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...

I grew up in a house where all the bathmats and towels had the names of hotels woven in to the edges....

Batteries?

It was a bugger getting the four poster out.

Batteries from the remote?

Really? What a tight arse you must be

Surely no one really takes the batteries?

As long as you don't take the remote itself.

Toiletries, great for hand luggage only flights and budget hotel stays when you're not sure whether they provide any. I like to travel light.

You must all stay in some pretty upmarket places. I have never wanted to use let alone take home the toiletries from hotel bathrooms. And I have never come across posh coffee bags either. It is usually a couple of sachets of Nescafe. I wish more hotels would put decaff tea and coffee in the rooms. If I drink caffeine in the evening I can't sleep.

We take toiletries that we will realistically use. Any spare mini soaps, sower gels and shampoos are useful as we take them to parks or beaches to have a good hand wash with some bottle water if the kids get dirty and there's no loo, also for the times when I occasionally need to shower at work. Cotton buds, cotton pads and shower caps we will also use. Can't think of much else.

I've never understood the mentality of people who clear out as much as they can from a hotel room - people who can afford to stay in a hotel but want a teeny tiny bottle of crappy shampoo, what's that all about?? Use what you need and leave the rest.

I agree snowgirl

Lol, been reading this thread thinking of Ross from Friends and see I'm not the only one!
Don't forget the bog roll (just make sure no-one needs the toilet first...)

Now the salt shaker is off limits, but the salt.... i wish I'd thought this through

(Ross gellar)

Oh, and just to clear up, I never actually take anything at all 'cos I'm a good girl.
I just find the Friends sketch funny

One of the offices I work at has a basket at the front desk for hotel/travel size toiletries - when the baskets full it all goes to the local women's shelter. Fulfils peoples kleptomaniac tendencies and makes sure the stuff gets used

Now the salt shaker is off limits, but the salt.... i wish I'd thought this through

I feel it's perfectly acceptable to take the toiletries and tea coffee biscuits as these have been kind of included in your stay, by that I mean the hotel are expecting to replace these whether through you using them during your stay or taking them home with you. But towels etc aren't

Great idea mumonashoestring

@snowgirl1, my hotel stash is full of Aveda and L'Occitane. Not all hotel toiletries are crappy!

I only take the toiletries. And only if they are good quality and I would actually use them! If i have used some of the bottle then it seems better to take them and keep using them rather than leave them to be chucked away

bombardier I developed a big l'occitane addiction after a hotel stay

WillowWeeping you could take the shoe bags, but again, annoying!

It shows a funny side of human nature that we'd pay, say £80, for a hotel room and then "steal" the shampoo (worth 30p) or biscuits (worth 20p?!)

You can buy a big bottle of shampoo for a quid! Or a packet with 20(!!!)biscuits

I never thought that the branded hotel toiletries were as good as the actual products in the shops - the L'Occiatne lotions in hotels just don't seem as nice as the shop ones. Or is it just me?