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What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

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Teadrinker11 · 13/02/2022 21:30

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?

OP posts:
Whammyyammy · 14/02/2022 13:41

What a strange thread, to overly boast what you have stolen? Theft is theft, whish way you pour glitter on it

Luminousnose · 14/02/2022 13:41

@flowervest75 You didn’t say you’ve only taken a couple of big towels. You said you ‘always’ take them. Unless you’ve only ever stayed in one hotel, you must have quite a lot of towels. (Apologies if someone has already pointed this out, I haven’t read the whole thread.)

Monopolyiscrap · 14/02/2022 13:42

And taking the individual use toiletries is not stealing OP. I would not bother with teabags though. But individual use toiletries are useful.

Sportslady44 · 14/02/2022 13:44

funny post.

If you want to take any remaining biscuits or milk you can as you have paid for it.

Anything else would be thef.

MorningStarling · 14/02/2022 13:52

I don't steal from hotels because apart from the moral issue the sort of hotel I end up in doesn't tend to have anything worth stealing.

I'm curious about stealing toilet rolls, in my experience hotels tend to have appalling quality toilet paper. I usually end up bringing my own paper in rather than taking their paper out.

The worst I've done is taken some cereal from the breakfast buffet to eat later. I suppose it's technically wrong but I don't see it as morally wrong because I didn't want to eat that early in the morning but knew I would a couple of hours later. There's no real loss to the hotel because if I genuinely couldn't have taken it away I'd have forced myself to eat there.

CailleachGranda · 14/02/2022 13:54

@flowervest75

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
Well you do both, so feel free to share.
petridishmystery · 14/02/2022 13:56

I would only take things that were already included for me to use, like toiletries or biscuits but tbh I don’t usually bother. I will always take the shower caps if a hotel does them tho as they are handy!

I went away for 5 days with exDP a couple of years ago and we took our own toiletries so the only thing we used was the hand soap, but every day the cleaners would restock the little bottles anyway. On the second to last day we got back and they’d actually put all the bottles in my wash bag! Maybe they were trying to get rid of them lol but I still didn’t take them, I didn’t want them!

ParalysisByAnalysis · 14/02/2022 13:59

This thread is horrible on so many different levels.

MsVanDeKamp · 14/02/2022 14:08

I cant be arsed taking the teabags and biscuits, they just end up cluttering my cupboard and I dont actually use them. Same with miniature toiletries. I have sensitive skin anyway so take my own wash bag when I go away anywhere.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/02/2022 14:15

For anybody saying "oh, it's only a couple of towels or a mug", would you therefore be content if you got to a hotel and found your room didn't have any towels or mugs? Possibly because all of their supplies had been stolen and they hadn't had chance/funds to replace them yet? Surely you would quite cheerfully pop to the nearest shop and buy some for yourself, wouldn't you - if it's 'only' something cheap that isn't meant to stay in the hotel? Hmm

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.

That's a really underhanded way of going about things. Do you think that shoplifting is fine as long as the perpetrators pay up when stopped at the doors - and if the security person doesn't stop them, that must make it all OK?

Seriously: exactly how difficult would it have been to have asked the hotel if you could buy that one from them, take the name and number of the local maker or could they kindly order an extra one on your behalf to charge to your bill (and then maybe leave the new one you've paid for in place of you taking the one you particularly loved)? Surely that's what an honest person would do? Several options that don't involve stealing, deceit or inconveniencing the hotel and the next guests.

