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

Actually there were times I had to stay at hotels (e.g. weddings) when I was having to go to a food bank and received money towards my rent because despite working, I couldn’t afford to live. Welcome to the real world.
Bet that stick feels painful stuck up there.

They are not really environmentally friendly being intended to be single use. I always have a proper shower cap in my wash bag anyway.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned how useful shower caps are for covering bread dough while it's rising 😀 but I haven't had one in a hotel room for ages.

When I stay in a hotel I turn up with a large van and completely strip the room.
I had my eye on a grand piano in a hotel I recently stayed in, but unfortunately I couldn't fit it in the van as it was already stuffed full.
Maybe next time.

Also some people may have forgotten to take their toiletries with them. I didn’t take my shower gel as finished it off at home after my previous hotel stay as only had 3 showers left worth in bottle. Forgot to put a new bottle in toiletries bag

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I’d forgotten about this company! I used to love their stores way back when.

You can take anything intended to be consumed / allocated in a quantity to be used by you during your stay. Soap, disposable shower cap, disposable sewing kit, bottle of water, biscuits, sachets of tea. You do not take things that are for all guests like pictures, robes, towel, pillows, glasses, radios, irons, hair dryers, ornaments, trouser presses, fans, phones, shower curtains, bath robes, soap dispensers which are in pumps and clearly meant to be refilled and used by others after you.

Do people really need telling this? Really?

It is stealing and life is hard enough for people trying to run a business without people thieving from them. Would you be okay with guests stealing your cups or glasses from you?!

There's a difference between trying to make a profit and price gouging.

In Tesco, it’s £3 for 80 Tetley tea bags, so less than 4p each. Taking 6 teabags from a hotel room = 24p or so. It’s either utter stinginess OR resentment at having to pay whatever price you paid for your room. Either way, it’s pathetic.

Again, it's absolutely fine to take things that have been accounted for in the room rate. Fgs why do you think they bother to put them there??

It's not like a supermarket where they need to sell them to make their money back!

Absolute rubbish. It’s not an ‘emergency’ is you run out of conditioner in the shower or have a guest round who wants decaf coffee!! It is scuzzy to take things from hotel rooms just because they are worth a few pence. And no one who can afford to stay in a hotel room is that close to the poverty line. Utter crap.

If you feel that way, why patronize them?

It's the same as the people who complain about airlines. Feel free to start a highly visible, highly trafficked, safety-intensive service business with massive overhead costs, and run it as a non-profit, providing super-low room rates and fares to the general public.

Nah, they rip people off because they're greedy bastards who take advantage of big events to charge customers way over the odds.

Taking anything other that what they expect you to take ie toiletries etc is stealing no matter how small it is. If everyone took a glass or mug think of the expense on the hotel to replace them all. It would mean hotel prices going up & the stay less enjoyable if you had to keep calling Reception when you find things missing in the room.

Nope - that's one of the reasons he's an ex. 😆

I must take one of those 50p glasses or a flannel. Really? Prob turn up in a car that's £300 per month. Back at home bet you would never say just use that glass we stole it from a hotel we stayed at.

I take very little. We have tea sugar and coffee at home so why steal them? Single use toiletries I'd use yes, biscuits yes. It just puts hotel costs up and you end up with immovable hair dryers etc

God there really are a lot of grabby fuckers in the world…🙄

FFS! Can you not afford 99p for a bag of sugar from Tesco? I’m surprised you don’t steal the toilet rolls too because all your friends and family who visit must take a dump or a wee and you don’t want to pay for their wipey-wipey when you can put stolen bog roll on your holder.

I stayed in a hotel not long after lockdown & they only provided paper cups, so I popped to a nearby supermarket & bought a couple of cheap mugs - which I left behind 🤣 I can't imagine nicking mugs🤨

I always take the bathroom stuff (as said before my current workplace has a box where we all place them and it gets taken to women’s shelter periodically).

Is this not taking the piss a bit?

Hotels do charge higher prices to cover the cost of the toiletries they provide.
So if you clean them out every time you stay - even if it's for a good cause - aren't you basically getting others to subsidise your charity donation? Without asking them if they're ok with that?

I mean you can buy toiletries to donate. Why don't you just do that?

Sorry, but it just seems wrong somehow, even though I'm all for supporting shelters.
Well-meaning but in CF territory all the same.

WTAF no you don’t take glasses of mugs from hotels or restaurants. They are there to use while you are staying and they belong to the hotel / restaurant.

are you thick or just extreme CF

So when you stay at a wedding venue that charges £300 a night, they charge that much to make up for the three 2p teabags I took? 🙄

Er, no! Trashy AF.