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Old 10-11-2019, 04:54 PM   #41
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I wouldn’t blame the hotel. This is an employee problem and it could happen anywhere.
While it IS an employee problem, the hotel is the employer of the employee. Employees who regularly steal from guest's rooms, should be found out by the hotel, and terminated. With electronic card key entry on most hotel rooms today, it's easy to figure out who's entered a room. If employee "X" is consistently found to have entered rooms where thefts occurred, it would be easy to set up a sting and confirm whether it is them or not.

I had an employee who was was staying at well-known hotel in Guam, and his company laptop was stolen during the day. Today, I'd have him file a police report, and talk to hotel management.
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Old 10-11-2019, 07:22 PM   #42
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OP, what place did this happen to you? At a hotel or B&B? If the latter, I would like to know its name just in case I'll ever go to Paris (I'm not tempted myself but one of our kids would love to).

I would have been very upset with myself if I happened to forget and leave money at the hotel because I usually carry it along despite petty thieves around.
Like others said, just be happy that your passports didn't get stolen! I'm surprised that they didn't steal your GoPro.
It was in a hotel.

We were pretty upset with ourselves, but neither DW nor I spend too much time crying over spilled milk. It was a lesson learned. I'll be buying one of those passport/money holders that go around ones neck underneath the shirt and always carry it around.

I suspect they wouldn't steal something like a GoPro in the event they were to get caught with it and, upon inspection, the video/pictures on its memory card would show images of its rightful owner. It could also be because the GoPro was mounted on a gimbal and might have been too bulky to be inconspicuous. Cash, on the other hand...
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