For starters, not my main account for obvious reasons.

I recently went on a road trip and booked a three day vacation to visit friends in a small city in Alberta. Check in went fine, and after spending the day with my friends I went back to my hotel room and noticed my key card to get into the room wasn’t working. I go down to the front desk and I was alerted by the clerk that they received a call from a little girl saying “mommy and daddy are in here doing drugs”. They said they traced the call back to our room, and they called the police as a child was involved. Staff let the police into m the room and they rummaged through my belongings and personal items. No search warrant was issued. No little girl was in my room, I have security footage of me at a friends house when this incident happened. Nobody else should have had access to my room. Also, I’m not sure if it was the clerk being nervous, but while explaining the situation, she stumbled on her words and said “the calls were traced back to room 537”. I said my room was 547, and she traced back and said 547.

I was then informed by the hotel security guard and management that I was being “evicted” because “anytime there is a situation with drugs, we must handle accordingly”. I was also told I’m losing my deposit and the next two nights that I paid for

I did not have any drugs in the hotel room. I did not get called on my cellphone to be alerted I was being searched. They claimed they tried contacting via hotel phone many times. I was not at the hotel. No calls would have been made by my room unless someone broke in or had unauthorized access to said room. I did not have anybody in the room I was kicked out of. The police searched my room and my belongings without my permission.
The hotel claims to not have security footage. The hotel is a large corp (think Super 8 or Econolodge). I had to rent a hotel because of this.

The next question is - where do I go from here? I’m from out of town, but I feel absolutely violated.

Should I approach the manager and ask to have a sit down to make it right? What would I anticipate? Would I be entitled to ask for my new hotel fees back in addition to the refund for kicking me out? Is it worth retaining a lawyer if I don’t have the funds?

Also, how do search warrants work in Hotels? My friends and I assume the hotel has access to enter the room at any time, but we don’t see an unauthorized search of our suitcases to be warranted.