Every year some research company or other compiles an amusing list of the oddities guests leave behind in hotel rooms-ranging from glass eyes to false legs (yes, just how do they walk out of there?)
But The Rat thinks the award for most incredulous item ever to be left behind, must go to The Jumeirah's Carlton Tower hotel. A few years ago a guest tried to use the safe in her room but found it locked.
After alerting the staff who broke into it, the group were astonished to find the rather immodest sum of $1 million nestling inside. The hotel staff managed to contact the gentleman who was previously in the room- who was in no way dodgy- who came back and calmly collected the larger than average wedge.
The Rat would like to have been a fly on the wall when he was explaining that one back at the ranch...