‘Creepy’ hotel receptionist caught sniffing and stealing woman’s knickers

This is the moment a hotel receptionist seemingly snuck into a woman’s room to sniff and steal a pair of her underwear.

Rara Armstrong, 39, stayed at a hotel in Benidorm, Spain, for five days with her 11-year-old son in May.

But an ‘overly-friendly’ staff member allegedly found her OnlyFans account by looking at her booking data and ‘inappropriately’ asked for her number and to take her for a coffee the night they checked in.

He even messaged her a few hours later on OnlyFans which ‘creeped out’ the self-employed model. He told the Gloucester, Gloucestershire, local she was too ‘sexy’ for him to resist.

After telling her he recognised her, Rara said: ‘I was like, “oh have you seen me at the airport or somewhere?” and he said “yeah, you’re in the hotel where I work” and I thought: “Oh my god.” He was [looking me up] online.

‘I said, “This is making me really uncomfortable and it’s really unprofessional, I’m here with my son and this isn’t acceptable,” and he was like: “Oh I’m so sorry, please don’t tell anyone.”‘

She asked him to ‘leave her alone’ before allegedly entering her and her son’s room on May 30, the last day of their trip, while they were out to leave Rara a bottle of prosecco.

Set to go out again for the evening, Rara set up her son’s iPad facing the door and just 15 minutes later caught the staffer letting himself into her room again.

‘It made me feel horrible, I felt so violated. I was there with my son and this man was meant to be [a member of] staff,’ Rara said.

‘He basically comes in and he starts going through my stuff. He goes off-camera and there’s a rustling.

‘He went through my laundry bag and got a thong that I’d worn and started sniffing them.

‘It just happened to be right in the camera which is why so many people are saying it’s fake, but it’s not. It’s why I posted it because it’s so surreal.

‘He sniffed them a few times. He carries on snooping, I don’t know what he was looking for. As he leaves, he sniffs them again and puts them in his back pocket.

‌’It was crazy. I wasn’t expecting something like that.’

Coming back to their room at about 11.30pm and discovering this, Rara decided to check out early and book another hotel in the coastal Racó de l’Oix neighbourhood.

The hotel declined to comment.

Rara did not report the incident immediately to Spanish police – ‘we were leaving [the next morning] anyway,’ she recalled – and the hotel has refused to issue her a refund because of this, she claimed.

‘It’s been a real nightmare getting any sort of justice from it,’ she said, adding that she has still been unable to report it to the force.

‘My advice to others would just be to be really vigilant. If someone is being creepy towards you, report them straight away. Maybe carry a door lock protection or something.

‘And maybe record your room, that seems to be a good thing to do so then you have evidence and the hotel can’t deny that it’s happened.’

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