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

Oh come on, there is a line...

Consumables - little bottles of shower gel or tea/coffee/biscuits - sure, thats what they're there for.

A few extra sausages for breakfast for a snack later - sailing closer to the wind but it's still well covered by the price you paid for the room and breakfast, particularly for those of us who would LOVE a pastry, coffee AND a full English but absolutely cannot eat all that at hotel breakfast time (but could at 1pm), and even more understandable if you're trapped on the hotel grounds and really can't go elsewhere for food.

Taking glasses, mugs, towels, etc... you're taking the fucking piss and, as they have your card details on file, you're almost certainly going to pay for them anyway! Just be honest and ask to buy them if you like them THAT much.

I don’t even take shampoo. I travel often, I have no temptation to steal things from a hotel. Glasses etc? Why would you? Do a reverse google search and purchase some if you like them

I'm sad for you that you don't have a moral compass if you don't know what constitutes stealing. What has life come to!

What did you take from the hotel room OP? You do realise that if they find things missing, the hotel is completely liable to bill you, right?

the absolutely shame of a hotel billing me because I'd stolen items from them, makes me cringe very very hard. No wonder they bolt picture to the wall in some hotels with people like the OP around.

I don’t take unopened toiletries either - unopened ones are not routinely binned.

I would take any toiletries or biscuits which I had opened and which were unfinished.

Generally, though, I don’t need more clutter in my life.

As for taking mugs and classes, seriously? Horrid behavior.

How on earth could you think taking the hotels glasses or mugs is appropriate? Toiletries and tea/coffee bags are fine and there to be consumed but surely not anything else?! I thought this was common knowledge!!

What did you take from the hotel room OP? You do realise that if they find things missing, the hotel is completely liable to bill you, right?

Surely this is a wind up, how could anyone think this is okay?! Genuinely shocked!

Why on god’s green earth would you want a hotel drinking glass?? They’re the cheapest things in the place - they aren’t Waterford or Tiffany for god’s sake.
Is it the thrill of stealing that you enjoy? Do you get off on pulling a fast one over on those mean hotels?
Leave it, @TakeOrLeaveIt.

Do you also help yourself to the cups and glasses when you go to a restaurant? Or the silverware? You might as well take the tablecloth too.

I doubt this is a serious question, but on the off chance you’re genuinely wondering, of course you can’t just take whatever you fancy from a hotel.

What the actual hell am i reading??

Really ?

Thats not ok.

Cups & Glasses? Why and how rude!

The OP is a journalist.

The more people steal from a business the more the price goes up for everybody and the level of service comes down.

I hate the idea that stealing can be thought of as ‘part of the hotel experience’…that people should feel entitled to take what they want just because they can.
This blatant disregard for anybody except self is very concerning.

That doesn't make it ok.
Theft is theft.

If you want to donate toiletries, purchase them.

Hotels provide sundries for immediate use, not as takeaway.

Toiletry samples are fine. The other things are stealing.

Lately I don’t think you can take much. I stayed in the summer at a place where they had full size fancy toiletries and there was a note saying if any bottle is missing I’ll be charged £25 per bottle (the place was around £1000 a night ).

This.

Thievery. How can this even be a question???

Opened single use products that would have to be binned would be ok. Anything else would absolutely be theft. Horrible :(

I always take the hotel single use toiletries home - I donate them to our local homeless shelter. The clients there love them.

I just have visions of Homer Simpson in the episode with “Mandy”.
“Free shower curtain………” 😂😂😂

Mugs, glasses, good grief no, and you were tempted by the nicer bits?

What would those be, robes, ornaments, towels cusions, out and out stealing in my mind to take those.

However single use toiletries (shower caps great for the soles of your shoes when packing) and fancy tea/coffee I do take and thats fine and have been given extra to take home by staff who noticed I used a certain tea a lot, but I have also purchased new robes (who on earth wants used towels/robes) and a certain hotel brand leaves items for guests to take ie a small bear. I stayed in said brand not so long ago and no bear but a rubber duck, I asked at reception if I could take it, oh course you can and thank you for asking was the reply, also fancy coffee bags were given as gifts.

I remember one hotel who were sick of people pinching the fancy small bedside clock, so they started selling them, its something that would never enter my head.

I was staying in an air BnB in Suffolk recently and the owner was really upset because the previous “guest” had taken two lovely bedside lamps.

Anything that gets routinely replaced, yes. Anything else, definitely stealing.

I always take the toiletries home for my daughter, she loves them.

Anything else, as everyone has said, is theft.

Quite. I don’t know why people bother to do this. If you can afford to stay in a hotel, you’re not struggling to afford shampoo are you?

I do it. I take the little shampoo, conditioner, body wash, moisturiser. Yes, I can afford my own. However, I then put them in a dedicated box at work where everyone deposits them and once a month the box is taken to a homeless women’s shelter.

When I wash my hair/shower at a hotel I use my own travel products in my own travel bag as I know they suit my hair etc. I don’t feel at all badly about taking the little shampoo/conditioner/body wash/moisturiser given what I have paid for the room, and donating these to women in a bad situation.

I also take the little sugar packets. Don’t have sugar in coffee/tea, but find they are convenient for rare use of popping in cooking if need a bit of sugar, so delve into my hotel stash on such occasion, or if a guest comes who does have sugar in their tea/coffee😁. I don’t feel bad about that either.

The small packs of complimentary shampoo sometimes. Anything else, NOPE! Straight up thieving and if you have done it then I hope you are ashamed of yourself.

I'm amazed you actually needed to ask this question.

I don't steal from hotels, but hotels rip customers off all the time especially if there's a big event on, so I can't really get angry at people who do.

Mugs and glasses are stealing. Obviously.