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A tourist from China said that she was slapped with a "massive" 200 Singapore Dollars (about 1,115 yuan) cleaning fee after she brought and ate a durian in a hotel room where she was staying in Singapore.
The woman took to LittleRedBook (Xiaohongshu) to warn others so they don’t end up making the same costly mistake.
The tourist recounted that she and her friend had bought durian from a vendor’s stall, however, they could not eat the fruit at the stall, as there were no available seats in the area. Therefore, after the vendor packed up the fruit in a styrofoam box, they took it back to the hotel to devour it there.
On the taxi ride back to the hotel, her friend told her that she could smell the fruit, despite it being in the box. Out of concern for the taxi driver, she tied the plastic bag more tightly around the box.
The cab driver did not complain about the smell, and the tourist added that she was able to enjoy the fruit at the hotel later that night.
The next day, after she returned to the hotel from a tour around the city, she found a letter that the hotel management had left in her room, informing her that the housekeeping staff had detected the smell of durian in her room, for which the hotel would charge a S$200 cleaning fee.
She said in the video post that she and her friend were stunned at the charge and could hardly believe it.
“S$200 is about 1,000 RMB,” she said in her video.
She then went online to check whether others had been in the same situation as hers and found out that many people, like herself, were unaware that they were not allowed to bring durian into their hotel rooms.
While she acknowledged to the staff that she had been wrong in bringing and eating durian into her room, she asked for a discount on the cleaning fee, having found out that other tourists had been successful in getting this fee waived.
The hotel, however, told her that they needed to engage professional cleaning services and that the room would not be usable for some days until the pungent smell of durian dissipated.
She ended her video with a warning to other tourists against bringing durians into hotel rooms in Singapore.
Netizens, however, said that the tourist could have used some common sense.
“Is she traveling for the first time? Other hotels in the region also prohibit durian in their rooms,” commented one user.
Source: LittleRedBook (XiaoHongShu)
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