Do you leave things in hotel room after departure for the maids to take if they want them?

No tip or unused sanitary/toiletry products required. They're paid for doing their job.

Interesting. I don't think i would think about doing it in a wealthy/western country as i expect maids would just bin half used toiletries. But I would in a country where service staff are more likely to not earn a living wage.

We stayed in Morocco a few years ago and when the porter chap came to take our cases down he saw we had left a bottle of shampoo in the bathroom and pointed it out. We explained it had leaked on the way over so we didn't want to pack it again. He politely asked if he could have it and seemed absolutely delighted with it. I felt very humbled and have deliberately left stuff since in similar places.

Come to think of it we were also asked in Morocco and Tunisia if we could please leave behind any children's clothes/shoes that were too small and would be thrown away. They were especially keen on things like the all-body UV suits and crocs, not sure if they are hard to get hold of or prohibitively expensive. Unfortunately we didn't have anything to leave as I'm not in the habit of packing undersized clothes but if I went again I'd try to squeeze in a few bits as it seemed to mean a lot to them and they were so lovely and polite when asking.

I wouldn’t want other people’s part used products.

It’s a bit weird, yes, unless there’s a dripfeed coming about how the hotel is in a developing country and the staff are poorly-paid and likely to be living in poverty.

I think it depends partly on where you are and partly on whether I have checked luggage.

Staying on a group holiday in Montenegro not long after the war our guide mentioned that anything left would be really appreciated so we did and bought a couple of bits to specifically leave.

If I've travelled with hand luggage then bought things I will leave the rest of the bottle. or if I've bought too many souvenirs and can't fit stuff in my hold luggage.

Either way I just put them together on the side of the sink and staff can choose to either take them or bin them.

I've never seen anyone leave stuff outside their door. I would presume staff would move it when cleaning rooms and either keep it or bin it as well.

Just a tip. I can’t imagine that they’d want people’s used toiletries.

It's so offensive to even think that cleaning staff would want your toiletries and sanitary products I don't even know where to start.

I would assume they don’t want them, so no.

When I was a hotel cleaner, I binned anything not obviously valuable/left by mistake left by departed guests.

Most people leave them outside the room for other guests to take, they will go quickly, people who have just arrived or have ran out will take them. Quite often the cleaners just throw everything left in the room in the bin if they don’t want it.