Skinny dipping? Stealing? Travelers do these things -- and worse -- on vacay. Do you?
Breakfast buffets are tempting, maybe too tempting. In a survey, 60% of travelers say they’ve taken food from their hotel spread.
Spend two seconds on social media and you’ll see endless tweets about travelers behaving badly. But what do people fess up to doing when they’re asked about their naughty ways?
Travel booking website Hipmunk asked 1,000 of its travelers about the worst things they do when they’re on the road.
For hotel guests, 60% say they stole food from the breakfast buffet, 37% sneaked an extra guest into their room (without paying), 29% took toiletries from the housecleaning cart and 17% sneaked into a hotel to use the pool.
And 7% -- exclamation points here! -- have gone skinny-dipping in a hotel pool. Really, people?
On airplanes, 54% of passengers say they recline their seats, which is fine if you’re in first class but not so fine if you’re in economy.
Also 18% say they get up when the seat belt sign is on, and 6% say they get on the plane before their boarding group is called.
Others say they act differently when they’re abroad too. Twelve percent say they do drugs in countries where it’s legal, and 23% imbibe when they’re younger than 21.
Hipmunk conducted its travel habits survey July 7-Aug. 26.
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