What is it about hotels that turn us into kleptomaniacs?

[BabychamSocialist]

I'm convinced something happens to us when we enter hotels that means we have to take absolutely everything that isn't nailed down. I know someone who works as a concierge for a big fancy hotel and he says that a maid leaving the trolley in the corridor is basically inviting you to stuff your pockets with as much as you can before they come back.

sparkling drink it?

The tea and coffee are of a decent quality, Kenco and Twinings... If it's Nescafé, PG Tips or Tetley then it stays. I don't take the toiletries though.

I usually take the little bottles of shower gel/shampoo but that's about it.

But when you get home you have your own coffee, you don't need teeny sachets from the hotel.

Weird.

Actually, most hotels give you little individually wrapped tea-bags now and they're usually nice brands like Twinings or others. I've nicked a few odd flavours from the room if I've never tried them before - saves me buying a full box.

I've never taken the toilet roll - most of it is awful anyway, very scratchy. Apparently Premier Inn have had people trying to nick their beds because they're so comfy. I know you can buy them off them because that's who we got ours off - it is brilliant, I must admit.

Don't you use the toiletries at the hotel?

I don't get why you would take your own toiletries to use at the hotel just so that you could then take the mini bottles home with you? Seems a bit pointless.

I take the small toiletries from the room, but wouldn't take from the trolley, I get tempted especially if I see the little packets of borders biscuits, but I think no that's a step to far and stop myself!

I have to take the packet of biscuits from the room each day in my handbag, even if I don't eat them straight away, as that way they replace them every day!

I don't stay in hotels much, OH does sometimes with work but never brings me stuff back from the room, maybe I should LTB?

I love the episode of friends with Ross in the hotel room

tired of I take my own because I prefer to use them instead of the cheap shite I see in hotels. We tend to stay in bed and breakfast places rater than upmarket hotels, so I have never stated anywhere with nice toiletries.

I don't usually bother, but I couldn't resist this...

The last hotel I stayed in had Molton Brown toiletries - course I took them! I'd paid for them!

the next time we go away it might be in a tent - where the teeny tiny pots of useful stuff means you don't have to heave a asda bag holdall across a field

They might be useful for an overnight camp, but any longer and the space that a washbag filled with half a dozen shower gels/shampoos would take up is negligably less than space needed for the wash bag with a small bar of soap, fullsized shampoo, travel toothbrush/paste and roll on deoderant I usually take.

When we go camping, the one luxury is a decent shower, and we always research campsites with decent facilities for that exact reason (and if we're wild camping then it is a moot point anyway as there are no showers and we rely on wet wipes instead ). I'd rather take my own full sized product than cheap hotel toiletries and risk needing a shower after a day's hike only to find I run out of the tiny hotel showergel but still not have washed off all the mud or trying to rinse seasalt out of my heair after a trip to the seaside only to find that there isn't enough shampoo in the hotel bottle.

"What are you going to do with a teeny sachet of coffee once you are home anyway?"

Provide my mother, who won't drink proper coffee, with crappy instant when she visits. Saves me keeping a jar of the stuff in the cupboard for a once a week coffee

When my mum died we were left with boxes of hotel toiletry stuff. It took us about 9 months to use it all (3 adults, 1 kid at the time). Now I use the stuff in my room and might bag one for the trip back home but that's it.

The last hotel I stayed in had Molton Brown toiletries - course I took them! I'd paid for them!

Why didn't you use them when you were at the hotel? Why take them home? Did you use your own toiletries at the hotel so that you could take the MB home?

tired of I take my own because I prefer to use them instead of the cheap shite I see in hotels.

Fair enough- but then why take the cheap shite home?

Principal Skinner: You're stealing a table?
Homer: I'm not stealing it. Hotels expect you to take a few things. It's a souvenir!
Principal Skinner: Ah. Is that my necktie you're wearing?
Homer: Souvenir.

I'm currently in a Premier Lodge and now I know why the shower gel is nailed to the wall.

I stayed in a luxury hotel many years ago on a work trip and they had Molton Brown, which to a young me was the height of sophistication. I used the shower gel and moisturiser on the first day, and tidied everything away in my wash bag, planning to use it again the next day.

The cleaner replaced them, which I hadn't been expecting. So then I hid the bottle from the shower and the one that was by the bath too. The next day the cleaner replaced both of them! So each day after that I swiped all the bottles and each day they were replaced. I had quite a collection by the end of the week.

I used to take shower gel and soaps. I stopped, it just piled up. Nobody wants a soap the size of a sugar cube or weird vanilla shampoo.

Because everybody loves the feeling of getting something for nothing/a bargain.

In a hotel, it's a glorified form of stealing - the thinking that you have paid for the room, it's "ok" to take stuff/supplies, but it is still stealing.

However, (most) people wouldn't dream of doing the same in Tesco's - just because you're paying for a food shop, that it means you could stash stuff in your bag.

I don't take stuff from hotels, not because I am holier than thou, but because the toiletries supplied are shite, and I don't use hotel towels anyway, so wouldn't bother taking them.

I take the shampoo and soap if I fancy them. My husband is a bit like Ross from Friends. If checkout is 11am then by God we will be sitting on the beds until 10:59.

I couldn't be bothered to take anything home. I buy the little travel toiletries from Boots for a couple of quid and use those. That way I get to choose the ones I like and don't have to bother with the little teeny tiny bottles that some hotels provide.

When the kids were little I sometimes used to make up some snacks for them to eat later at breakfast time but I ALWAYS used to ask. I was super polite and I was always permission so I think that was ok.

Take any unused shampoo and shower gel as it is useful when camping. And sometimes make a sandwich for lunch from the breakfast buffet. But that is it.

for those saying it's 'shite' re toiletries - but if you were stayinng in an expensive hotel, they would be fab. Would you thm take them? principle is the same! And no nothing wrong with taking what's in your room as you pay for all that (hotel get then in bulk with huge discounts) - same goes for replenished. Some hotels (4* plus) tend to pput new toiletries in even if you haven't used even half of bottles of yesterday's ones - so obvoiusly they encourage it).
Also I don't get the outrage re trollies! Again in 4* plus you can just ask for more and they give you usually more than one, happily. These little treats really are cheap for hotels. So if you need/want something but maid isn't there it's really no big deal to help yourself (but a few, not fill a bag with ).
Towels and gowns are different - they do cost a lot more if good quality. Slippers obviously are disposable so again not stealing - if you used them, they'll be thrown out. But they never last anyway!

lots of typos, sorry.

E1y1 it's not anything like a Tesco shop. You don't pay a set price in Tesco then stuff everything in your bag, it's an itemised bill. The toiletries are included in the price you have paid for the room. For you to use/have. They don't care.