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

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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

lol nadine - I would never have thought you were like that

This thread should be emailed to Waitrose, so they can start stocking Gilchrist and Soames under their "apsirational toiletries" aisle.

you see, you should all start taking them.

Otherwise, you are subsidising all of us who do and missing out yourselves.

I would definitely take these but not these .

Crikey is this still going on? Surely there are only two POV's

its right - and they handled it badly.

its wrong - and they handled it badly.

Surely there is no need to discuss this up to 600+ posts????

here dotty - the other half of your line....

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Duh! But hotels GIVE them to you! They are YOURS! (except, obviously at Strattons )

So you take, ll - it's spit or swallow, surely?

Aloha you seem to be taking the tack of battering people with your opinion until everyone either goes away or agrees with you?

But they DON'T give these ones, and they state it on their website! They give you towels and sheets and teacups and glasses etc - but you don't take them!

OK, comparison (not that good, but brian is on strike) - if there was a plastic cup in the room, and I needed a plastic cup for the car, I would take it. I would not take a glass. There is a CLEAR (no pun intended).

And JanH - - you are very norty!

Is it a bull with a rag or rag with a ball or dog with a rag bull? Not sure.

But Franny, others are saying it's OK to take this size {--} but not this size {--} - where do we draw the line without rules?

insert missing word > CLEAR difference.

but they weren't glass

Its sense and common and common and sense, sometimes they do go together, sometimes they don't.
That's why some celebs take most things because they either lack, common or sense or both.
LittleEasterLapin I liked your visual comparison/explaintion.

no, I didn't mean the glass/plastic difference, more the, um, permanency difference (is that a word?)

so are you saying its ok to take aplastic container as opposed to glass?

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Well, it isn't just my opinion that hotels give you toiletries, it's a fact. It's also a fact that these are plastic pump dispensers we are talking about. As I said earlier, I don't know why it's worse to say that than it is to go around accusing people of stealing.

so the hotel assumes that you've read their entire website word for word before you arrive?

either they state obviously that you can't take the bottles or fix them to the wall (indicating that they are permanent fixtures) OR people will take the toiletries because that's what most people do when they go to hotels.

how plastic is your cup?

cos I've got plastic picnic cups that are rather nice

"But Franny, others are saying it's OK to take this size {--} but not this size {--} - where do we draw the line without rules?"

LOL I don't know, it is HOTEL TOILETRY ANARCHY

I must say this thread has kept me alternately amused / appalled / entertained for much of the day now, good work everyone

Aloha, you need some backup if you are going to present things as facts.

I think this will go down in the annals with red rugs, pirates, grapes, cats and footballs

how very excellent

HOTEL TOILETRY ANARCHY, yes, fab, woohoo!!!!!, I have not been anarchic for - oh, must be decades

she has presented facts - read the thread

lol nadine - bet my cheapy Manc hotel has dolly size bottles

I would have thought my horses had all come in if I was confronted with large plastic pump dispensers