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

Why in the name of fuck has this been revived after 15 years?

When you go to post on a thread that's more than a year old (or it's been more than a year since it was posted on,) it says 'heads-up it's been more than a year since this was posted on. Why not start a new one???'

Why did you revive this 15 year old zombie thread @Moonopoly ? How utterly, utterly bizarre.

Blinking Zombies.

Me too! My baby (& the reason I joined MN!) is now 15 & will be doing his GCSEs this year!

Those complaining about another poster reviving a zombie thread, it's a glitch in MN app on some phones at the moment Which is showing old threads in recent thread newsfeeds
And it doesn't show the posts dates at all until pages down into it

Whoever received the post did so accidentally bc of this glitch

I have stayed in many hotels both at home and internationally over the years and I always take the toiletries; they come in handy when traveling and it’s nice to have different choices at home. I have never been asked to return any toiletries or charged for taking them; it’s absolutely disgusting that in this day and age and after a COVID pandemic that they are reusing toiletries for other guests…..yuck yuck yuck! It’s not even like they were a luxury brand is it.

so it was a actual bar of soap they asked you to return! Gross. Make sure you stick some hairs on before you do.

In this case the thread was revived because the hotel is up for sale, not just randomly.

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I stayed at Stratton's years ago, lovely hotel. I won't be staying again, weird to ask for them back. Just make a nominal charge - Gilchrist and Soames is not posh.at.all..

Yup I also remember this thread from when it was first posted. Probably read it during a sleepless night with a baby who is now a teenager. I feel old.

Jesus Christ heard it all now. Wouldn't even bother replying.

Cocktail time…..

I always take the stuff u wouldn’t use again like the small bottles of shampoo and conditioner, my reasoning is once you have opened them they can’t be re used again so would be wasted.

ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT - 2007 I do feel old now

Stupid move on their part, losing potential return customers for a couple of bottles of bath things. I would find it off-putting having partially used products in the room anyway. The small products that are provided new for each set of guests is a much better idea.

@ShowOfHands

Why resurrect this thread after all these years?

I don't get this either. What was the point? @mum2sons hasn't answered the question yet. I did ask her why she revived it. It's got fuck all to do with a 'glitch.' The thread would still have the message on, that it has not been posted on for over a year. So why drag it back up? At least it's nearly full, so it will die of before morning (probably.)

Me too! My baby (& the reason I joined MN!) is now 15 & will be doing his GCSEs this year!
my kids were at primary school when I joined and now they have mortgages!

Holy smokes,.just realised the time jump

Time flies when you're having fun (or wasting time reading MN )

I would not have taken full sized bottles. Bit surprised at how many people would! When you think about it, with those things costing around £20 each or more, if lots of people take them that quickly adds up to a lot ( even if they get a trade discount). Not sure why people feel they are entitled to them because of what they have already paid. Would people also take them from the public loos in the same hotel? The point about the small travel-sized ones is that they cannot be reused. Also, as someone else has said, imagine the waste if they threw out the contents of every large bottle after each guest. The bottles can be cleaned, the contents are not exactly contaminated, and I say this even as a germ phobe!

Probably ones that they refill then. Its fine to take minatures, but everyone knows you dont take full size ones

We seem to be getting a lot of zombie threads bumped at the moment, but 15 years seems particularly zombified. Why don't people just start their own, new, thread?

Of course it's stealing! Honestly amazed you believe it is expected/normal behaviour for guests to remove full-size items. You really don't need a sign to tell you that, just as you don't need a sign telling you not to take the towels home with you.

You obviously have a very good income at your disposal which begs the question why you need to pinch grotty hotel toiletries.