Tourism officials say burglars targeted visitors while they were sleeping in their hotel room.

They stole their wallets, jewerly and made off with their rental car.

The rental car was found abandoned in the pearl city area last night.

Police returned the convertible to the airport where the car was rented.

When the tourists showed up this morning..to retrieve their stuff...they found more than they were looking for.

"We have to check now inside what remains and what we will find," says Jean Louis Fadet, a visitor from Tahiti.

The inside of their rental car, once parked at their Waikiki hotel, was completely trashed.

Here is what's left of Jean-Louis Fadet's wallet.

"They took all the things sellable.... cameras, cash, credit card, everything seems to be gone," says Marie Christine Anuloy, visitor from Tahiti.

As they salvaged some of their stolen possessions, they discovered even more.

"This is not my purse doesn't belong to me," says Anuloy.

Among some of the stolen items they found in this car were 3 more hotel keys..including 2 from Sheraton Moana Surfrider.

But when they found this bag, that's when they called 911.

"I need a officer at dollar rental car at the airport. We were recovering our stuff from a stolen vehicle and found a large amount of drugs, drug paraphenila and other stolen items," says Cynthia Goulette, the Victim's Friend.

Sherriffs arrived and found what they believe to be crystal methamphetamine.

The tourists beleive it was a sign of the burglar's way of life.

But one thing the burglar's didn't take from this couple, was their livelihood.

"These designs are the work of 10 different people over 6 months and that's there earnings," says Anuloy.

What may look like scraps of paper to some...is textile art.

It's used as designs for aloha attire at places like Hilo Hattie, Reyn Spooner, and Tori Richards.

And little did the burglars know, this handful of artwork is worth a quarter million dollars...money that will go back to the people who worked hard for it.

"We're not rich people, we're people like you, trying to earn money. They (burglars) hurt people who are trying to earn their life," adds Anuloy.

The police do not have any suspects at this time.

They did fingerprint the car for evidence.