Can you ask the hotel to retrieve the video?

Legal analysis: No, you need to issue a letter of assistance in investigation to obtain monitoring. Investigation letter is a letter sent by judicial organs to other units to request their assistance in investigation according to the needs of investigation. Individuals certainly do not have the right to access hotel surveillance video. Only when the public security organ has the right to access the hotel's surveillance video can the case be solved. Although the public security department has this power, there is no case of going to the hotel to collect surveillance videos at will.

Legal basis: Article 1032 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public. Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.