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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:
AlternativelyWired · 13/02/2022 22:47

@LubaLuca Grin

pumpkinpie01 · 13/02/2022 22:48

I take the unused toiletries but that's not really stealing , I save them for camping trips

CounsellorTroi · 13/02/2022 22:48

Just remembered something we do take and that is hotel slippers. They are handy when we are slumming it in a place that doesn’t supply them! [ big grin]. We’d never take robes or towels though.

flowervest75 · 13/02/2022 22:49

@HollowTalk

The thing is, I would not want a partner who steals. I wouldn't want to sleep with him or talk to him or be with him. I'd be incredibly judgmental of an adult man who steals a towel, ffs. Same goes to you *@flowervest75*.
@HollowTalk well isn’t it great that neither DP or I are interested in being with you!
Sosomego · 13/02/2022 22:49

@flowervest75 When you steal hotel towels, you are taking a towel that has probably been used by hundreds of other people before you. Professionally laundered yes, but I prefer the towels in my house to have been used only by the members of my family and not countless strangers. Consider that the next time you use them!

flowervest75 · 13/02/2022 22:51

I’d love to hear the difference between taking toilet tissue or towels from a hotel and taking glasses from a pub. Surely they’re all stealing no but I bet I’ll hear that one isn’t as bad as the other🤔

FloBot7 · 13/02/2022 22:56

I always take a pen if they're supplied but that's it. I bring my own toiletries so the complementary ones are left unopened. I wouldn't dream of stealing a towel or bathrobe.

Maireas · 13/02/2022 22:57

@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

Well I haven't. Same with others on here. Maybe I'm fortunate not to need to, but even if you're poor, it's still theft.
Maireas · 13/02/2022 23:00

Like others on here, I've never stolen from a hotel room. Or a shop.
The curtains story made me laugh, though! ( but I've never seen particularly lovely hotel curtains).

flowervest75 · 13/02/2022 23:03

@Maireas where did I say it wasn’t theft?? The whole point of this thread is ‘What things are you guilty of NICKING from hotels?’
Nicking implies stealing/taking if you didn’t know so telling me it’s theft does absolutely nothing. That’s the whole point of me commenting on this thread….

ChuckGarabedian · 13/02/2022 23:06

What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

Nothing… why… what have you heard? 😳

Blossomtoes · 13/02/2022 23:06

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

HyacynthBucket · 13/02/2022 23:09

I agree with Hollow talk. Stealing would be a dealbreaker for me.
Apart from your lack of morals Flowervest75, does it never occur to you that theiving guests put up hotel prices for everyone? How sad to take loo roll and towels that don't belong to you. Pathetic really to be so grasping..

EishetChayil · 13/02/2022 23:16

Anything that isn't bolted down.

Blossomtoes · 13/02/2022 23:19

@flowervest75’s thieving ways don’t seem to have raised prices in the Blakemore Hotel. It’s as cheap as chips for central London. Doesn’t make it any less shameful though. And to brag about it …

HideousKinky · 13/02/2022 23:20

I never said it was the right thing to do but it's a couple of towels not £100 grand from the safe

You think that makes it OK flowervest75?

Workyticket · 13/02/2022 23:20

I bloody love a hotel pen!

My brother and his girlfriend took towels and robes from a hotel once - my mother was up a height because he was registered as living at their house at the time. She was convinced the police would be banging on her door

They're both 'the world owes me' types - turns my stomach

LadyOfMisrule · 13/02/2022 23:23

I took a teaspoon once from a hotel I'd been staying in. I'd been using it in my coffee jar, and forgotten to remove it. It does make me smile with happy memories when I see it in the drawer. (I'd paid £220 a night for 4 months, so I'm sure a teaspoon won't bankrupt them, but I hadn't taken it on purpose.)

Pegasussnail · 13/02/2022 23:29

I don't like the shampoo minis (plus I'm trying to declutter and they are the type of thing they declutter)

Shower caps are great for covering a dinner. Easier than cling film. Perfect for an average dinner plate Grin thank me later .. lol

WaltzingToWalsingham · 13/02/2022 23:36

I used to take the complimentary toiletries home with me.

Now, I feel that those tiny bottles of shampoo and shower gel aren't very environmentally friendly. I'm trying to cut down on plastic use, and ten little 35ml bottles of shampoo require a lot more plastic than one 350ml bottle does, for example. So I bring my own toiletries and leave the complimentary ones behind, unused.

I'd never steal towels - apart from the moral angle, who wants to dry their face on a towel that a hundred strangers have already dried their arses on?! For this reason, I don't much like using hotel towels etc in the hotel, never mind at home! I know I'm a bit weird like that though...

MillyMollyMandyMaybe · 13/02/2022 23:41

I once brought a nice towel home from an hotel because I’d got blood on it, and was too embarrassed to leave it behind.

I’m much older now and realise they probably wouldn’t turn a hair, so I’d just leave it folded with a note these days. But back then, I was young and inexperienced and embarrassed.

That towel has had a long and enjoyable life with me, though - it’s over 20 years ago and still going strong.

Monopolyiscrap · 13/02/2022 23:43

[quote Sosomego]@flowervest75 When you steal hotel towels, you are taking a towel that has probably been used by hundreds of other people before you. Professionally laundered yes, but I prefer the towels in my house to have been used only by the members of my family and not countless strangers. Consider that the next time you use them![/quote]
Honestly that is a strange concern. Do you use towels in hotels or take your own?

princesspopppy · 13/02/2022 23:48

Toiletries if they're decent, jo malone etc.
I have bought a hooded towel home but it was personalised for our DC so don't think they were expecting it back.

SaltySocks · 13/02/2022 23:49

[quote PartyPlan]@flowervest75 posted yesterday that her 9 month old daughter is wearing size 7 nappies and she’s wondering what to do. She’s hardly the sharpest tool in the box.[/quote]
I don't agree with stealing towels from hotels at all but you sound incredibly petty. It's nasty to use a poster's previous post against them especially one where they were just genuinely asking for advice. Ugggh. Please come down from your high horse. You are no better.

dipdye · 13/02/2022 23:50

Shampoo, conditioner, mini moisturiser