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

This thread is now 5 years old!

Rindercella - someone linked to it for me in "Weekend Breaks" and I accidentally replied here .

I've replied in the proper place now.

Phew my friends parents own a hotel in Swaffham and I was hoping it wasn't them, thankfully it isn't.

I used to work at a rather lovely Highland hotel, and when you were paying prices such as this you would get a free glass of Dalmore whiskey and a yummy box of Arran Aromatics goodies in your room.

I've just read all of this and hadn't realised it was out of date.

Have to say I was really shocked by the posters who took it on themselves to email the hotel - what the hell business was it of theirs? And the OP shouldn't have taken the home - they were clearly not individual bottles - and she shouldn't have named the hotel, either.

Balls! I have just ploughed through this entire thread, only to find it is 5 years old!

This is why we need to lock threads after a year

I was reading this thinking there was a thread just like this about 5 years ago!

I wish I had noticed the thread was four years old before page 18.

tthithis wss a blast from the past. I posted the second reply :) will have been 8 and half months pregnant then

Bloody hell, I remember this the first time round!

Oh no and 5y after saying I stay in travel lodges...guess where I'm staying tonight? Pack my own soap these days though

It was my 27th birthday when this thread was posted. I wish I'd been at a boutique hotel

Also feels very old, remember this golden oldie

I remember reading this too.....FIVE YEARS AGO?!?!?!?!?!

Jesus Christ, five years. Five years plus the rest wasted reading mumsnet

I was wondering how I could have missed this gem, before I noticed the date!

Also, we keep bumping this thread, so some poor sod is currently ploughing their way through it, as we speak, under the illusion that it's new

Apologies MNers, when you reach this post

Got to page 5 or so then decided to skip to the last page & now realise the thread is 5 years old...the posts did make me chuckle!

I noticed there were 35 pages of posts but I couldn't be arse to read through it all, I wondered how on earth this topic could have stretched to that many pages since this morning!!

Did the OP send back the stuff in the end? did she complain to the hotel?!

I want to stay in the "Fantouche" room

I remember this thread! Argh that I've been wasting years mumsnetting for so long!

Haven't read the earlier posts but have you named and shamed?

The conclusion was that she sent the bottles back, along with an email about how embarrassing this all was. She did name and shame and the hotel sent her back a letter about how expensive these products are (£100 per room on the six refillable bottles) and how if everyone took them it would push the room rate up. But the OP only took 2 bottles and the retail price is not the price the hotel would have paid.

So basically they alienated and upset someone who'd spent £500 in their hotel, over lotions which only cost them a few quid.

Oh my god. I know mum2sons! She's in prison now.

lol kickingk, i didn't realise it was 5 years old either! Thanks for the conclusion Karma I couldn't do another 20 pages.