Pinching stuff from hotel rooms/villas

[Januaryisjustaweirdmonth]

Do you do it? Is it acceptable, is it illegal? I actually have no idea.
Would you take bath soaps/bubbles etc, loo rolls, towels, a robe?
Just curious really
I’ve always taken the little bottles/soaps with me when I’ve left somewhere I’ve stayed and thought nothing of it.
Do people take more though and is that illegal actually?

But it’s not dishonest to take what’s provided for your consumption. Can you explain what you mean here?

And greedy?! You think those people are greedy for pocketing a couple of tea bags that are included in the price of the room? Ok.

The thing I object to in voices like yours is that you’re somehow above wanting little things. As some pp have pointed out, you can find yourself staying in a hotel for work when you’re actually materially quite hard up. So why shouldn’t you avail yourself of the freebies that have been provided for your consumption? It might be funny or pathetic or scummy to you, but some people watch every. single. penny. Stop sneering.

Object away. Yes, I personally find it greedy. I am not sneering, merely stating my opinion. I am not above wanting little things, but imagine if everybody did it? Prices would go up for all of us.

I have never used the words scummy, pathetic or funny. Please don't put words into my mouth just because we have a difference of opinion.

The last 2 hotels I've stayed in have had no batteries in the remote. Presumably because they were nicked by the last guests. I couldn't help but think they must have been right tight arses because the hotel rooms cost over £400 a night, if you can afford those prices you can afford a couple of AA batteries.

Imagine if everybody did it?
What? Consumed the tea/coffee/biscuits that are specifically provided for guests to consume? Yes - imagine! Makes no difference to the hotel or to prices if guests consume them on site or stuff them in their handbag.

You are sneering. Own it. What else did you mean by stating that people are greedy and dishonest for using stuff that is specifically provided for them? They’re entitled to it but somehow you don’t think they should use it because…? Can you explain?

Things I'm free to consume ie toiletries, tea/coffee etc then I take. Nothing that is to be reused as that is stealing.

Exactly. That’s fair.

I'll take the mini toiletries, biscuits and mini sewing kit. They're meant to be taken though. Only if they're nice mini toiletries!

Not at all. What a peculiar comment. I simply can't get excited about a load of shite that nobody would be interested in unless it was free. Disposable shower caps? Jesus.

Someone else sneering! Some people really can’t imagine people doing things differently from them, I guess.

The shower caps are useful and I would take them on another holiday, you could reuse them anyway

@Dummycrusher I'm sure there are things you get excited about that I would find terribly dreary. I just wouldn't say.

IME shower caps are not that useful. I know this because I have just gone through my stash of complimentary hotel items to find a sewing kit and had to riffle through about 50 shower caps before I found one.

I always detach the shower head if I want to keep my hair dry while washing my body and when I wore rollers I found the steam in the confined shower cubicle useful for setting my hair.

I don't take them any more but being plastic they have a half-life of about 10,000 years so the ones I took 20 years ago are still pristine.

But that's just me. If you find them useful then you should take them.

I pity people like @Dummycrusher who sneer and tread on our dreams because they imagine their opinion will devastate us.

The first thing I do when entering a hotel room is to go into the bathroom to check out the toiletries. I've seen the pyramids but this is one of the abiding joys of travel.

On a business trip to Florence this month (all right, it was my husband's business I was his plus one) it was Jo Malone Lime, Basil & Mandarin. It was a posh hotel.

My top hotel freebies in no particular order are: slippers, body lotion, shower gel and soap, emery boards and orange sticks, sewing kits, cotton wool balls and tissues in handy packs.

I treasure a plastic but very realistic tortoiseshell comb from a hotel in Milan years ago. It's very stylish as you would imagine freebies from a hotel in Milan would be.

My mum liked Twinings English breakfast tea and small jars of Tiptree jam. Wherever in the world you are you know it's a really good hotel if they have jam from Essex.

I always take the sachets of coffee and sugar/sweeteners! Would never dream of taking a towel or anything like that!

I have a fluffy white towel with a seahorse embroidered on it. It's so nice I intended it for show purposes only. When I realised there was a danger that people would use it I put it away in my cupboard of precious things and sometimes get it out to admire it before carefully putting it back.

People who who have glimpsed it think I stole it from a posh hotel but I actually bought it discount from the Descamps shop in Bicester Village.

My mum liked Twinings English breakfast tea and small jars of Tiptree jam. Wherever in the world you are you know it's a really good hotel if they have jam from Essex.

Oh, yes! Those tiny little Tiptree jars are adorable; but they should supply them with tiny little pixie knives as well - normal-sized knives are far too big to get all the jam out!

I take complementary things I know I’ll use, like the little toiletries, teabags, bottles of water. I wouldn’t steal anything from a hotel
room.

I used to love that shop, long gone I think

Christ on a bike, who are these posters getting on their high horse about people consuming things that are there for their consumption?

Find something more important to be judgy about.

What a waste. Get it out and use it, woman! Life’s too short to keep nice things for best or shut them away in drawers and cupboards. I found so many lovely things kept for best when I cleared my parents’ house. It made me really sad.

But this is my point - if you want a shower cap just buy a decent shower cap which will last rather than taking one which will rip and be binned after a couple of uses. It's pointless consumption of stuff just because it's free. So many people on this thread talking about how they have loads of this stuff stashed away and it never gets used and will eventually end up in landfill. Pointless consumption.

But as I've said it will be reused more than once

Sometimes you forget things

I always recycle my plastics via the supermarket

@woodhill has it? Tragedy. I bought a zillion thread count cotton bed set in a Japanese-style floral pattern of orange and grey - sounds weird but it was lovely - that was so soft. I change the bed linen on Sundays and if it was this one I looked forward to it. I have one pillowcase out of four left because they tore in the end. But the two fitted sheets are fine and the duvet cover will outlive us.

I also have a purple dressing gown that's velour on the outside and thick towelling on the inside. The cat has fucked it but it's still so nice to get out of the shower and put it on.

if you want a shower cap just buy a decent shower cap which will last rather than taking one which will rip and be binned after a couple of uses

If that's what you'd prefer to do, knock yourself out.

If other people want to use the stuff provided for them to use, then they are at absolute liberty to do so and your opinion of this is irrelevant.

@limitedperiodonly

I think so

They had funny duvet covers with envelope bottoms, lovely quality

I generally take herbal tea bags as I keep a stash of these in my work bag as generally only coffee or tea is provided in offices and I like a herbal tea rather than water.
I took sausages and hash browns from the hotel breakfast buffet earlier this year, and will do again next month, for for my DS (who will also be staying at the hotel). He loves these two items but we are there for him to take part in a sporting event mid morning so despite the buffet breakfast he'll only be able to eat a bit of toast. It's much less greedy than those who load up a huge plate than leave half of it to be thrown away which I always find so pointless and wastefully. He will eat his sausage and hash brown post event.