<human>: This is more of a fyi for myself in case this happens next time, I doubt I will have any recourse for this time but I'll just tell my story regardless.

I recently took a 5 day trip to NYC.  stayed at a hotel, checked in, everything seemed fine.  i essentially only brought a backpack with about 5 days of clothes since I didn't wanna pay to check a piece luggage (flied in).  As the clothes added some unnecessary bulk to the bag and I was going to be doing a lot of walking, I left most of my clothing in the hotel room.

I came back to the hotel on day 2 (left at about 10am, came back about 6pm or so), went up to my room, found the key didn't work.  Another pair of guests opened the door and was wondering about the ruckus.  Found out the hard way that I have been kicked out (checkout time was 11am), and I asked the front desk and they said it was a booking mixup - they thought I only booked for a night when I wanted to book for 5.  The manager eventually got me into another room so that at least I wasn't homeless for my trip, but nobody seemed to have the damndest clue about what happened to the clothes I left in my old room.  

I pestered the FD/manager every day that I had a chance to and they just kept putting me off, saying that they'll contact the housekeeper - so they did and they said she didn't see anything, which I found incredibly damn hard to believe because it was in one big plastic bag, so I'm not sure what exactly said housekeeper did with the clothes, because they didn't disappear into thin air.  Eventually I just came to the conclusion that they really didn't give a damn and I wasn't going to get my clothes back by the time I checked out on day 5, and the ~$150 worth of clothes, I felt, wasn't worth the extra effort to chase over and it was all replaceable, so I gave up and left NYC feeling very frustrated with my experience with said hotel.

For future reference, in case something like this happens again, as a tourist, what are my possible options?

Can you condense the text into a few key points?
<bot>: booking mixup, housekeeping "lost" my clothes I left in my old room when they switched me over, do I actually have any options