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

Mugs and glasses. Wtf is wrong with you. Must be a wind up surely.

What? I can't believe anyone has to ask this. I've been staying in a few lovely hotels lately and there is a little card with the cost of everything if you want to buy it (I guess subtly saying what you'll be charged if they are missing) ie silk robes, soap dispensers etc so they obviously need to have this for the thieves.

This is the reason why low-cost hotels screw everything down these days. They are fed up with classless people with sticky fingers.

I'd say if you wouldn't take it from a friend's house, you shouldn't take it from a hotel.

Bwahahahahahah!!!!

I've known people nick towels and bathrobes with the hotel logo on it! They are quite proud of it too :-).

Yes of course it is stealing. Stick to the toiletries and tea bags, they are provided for your use, covered in your bill.

I ran a large guest house for many years. Apart from a small bottle of coffee, nothing was ever taken. Even the little bottles of toiletries, which were fair game, were usually left behind. We once had a runner who didn't pay his bill, but almost all our guests were honest and lovely.

My favorite hotel has the best coffee cups. There is a little sign that if yiu want them take them and they will bill your room 10 a cup. That's the only time I have ever taken cups because I paid for them.

Why would you take mugs and glasses? It's a hotel. They can be washed and reused by other guests. It's just straightforward theft.

Maybe I'm too far in the other direction, though. I'm too much of a goody two-shoes to even take shampoo home from a hotel. I'd legit feel guilty using it when I got home 😅

Shampoo, shower gel, complimentary biscuits - yes of course. You'd use them anyway. Though I wouldn't imagine (unless you're in a 5* hotel) that the quality of bathroom products would be very high.

Mugs, glasses, towels, bathrobes etc - oh come on, you know that's theft. Do you honestly want to be considered to be a common thief?

Years ago we were overseas for BiL’s wedding. While we were in reception with our luggage waiting for the transfer to the airport someone came trotting over from the reception to ask about the missing decorative (with the hotel name) china shampoo bottle. MiL had stolen it. BiL made a big thing about her being a thief. She was mortified 😂
Another time while we watched a young couple have to open their suitcases while they were waiting for their airport shuttle and hand back the towels they’d stolen

That's a good idea, I never would have thought of doing this, I never bother taking anything, I just know the soap would languish in a drawer & the tiny shampoo would be put in a cabinet never to be seen again

However if I ever stayed somewhere ultra fancy & there was a price list with those beautiful, thick towelling robes on it I would be very tempted to buy a couple!

Yes. I’ve seen that too.

I once stayed a hotel with such an amazing pillow that I really wanted one. I asked at reception where they got them so I could buy one. They told me that the pillows were really popular and they would have housekeeping deliver a new one to my room and bill it to my room.

I would never have dreamt of stealing one! But given how prepared they were, I guess quite a few people do.

As others have said - one use consumables are fair game but if another guest could use it, you leave it.

😂😂😂

This just reminds me of Ross.

I've taken home a shampoo too but once home I don't actually need or want it

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? Why take a tiny half used bottle of a product you wouldn’t choose normally and risk it leaking all over your toilet bag, so you can have one shower/hair-wash at home with your sub-standard freebie?

Toiletries, sewing kits, shoe cleaning sponges etc I do tend to take. I donate them to our local women’s shelter.

That did just make me chuckle!

I've never stayed anywhere nice enough that I'd want their toiletries, let alone glasses or mugs!

Mattress maybe, but I fell over trying to get it down the corridor. Just as I was being helped up, my nescafe sachets and sugar fell out from the kettle clutched under my other arm.
It was then that I realised that I needed a shower.

No @TakeOrLeaveIt . Leave it.

I've taken home a shampoo too but once home I don't actually need or want it. If I was a bit richer to get a nice hotel I would hope I wasn't there to steal random crap. You can buy a cup for about a quid.

Fyi - to unscrew the TV in a premier Inn, you need one of those torque screwdrivers.
Thank me later!

I think maybe hotels are not for you.
Stick to caravans (and leave everything where it is of course).
If you have no manners, best to stay at home, or, at a stretch, a caravan.
Just don't steal stuff..

Is it property?

Things that are not going to be used by the next guest i.e. toiletries- No

Things that can be cleaned and reused? Yes.

I’ve taken little shampoo bottles and bags of soap.

My dad on the other hand once stole some plates from the dining hall. My mum was mortified when she realised when they got home.

It's theft, and some hotels will report you to the police for it (depending on the severity of course). Others will charge your credit card for what you've taken.

Honestly, you're shameless.

I've been in a couple of hotels where there's a price list in the bedroom for things like towels etc. - even bedlinen! They must be very fed up with light fingered guests.