Is this unhygienic?!

When you go to a restaurant do you not use the soap in dispensers after using the toilet, and bring your own in your bag?

Weird.

Im in a Airbnb right now that is in someone’s garden! And yes large pump packs of toiletries which is great, they also left us a bottle of wine which was appreciated!

What do these people do in public bathrooms?

@loislaneloves This is absolutely normal. She's being really nit-picky.
Think nothing more about this random person & comment. She's an outlier.

Aesop is a lovely touch and I am sure appreciated by the vast majority of your guests

Years ago I used to buy BBQs for a living. The packaging would have various colour pictures of the BBQ showing the features etc. One of the pictures was a 'lifestyle' shot - so had some vegetable skewers/ kebabs on the grill. I think it said in small writing 'suggested use'

We got a customer complaint saying how disappointed they were that food wasn't in the same box as the BBQ and that the photo was extremely misleading 🙄. Some people are just so thick. The next year legal advised us not to have a food shot because of this one complaint. It's very annoying.

BTW your AirBnB sounds lovely - any chance of sharing the link?

I do, but hand soap is a bit different to something you wash your hair and body with.
I just take my own stuff to hotels.

Unfounded because you haven’t read op saying they are locked in. Not possible to meddle with the contents.

We all know how kettles are used. Sometimes.

This!

This is exactly what I was going to say. She’s that person who always steals the toiletries and was gutted you foiled her plan.

I stayed at an Airbnb that had all toiletries in pump bottles, including washing up liquid in the kitchen. There weren’t any shower type ones (shampoo/shower gel) but it didn’t even occur to me to be annoyed about that cause I always use my own anyway, but not cause of hygiene, because I’m fussy.

I wouldn’t bad an eyelid. There is something nice about individual bottles of toiletries in fancy places but I end up bringing them home and forgetting about them. Really it’s wasteful. Waste of money , waste of plastic . Anyone who thinks otherwise is being unreasonable. I mean if it’s unhygienic to use that then it’s unhygienic to use a communal bottle of fairy liquid or hand soap as well which is ridiculous. There are people out there who will always find something to complain about unfortunately

Agree OP, almost all 'nice' hotels now have pump dispensers, and as u have them locked into a shelf, the tiny risk that a past guest has messed with the contents is reduced ti miniscule. Your guests were just a bit odd 😁

What a lunatic surely she uses hand soap in a public toilet. Providing indiviual plastic minis for each guest is bad for the environment

Ive stayed in some of the most luxuries hotels abroad and they all provide 500ml shower gels / shampoo etc

I don't think it is unhygienic but I'm a skuzz, some people are prissy about this sort of stuff

They still gave you 4 stars, if there was something really bad it would have been much lower.

For what it's worth I hate the word obviously. It's such an aggressive word. Them being anal makes it not obvious,;the fact that none of your previous reviews commented shows it is only them that sees this as obvious.

People are nuts. Your set up sounds lovely and thoughtful and generous.

So presumably you never use soap when you wash your hands in a restaurant?

You sound like a really thoughtful host however I do see her point. I think it would be better to maybe have a dispenser on the wall like in hotels, where it needs to be opened with a key. My initial (and probably completely unfounded) concern would be that anyone would take the lid off a bottle and do something with the contents. Unlikely maybe but you don’t know who has been in there before.

I wouldn’t have knocked a star off after all the other effort you go to though, seems mean. Maybe it’s just something to consider going forward.

So she didn't even put her reason for 4 stars?

Only privately to you?

Honestly most people would have just rolled their eyes.

Perhaps you should make it clear that anyone not wanting to use these sort of pumps should bring their own?

Eta I don't think you should need to do that but it seems a few people might still be expecting small stuff?

It's completely normal - most hotels have large bottles. I can't see how it could be "unhygienic" (it's soap, FFS!), and it's very wasteful to have those little bottles.

I would be upset in your shoes too although realistically nobody is going to think a 5 star rating is going to mean the place is better than somewhere with a 4.8 star rating. The vast majority of reasonable people know that some people have unreasonable expectations.

I’d give you an extra star for the Aesop, personally.

How can soap be dirty? She sounds unhinged.

It’s really interesting on how people make assumptions… 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I never said it was unhygienic I said it’s a personal preference of mine.
Amusingly, we are not all the same and supposedly free to make our own choices. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but the person doing it.

Plenty of hotels do the same thing, increasingly so. It sounds like you have a similar set up not just random bottles everywhere.

I’m assuming hotels now do it for cost effective reasons and also sounds good on the environmental side: less waste etc,

That's not true either. You can't leave it without a licence, whether you advertise it or not. Just interested as to why you are so certain it's ok if you don't advertise it?

Who provides individual toiletries in an Airbnb, would cost a fortune and be really environmentally unfriendly. I recently stayed at an Airbnb that had lots of toiletries for use, even hair products. I had brought my own but I thought it was great.

My aunt ran a b&b before airbnb times. The bottles were expensive, the contents were supersaver.

I don't use something where I don't know the contents. Refillable may mean more environmentally sound, but also means you as a guest don't 100% know what's in the bottle.

So when you go to a restaurant, you expect single use hand wash?