‘Pity the cleaner’: naked Chinese couple furious over what window washer saw when they opened curtains of their deluxe hotel room
- Angry couple paid US$240 for one-night at luxury hotel with river view in top-tier city but it was the window cleaner who got an eyeful
- Under-fire hotel staff tell couple it is impossible to give a precise time for window washing due to factors such as weather
A man has complained to a luxury hotel in China after he and his girlfriend – who were both naked – opened the curtains of their 41st-floor room to find a window cleaner staring back.
The man, surnamed Xu, spent 1,649 yuan (US$240) for one night in the deluxe, river-view room with his girlfriend at the five-star Hangzhou Conrad Hotel in China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang on March 6.
Xu said they were shocked to open the curtains the next morning unclothed and be confronted by the view of a window cleaner instead of the river, the Shanghai Morning Post reported on March 20.
Xu said he demanded the hotel apologise for not notifying them about the times of window cleaning in advance, refund their hotel expenses and compensate for the emotional damage they suffered.
The hotel suggested they stay for another two days while staff dealt with their complaint. However, Xu said no hotel executives visited them after two days and they had to pay for the extra nights.
A public relations staff member of Conrad Hangzhou, surnamed Zhong, said they couldn’t gauge the exact time of window cleaning due to uncontrollable factors such as the weather.
