AN ENORMOUS toy giraffe, a suitcase full of biscuits and a grandfather clock are among the most unusual items left at Travelodges in Bournemouth and Poole.

The hotel chain has released some of its most 'bizarre left behinds' in 2018 - and some visitors to the conurbation are likely to be too embarrassed to return to the lost and found office.

A case of Italian biscotti biscuits and a six-foot cuddly giraffe were left at the Bournemouth hotel. The owner of Harley Davidson motorbike somehow left the vehicle outside the Cooper Dean hotel last year, while a lifeboat and an artificial palm tree were left at the Travelodge on the seafront.

Visitors to the Poole branch left, variously, a grandfather clock, a canister of seawater, a framed photograph of Peppa Pig, a Persian rug and a signed Taylor Swift CD over the course of the past year.

One guest at Bath City Centre Travelodge left Joseph's Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat in his room. Luckily, the manager of the hotel personally took the coat to the theatre in time for the curtain call.

A chest of valuable semi-previous stones was left at the hotel in London Bank, while a Chinese businesswoman sent her PA to London Waterloo Travelodge to collect a rare bottle of vintage Champagne worth more than £1,000 that she had won at an auction and then forgotten to pack.

In November last year, the chain revealed their most unusual requests, including that of a Sandbanks resident who asked a member of staff at a Cornwall hotel if they could drive to Poole to check the house alarm was on.