Should hotels stock nail files?

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I've broken a nail, I've no nail scissors or file, wouldn't you expect reception to have a stock of emergency nail files? In a Novotel, asked at reception and drew a blank. I'm in NL, is it a language issue or is a nail file unreasonable? Not sure what to do with jagged nail.. 1st world problems I know..

I’ve recently been in a hotel in Barcelona and there was a nail file in its own little packet. I brought it home.

I thought most did. Usually cheap cardboard ones though.
Don’t you have one in your makeup bag of handbag anyway?

I have a mini swiss army type ish knife, it comes with a nail file, so I've always got an emergency file with me :-).

I have literally never used a nail file! but then I don't use makeup either as to why they are essentials!

Having said THAT tho, I also don't travel This whole thread is baffling to me!

Not a minger either before anyone comments. Professional job, shower daily, etc,

I think I just live a simple life!

@Ponoka7. No need to break cheap nail files in half. Just buy the little packs of five travel nail files, they're packaged like matches booklets. You can buy them for about a £1.00 in Superdrug, Primark, Boots etc. Pop in your handbag, wash bag etc and you'll always have a nail file.

What - emergency cuticle pusher and nail file as must have item at hotel?

I've broken a nail, I've no nail scissors or file, wouldn't you expect reception to have a stock of emergency nail files?

"Emergency" nail file? Since when is breaking a nail an emergency?

No, I don't think I've used a nail file this century so I'd never ask for one.

Not a minger either before anyone comments. Professional job, shower daily, etc

Why comment on the professional job? Being a minger and having a professional job are not mutually exclusive.

YANBU OP. You should file a complaint.

No I wouldn't expect hotel, especially budget chains like Novotel, to keep nail files in stock, where does it end?

Nail files are light and cheap, if having access to a nail file at all times is important to you, you should keep one in your handbag, suitcase, washbag or wherever.

The hotel I stay in regularly has a little courtesy kit in the bathroom which includes an emery board.

This is a new world to me. I have never used a nail file in my life. I can't think what I'd use it for.

Filing your nails?
I even briefly file my toenails after I’ve cut them as there are rough bits at the edges which catch on bedding etc.

I've also managed to get to 50 without using a nail file and I'm still alive!

Maybe it depends on what sort of nails you have.

Mine are very hard and I've never bitten them and when I cut them there can be sharp pointy bits or edges that I need to smooth down or I'd eg give my nose a scratch and end up drawing blood.

Finding it interesting that as usual women on MN are being told off for doing a perfectly normal thing as if it's the utter height of vanity!

Mine are also really curved like semicircles if you look down at them so I can't use clippers as they're too flat.

Toenails OTOH are fine for clippers and don't need smoothing.

Maybe leave people to use the things that work best for them rather than implying that their method is the height of decadent extreme grooming or something.

In the same vein the amount of women saying that hotels should not have files and women must remember them if they want them as if they're a luxury item, presumably don't worry about hotels having spare razors which will usually be asked for by men. Same as the women on a thread recently who were saying it was ridiculous to think that hotels could include a sanitary towel or 2 in the kit.

It's really eye opening and I suppose comes from the underlying thing in society that women should be organised and look after themselves and also that their grooming should somehow happen by magic, in secret, not be mentioned it referenced (see anger at women doing makeup on the tube) , while men of course need to be looked after.

(Waits for posts to say 'this isn't a feminist issue' )

In the same vein the amount of women saying that hotels should not have files and women must remember them if they want them as if they're a luxury item

I don't see the point in hotels having nail files or razors, men can manage without shaving in a morning and if they forget their razor they can go to the 24 hour supermarket and women can do the same for nail files. It'd be useful if they had toothbrushes available but anything they have is a bonus, particularly at the budget chains.

The best thing about this thread is your DH asking for a nail file at the bar

Glenhaggis if hotels, as businesses, choose to have these things, it's up to them, surely.

I can't understand the pov that they absolutely shouldn't and it's wrong wrong wrong wrong.

Bizarre

I mean those who feel strongly can call around before traveling and check that these things aren't available I suppose. So decadent. Reminds me of that Blackadder episode with the drinking and the aunt

I can't understand the pov that they absolutely shouldn't and it's wrong wrong wrong wrong.

I agree, I just can't see the point rather than saying they shouldn't.

presumably don't worry about hotels having spare razors which will usually be asked for by men

I wouldn't expect hotels to keep razors, sanitary products or anything else either, especially at the budget end of the market.

Some hotels are even stopping providing toiletries, because there's so much waste as part used bottles are thrown away and many people prefer their own products anyway.

You wouldn't expect them to but do you actively think they shouldn't ?

Hotel we're in now has refillable hand/ shower/ shampoo (multi purpose detergent essentially) which feels like a decent compromise!

It bemuses me that people would be taken aback at the the idea of a hotel reception providing a man with a razor if he'd forgotten his, but it takes all sorts I suppose.