Vacations are meant to be a nice, relaxing moment away from reality where we can relax and reset.
But sometimes people take their vacations to the next level and do things they would never deem acceptable at home.
Redditor ihp-undeleted asked:
"People who have worked in resorts, what's the most f**ked-up thing you've seen?"
Stretching The Space
"I worked at a mountain resort that catered to wealthy hunters."
"Two rooms decided that walking to each other's rooms was too much of a hassle, so they decided to smash a huge hole in the wall that separated them. They weren't even apologetic about it; they stayed for three more days."
"And the resort was privately owned by a family; it wasn't some big chain."
- ProfuseMongoose
A Questionable Upgrade
"I worked at a Hotel in Paso Robles that had private hot tubs outside every room, and we checked in a couple of squatters. They stayed holed up in the room for several weeks."
"When they figured out we were onto them and attempting to evict them, they smeared poop all over the walls. We had to call hazmat to clean it and remove all the carpet."
"Then after that incident, it was the most popular and requested room because it was all remodeled."
- bullpendodger
"The S**t Suite, please."
- PayingOffBidenFamily
"A Shuite, if you will. It sounds French."
- OaksSilhouette
Worst Case Scenario
"I worked at a resort as a busboy in one of the buffet restaurants a few years ago, and this rich kid got drunk at the bar, got invited to go 'party' in the nearby local village by a few locals, accepted, and left with them (against the staff's recommendations)."
"He came back with nothing (not even clothes) the next morning."
- firsthandbreaker89
"At least he came back. I was expecting some sort of 'Hostel'-like situation, like the horror movies."
- illustriousocelot_
Talk About Inconsiderate
"I worked at a ski resort for a few years. One guy s**t his pants while out riding or on the lift, came into the restaurant to clean up, and left his s**t pants on the coat hanger in the bathroom."
"A coworker had someone write 'poop' on the bathroom wall in poop. No idea why someone would do that."
- W3R3Hamster
So Tragic
"My uncle died of a heart attack while staying in a hotel."
"His cousin couldn’t get ahold of him on his cell, so he went to the hotel (my uncle was a construction manager for his cousin and was at a job location, so his cousin knew exactly where he was staying)."
"The front desk opened the room for him, and they found my uncle in the bathroom, which was long gone."
"It made me think about how many dead people are seen by hotel staff."
- NearbyHorror
That Poor Kid
"I worked at The Canyons in Park City as a lifty for a winter. I worked the base lifts, including the gondola, and one day was working the top."
"At the lift across from the top of the Gondola (Saddleback), I was randomly just watching mid-day as it calmed down and saw a woman and her kid hop on. I thought nothing of it obviously."
"A few minutes later, the lift stopped and didn’t start spinning for 15 to 20 minutes. During this time, a ton of patrollers on sleds came ripping up under the lift."
"Came to find out that the woman had a seizure on the way up, didn’t have the bar down, and fell off. She died instantly while her kid watched. The patrollers got there as soon as they could, but there was nothing they could do."
"I will never forget helping the crying kid on the Gondola to down-load with the patrollers. I am not epileptic or anything, but I always put my bar down because of this now. You never know, man. I still think about it frequently during the winter and it’s been over 10 years."
- ClunkiestSquid
Such A Bad Look
"I worked as a maid, and shift managers steal room tips."
- Hour_Basil5970
"What should I do to prevent this? Take the envelope to the inside of the toilet lid, so only the cleaner will see it?"
- Pleighthe
"Leave the tip under the pillow or inside the pillowcase."
- Hour_Basil5970
So Inconsiderate
"I worked in the kitchen of a resort, and I also managed the dining hall. We served food buffet style."
"I watched a mother let her kids 'attempt' to serve themselves, and she let her kid stick his hand in a container of cheese. Then he dropped his tray of food all over the floor, and the mother said nothing about it. I had to find out myself, SMH (shaking my head)."
- Clorox_disinfectant
An Emotional Rollercoaster
"I worked as a representative in Gran Canaria for a couple of seasons. Over New Year's, two of us were asked to go visit a guest in the capital’s hospital. She’d been airlifted in from a neighboring island. Honestly, I can’t remember why; this was 25 years ago, but I think it was her appendix. Whatever it was, it was obviously bad."
