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?

@flowervest75

People are stealing pens, robes, spoons, pillows, bath maths and glasses from the pub. Yet it’s me taking a couple of towels that have derailed this thread. Ok🤣 save it with the fake outrage pls.

For all those that keep saying it’s theft. Once again, that’s literally what the thread is about. I’m not sure why you’d click on the thread title and be surprised that people are talking about nicking things when that’s literally what the thread is talking about? Weird.

Anyway back to you OP🤣 haven’t heard a peep from you and I’m tired of the attacks. Enjoy your tissue rolls and I’ll continue to enjoy these towels. Also, why the hell would I use a body towel to wash my face? Unlike a lot of you here, I’m from a culture which requires you to have separate towels for separate things, try it sometime😉

If your culture requires different towels for different body areas it makes no sense to steal second hand towels that previous users might have rubbed on any area of their anatomy.

wee hand soaps ( if they smell good).

I presume that's 'wee' as in 'small' - otherwise it rather negates the part in brackets

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

wee hand soaps ( if they smell good).

I presume that's 'wee' as in 'small' - otherwise it rather negates the part in brackets

Lol.

I buy small empty plastic bottles to fill with my own shampoo, conditioner, soap etc. I even take my own towels and pillow. I'm picky and like my own things. I've been known to even take a hot bottle bottle and small kettle on some trips...and my own tea bags (US). So I'm certainly not walking off with hotel rubbish.

[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]
This is an awful post. Regardless of whether you agree with @flowervest75, this is a parenting forum and the poster asked a question as she was unsure of something. Your kind of attitude is why people may not post worries they have, for fear it may be used against them later on.

Just because she didn’t know about nappies doesn’t mean she’s not ‘the sharpest tool in the box’ and you owe her an apology for that nasty comment.

I’m from a culture which requires you to have separate towels for separate things, try it sometime

Maybe she's a resident of Royston Vasey?

"And then there's the towels.... White for torso, brown for feet/Green for torso, thighs and seat/And in the cupboard, 'neath the stairs...."

"....You'll find a red for public hairs!!"

[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]
Unnecessary to bring up a poster’s other unrelated posts, reeks of bullying

@LadyOfMisrule

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.)

You spent over £25,000 on 4 months in a hotel? Wow!

I work in a hotel. We will charge for stolen towels but it is rare that anyone does steal them. I would not be happy if a guest stole a good towel our are very thick and expensive and its just wrong to steal. But I have a mountain of reject towels and bedding literally a room full that are slightly frayed or have a small stain on them. Fine for home use but not for a paying guest. If anyone asked me if I had any old towels they could have would be delighted to get rid of some. I can not fit anymore into my own home cupboards. Periodically we give them to charity.

Is @flowervest75 trying to advertise a certain hotel she’s mentioned a few times. If so, I don’t think it’ll work, I’ll definitely avoid it in case it’s frequented by thieves.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

Things like tea and coffee and the little toiletries are fair game, as they're single-use portions that are for your use (whether during your stay or if you take them with you).

Unscrewing the Corby trouser press from the wall or helping yourself to towels/sheets/curtains - anything that's intended for continued use by multiple guests - is simple theft. Don't hotels normally insist on credit card details nowadays? Part of the reason for that is so that they can charge your card for the goods you've stolen, if they're kind enough to do that without just involving the police.

What is it particularly with hotels that attracts this kind of theft? You never hear of people walking out of a restaurant with the table or a couple of chairs tucked under their arms, do you?

You would be surprised. Restaurants suffer with thefts too - cutlery, condiments (not sachets), glasses you name it

@CounsellorTroi

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.

Me too!

Some people have ... odd boundaries..

Consumables, yes, but only if I really like them, I won't take coffee sachets I don't like or the 'all in one shampoo/showergel/conditioner/facemask/foot scrub' if I don't like it.

I am probably pushing it a bit at breakfast, I have the hot stuff and the continental stuff.. and always have enough leftovers for a sausage butty and a piece of fruit for lunch.

However, having seen how much some folk pile on their plates and then leave half eaten.. I can't bring myself to feel guilty about that.

My sister makes me cringe though - when she has PA'd for me in the past, she has absolutely HOOVERED my room for everything, regardless of whether she likes it or will use it, and then done the same to my best friend, and then anyone we've met at the conference in a room near us.

She has packed it in after the time she was so busy doing this that she ran out of time before check out to do a proper room check for me - my kindle had gone under the bed (somewhere i ALWAYS ask her to check cos im forever doing that) and I didn't realise until we were halfway down the M40. Rang hotel and ... surprise surprise, no it 'wasn't in the room when we cleaned it'.... I made her pay for it I was so fucking cross.

This reminds me of the Friends episode when Ross and Chandler stay at a hotel. 😬

Unnecessary to bring up a poster’s other unrelated posts, reeks of bullying
Perhaps you're new to MN but looking at PPs posting history happens all the time. Not exactly bullying.

Anyway I'd love to know if @flowervest75 and anyone else who takes more than the consumables would do the same in a private house. Would you take a nice towel or toilet roll if you were visiting someone, particularly if you liked the stuff and perhaps felt the owner was better off than you?

Nothing, not even the toiletries. All those mini bottles just adding to environmental pollution.

I can't believe people take towels! And all it means is that we all have to pay higher room charges to make up for thieves.

I have a friend who likes to steal glasses from pubs and restaurants. I don't get it. It is stealing. Either buy it or offer to buy it from the restaurant if it is an unusual glass.

If I get room service breakfast I always take any leftover tiny jars of jam home for my daughter and take biscuits for my son. They love my homecoming gifts

@flowervest75

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🤔

I don't steal from hotels or from pubs. I'm really not that skanky or so desperately poor that I have any need to.

@VeganIsTheFuture

This reminds me of the Friends episode when Ross and Chandler stay at a hotel. 😬

Me too! I can't believe people actually steal these things, I always thought it was just a comedy trope.

I thought hotels charged for missing robes and towels? That's why you have to give them a credit card on arrival even if you prepaid.

I do take coffee or chocolate sachets if I like them. Biscuits too. Sometimes the tiny toiletries if I like the scents. It’s never a lot though.

Wouldn’t take anything like toilet rolls or towels etc!

I'm not well off and struggle month to month but I don't steal anything from hotel rooms, I think it's low rent, scummy behaviour tbh.

@KatherineJaneway

I thought hotels charged for missing robes and towels? That's why you have to give them a credit card on arrival even if you prepaid.

I thought this too. That's why I was a bit surprised to see so many people saying how terrible it is that people are stealing stuff. My understanding is that you are entitled to certain things eg soaps, tea bags etc but not others, eg robes, towels, and they have a working credit card behind the desk. So really if someone "steals" something it's not really stealing, because they were either allowed to take it or they would just get charged for it after they leave.

I have only ever been a guest in a hotel, never been involved in running one, so I don't know much about it.

Insider knowledge coming up....
Those mini toiletries are just topped up from a giant bottle of the stuff in some hotels and as for stealing curtains I hate to think what might be on them.... not envy.

@flowervest75

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🤔

Thieving scum