Theft, lies and nudity: Travelers admit their worst on-the-road behavior
We're all reclining our seats too much and not skinny-dipping enough, according to a new travel behavior survey by metasearch engine Hipmunk. The poll analyzed 1,000 anonymous travelers' bad conduct, from stealing toiletries from the hotel housekeeping cart to dabbling in international drug use. (Oh hey, we remember our first trip to Amsterdam too).
The most widespread travel offense in Hipmunk's survey is pilfering the hotel breakfast bar, a crime to which 60 percent of respondents confessed, while brushing croissant crumbs from their guilty lips. Reclining one's airplane seat remains controversial and commonplace, with 54 percent of travelers admitting to that particular deed.
On the other hand, linen-tracking technology seems to have scared many of us straight: a mere 12 percent of those surveyed still steal hotel robes and towels. Ten percent have lied to receive a hotel upgrade. And only seven percent of respondents admitted to swimming au naturel in the hotel pool. Hipmunk pollsters, we salute your shorts. Or lack of shorts.
Hipmunk's full survey results include some transgressions that don't seem that bad, especially the 30% who admitted to eating non-FDA approved foods, "like some French cheeses." You ate a wedge of Roquefort? FOR SHAME! Unless you stole it from a hotel breakfast bar, which is obviously unforgivable.