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

Taking loo roll and teabags is a new low. I'm dumbfounded.

The bottle size is perfect to refill for the gym etc.

The mini toiletries I take as they are useful for the gym or travelling to self catering accommodation. The big bottles on the wall? No. complimentary snacks and drinks and coffee sachets…yep. The tiny pack with cotton buds etc, yep. Shower caps I take as I use them to cover soles of shoes in my case.

Actual glasses and mugs….nope. Only things meant to be used up during our stay.

Oh good grief of course they don't refill the mini toiletries!!

Anyway the only time I've been very very tempted to liberate the non-consumables is the times I've stayed at what was the Missonj hotel in Edinburgh. The towels! The bathrobes!! The fucking cost if you nicked them!!! 😳

Stealing rhe mugs and glasses though is proper scuzzy behaviour. I can see why the ops not come back. She writes xhe was tempted but she didn’t take anything major, what’s major? The bed? She clearly stole the mugs and glasses,

I have taken toiletries especially when we were on our honeymoon and they put l'occitane bottles in and added new ones every day whether we had used them or not!

I don't get towels. Why would you want to take a towel that has been used by so many people home with you? I use the ones when I am there but am always careful to check them first for random hairs and stains so taking them home is definitely not on the agenda!

Shampoo yes but it’s a bit frowned on to take the bed 😜

Same. Wouldn't bother otherwise, but there are lots of occasions when miniatures come in much handier than the full size I usually buy.

Wouldn’t even cross my mind.
It’s stealing.

No, of course you don't take mugs, glasses, robes, etc.

It's theft.

I buy my own nice mugs, glasses and robes.

I do drink the coffees/teas and take sachets of sugar because they're useful; if there are miniatures of products I would actually use then yes, those are mine to take and so I do.

Things like this is what causes prices to rise. Everything you take has to be replaced and the money found somewhere. It’s stealing.

Things like soap in a packet, miniature body wash, shampoo, etc. and biscuits, teabags and so on, yes. Anything else I wouldn't consider taking!

Anything that gets replaced for each new guest, feel free to take! Any complimentary bottle of water or plastic cups are ok to take.
so think soap, shampoo, those disposable slippers, started loo roll- all okay to take. Dishes, glasses, mugs, paintings, remotes etc aren’t replaced for each new guest and would be considered stealing as the hotel would have to replace.

I’ve taken towels and pillows in my teenage years. It’s blatant stealing and definitely isn’t apart of the ‘hotel experience’

My ex used to work away a lot and he always, without fail, brought towels home, he couldn't see anything wrong with it. One of the many many reasons I liked him a little bit less every single day

This must be a wealthy MN thing as I've never stayed anywhere nice enough to tempt me to take the toiletries, let alone the sugar packets.

Single use toiletries and tea/coffee/sugar sachets are all fair game IMO. Everything else is straight up stealing.

I kept the 'single use' slippers from a hotel as I had forgotten mine and was going on to stay with friends. I put them through the washing machine, in a net bag.. just in case!!.., when I got home and they came up brand new. So now they live in my suitcase and travel everywhere with me.
But apart from that I only take the biscuits.. use my own toiletries decanted into travel bottles.

I once stayed in a hotel while on a work trip. My room didn't have any pillows! Obviously just an oversight when the cleaners were sorting the room but I was young, not very assertive and we were so busy on the trip I didn't go down to reception and ask for pillows. I did grumble to my colleagues though and slept rather uncomfortably with no pillows. (Typing this now I feel an absolute wuss, it was a long time ago!)
Anyway a couple of days later our workplace had a phone call from the hotel demanding to know the name of the person who had stayed in room X (my room) as they had stolen the pillows. I was glad I had at least told my colleagues they were missing on arrival so they backed me up to my boss!

I don't take tea bags, coffee sachets or coffee pods because they could be used by the next person. Housekeeping don't bin unused tea bags. Besides, there's barely enough provided anyway and rarely earl grey which I prefer. We usually take an extra supply.

People like you are the reason hotel charges keep going up for the rest of us! 🙄 You have no idea of the extra work you're also creating for housekeeping staff who work to crazy turnaround schedules, having to go and track down replacements, sometimes at opposite ends of large hotels from storage areas. If you invited someone to your house for the evening, I'm guessing you would be extremely pissed off if they left with their bag full of your belongings...but by your own standards that could just be 'part of the experience' 🤔🤔🤔 Stop being a CF immediately!!

I used to take the mini shower gels etc for the kids residential / rugby tours.

Also the biscuits and hot chocolate sachets for my youngest as a gift because we went away and left him with granny. He's 18 now and i still do it. ❤️

Never have,never would.

Good grief. Of course you don’t take things like mugs and glasses. It’s equivalent to pocketing all the cutlery when you eat in a restaurant.

The only things that are meant for you to take if you want them are things like mini toiletries, stationery, and the biscuits from the tea and coffee tray. Don’t take cups and glasses, robes, towels, pillows or anything else.

How about sachets of e.g. sugar in cafes?

An aunt of dh was once shocked and mortified when the friend she was with took every last sachet of sugar, ketchup, etc. from their cafe table.
The aunt was absolutely as tight as they come (despite having plenty) so TBH I was glad to hear that she still had some standards! According to her, the friend wasn’t remotely hard up, either.