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Put a "do not disturb" sign on your door, every hotel room has one.

I too don't like it when room service touches my stuff (it is a mess, but it is my mess!) - putting a DND sign on the doorknob and not removing it for the whole stay fixed that problem for me.

I travel for work approximately 120 nights per year, and have done so since 2011.

The number of times room service has barged into my room without my knowledge and/or permission can be counted on 0 fingers.

If this has happened to you you may want to reexamine what hotels you stay in because the only thing you have to do to not experience this, even if you forget to hang up the "Do Not Disturb" sign, is lock the deadbolt on your hotel room door.

Have you ever stayed at a hotel? Because that's not how it works.

Not an issue since COVID. Most hotels don't do any cleaning during your stay anymore unless you specifically request it or your stay is over a week.

If anything hotels have cut back on cleaning now so no one ever goes in.

And you can always physically lock the door

Don't worry about the cameras they may or may not tell you about then refuse to refund you when you find them.