Patrick, are you a PI? LOL Maybe the razor blade fell out of the suitcase that was sitting on the bed or something like that. I think it would be really helpful if we could all find out which hotel this was and where it was!! Wagonwheel, can you tell us that? ***kim***

I don't know Kim, who really travels with a straight razor anymore? Not very many people. I'm with Patrick I think it was used for illicit purposes. Given the fact that it could have had who knows what kind of creepy crawly crud on it, I think the management should have given you more than 1/2 off. JMHO.

"when I got up out of bed, stepped on something very sharp, which was hidden under bedskirt."

Will someone else run this test? Try to get out of your bed in a manner where your foot ends up under it--without falling down, that is. Even if you crawl out backwards, your shin smacks the frame and your foot still doesn't end up under the bed. If you exit normally, it's impossible. I just tried...twice! LOL

No offense wagonwheel, it's the ex-claims adjuster in me I'm afraid--after a while you get very jaded, I'm sorry to say.

Patrick you are Brilliant! or should I say , Inspector Patrick :)

OO, I tried the test, my heels do not stick under the bed backwards, I have to be facing the bed.

Martha, to err is human or some such nonsense:D It is only a Smiley .. and nothing happened so how inappropriate could it be? Now if you did the smiley while you asked if the OP was bleeding profusely, then I would wonder about you ~
Scarlett , light & fluffy

We just returned from a trip and at one of the restaurants, a HUGE 1.5-inch beetle crawled out from under my DH's plate. We were grossed out and laughing at the same time, yet we didn't even get a free drink, by golly! I feel I was cheated. Hmmm...

Back to the razor... I think it might have been used for drugs, too. Not that I'm that kind of gal or ever have been, but I've seen it. :-O

(Hopefully, my smiley will be approp this time.)

Good smiley retort, Martha.

The detective work on this post is phenomenal. To say nothing of the insider knowledge of the drug industry.

Hey, Wagonwheel! How ya' set for blades? I'm still on your side. A razor left on the floor in a hotel is not exactly a small thing to overlook.

D.C.I. Bonniebroad says the bedskirt must have tended to be too large for the bed, was protruding OUT with the razor blade half-under/half-out of it, and when the OP's foot hit the floor...... there it was. I don't think she meant her foot went UNDER the bed. The bedskirt was flaring out........ JMO! ;;) I vote on the side of hanky-panky, by the way! :-d

Oh Patrick, far be it from me to steal the thunder from your switch, but: no one would use a "very dirty" razor blade to cut cocaine. At least, no druggie who could afford to stay in a hotel suite would. It was a great theory while it lasted, though...I vote for the carper layer idea, myself.

And as for looking under the bed in a hotel room, same rule applies as to looking through a keyhole: be prepared for what you may see! We've pulled our cats out from under many a motel bed (no fancy suites for them so far), and while some "unders" were gratifyingly clean, others...well, I was glad I saw them the morning we checked out, rather than the night before!

Do you people think it's impossible to get your foot under a bedskirt after a birthday party with a catered dinner and Wagon didn't tell us how many birthday drinks. Try to think "crawled out of bed" or "fell out". Clear now?

Faina LOL

Come on wagon, tell us which hotel this happened in. Please save the rest of us travelers from razor cuts with potential diseases on them.

It never happened. Men do not use individual blades anymore. They use disposable blades which are attached to plastic handles. Carpet people use a completely different kind of blade which is much larger and held in a metal handle.

My husband still uses a straight razor; he hates safety razors. Last year, Salt Lake City Airport security seized the razor commenting "I didn't know people still used these". For our trip to Hawaii, my husband simply packed his razor in his checked in luggage. Since we have never had strange people knocking at our home or hotel doors, I have to assume my husband really does prefer straight razors instead of having a Secret Life as a Cocaine Kingpin.

Lawsy who goes to the trouble to use a razor blade to cut cocaine lines?

You can't fly with them in your carryon because they will raise suspicion and the next thing you know they've found your stash.

I like to cut lines with my credit card. Works exactly the same.

this is a good one!!

But don't painters use razors when they're scraping off windows? Or is that only the painter guys who are too cheap to buy the blue window masking tape?

What would I have done? Probably I'd have forgotten it since there was no injury and I'd have thanked them very nicely for cutting my room rate in half.

Presumably any blood on this razor blade would be old and would not be capable of transmitting anything. But otherwise, I would be wondering if it was advisable to start a course of specific medication as a prophylactic measure against AIDS, like health care professionals do when they are accidentally jabbed with a needle. In addition, hepatitis or other bloodborne diseases would be a possible concern. Testing by itself would not do any good against possible infection. This is an issue that is of occasional concern in this area because children regularly find needles used by heroin addicts on the ground.

Yeesh, I can't believe I'm still thinking about this--small things amuse small minds, clearly. But jor, I beg to differ--carpet layers do use straight razor blades that fit into those metal handles and can therefore be replaced when they get dull. And hotels are always replacing small pieces of stained carpet: they cut out the stained part and replace it with a new square, then use heat to fuse the edges. My money is still on the carpet layers!! And after that brilliant piece of deductive reasoning, so should yours be!!

I still cringe when someone mentions the room rate being CUT in half :)

I would definately write the letter and put the hotel on notice - more than just taking the discount. You don't have to ask for any further compensation at this time but you do want to document the incident. You never know in a year or two if this will come in handy should you have a health problem and need to take legal action.

On a recent hotel stay I found a pair of undies hanging on the hook on the door in the bathroom. Yuckkkkkkkkk!!!!! But the fruit basket from the hotel manager was nice as well as the free night. ;-) Sign of a good hotel - one that fixes its mistakes quickly and satisfactorily.

OK, so I missed the line about the razor blade being very dirty.

But aren't some of us getting just a bit carried away.
Document it -- put them on notice --legal action -- in case of some future health problem.

Folks didn't we all read it? -- It never even punctured the skin!

And why do we need to know what hotel? It's not like there's any reason to think this is a daily event there, or even that ever happened before or will ever happen again. Now I know why malpractice insurance is so high. I think people are often looking for blame when there is nothing to blame anyone for. To paraphrase a familiar saying: razor blades happen.

Documenting something does not put one on legal notice. It merely makes it official.

If you CC to your attorney, Patrick, then it becomes another matter.

I agree, we don't need to drag the hotel through the mud, but nor do we need to (Scarlett) cut them some slack (hoho).

GoTravel, when you use your credit card instead of your razor, do you get extra FF miles?