PollyPage · 14/02/2022 14:22

I stayed at the Mandarin Oriental a few weeks ago and phoned and asked for extra toiletries to take home and could they wrap all the fresh flowers to take. They gave me a full sized range of Jo Malone and made up bouquetS from the flowers. Iy was 700 a night though

HopingForMyRainbowBaby · 14/02/2022 14:36

Premier inn and travel lodge have their shower gel in a dispenser on the wall. I'm not that tacky to dismantle it and shove it in my suitcase. Besides I tend to take my own shower gel, shampoo and conditioner when I go away. The pillows are lovely and comfy, also not tacky enough to shove a couple in my suitcase. Toilet roll in those places is the most cheapest shite going and I prefer to wipe my arse with good quality stuff when I'm at home. Tea coffee and milk I use up in the hotel room before I leave. The worst I've taken and this was purely accidental was the hotel room key card. I was rushing to get a taxi to the station and completely forgot to post it through the wooden box. I did phone the hotel up once I'd gotten home and realised though.

DrSbaitso · 14/02/2022 14:43

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.

If you were so ready to pay for it, why didn't you?

Cherrysoup · 14/02/2022 14:50

@flowervest75

I also hope no one here has ever paid for their shopping but purposely didn’t scan the 20p shopping bag they’re meant to pay for. Seeing as ‘theft is theft,’ you’re nothing but a hypocrite🤷‍♀️
What a load of old shit. How are you extrapolating that?! You’re a thief, same as others who say they’ve taken towels. Doesn’t mean everyone else is.
Kittykatmacbill · 14/02/2022 15:05

I nearly always take the pens, as it’s nice to have a reminder of a nice trip away when scribbling a shopping list later in the year. I once liked a pen so much I asked reception if I could have another!

DearlyBeloathed · 14/02/2022 15:10

@flowervest75

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
She won't.
DrSbaitso · 14/02/2022 15:32

This is a good read. Apparently theft is worse in five star hotels than four star ones. I guess the stuff is better and people feel more entitled since they've paid more.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/23/things-people-steal-from-hotels-why

Monopolyiscrap · 14/02/2022 15:38

So rich people are most likely to be thieves.

DrSbaitso · 14/02/2022 15:39

@Monopolyiscrap

So rich people are most likely to be thieves.
No, people who stay in five star hotels are more likely to be thieves than people who stay in four star hotels.
Monopolyiscrap · 14/02/2022 15:40

Which pretty closely correlates with rich people.

DrSbaitso · 14/02/2022 15:45

@Monopolyiscrap

Which pretty closely correlates with rich people.
If you're staying in four star hotels, you're unlikely to be on UC yourself.

However, what I'm wondering is how many of the five star guests are there on someone else's dime. Business trips, etc... depending on the company and the industry, they might be more likely to go five star than four.

Ratherdogsthanpeople · 14/02/2022 15:52

Some nicer hotels have a complimentary mini bar, which they refill every day. We asked once if it was ok to basically empty and take home and the answer was of course. So we did that every time we stayed, and gave it away at home. Apart from that complimentary slippers (also new ones twice a day). Always treat staff very nicely. Put used towels in the sink instead of the floor so cleaners don’t have to bend down etc. Careful to put all half empty bottles in bathrooms in the bin.

CailleachGranda · 14/02/2022 16:00

Actually DearlyBeLoathed, "she" already has

What do you steal? I bet it socks

WalkingOnTheCracks · 14/02/2022 16:04

@flowervest75

it's just that it's possible for dishonest guests to betray their trust in basic human decency and get away with it.

I never said it was the right thing to do but it’s a couple of towels not £100 grand from the safe. Clearly no one has taken anything from a hotel that they’re not supposed too

You're right. It's not grand theft. It's petty theft.

You're not a Great Train Robber. You're a petty thief.

JustLyra · 14/02/2022 16:16

I don't understand why people steal from hotels - any hotel I've ever stayed in that's had something nice enough to pinch (once a robe and once a towel) I've asked for the make/price at reception and been told to take it.

Same result, but no worry of a random charge appearing on the credit card.

A hotel we stay in semi-regular to visit DH's Gran asks you when you check in what you want in your tea/coffee tray and then delivers the selection up to your room with a note to take ask for anymore you want and to take home any leftovers as they'll be binned, as will the toiletries.