Imagine this: you arrive at your hotel room in Spain and decide to crack open a bottle of cool white wine, only to realise the liquid inside isn’t wine at all, it’s someone’s pee.
You’re not Bear Grylls, you don’t want to drink that! So how the heck did it get in your mini bar?
Apparently, the above is a real scenario unfolding in hotels on Spain’s Costa Blanca as shady tourists refill their mini bar bottles with other liquids (cough, their own urine) to avoid paying for what they have consumed.
Now, hotels across the coast are taking a stand against it by banning minibars in hotel rooms.
Oh, and according to Hosbec, a hotel association for Costa Blanca and Benidorm, British tourists are among the biggest culprits for this unsavoury activity.
A spokesman for the group told local media: “It may seem ridiculous, but I can assure you it is true”.
“We have had people filling bottles with pee, and thank God that staff have always detected it.'”
Hosbec spokesman
A recent survey found that one-in-three tourists admitted having drunk bottles from the minibar and then refilled them with water or other liquids to avoid paying for them.
Other common bad guest behaviour includes stealing towels and sneaking undeclared guests into the room.
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