What's acceptable to take from a hotel stay?

[cheesychops]

Just reading the magazines in the hotel room and wondering- is it acceptable to take these home with me?!?

Also wondering what hotel goodies people generally snaffle home after a hotel stay.

Personally, I'll be taking the posh 'ground coffee bags' and the packets of biscuits , but will probably leave the miniature toiletries as they always hang around and don't get used...

[cheesychops]

You know, I fully intended on taking the magazines, toiletries, tea bags etc... after all your excellent advice.
But forgot the whole bloody lot in the madness that is checking out with a baby.
I feel robbed...😞

[MsJudgemental]

I took the magazines from my last stay... . I presumed that that was OK as there was free gin and sherry in the room!

[Groovee]

@moggiek I did, they wanted me to pay £400 just for the mattress on a £29 stay! Was most grumpy.

[Birdsbeesandtrees]

Oh and for full disclosure I did once steal a towel. Although it was an accident since I had brought my own but packed the hotel one to go home by mistake.

[KatyBerry]

I stayed in a very lovely and expensive hotel which had really prominent lists of the cost for e.g. the tissue box holder, bathrobes, the cushions, the bedcovers. They'd obviously had an issue with light fingers but as a law abiding toiletries only kind of guest, I found it tacky and extremely offensive

[Birdsbeesandtrees]

Actually there are a couple of brands of toiletries I always take - one is only available wholesale and the other is ESPA so fairly expensive and I don't fancy paying so much for a shower gel when I stay in that hotel fairly often and can take a mini when I'm there.

I take the other minis and donate them to the local food bank. Since I travel a lot it's a fair few donations.

[Birdsbeesandtrees]

I admit I have also taken the rubber duck.

[HemanOrSheRa]

I stayed at Le Manoir last year. There were very tasteful little notes in the wardrobe and bathroom encouraging you to take things like the slippers, the shoe bag and they give you a little bag to put the soap in so you can take it away.

[BringMeTea]

Ha ha. Who knew?

[Panda81]

@BringMeTea believe it or not it was a Best Western! (Premium)

[Panda81]

@BunsBumpBlur it was my first Duckie hotel!
The duck itself didn't say not to take and I figured there is just as much hygiene issue with a rubber duck as with the toiletries! Imagine if the ducks are used in a bath and then kept for the next person

[Oysterbabe]

I always take the toiletries, they're handy for weekends away and hand luggage only flights.

[LesLavandes]

Now I know why no hotel remotes ever work! Last guest has taken the batteries 😂😂😂

[YouWouldntLetItLie]

hesterton

[caffeinestream]

and a hall porter called Derek.

[RiversrunWoodville]

cheesy dd2 (who cosleeps)projectile vomited on our bed in hotel a couple of weeks ago, she's only 2 and I stripped cover instantly to try and save the actual duvet but I'm sure they thought one of us had been drinking and blamed her even though her bed clearly hadn't been touched

[MyOtherNameIsTaken]

hesterton

[barefoofdoctor]

Top tip. Hire a van for the weekend, then make sure you get the bathroom suit, bed side cabinets, bed, mattress, duvets, and don't forget the coat hangers, carpet and lightbulbs. You've paid for it all innit?

[hellokittymania]

Some hotels now put shampoo, shower gel and other things in large bottles so as not to waste them, and probably to keep people from taking them home.

If I can take the toiletries, I do take things like shampoo and shower gel .

[Tartyflette]

I stayed at quite a posh hotel on the South Bank (The Mondrian) where thry. Had very nice decent sized tubes of Malin+Goetz shower gel, body lotion ,shampoo and conditioner. Also (payable) condoms, popcorn, sweeties, snack things and other bits and pieces.
My best haul was from a 4* hotel in Tokyo where along with the usual toiletries there were amazing little bottles of Shiseido face products, hair tonic, folding handbag-sized hairbrushes, toothpaste and brushes as well as shaving stuff and slippers. There was loads of it. We didn't take the kimonos, though!

[cheesychops]

Hmm so I may end up leaving everything and buying the hotel staff some biscuits now.
Baby just pooped all on our bed (mid nappy change 😩).
The Friends episode gives no advice for etiquette in this kind of scenario...

[SugarnetMum]

Lol at the people thinking they're being rebellious taking the toiletries. They are there for you to take, they want you to take them. 'Use what you need and leave it there' yeah cause they're totally gonna use what's left :S youre wasting it if you leave them there they'll go straight in bin.

[SparklyUnicornPoo]

when I was a teenager I was involved in a project that involved lots of staying in hotels, money was really tight one trip and it was my mums birthday the day I got back, there were 14 of us, plus youth workers, so I went round all my friends rooms pinching their biscuits and toiletries every day and gave her a carrier bag of freebies The guidance I was given by the youth worker was if they are going to chuck it when you leave you can take it but kettles, towels, bedding and TVs is going too far.

[tickwhitetick]

If you take the mini toiletries and later wonder where you'll put them, please donate them to the oncology unit of your nearest hospital! I have spent unexpected time in one and hadn't brought any toiletries with me and I was so happy to be given mini shampoos/ soap/ toothpaste etc by the nurse