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A hotel thief is someone who steals items from the rooms of guests at a hotel. Several factors may attract a thief to a hotel. Rooms are generally empty for most of the day, with few hiding places for valuable possessions outside of a hotel's safe, which not all guests make use of. Furthermore, it is comparatively easy for a thief to leave a hotel without arousing suspicion, as guests are continually coming and going with luggage.

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  • A hotel thief is someone who steals items from the rooms of guests at a hotel. Several factors may attract a thief to a hotel. Rooms are generally empty for most of the day, with few hiding places for valuable possessions outside of a hotel's safe, which not all guests make use of. Furthermore, it is comparatively easy for a thief to leave a hotel without arousing suspicion, as guests are continually coming and going with luggage. Although hotel room security has improved, with more advanced locks, this has not eradicated hotel theft. A thief can enter a room without needing to pick a lock, for example by pretending to be a guest who has left their key in their room. Items can also be taken while a guest is distracted, for example when checking in. One of the most prolific hotel thieves was , who stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewels from hotels in New York City in the early part of the twentieth century, including taking $8000 worth from a room at the . Another nineteenth-century hotel thief successfully stole $60,000 worth of gold dust from a San Francisco hotel. Hotel guests can be considered as hotel thieves as well. CNN reported on a survey of 1,157 four- and five-star hoteliers, which items are stolen the most by guests. An astonishing 49 hotels reported that mattresses had been stolen from their premises. (en)
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  • A hotel thief is someone who steals items from the rooms of guests at a hotel. Several factors may attract a thief to a hotel. Rooms are generally empty for most of the day, with few hiding places for valuable possessions outside of a hotel's safe, which not all guests make use of. Furthermore, it is comparatively easy for a thief to leave a hotel without arousing suspicion, as guests are continually coming and going with luggage. (en)
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  • Hotel thief (en)
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