Anyone have any idea if hotels would be insured for these types of things?
Had a similar experience 18 months ago Bull. Although I was in London and had no insurance anyway, but it seems as though the hotel can easily avoid liability.
In my case we got back to the hotel after the pub shut at the ridiculous hour of 11, peeed it up in the bar for 4 hours with some fat scottish chicks, an escort who was escorting some old couple around town (weird). Anyway I've bought a bottle of champers, gone up with the escort to her room at 4 am, failed miserably, thought better of knocking on the fat scots' door and gone back to our room, which had a faulty door and didn't lock and shut properly (also I was ratarssed).
Wake up around an hour later and some chick is standing over me. All three of us in the room woke up and are like "who the farckk are u?".
Chick: I'm the manager, this room has been double booked, you'll have to get out now
Me (dazed): What? Us, lets go guys we gotta get out.
Mate: Jake shut the f*** up. You'll have to get the police if you want us out
Chick: I've called the police, this room has been double booked and you have to get out NOW
Me: Goin' back to sleep. Come back in an hour.
Mate: Jake shut the f*** up. We'll wait for the police
Chick: I work for the police. I'm from CID. Get out now the manager has asked me to evict you
Mate: I thought you were the manager
*Jake looks chick up and down and the penny drops - she's wearing trainers, jeans and a hooded top - obviously mufty day down CID way. Plus, she is standing on my wallett and trying to hide it with he foot and drag it back along the floor*
Chick (backpedalling rapidly): Look we are staying at this hotel and this is our room and you guys are meant to be in another one so can you please get out NOW the manager has asked us to do it for her.
Mate: I'm calling the police. *Picks up phone and dials 999, but doesnt dial external first so it gets through to reception at which point my mate speaks to the real manager and asks him to come up*
Male voice outside room: "Lets go babe I think we've got the wrong room'
Manager comes up and they try to talk their way out of it, but the manager has quite rightly called the police. They do a runner but the cops find them not long later.
We spend about 4 hours the next day helping the police with their reports and all of that. Bear in mind that this is the one day that one of my mates was passing thru London and a good deal of it was spent with the police due to a dodgy hotel door. My two mates needed accomodation and the hotel charged them full price for that night so basically they don't give a fvk.
Funny thing was the trial was scheduled for xmas 2004, and I was coming back to Oz. The cops offered to fly me back to the UK especially for the trial as the two alleged thieves were drug addicts who were thought responsible for a number of petty thefts in the area. So a similar experience, but I was a whole lot luckier. Either way, the police were great and the hotel a bunch of prix.
