Is this unhygienic?!

WOW. I think of myself as a worrier and get anxious about lots of things but this is genuinely a concern that wouldn’t even enter my head!!!! I love staying somewhere that provides nice toiletries - it’s such a treat and using them out of big pump containers is actually easier than using the tiny ones, as well as being better for the environment of course.

ignore the crazy person OP. She is the one BU, you are not and your Airbnb sounds lovely!!

Consider getting a wall mounted dispenser for the shampoo and conditioner and a nice bottle for the hand soap to be decanted into.

@loislaneloves if you want to pm a link to your property I would love it.
Quality toiletries, beach towels, crisps and wine, a deck to watch the sunset and croissants, jam and home grown fruit ticks all my boxes.

@Yogafiend ok sorry if my posts have felt intrusive. Glad it's not stopping you live your life.

Yes- we once went a bit mad for our anniversary and treated ourselves to a really posh hotel and all the toiletries were in bottles to use as much as you wanted. There was a polite notice next to them saying that if you chose to keep the bottle, it would be charged to you, and they recommended buying a full, unused bottle from the spa if you wanted to take the product home. They were about £28 a bottle so we didn't. 😂

I’m an Airbnb host and I do the same. Never had a complaint. It’s basically the same as in a budget hotel where they have e.g. shower gel dispensers on the wall. As long as the container is clean what’s the problem?

🤣🤣 frankly put no! And I honestly have no interest in thinking about it that deeply. It makes sense to me which is what matters and doesn’t stop me from living my life and honestly a little bit surprised that this has engendered such a response. Honestly it’s not that deep. So many other things to think about!

Ignore this ridiculous review !
I just came back this evening from a stay in a fabulous 5 star hotel. All of the toiletries were in big bottles with pump dispensers. Beautiful high-end products that I enjoyed using.

no reasonable person wants all of those tiny little plastic toiletry bottles any more. They’re so bad for the earth.

you can reply to your 4 star review publicly and explain why a star was deducted. You care about the environment and you provide luxury toiletries for your guests.

Exactly. Everything in our environment is covered in bacteria, viruses and mould spores. We have more bacterial cells in us than us cells but as long as they are not pathogens, they are good for tuning our immune system and they have to live too. Does she never eat in restaurants or cafeterias or eat in other peoples homes? Bring on the bacteria I say.

Yes maybe but my point is that if you are so worried about weird people putting stuff in your shower gel then you wouldn’t be able to eat in a restaurant either. Or get a take away. Or go on public transport. If you worry about weird people then it’s going to really restrict your life!

I don't get too precious about using the facilities in public loos, I'm just grateful they are there!
Different when you are shelling out to stay somewhere on a holiday. For that little portion of time, it is your home.

Ita sounds lovely op. Iv stayed in many 4 star hotels in uk and many have big bottles like this

But what stops you from using bottles that are supplied for people to use to clean themselves? Do you recall the occasion when the feeling first came to you? presumably you were able to do it at one point? Your mum made sure you used whatever was available in a public toilet but then at some point you couldn't do it any more. Just wondering what caused you to change.

Our ones are less heavy than a topper but heavier than a sheet by quite some way.

You can get those waterproof ones I guess, that are very thin. But the ones with sort of diamond quilting are quite slow to dry. I do wash ours quite a bit, but some weeks I just skip it as I don't have time to get it dried. I know hotels use laundry services with massive machines, but I still never see them being stripped by hotel staff.

We often stay at hotels within the Hilton chain, i stay at the Holiday Inn hotels with work and recently we stayed at an airport premier inn and all of them had big bottles of shower gel, shampoo and soap that were attached to the wall for guests to use. They were reused by the next guests until they ran out and were eventually replaced. What's unhygienic. You just squirt/squeeze the bottle.
Your guests are being unreasonable!

I could never work out the answers to that ha ha

@loislaneloves, 4.8 stars wouldn’t stop me booking anywhere. Once anywhere has had over a certain number of reviews it is just statistically likely that some fussy bugger has come along and docked a star for something silly, as has happened to you. People will still be able to read all the other reviews giving you five stars for cleanliness, so it will be obvious the four stars is an outlier. I get that you are disappointed, and agree it’s unfair, but this is the nature of dealing with the general public. I reckon you’ll still get lots of happy customers!

No matter what you do there is ALWAYS one.

In your trade, that’s having to deal with idiotic people I’m afraid.

Keep seeing this mentioned, but who is spending so much time in public toilets with soap dispensers that actually have soap in them to dispense.

We stayed at the Langham in Boston over Easter for a week. They had bottles that they just refilled for their hotel guests and it’s a 5 star hotel. It’s good for the environment too.

You clearly haven’t watched the Friends episode where Joey asks Chandler to think about what he washes first and what Joey washes last…

Many people are more weird than we can imagine. Because we don’t do it we can’t imagine people doing it or even thinking it will happen but a lot of people are fucking weirdos

It was a private message so you don’t need to reply or consider. The one star off is a tiny bit disappointing but then some people are overly fussy.

500ml bottles is standard now when toiletries are provided.
I never use them because they often have SLS or parabens or benzoates in them. I hate when hotels bolt them to the wall as I can’t even read the ingredients. So I always take all my own toiletries.

Loads of hotels use big refillable bottles now. I wouldn’t have an issue with it.

so you dont use the soap dispensers in public toilets then ?