Harry Grieve and Kim Hutchison said their experience had been worrying
A couple woke to find a shirtless man in their hotel bedroom after he was mistakenly given a key card to their door, BBC Scotland News has learned.
Kim Hutchison, 60, and Harry Grieve, 57, from Buckie, Moray, were staying in a Travelodge in Dundee when the early morning incident happened last month.
Hutchison said she was "petrified" before the man – wearing just shorts – left after about a minute of arguing over who was actually in the wrong room.
Travelodge apologised to the couple and said room access security policies were not correctly followed. It is the latest in a series of similar incidents at Travelodge hotels reported to the BBC.
Earlier this year, a man was jailed for sexually assaulting a woman in her hotel bed after Travelodge staff gave him a key card and her room number.
Kyran Smith had gone to the reception of the Maidenhead branch of the hotel chain in the early hours in December 2022 and said he was the woman's boyfriend.
Travelodge later said it was investigating more reports of strangers accessing rooms – after two women told the BBC that people they did not know came into their rooms while they were alone.
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Hutchison and Grieve contacted BBC Your Voice to share their story.
The couple had been visiting relatives in Dundee and had gone to bed at the Strathmore Avenue branch of Travelodge.
The incident happened after 02:00 on Saturday 11 July.
"I just woke up, I had heard the door click, and sat up in bed," Hutchison said.
"Here was a guy at the bottom of the bed, just standing with shorts on. He had something in his hand which I took to be the key card for the room."