On entering, they found the safety tags on a couple of fire extinguishers in the hallway of the Birchtree Hotel in the town had been removed.
Then as they explored further, they found a number of rooms had been entered.
And finally, a court was told, they discovered a woman in one room, in a bed.
In court at Dumfries on Wednesday, Simondeed Dulay, 30, of Urr Road, Dalbeattie, admitted entering the hotel on May 3, maliciously removing the tags from the extinguishers, entering a number or rooms, removing items from rooms and disposing of them elsewhere and entering a number of beds which had to be cleaned.
A solicitor told the court that Dulay, who gets visits from support workers, had had a drink.
Sheriff Brian Mohan deferred sentence for six months and warned her to be of good behaviour.
Hotel puzzle court case
POLICE officers in Dalbeattie were puzzled when they found the doors of a hotel fully ajar at 5.30 am and no one seemingly around.
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