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

[mum2sons]

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

beige aramis soap on a rope

omg you can still buy it

Amazing this is still going on!

Seeing as it is, I'm prepared to put myself forward for Mn to carry out its own investigation.

Everyone donate money for me and DP to have a two night stay in the red room (£450 please) and I will return to confirm if the bottles looked a) expensive b) stealable or c) that the stuff inside is worth a snotty letter!

That should then resolve the matter. Does this sound like a plan?

Flossalump lol.

Having stayed in hotels, and been asked on more than one occasion whether I wanted a different brand of toiletries (as I don't tend to use hotel soaps/shampoos, I usually take my own). I too find it rather amusing that this particular hotel appears so very attached to it's soap dispensers. I may be looking at the wrong plastic bottles in the links, but they look very similar to ones one can buy from places like Muji pretty cheaply.

I can`t believe we have run up 755 messages on my dilemma
Does that win some kind of MN award?

To think that this time last week I was happily celebrating at said hotel, an innocent virgin to crime and now here I am a soap phobic with lotion aversion..

The stolen goods will be returned tomorrow via Royal Mail all being well with the post and this sorry episode in criminal history will be yesterdays news.

i would hope that you would get some sort of acknowledgement from teh hotel, tbh. i think they've been very heavy-handed. did you ever tell us what they said in the letter, by the way?

Is this the longest thread ever on mumsnet?

no chance. you need moondog and some bfing research for that.

mum2sons did you have any of the extras?? the scattered rose petals or champagne and flavoured condoms.

We had the champagne, no chocolate condoms thankfully, that would have been embaressing to have to send back

The letter said:

Dear
We hope you enjoyed your stay on Fri 30th and Sat 31st March.

We note from our room check that you have packed the "Gicrest and Soames" body lotion and hand soap.

Please could you return the body lotion and hand soap dispensers for the next guests enjoyment.

Kind Regards

The most ironic thing is that it is actually dated 1st April.

'enjoyment'?

Oh yeah I get loads of enjoyment from pumping soap and lotion, so much so that I spend all my time in the bathroom, never venturing out

There is NO way that the hotel can have known for sure that it was m2s who had taken the dispensers, and for that reason and that alone, they should NOT have sent the letter IMO.

So there.

ROFL Nads

Someone called 'NadBag' doesn't get enjoyment out of the lotion dispenser?

Yeah, right .

at NadBag and lotion

You're just trying to reach the 1000 posts mark now, aren't you...

utter boswellox, ll.

Ah, someone who thinks it was theft

What do you think of my point? Hmm?

Two "it was theft"ers!

Come on!

well, nobody has yet answered my question 'would you have taked pump dispensers off the bathroom shelf and packed them in front of the hotel manager?'

i've always said that they shouldn't have chased it up, hunker. but that wasn't where the debate took us.

Not read the thread....... no..... i would never take a pump dispenser... ever

I would've taken the pump dispensers in front of the manager - if they were plasticky ones, not the posher ones.

I do think if a hotel is trying to be green, they'd do better to use something other than plastic for their soap dispensers.

i don't completely believe you, you know... but i agree about the glass dispensers, it's a bit cheapoid not to, given that you can pick them up in woolies for a few quid.