Mobile phones, passports, toothbrushes and house keys are among the most common items left behind by guests in hotel rooms.

A worldwide hotels survey carried out by href="http://www.lastminute.ie/">lastminute.com also found that bags of cash, spouses and snakes were other unsuspecting items that guests has forgotten.

Hotels in Prague and Brussels reported that wives had been left behind after accompanying their husbands on business trips.

The men had casually headed to the airport following the morning meeting only to leave their spouses asleep in the hotel rooms.