{"id":541269,"date":"2026-04-20T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:53:10","slug":"lincoln-travelodge-gave-stranger-key-to-couples-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541269\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Travelodge gave stranger key to couple’s room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adamson followed the man down to reception to make a complaint. <\/p>\n

She said: “The people on reception said, all we can say is we’re really sorry, accidents happen, and they were quite dismissive of it.”<\/p>\n

But she questioned how the mistake could have happened, given widespread reporting of security breaches in the press.<\/p>\n

In March this year, Travelodge said it had made “immediate changes” to its door key policy<\/a> after a hotel guest was sexually assaulted by a man who was given a key card to her room.<\/p>\n

Kyran Smith, 29, from Staines, Surrey, was jailed in February<\/a> for seven-and-a-half years following the attack at a Travelodge in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in December 2022.<\/p>\n

Since then, dozens of people have contacted the BBC<\/a> to describe experiences that they believe expose “industry-wide failings” in UK hotel room security, including at Travelodge.<\/p>\n

On 30 March, Jo Boydell, CEO of Travelodge, said: “We’re working really really hard to make sure that we get this right going forwards.”<\/p>\n

Adamson said: “I would have thought after all this time they would have done something to put it right.<\/p>\n

“My worry is if it happens to someone else who is alone in a room, because there doesn’t seem to be the security checks in place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adamson followed the man down to reception to make a complaint. She said: “The people on reception said,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}