Harry Grieve and Kim Hutchison said their experience had been worrying<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Travelodge probes further room access reports<\/p>\n
Travelodge staff gave attacker key to woman's room<\/p>\n
Hutchison and Grieve contacted BBC Your Voice to share their story.<\/p>\n
The couple had been visiting relatives in Dundee and had gone to bed at the Strathmore Avenue branch of Travelodge.<\/p>\n
The incident happened after 02:00 on Saturday 11 July.<\/p>\n
"I just woke up, I had heard the door click, and sat up in bed," Hutchison said.<\/p>\n
"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."<\/p>\n