"After a few days, Hospital staff, in broken English, told her ‘Your fiancé is coming in!’ She was so excited to see him, grateful he’d been able to get over to visit."
"But as it turns out, he was coming in his own air ambulance. He’d slipped on the hotel lobby’s marble floor and hit his head, losing consciousness. He died two days later. That’s when we were asked to visit."
"She was such a champ. We didn’t know what to expect, but she was holding it together, a typical Englishwoman, worried about everyone else."
"Her only complaint/lament was that she didn’t have her glasses. I remember thinking ‘Christ, all this and you can’t even see.'"
"I suspect she must have had a huge emotional crash somewhere down the line. I think of her often, and hope she’s doing okay."
- Kits_72
Collateral Damage Kids
"I work at Disney World in Recreation (pool greeter so I’m always at the pool area). My coordinator told me one day a couple came into our resort (Riverside) to swim and drink and they brought the kids along, so I should keep an eye on them."
"Throughout the day, the parents got drunker and drunker until they started fighting and screaming at each other. Security and cops were called, and they started freaking out and fled."
"They forgot the kids."
"One of the parents ended up at Old Key West and the other at Disney Springs before they both got arrested."
- Bkbee
Putting The Dirty In 'Dirty Dancing'
"Not me, but I knew a guy in the 'entertainment' team at a popular UK family chain resort who was basically an evil version of Patrick Swayze in 'Dirty Dancing.'"
"He specialized in seducing unhappy housewives. So many marriages destroyed."
- fulthrottlejazzhands
The Wildest Of Parties
"As a very young man (too young), I used to work at a camping site in the south of Sweden, for the 'midsummer festivals.' There are probably not many f**ked up things that I haven't seen."
"They used to leave their vehicles upside down, burning, when they left the premises. It looked like a war zone. It WAS a war zone."
- stereospeakers
"I went to Roskilde festival one summer in Denmark. I was amazed at the EXPECTED disaster that was left behind."
"By the official design of the organizers, there were zero trash bins or recycle bins. You were supposed to drop your garbage wherever you wanted."
"Employees (or people who got free tickets into the festival in exchange) went around and picked up specific trash. A guy would walk past piles of trash with his trash bag and only pick up little bits of blue plastic. He would leave everything else and only get blue plastic bits. He was the blue plastic guy. Someone else? Red plastic. Someone else? Only green glass bottles, etc"
" And the entirety of the attendees left everything they brought including all the camping gear. Tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, tarps, sunglasses, hats, shoes, everything... just left."
"Eventually, I realized that people dropped everything they had, including money. So if I wanted a beer, I'd just walk around until I found a couple of Euros and I'd go buy a beer. I found tons of unopened food throughout the festival: a giant box of licorice, canned food, drinks, money, everything. It was a free-for-all. I ate and drank well."
"Apparently, every year for a long time leading up to that summer it rained and people expected to just lose everything in the mud. The year I was there, it was dry but the behavior was the same. Wild."
- jaxxon
Coatimundi Interactions
"I didn't work at one, but I was enjoying lunch at an outside table in a resort in Puerto Morales when a Coatimundi jumped up on the table of four next to me and just started eating their lunch. Everyone had a few drinks in them so there was mostly laughter."
- lespaulstrat2
"Omg (oh my god), these guys are so raccoon-like! Or like raccoon mixed with monkey."
"I had to change a tampon while hiking in Costa Rica, so I stepped off the trail and grabbed a new tampon out of my backpack, and as I was opening the plastic wrapper, a Coati ran at me out of nowhere, jumped onto the rock I'd been planning to lean against, and tried to pull the tampon out of my hands!"
"I had no clue what it was, screamed, the rest of my group bravely rushed in to help, and ended up almost peeing their pants laughing."
"Apparently, Coatis are super tuned in to the sound of crinkling plastic wrappers as people freely feed them snacks on the trail. They're awfully cute, though."
- monstera_garden
People have a tendency to "let their hair down," relax, and behave in ways they usually wouldn't when they visit a hotel or a resort, so it's safe to assume that they've seen some things.
But some of these stories were truly heartbreaking and appalling, and they feel like stories that would absolutely stay with you, especially when you're on the clock and expected to stick around.