The guest, a 46-year-old married father from Anaheim, California, was staying at the hotel during airline training on Aug. 29, 2025. He woke around 2:30 a.m. to a commotion and saw bats circling the room at the largest hotel in the city with more than 1,200 rooms, according to CBS Colorado, which reviewed the lawsuit and the medical bills.
Hotel maintenance came up and cleared out some of the bats but missed at least one, his attorney, Ed Lomena, told the station. The hotel did not move him to another room.
Spotting a gap beneath the air-conditioning unit that he believed the bats had used to get in, the pilot jammed a towel into it and fell back asleep, the complaint states.
In the morning he found another bat hanging from the curtain rod. He filmed it and called Denver Animal Control, which took the animal away for rabies testing.
Denver Animal Protection had warned a month earlier that two rabid bats turned up in the city in July 2025, CBS Colorado reported.
