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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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When you go on vacation, all you want to do is check into a fancy hotel and let the bed, pool, and bellhops help you to forget about your life’s worries. However, hotels aren’t all about fresh linens and room service. Turns out, the hospitality industry is hiding some incredibly dark and straight-up bizarre secrets from their guests. So, today, we’re going to remove our ‘do not disturb’ signs and ruin all of our future vacations, as we check in and check out thieving cleaners, sickening stains and even an international secret society. Let’s unveil the secrets hotels don’t want you to know!
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| 0:00.0 | When you go on vacation, all you want to do is check into a fancy hotel and let the bed, pool, |
| 0:05.3 | and bell hubs help you to forget about your life's worries. |
| 0:09.8 | However, hotels aren't all about fresh linens and room service. |
| 0:13.4 | Turns out the hospitality industry is hiding some incredibly dark and straight-up bizarre secrets |
| 0:18.9 | from their guests. |
| 0:20.4 | So today, we're going to remove our do not disturb signs and ruin all of our future |
| 0:25.4 | vacations as we check in and check out thieving cleaners, sickening stains, and even an |
| 0:31.0 | international secret society. |
| 0:33.9 | Let's unveil the Secrets Hotels don't want you to know. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening to be amazed. With delayed flights, turbulence, and airplane food, going on vacation can be a pretty stressful experience. |
| 0:58.0 | So when you finally arrive at your destination, there's no better feeling than checking into your hotel room and finally sliding into some clean bed sheets. |
| 1:07.0 | Unfortunately, these freshly clean linens might be hiding something sinister and much more |
| 1:12.4 | common than most folks assume. |
| 1:14.8 | You could be unknowingly snuggling up to some unwanted bed mates. |
| 1:21.2 | Every year, over 80% of hotels will deal with a bed bug infestation, as their rooms |
| 1:26.5 | get taken over by a swarm of the blood-sucking insects. |
| 1:30.3 | Whether you're staying in a grimy motel room or a penthouse suite, the average hotel will face around seven infestations every five years, so nobody is safe. |
| 1:41.3 | These infestations can consist of up to 500 insects, but unfortunately, they can be incredibly hard to find. |
| 1:50.0 | Bedbugs hide from the light in any available cracks and crevices surrounding the bed, headboard, or in the seams of mattresses, and typically only come out at night to feed. |
| 1:59.0 | Their main calling card is when a guest wakes up in the morning covered in painful, itchy bites. |
| 2:05.6 | If you're unlucky enough to stay in a bedbug infested room, the critters might end up ruining more than your vacation. |
| 2:11.6 | We're all guilty of stealing little bottles of shampoo at the end of our vacations, |
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