Hotel pilferers set their sights on MATTRESSES as five-star establishments find luxury 'rain-effect' showers, TVs and artwork are also vanishing along with their bathrobes
by Ed Riley For Mailonline- Hotel guests are now stealing mattresses from five star hotels, a survey reveals
- The beds are filled with so much technology that they are a target for thieves
- Researchers found they go missing at night, at hotels with lift to the car park
- Other items to go missing include TV's, shower heads, artwork, coffee makers
Guests are now stealing mattresses from five star hotels, along with televisions, shower heads, artwork and coffee makers.
The luxury beds are worth so much and are filled with so much technology that they have become a target for thieves, a survey has revealed.
Researchers said that the difficulty of walking past a reception desk with a super-kingsize means that most mattresses go missing at night, in hotels that have lifts directly serving underground car parks.
Mattresses with memory foam or temperature controls means many hotels are selling rooms on the comfort of their beds, some of which cost thousands of pounds.
It is unclear whether the mattresses were being replaced with old ones to make discovery of the crime less immediately likely, The Times reports.
The study found that five-star hotels were eight times more likely to have their mattresses stolen than four-star hotels.
They are not the only unlikely items to go missing. Luxury bathroom fittings, such as 'rain effect' shower heads, have been unscrewed.
Televisions, artwork and coffee-makers have all disappeared too.
One Austrian Spa hotel had a pine bench stolen from a guest's private sauna. In Italy a hotel reported that a grand piano had been taken from its lobby.
The owner said: 'I noticed that something was missing, and soon after I learnt that three unknown men in overalls had taken away the grand piano. It never reappeared.'
The survey was carried out with 1,157 hoteliers by Wellness Heaven, the Spa hotel review website.
It found that British guests were generally less ambitious in their crimes and were most likely to steal towels, bathrobes and toiletries.