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

I don't think I have ever stayed in a hotel where I liked the toiletries. Even when they were Molton Brown I didn't like the smell.

I always take my own as I prefer soap to shower gel/bodywash, and the shampoo is always rank.

I have taken biscuits and sachets of hot chocolate though.

Anything else is just stealing.

@ThatFlightyTemptress the salt shaker… no no no. The salt? yes yes yes

Hotel staff. They have big bottles of cheap toiletries to fill small bottles!
Not all hotels do this of course (well, I hope!)

I didn't know the toiletries bottles are refilled @ThePrologue. You learn something every day. Who does the refilling? Hotel staff or back to the manufacturer?

I think single use consumables are fair game. I’ve worked in a hotel as a chambermaid and it’s easier to clean a bathroom that’s been cleaned out to ge fair. Just wipe and get a fresh stack of bottles. Other wise you have to move them anyway, double check the tiny writing as shampoo and showergel are identical and haven’t been opened with a tiny bit used. Half the time I’d have to bin unopened soap as the paper on Arran aromatics goes wrinkly and will discolour if it’d been splashed.

I take coffee/ tea too as handy for camping. If no one did it we’d be playing Russian roulette with Uht milk. I also like hotel slippers no idea why.

Are you really that desperate for a mug?

Hotel room consumables are fair game. Fixtures and fittings are most definitely not. Why would you steal hotel glasses? Odd.

A lot of hotels have introduced a price list and just charge you if you take anything.

I stayed in a hotel which had a rubber duck on the towel stack with a note "take me". That's a complimentary gift and he sits now in our bathroom as a souvenir.

I sometimes take the toileteries, we have several one night stays soon and will stay at Holiday Inn etc so it's nice to have decent stuff and not bringing a full bottle.

I work in finance and we had a customer who did the hotel toileteries. There is a huge difference in their quality but some of the stuff with the hotel logo is equal to branded items, the hotel chains just want their names on it for advertising.

I take the little toiletries if they are a decent brand, so I have a supply for hotel stays - they never leave my suitcase uless I use them. Some hotels don't have nice toiletries, so it's good to not have to take my own full size bottles. I also take the sewing kits and shoe shine as both come in very useful at times. I never have left-pver biscuits!

Everyting else, why bother? I don't want tea bags or sugar etc, as you can always ask for more at hotels if you want them, and I have plenty at home. I certainly wouldn't consider taking anything non-disposable.

Surely it's obvious what it's ok to take? There's something weird about people who somehow have to 'get everything they've paid for'. It's never the poorest either. We had a friend who would always empty any bowls of mints or peanuts etc into a container kept in her bag especially for that purpose. We secretly called it her E-Coli supplies.

Yeah because what is a hotel stay if not an opportunity to add to one's trouser-press collection?

It's all theft.
The toiletries are there for use at the time; bottles are refilled. Although granted, these are generally fair game. However, anything else if theft.
As is using work stuff for personal use; your work biro suddenly at home? Theft
Couple of envelopes for personal use? Theft
Eating food from ward food trolley? Theft

but what about things like mugs and glasses? I’ve stayed at a few places recently, and I was tempted by some of the nicer bits. Obviously, I didn’t take anything major,

Still a thief, if you've taken more than the shampoo and soap. But usually the toiletries are crappy, and not what I like to use. And it's not as if decent shampoo is expensive to buy, rather than take stuff from hotels. If it's nice (like the hotel chain which stocks Le Labo products in their rooms) then of course use it, but most hotel toiletries are not as nice as my own.

But honestly @TakeOrLeaveIt , are you so poor that you need to steal glasses from a hotel?

I spend half my life in hotels for work. This is obvious surely?
The rule is.

• you can take things you could completely used up as part of your stay or will be chucked out if part used: mini toiletries, shower hat, sewing kit, sanitary bags, disposable one use slippers, notebooks, pens, all the teas, coffees and sugars and complimentary biscuits and water. Arguably you could fill your boots with bog paper too if you are that way inclined and have a long journey with a dicky tummy or are prone to spillage. I've also taken the laundry bag when I've had rained on clothes that would be going into my suitcase wet.
• you can also take anything that has a price displayed on it: contents of mini bar, robes, towels etc as they will just charge you (a fuck tonne) for it.
• you cannot take anything that is designed to be part of the room, reused or washed and replaced; crockery, televisions, wall art, full size bottles of toiletries, bed, bed linen, kettle, toilet basin, rugs, pillows, iron, ironing board, safe, hairdryer, desk, chairs, cushions etc. Also robes and towels if there isn't an indication of price. Even so they are likely to notice and charge you anyway. Who the fuck wants to pay through the nose for a wet, industrial use, used towel?

It is yet unknown whether you are allowed to take the bible. I'm a heathen so I'd say yes if it's to destroy it.

HTH.

Pen and notepad
Certain toiletries. Noticed now some hotels use wall fixed soap dispenser type things for shower gel/conditioner/shampoo or bottles stuck in a holder.
Sugar - for workspeople, visitors who take sugar in tea/coffee

If I have started the toiletries I will take them. Anything else - no definitely not!

My friend decants some of the toiletries from the pump dispensers into a smaller bottle she brings for the purpose! I think that’s not on.

I take the packets of biscuits if they’re nice ones and the shower caps.

I don't take anything home from hotels, as I bring everything I need with me.

If someone felt they had to go home with something I'd say single use toiletries and slippers that come in a plastic wrap (as they won't be used again).

Anything reusable will be washed and used again by the hotel, so if you take it home, it is stealing.

Didn't Liz Truss steal a bathrobe from a hotel?
Figures.

That's bloody awful! What is wrong with people, thieving sods!? 😮

I like it when there's a notebook and pencil but no, not the mugs

I can't imagine anything more humiliating than being approached by hotel staff in reception for stealing. In any case, the mugs and glasses in the rooms are pretty tiny so who would want them anyway?

The only thing that ever comes home with me from the room, when i go away for work, is the complimentary packet of 2 biscuits, which I give to my son when I get home.

As an aside, when I was in hospital giving birth I was told by staff that people were constantly stealing pillows, tv remote controls, batteries. Pretty much anything that isn't screwed down.

I was once sorely tempted by the pillows in a hotel in Majorca. I’ve spent my life searching for the ‘right’ pillow, and these were it!

I asked the hotel for the name of the supplier instead, and about a year later finally managed to track them down!

Life changing.

Fgs why would you steal mugs and glasses? Get to IKEA.

That’s a pain in the arse for the housekeepers. Don’t do it!