What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

[Teadrinker11]

I'm definitely guilty of stealing things from hotel rooms. I never go for anything overly big, usually teabags, toilet roll and the toiletries when I leave.
What are you guilty of nicking from hotels or your workplace?

[quote RampantIvy]@flowervest75 I think it is because you actually stole from the hotel whereas everyone else has just taken items that are meant to be consumed and not reused - drinks, biscuits, toiletries etc.

There is a difference.[/quote]
No, plenty of people have stolen things: bath mats, curtain tie backs, pillowcases, towels with their name on, glasses from pubs, but for some reason, you all want to pick on one person.

Sad, really.

If the hotel provides a “branded” pen in the room with website address, phone number etc, they are there to be taken. It’s a marketing item; very different from taking towels and loo rolls.

@flowervest75

Also, people have said they’ve taken pens, glasses from pubs, towels, robes, pillows and so on. They took them because they wanted them. Yet people keep @‘ing me and asking why I’m staying at a hotel if I can’t afford towels. I took them because along with all those other people, I wanted too. I’m sure in my first post I said I like that it’s big or fluffy or something yet people are asking me why I’m not saving up for towels.

Now again, can people not read or is there some sort of agenda here because I’m the only one continuously responding?!

What do you think?

I think the travel toiletries are fine especially if you've used them already and I take the open soap bar home as it will be discarded

Only the little sachets of coffee, and I've paid for those anyway

I drink hardly any, and jars I buy in for friends go hard before they're a quarter used so the sachets are handy

Toiletries are pretty standard one to take but towels 😮 that's proper stealing! Toiletries are included in price of the room.

I've only taken the toiletries when they were molten brown when we were in a fancy hotel in Dubai. I came home with loads of minis my dh was a bit eh what the fuck it's just shower gel 😂

I would never take anything like a towel, dressing gown, pillow, cup, etc. If the hotel had something especially nice that I liked, I would make a note of the brand and buy it.

@eightlivesdown

I would never take anything like a towel, dressing gown, pillow, cup, etc. If the hotel had something especially nice that I liked, I would make a note of the brand and buy it.

So would I. Some people are shameless. Worst of all, make things more expensive for others.

@ThinWomansBrain

I was at a hotel that had the most beautiful mugs - bone china, very thin, quite plain. I took one. Still have it, one of my favourite mugs ten years later.

Why? It wasn't yours to take?

They took them because they wanted them

I'd ask what that's got to do with it except there'd be no point, but how far does it go because someone "wants" something? Why stop at towels or whatever when there's all that lovely retail stuff just there for the taking?

@Fizbosshoes

I stole a branded ashtray from a Travelodge once when I was a stroppy teenager. I still feel bad about it thirty years later. Especially since it was a family room and the hotel probably thought my very upright, anti-smoking parents took it.

The last time I stayed at a Travelodge , I think about 2017 (I don't know why we didn't pick Premier Inn which was just as convenient and a lot nicer for the same price!) it was literally as bare a bedroom you could imagine. I Suspect prison cells might be more well furnished. It literally had a bed and 2 shelves attached to the wall as bedside tables and that was it. There might have been a rail for a few clothes but not a wardrobe. Admittedly the toilet wasn't actually in the room. The shower gel/shampoo was in a dispenser attached to the wall. I didn't want any "souvenirs" from such a depressing and bare room, and would only ever take consumables but you'd have been hard pressed to remove anything from the room!
It reminded me of my trip to Aldi early in the pandemic where the hand sanitiser was chained down!!

Oh. That was probably my fault. Sorry!

So flowervest75 if liking something is a good enough reason to take it, regardless of whether it is yours, you would be very understanding if someone took your handbag or coat while you were sitting in a cafe?

Somehow I don't think you'd "lol" about that

Seriously guys stop feeding the troll.

She is obviously just making inflammatory remarks and comments to wind people up.

(Unless there genuinely are people out there who take things "because they want them" and then brag about being a thief)

We have loads of glasses from our local pub. Asked the landlord if we could buy them and he gave them too us. He said he did pay for them but a nominal price- they are £7 on brewery website

The hotel I am in today has a price list. Robes are$180 and glasses $54

Now again, can people not read or is there some sort of agenda here because I’m the only one continuously responding?!

It's cos most people only read page 1

Oh. That was probably my fault. Sorry!

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Lol. We just made a note to go to Premier Inn next time.

I don't usually take anything and towels is definitely stealing IMO.

However DH and I stayed in a hotel once for 4 weeks while we were adopting our Daughter in Russia and they provided these lovely bath robes. They were made locally and were very unique so after 4 weeks we took one of them home. We figured they had our CC so could charge us if they wanted to but they never did. So I guess we stole it.

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo

Seriously guys stop feeding the troll.

She is obviously just making inflammatory remarks and comments to wind people up.

(Unless there genuinely are people out there who take things "because they want them" and then brag about being a thief)

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo people love the troll line on here too don’t they? People have continuously @‘d me but when I respond I’m making comments to wind people up? Ok hun

I’d appreciate if that poster came back to tell me what demographic is known for stealing and using the word hun. It’d be lovely to hear of some nice prejudice so why not

What is it with you @flowervest75?

You seem to be doing everything to can to antagonize people who already have a low opinion of thieves.

Go and do something useful?

@ajandjjmum please explain how I’m antagonising anyone? People love to throw words around with no clear explanation. This is a public forum, I can reply how many times I want especially when people keep @ ing me and quoting me. All I’m doing is responding back. Is that a problem?

I’ve taken fruit tea sachets and half used minis from the bathroom. Don’t tend to stay in hotels often, but the mini bottles were refilled for swimming and PE for quite a while before the lids died. I tend to buy towels from Primark. Not posh, but certainly fluffy enough, and no conscience burning.

Many years ago I worked in a hotel, some people would take bedding, pillows, batteries from the tv remotes. We even once had a room completely ransacked by travellers who took the taps, shower head, light bulbs haha! On a serious note other than the toiletries and biscuits/coffee etc I wouldn't take anything else and would definitely not take towels or robes.

Michael Winner said he took so much from a hotel room once the staff ran after him and were pulling lamps and similar out of his bags.