Page 22 | What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

Teadrinker11 · 2022-02-13T21:30:03+00:00

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?

Silversprinkles · 15/02/2022 14:24

[quote Sparklingbrook]@Silversprinkles I read that as a joke response to the super long comfy towel thing. Am I wrong?[/quote]
Given some of the comments on this thread, it could be true!

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2022 14:26

You might be right @Silversprinkles 😮

Mo1911 · 15/02/2022 14:33

@Ylvamoon

A set of lovely bath towels... it had the hotels name on them, which is also my name. Just couldn't resist!

Well you could have resisted but chose not to.

caringcarer · 15/02/2022 14:39

I have picked up the mini bottles of shampoo and conditioner as good for travel. DH likes the peppermint tea if there is any and might take one of those for when he gets home.

caringcarer · 15/02/2022 14:40

They sell those really big towels in Sainsbury's. Not as if you can't buy them.

caringcarer · 15/02/2022 14:43

I always take our own travel kettle with us when we stay in Travel Inn and I always live in fear of staff thinking we have stolen it even tho not quite the same as there's. I have heard so many nasty stories about those kettles I just can't use it.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 15/02/2022 14:44

@Blossomtoes

Only toiletries and only then if they’re really nice ones. What kind of cheapskate steals loo rolls?

I've never stolen anything from a hotel but I think if a toilet roll has been started it gets thrown out before next guest arrives. Though I might have seen this on that posh hotel programme on the telly.

chesirecat99 · 15/02/2022 15:14

My ex would steal anything he could fit in his suitcase. He travelled around the world staying in 5 * hotels every few weeks for work and would often bring me back a gift. It as only when he brought me back the gift of an std that it all came out and he told me that many of the gifts were stolen from hotels. Off the top of my head, gifts and other things he had "bought" for the house that turned out to be stolen from hotels included a wool throw, a folk art picture and other decorative ornaments, a set of steak knives, bed linen, towels, cushions, candlesticks, jogging pants from a hotel that provided them for the gym, even a tissue dispenser that he had unscrewed from the wall. Nicking stuff from hotels turned out to be the least bad thing he had done, his entire life was a web of lies.

I've never taken anything from a hotel. I used to regularly stay in a hotel that had beautiful, handpainted ashtrays made by a local pottery in traditional designs but guests kept stealing them so they had "please don't steal me, you can buy me in the gift shop" incorporated into the design Apparently that was a read rag to a bull as even more got stolen because the ones in the gift shop didn't say "please don't steal me".

SilverGlassHare · 15/02/2022 15:23

20 years ago, I had a business class meal on a plane (I was right at the back in cattle class and they'd run out of economy meals) and it had tiny ceramic salt and pepper pots. I didn't thieve them but I wish I had, they were so cute.

MuffinStrops · 15/02/2022 15:26

@chesirecat99

My ex would steal anything he could fit in his suitcase. He travelled around the world staying in 5 * hotels every few weeks for work and would often bring me back a gift. It as only when he brought me back the gift of an std that it all came out and he told me that many of the gifts were stolen from hotels. Off the top of my head, gifts and other things he had "bought" for the house that turned out to be stolen from hotels included a wool throw, a folk art picture and other decorative ornaments, a set of steak knives, bed linen, towels, cushions, candlesticks, jogging pants from a hotel that provided them for the gym, even a tissue dispenser that he had unscrewed from the wall. Nicking stuff from hotels turned out to be the least bad thing he had done, his entire life was a web of lies.

I've never taken anything from a hotel. I used to regularly stay in a hotel that had beautiful, handpainted ashtrays made by a local pottery in traditional designs but guests kept stealing them so they had "please don't steal me, you can buy me in the gift shop" incorporated into the design Apparently that was a read rag to a bull as even more got stolen because the ones in the gift shop didn't say "please don't steal me".

Speechless.

MuffinStrops · 15/02/2022 15:34

Someone I knew had a brother who would steal the plates if he went out for a meal and didn't like it. He and his wife did this regularly. That is honestly the lowest thing I have ever heard.

JurgensCakeBabyJesus · 15/02/2022 15:43

I used to stay in hotels 100 nights a year roughly for work, in those that provided them I'd take the teabags/coffee/bottles of water if provided, I was working in a national inspectorate we had a £20 a day budget to cover everything including meals, drinks etc and the organisations we were inspecting didn't provide tea and coffee, so I'd take them in to the office with me for the day. I justified it as they were consumables and some people would consume them during the time in the room anyway, I was just out working long hours.
Never things like towels, pillows, crockery, glasses etc. I'm gobsmacked so many do!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/02/2022 16:00

I have heard so many nasty stories about those kettles I just can't use it.

Yeah, lots of people tell tales about them, but they're just full of crap.... so it's probably not a bad idea to bring your own after all

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/02/2022 16:04

Someone I knew had a brother who would steal the plates if he went out for a meal and didn't like it. He and his wife did this regularly. That is honestly the lowest thing I have ever heard.

What, the messy, unwashed plates that they've just eaten off, with bits of sauce or gravy or whatever still dribbled across them? Euw. They can't have disliked the meals that much if they'd cleared them of food, to be able to stash them in their bag ready to steal.

