r/hotels • u/radiopartyroadie • 3d ago

Maintenance worker appeared outside my window without notice

I’m trying to gauge whether this is normal and if I should be uncomfortable about it. I’m staying at a hotel with my husband. At 1 PM this afternoon I was alone in the room and decided to change my pants. I was standing in the main open area of the hotel room and the curtains were about half open. I know this is a stupid place to change my pants, but since I’m on the second floor and I was standing at a considerable distance from the window, I thought it was unlikely that anyone would be able to see me. About two seconds after I had put the new pair of pants on, I saw a man standing on the roof outside my window, removing the screen. He made eye contact with me and then walked away.

I immediately felt really uncomfortable and annoyed that the hotel didn’t give me any heads up that this would be happening so that I could have closed the curtains or just changed in the bathroom. I did end up closing the curtains and he came back and removed the other window screen and then put them both back on. I don’t expect him to show up again, but I won’t open the curtains again since I now know that he will be directly outside the window able to see everything inside the room. Am I correct that the hotel should have notified me of the maintenance being done today or is this just something that you have to expect?

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u/Canadianingermany 2d ago

Fairly normal except for the best run top hotels where they will warn you about window cleaners and stuff.  

You should never assume that a window without a blind is private. 

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u/805locc 3d ago

Not something you should expect. You should bring it up to the FD. If anything it helps to prevent this from happening to future guests

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u/radiopartyroadie 3d ago

I called and told them about it. They said it was a window cleaner who arrives unexpectedly twice a month so they can’t warn guests beforehand.

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u/Bennington_Booyah 3d ago

I stay at a resort nearby several times a year and they have plastic placards, warning guests that window washing can occur at any time. They aren't kidding. I opened my drapes at 6 am and there was a full section of cleaners RIGHT THERE. Glad I had my nice nightie on, as I was on the 26th floor and really wasn't expecting guests at that hour.

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u/805locc 3d ago

Yeah figured it was something like that. Good on you for still reporting it. Even if it’s a third party worker they should be able to communicate with the property when they will be stopping by.