I read (and who knows if it was true) that the housekeeping personnel were in the room twice. Isn’t it a shame we cannot rely on ANYTHING we are seeing or reading ... what a shame.
I think the problem there could be that there were two rooms. He could have stashed all of his stuff in one room and called down to cancel all housekeeping on that room. Housekeeping might have gone in the other room. But you are right, who knows what is true in all of this?