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

I imagine a cleaner would just bin open shampoo and shower gel. Anytime I have seen hotel house keeping they have w bin bag with bottles and stuff in. Leave them some cash as a thank you.and take your stuff home.

planned redistribution of wanted items with identified recipients is incomparable to used product left in a resort with no intended identified recipient
Can you really not see the difference?

I wouldn’t assume the maid would want them- I’d just chuck them in the bins.

You missassigned a misquote to badly prove your point. Your lacking in comprehension and clarity to use the let em eat cake line Your hoped for tahdah misfired.Badly

if you’re going to get preachy and remonstrate with people, by using what you think is a searing pithy put down, try, get it right

as you were

"No good deed goes unpunished" 🤣

As you've mentioned that you wouldn't stay in these types of places, how do you know what they appreciate and see as waste?.

We used to leave them in countries such as Dominican Republic and Cuba, where the cleaner was always happy to take them as well as a monetary tip .
When we had a September holiday with my 16 month old DGG , my DD gave all the babies clothes to one of the waitresses as baby wouldn’t get any use out of them once home as she would be needing winter clothes . The waitress was so happy as it was such a poor country and they were lovely clothes . DGD is now 20 but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was still little children in Cuba wearing them . 😂

I always leave toiletries and sometimes perfumes and I divide up the left over currency for the maids, taxi drivers etc and I always strip the beds and fold everything to make things easier for them and make sure the toilet is clean.
I have and always will do this as its just the way I am and my grown children so the same.

absolutely didn’t miss the point. You described planned targeted redistribution not spontaneously leaving products. This wasn’t random leftovers. As you described it, it’s a case of wanted, useful items.

Who gives a fuck whether Marie Antoinette said it or not? It's the mythical Marie that makes the point. If it's patronising to remark upon the Antoinette-esque attitudes on this thread (as well as the terrible reading comprehension), well, I can't shrug lazily enough.

The planet is fucked because people imagine that resources are so plentiful that they don't need to use them carefully or sustainably. You're arguing for corralling one set of resources into a "fine to waste" category, on the grounds that any minimum wage worker who thinks an open bottle of soap might be useful must work in a dump anyway, so fuck them.

And "hope that helps" is as bad a rhetorical device as "as you were".

Once in Mauritius in a 5 star hotel, only saying so no one can claim it was a skanky dive, I put a child's jumper in the bin as it had a hole in it. The room cleaner spotted it and asked if he could have it for his son, I explained there was a hole in it but he still wanted it. When we departed I left behind any clothes that my child was about to grow out of and wouldn't need again.

Now I don't think twice about leaving a partially used bottle of conditioner or clothing that won't be worn again, last time I left behind a pair of sandals that I had only worn once on holiday as I found them uncomfortable. The clothing/shoes are only things that I would bring home and take to the charity shop. The staff have the choice of binning, keeping, or passing on.

You have missed the point. Which is, that people in real, dire poverty, will so often be only too grateful for our first-world ‘leftovers’.

I would leave things such as toiletries, cleaning equipment or unopened long life foodstuffs in self catering accommodation unless instructions specifically said not to.

Bit rude @Zone2NorthLondon ...

Read my post I said both opened and unopened items.

A lot of women are more than grateful in the North African countries we visit beauty products are coverted especially ones bought in from the UK

I'm guessing you don't work in a secondary school! If you did, you'd find that the girls' toilets have boxes of sanitary towels and tampons for the girls to help themselves to. They aren't presented with an unopened pack each, but take a single sanitary towel and/or tampon as required, and so the contents of each box is used by multiple girls.

Do you think this is grim too? If so, how would you provide sanitary products to girls who are experiencing period poverty/get their period unexpectedly/have forgotten to bring in their own supplies?

Youth hostels, back pack places positively encouraged this everywhere I stayed had a shelf for left overs food, toiletries with signs saying help yourself. People get so hung up about this judging by this thread if it’s not your thing don’t reuse only buy new but by saying everyone would be offended is a pretty big assumption.

I can assure you people in Morocco are poor and especially if working in budget hotels or tours. They are more than grateful for items left used and unused especially since the pandemic. We are in touch with several people who we know are often in dire need. Maybe those that work in top hotels are OK as they often get generous tips but budget hotels we stay in items donated are more than welcome.

It depends on where you are. For example in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar etc then they would be really grateful.

Whereas in Thailand and places in Europe it could be seen as insulting.

It depends on the culture.

Yes - they'll find it insulting.

When I worked as a housekeeper in a UK hotel I was always chuffed when stuff was left for us. Didn't find it insulting at all. Tips were unexpected but appreciated. The best thing was to find that the guests had stripped the bed!

It's hard, poorly paid and often revolting work, so anything that acknowledges the housekeeping staff is appreciated.

We go to Egypt often and we normally take an extra suitcase each of items for the locals we are friendly with. Also leave toiletries etc when we leave. Also as we have been going since 2014 to same area friends store items for us. Often when arrive we sort through them and give them a selection.

I’d have them. No need to be insulted on someone else’s behalf.

Yes fortunately for you, you've never been in that position.
Cant broaden your mind to actually understand that not everyone has that luxury? Plenty of PPs sharing their experience of being maids in foreign countries who say these products are gratefully received.
It might be the only chance they have to get a decent shampoo to wash their hair with, or sanitary products that they wouldnt normally be able to buy.
You should be grateful not to be in that position, but im guessing you have no experience of being a maid in a foreign country.