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To take the body lotion and soap from a £250 a night hotel? They have asked for it back!!!

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mum2sons · 05/04/2007 09:36

DH and I spent our wedding anniversary in a v expensive boutique hotel. I took the body lotion and soap home as I usually would do (sad, but I get v excited about these things!)Yesterday we received a letter from the hotel asking for us to send the 2 items back for the future enjoyment of guests!!! Talk about humiliation! Looking forward to MNetters views

OP posts:
talcyegg · 05/04/2007 21:57
powder28 · 05/04/2007 21:58

Lol Sea

We should divert the thread to another topic...

FrannyandZooey · 05/04/2007 21:58

I wish OP had taken a photo first before sending them back

god some people hey? very thoughtless of you OP

powder28 · 05/04/2007 21:59

I think the op has retreated back into the shadows...

LittleEasterLapin · 05/04/2007 22:00

powder, there's another thread, verbatim reporting of the hotel's reply email

nulnulcat · 05/04/2007 22:03

not had time to read all of this but if you are going to nick anything from an hotel get it from the trolleys the maids use to service the rooms - loads of towels toiletries and bath robes fancy individually wrapped tea bags etc and they can nver trace it back to anyones room

im ex cabin crew so stayed in lots of hotels and ive always nicked the toiletries, contents of mini bars

Aloha · 05/04/2007 22:04

Ha! A GALLON (yes, a gallon) of the Gilchrist body lotion costs $84 dollars - that's, what, £50. £17 my arse.

arse

LittleEasterLapin · 05/04/2007 22:05

Gosh, hotel products (possibly) not as expensive as claimed. OK to steal then!

Aloha · 05/04/2007 22:10

How many times have I said that hotels routinely supply toiletries on the understanding that they are for you. Included in the room rate. To do with as you wish. It is not stealing.
So you have in your room a plastic bubble bath dispenser. YOu have stayed two nights and there are two of you. You have had a couple of baths, two showers and washed your hair. Half the product at least is gone. I would assume that the bottle will be chucked when I left and would be likely to take it home. I would not assume that in a smart hotel, someone would come along with a gallon bucket and refill the crappy plastic dispenser.
I have stayed in beautiful hotels where the bath stuff comes in glass decanters or ceramic pumps. I wouldn't take those. But a half or three quarters empty plastic pump dispenser like the one I've just chucked out from my kitchen? Yes, I'd take that. I'd be horrified to be harrassed over it.
FFS put the stuff in properly environmentally friendly glass or ceramic not plastic if you want to show off about being green.

JanH · 05/04/2007 22:11

Methinks the lady doth protest too much...

JanH · 05/04/2007 22:11

(Not you, aloha )

LittleEasterLapin · 05/04/2007 22:13

Look, I'm just stating a point of view, I am not ransacking the internet looking for prices of plastic dispensers possibly sold in a hotel which I didn't even go to!

I'm with Aitch, I'm bored of going round in circles. I think it was wrong, you don't, end of discussion as far as I am concerned.

Aloha · 05/04/2007 22:16

and I'm not accusing someone of being a thief.

WotzsanEgg · 05/04/2007 22:16

I think you have lost the plot. Small individually wrapped items are the normal stuff to take. And in this hotel guest would probably complain that this standard was not suitable and have put some more luxury larger items in thinking guests that thier lovely guests wouldn't take it!

Maybe you are the first! Maybe from bow on they'll put some smaller samples in a bowl for guests to take, who knows.

Some hotels put up signs saying things like 'if you like the dressing gowns, pillows, blankets, towels, please speak to reception as we sell them for X amount'.

I have been told that some hotels have the plugs taken from the sink! What's that about?

Leave it. Stand away.

Dottydot · 05/04/2007 22:17

We need Olive Oil to do this:

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Dottydot · 05/04/2007 22:18

(We definitely need OO - hers would have been much better! )

Aloha · 05/04/2007 22:18

psml at 'luxury' plastic pump dispensers!

foxinsocks · 05/04/2007 22:19

lol aloha

I so admire your staying power on this thread!

NadineBaggott · 05/04/2007 22:19

well the hotel are making false claims about the price of their product

lying is as bad as stealing in my book

WotzsanEgg · 05/04/2007 22:20

Aloha have I made you laugh?

Aloha · 05/04/2007 22:20

I am bored witless by the features I've been writing today! Am fascinated by people who believe that hotels don't give you the toiletries as a rule and who think that plastic pump dispensers are luxury items!

southeastastra · 05/04/2007 22:20

come on it's a no brainer. if you can afford to stay in said hotel. why the hell would you find the need to take the dispensers?

NadineBaggott · 05/04/2007 22:21

write a feature on the Stratton Hotel

NadineBaggott · 05/04/2007 22:21

would Gwnny or Posh been hounded for the bottle back?

I rest my sphincter

southeastastra · 05/04/2007 22:23

would posh or gwynnie taken them though?

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