A husband tried to surprise his wife with a romantic gesture only to discover their hotel bed covered in CRISPS - after a miscommunication with staff.

Rachel Norman, 36, and her husband Johnnie, 35, went out in Blackpool, Lancashire, to celebrate her birthday and he secretly asked hotel staff to put 30 assorted bags of crisps on the bed while they were out to surprise his crisp-loving wife.

But staff misunderstood, opened the bags, and sprinkled the crisps on the sheets like salty confetti.

Stunned Rachel thought they were victims of a strange break-in when she opened the door, but she still decided to eat some of them.

After a mortified Johnnie explained what must have happened the pair couldn't stop laughing.

Rachel loves crisps and would eat four bags a day - spending up to £15-a-week on them - until cutting down to one every two days recently in a bid to be healthier.

Rachel, an NHS worker, from Accrington, Lancashire, said: "I was hysterical."

"His face was a picture."

"Since that day he's never tried any more romantic antics, but it's one of our favourite memories."

Johnnie, a warehouse operative, bought the crisps for Rachel's 30th birthday, on December 15, 2018.

He said: "Looking back it really is funny!"

Like we had some sort of pawn-cocktail crisp fetish..."

Hotel staff changed the sheets and gave the couple a voucher for another night's stay.