What did they say when the waiter/ress came and asked "Can I take your plates?" Just reply "No need: we've already done it!!"

Utterly minging.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 15/02/2022 16:10

I've never stolen anything from a hotel but I think if a toilet roll has been started it gets thrown out before next guest arrives.

If they do routinely do that as their policy, I highly doubt they'd just be thrown away. Very probably, some chambermaid on NMW would have it as the one very tiny perk of her job that at least she never has to buy her own toilet rolls for use at home.

Incidentally, I wonder how many of the cleaning staff at these places are under permanent suspicion when all the stuff gets stolen. Not only do you have all the hassle of going to fetch/request a new one, every time a guest steals something, but do the bosses wonder every time if it might just have been you who helped yourself? And does it occasionally work the other way: with dishonest cleaning staff actually stealing stuff and then blaming it on the guests?

womaninatightspot · 15/02/2022 16:50

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

I've never stolen anything from a hotel but I think if a toilet roll has been started it gets thrown out before next guest arrives.

If they do routinely do that as their policy, I highly doubt they'd just be thrown away. Very probably, some chambermaid on NMW would have it as the one very tiny perk of her job that at least she never has to buy her own toilet rolls for use at home.

Incidentally, I wonder how many of the cleaning staff at these places are under permanent suspicion when all the stuff gets stolen. Not only do you have all the hassle of going to fetch/request a new one, every time a guest steals something, but do the bosses wonder every time if it might just have been you who helped yourself? And does it occasionally work the other way: with dishonest cleaning staff actually stealing stuff and then blaming it on the guests?

I work in a hotel and we throw them away if there is less than half a roll artfully shaped into a point if more than half a roll. Trust me it gets binned. I can't imagine gathering up lots of half used up loo rolls to take home. It's not even nice loo roll despite being an expensive hotel.

There's a stock of most stealable stuff in the housekeeping cupboard, so you'd just take a kettle/ pillow/ throw/ hairdryer and replace. You'd mention it to the desk staff. Towels and bedlinen are rented from a laundry place (v. common) we don't count ours so I would even mention if it was missing. I can't imagine cleaning staff stealing from rooms it would make more sense to take a shiny new boxed item from the housekeeping cupboard. Stocktakes are rare but it'd probably be assumed a faulty ones had been replaced at some point if it was down a few.

SunshineCake1 · 15/02/2022 17:33

I'm the opposite. In our honeymoon suite we only are the chocolates as we knew they were for us. Left everything else as forgot we'd paid for it all.

Never stolen anything.

Nomorepastry · 15/02/2022 17:52

6 years ago when me and partner started dating, he stole the hotel key

riceuten · 15/02/2022 17:54

Just toiletries and pens and perhaps the odd sewing kit, but never felt the urge to whip anything else.

People who whip bed linen, towels, electronics and artwork are lower than a snake's rectum.

petridishmystery · 15/02/2022 17:54

@TheHaka

Years ago whilst on a coach trip to Paris quite a few of the younger couples stole the keys to their hotel room, but staff boarded the coach & called them all out 😆

In the past I may have taken shower caps as they're useful to cover a camera during a quick sharp shower, or you can slip them over the bottom of your shoes for packing. I don't take anything these days, if I want something I'll ask if they can sell it to me. One hotel gave me loads of toiletries. Some hotels will have a price list up in case of breakages, others will have a price list to sell you stuff. I wouldn't lower myself to steal anything, imagine being up in court for nicking a towel that loads of other people had used. The very shame of it.

That has reminded me, I actually accidentally stole a key in Iceland! I was going on a trekking holiday and included was a stay in a hotel the night before we started and the night we got back. Got up on the first morning, boarded the bus and realised once we were over an hour away that I still had my room key! We were gone six days! Presumably they had spares but it must have been annoying. I just very quietly slipped it on to the front desk when no one was there and nothing ever came of it. So I guess accidentally borrowed rather than stolen! Nowadays I’d be embarrassed but not massively so, but I was a super shy 21 year old at the time and I probably would have cried if anyone had confronted me

SirChenjins · 15/02/2022 17:55

@Nomorepastry

6 years ago when me and partner started dating, he stole the hotel key

Why do people steal the hotel room key?

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 15/02/2022 17:57

@Sosigsandwich

Wtf steals used towels?! That's really weird. Big towels aren't exactly rare enough that you couldn't buy them.

A sad f**ker does!

Hazey19 · 15/02/2022 18:01

I’ve just got back from a hotel in London and even though it was a complimentary mini bar I still felt awful taking the two cans of Coke and mini bottle of wine we didn’t drink with us. The hotel was very expensive though and it was complimentary 😂 I did also take 2 teabags as it was very nice tea.

SmoggieC · 15/02/2022 18:01

@SunshineCake1

This has "journalist" written all over it.

100%. I give it 24 hours before it's in some online paper

Sparklingbrook · 15/02/2022 18:07

I'm still a bit about the stealing keys as a souvenir thing. Will a photograph not suffice?