. The guy's "daughter" (not really his daughter, if you catch my drift) said it couldn't have been him, since he was in jail for most of the night (true) and that it was illegal to ban him from the property. We told her that since he was the registered guest, he was responsible for the actions of his guests, whether he was in the room with them or not, and we absolutely could ban him, especially since he had only paid for one person. Then she called us some rather colorful names as she stormed out.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Yeah, that mother in law story really sounds a bit hinky to me...ok, completely inplausible Even if it is true, like bhskittykatt said...too bad, so sad. Pay up, loser.