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I was asking myself, how would I steal a mattress in a hotel?

Probably buying a new one, the cheapest for the size, I will exchange packaging, make the bed and... profit?

How long till the staff detect it?

Open a window, have your friend waiting down below ready to catch it?

You can open a window in a hotel?

Like many other things, it depends on some combination of which hotel you're staying in and where you are in the world. There are plenty of places that would be suffocating if you couldn't open a window.

That said, if this were my mattress theft scheme I'd probably prefer to source a suite that had a usable balcony rather than worry about the windows.

And then use a pulley to pull up the replacement one?

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