To think it’s okay to take certain things from a hotel?

I only take the shampoo/conditioner if it is a good brand and small bottles like Aesop or Neals Yard etc. I'd never take (or want to) the cheap stuff you get in some hotels.

I have often bought things I have had in my room - blankets, robes, slippers etc from the shop/website but I would never dream of stealing them

No.
But when I was a student, pizza hut would take away the surplus cutlery from the table. I asked why and they said they found people would take it if they didn't remove it.

Snobby much? People who behave like this are revealing their entitlement and lack of integrity. Weak moral character is fuck all to do with "social background" 🙄

Only stuff that would be chucked — part used toiletries, even the part used toilet roll if you must. But anything else is theft.

Yes I take the little bottles of shampoo etc as they are great to refill for camping trips etc. I would take tea bags/biscuits/little toiletries/mini sewing kit left for my stay that should be binned if I don't use them.

I would never take anything that would be reused - glasses, cups, bedding, towels etc. I'd say that is stealing - they were provided for you to use whilst there not to take.

If you paid £50 for a hotel room and took £50 worth of towels, mugs, bedding etc then the hotel couldn't run?!

Consumables - eg biscuits, toiletries I think is fine.
Anything that is clearly going to be re-used, no....I'm not sure why (unless clearly indicated you were invited to take them as a souvenir) anyone would consider that...?

I was invited to a dinner at an expensive hotel in London once. One of the other guests took a glass table decoration, I was mortified

Taking anything other than something you might have used up anyway is pure theft and such a cheap, low-life move. How could you remotely think it's okay?

To take more than toiletries is scutty as fuck, I feel sorry for hotel owners.

I do take the little toileteries. A few people have asked why bother and they’ll just sit in a drawer. We find them handy for kids short school trips, if I have an overnight away for work - just easier that full size everything.

Why would you even be curious about this OP, it wouldn’t even cross my mind. Anything bigger than miniature toiletries or single use slippers etc is stealing.

When you go to a cafe or restaurant do you put the plates in your handbag? Such a common and bad mannered thing to do.

People really do give away their lack of manners & social background regardless of how successful they are later in life by this type of behaviour.

For example, sachets of coffee, tea, sugar etc are provided because otherwise you'd have to buy your own normal-sized jars of coffee, tea and sugar and bring them into the hotel.

I always take tea bags and milk with me when I have to stay in a hotel because they never provide enough (usually 2 normal tea bags and only enough milk-substitute for one cup). It means I end up leaving a carton of on-the-turn milk in the room when I leave, though.

I don't take the toiletries because I don't need them. And I don't take anything else because it's theft.

Anything I’ve opened, I’ll take with me rather than bin and waste it, as that’s all the hotel will do anyway as they can’t be reused (sample-size toiletries, shower cap, single-use slippers) but never anything else.

Did your dad work for Barings Bank?😃

I'd hesitate to take down the curtains and stuff them in my bag, I think.

An old boyfriend used to take the big towels home. He justified it by saying the hotel was cheeky for charging so much per night and therefore it was fair game.

Clicked yanbu by accident but yeh, this reminds me of Ross from Friends 😂

I don’t understand pinching things. Surely a cup or glass wouldn’t go with the rest of your crockery at home? Unless you are collecting a whole stolen set bit by bit?

I tend to take my own toiletries as I know what I like so we don’t take anything apart from the coffee that we use whilst staying in the suite.

That's stealing.

In the 1980's, we were on holiday in Majorca. I was about 12. My Dad loved the painting in the hotel corridor, it was some guy on a horse, Don Quijote, I think. Anyway, on our last day, he took it off the wall and packed it in his case! There was a huge mark left on the wall where it had been (remember everyone smoked inside). When we got home, he had a run of bad luck with his business, and he fixated that the painting was bringing him the bad luck. So, he gifted it to his Bank Manager, and for YEARS that painting hung on the wall in his Bank Manager's office.

I think Premier Inn's helpfully tell you where you can buy their mattresses....

They have cameras...

Not read the whole thread, I might pick up the pen especially if I forgot to bring one and a bar of soap or tissues and occasionally the plastic laundry bag. That’s it. Everything else is stealing and I regularly stay in hotels from low budget to glam 5 star. Oh and if I am in a airbnb or Vrbo I take nothing ever.

Because they're travel sized and useful for....travelling.

Why would you want hotel toiletries 😂