Look, we’ve already established that hidden extras on holiday can really go either way. Sometimes you’re finding a buncha cash stashed away in the microwave of your hostel and sometimes your shower nozzle hides a humble family of cockroaches just trying to get by.
So when we teamed up with Travel Money Oz to challenge folk to share the best hidden extra they’d ever come across, we were… well… surprised, at some of the answers. Because holy heck there were some very strange extras hidden about the globe.
Here’s a list of 18 utterly bizarre hidden extras that the good folk of the world have stumbled upon while travelling their little hearts away.
1. Most notable was a hidden extra, but not a good one. In a hostel in Shanghai, I felt like tea. Opened the kettle and there was a poop in there. A POOP. – Coco
2. I found a secret safe under the floor tiles of my aunt’s lounge room. She didn’t know it existed. It had two locks of hair inside. – Laura-Jean
3. Chewing gum in my hair in a Buenos Aires hostel! Had a WTF moment cutting it out of my hair with nail clippers at 2am. – Rowan
4. A bird pooped in my ex’s shoe when we were walking through SeaWorld. It was the best. – Amy
5. I found a relative who grew up in my hometown on a mountain side in Interlaken, Switzerland while being suited up for a paraglide. – Alyce
6. I had a Kris Kringle in India where I was unfortunately gifted a pair of old dentures. Not the easiest item to explain to customs. – Timothy
7. I got lost in Paris when I was 19 and found the most incredible blue glitter stiletto Abba boots in a cobbled street alley way. – Christina
8. Woke up in a German hostel to an older lady in her undies, one leg propped on my bed so she could shave her legs. – Elizabeth
9. I got an extra lil’ hostel shower once when the guy in the bunkbed above me wet the bed while drunk. Not ideal! – Bronte
10. An angelic roll of toilet paper in the bottom of my bag while ‘uncontrollably squatting’ on the side of the street in Rajasthan, India. – Orlando
11. Went for an ultrasound and found I have four fully functioning kidneys. So not one but two hidden extras. Lucky I’m an organ donor. – Annamaree
12. Needles in strawberries is so 2018. Ever had an accidental worm in a cocktail in Bali? – Ben
13. I won a $1300 trivia jackpot in Canada for knowing the lyrics to a John Farnham song. – Hannah
14. Last year in a seedy Mexican hostel, I was horrified to discover a huge (and hostile) iguana in the showers. It bit my big toe! – Melanie
15. On a flight I asked to borrow this guy’s pen. When I was done, he said “just keep it”. It was a $1,200 Rolex pen. – Lee
16. Staying in a hotel in Koh Samui and ended up tripping the secret floorboard to find bootleg alcohol stashed underneath the surface – Jarrod
17. Family holiday: mum discovered what she thought was dried milk on the bedhead. She scratched at the ‘milk’, manager upgraded us to the presidential suite. – Connor
18. I found out that the hostel in was staying in only had shared baths – as in everyone in the same bath at the same time. – Jenna
In all seriousness, these hidden extras are cooked. Utterly bizarre. So yes, we’re obsessed with each and every one of them.
If you’re looking to go gallivanting all over the world on holiday you’re probs going to want to make sure you avoid all the dodgy extras too, including on your travel money. Think about changing all your cash before you go, ‘coz Travel Money Oz don’t have any hidden extras, or fees and commissions on their cash.
Then just hope that you don’t encounter any stray iguanas or poop, and you’re fine really.
Cheerin’.
