Pinching stuff from hotel rooms/villas

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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?

How bad must someone’s life be if they have to steal toilet roll from a hotel room

If you can’t afford bog roll, don’t stay in a hotel

Ooh! Vicarious embarrassment sounds thriling.

Does anybody remember those shoe-shine machines they used to have at some hotels?

I do @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll It would be quite a challenge to get one of those in your luggage.

I do @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll It would be quite a challenge to get one of those in your luggage.

I was meaning to use there, not to nick!! Decent sized wheelie suitcase would probably do it, though....

I take all the tea and coffees if they’re decent brand. If I’ve actually opened any of the small size toiletries and they are any good, I might take some of those. Any opened ones are replaced with new unopened ones for the next guest anyway.

Any partially used shampoo bottles will be thrown away when the guest leaves, so I take them with me.

I don’t take anything else, because yes that is theft.

Last few hotels I stayed in weren’t able to give me a robe because they’d all been stolen by guests.

So. Pikey.

@Thesonglastslonger

Any partially used shampoo bottles will be thrown away when the guest leaves, so I take them with me.

I don’t take anything else, because yes that is theft.

No, it’s not theft to take the unopened ones either. Or the tea/coffee. You’re entitled to use all of those consumables, however ‘pikey’ you might find it.

Totally different from taking a robe or a towel of course.

I was meaning to use there, not to nick!! Decent sized wheelie suitcase would probably do it, though....

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll my neighbour had a compulsive urge to collect things. I looked it up and it's fancy name is Diogenes Syndrome but people probably remember Mr Trebus from the documentary about obsessive hoarders who live in squalor.

She was kind of okay. Apart from the rats and one summer when there was a Biblical infestation of flies. She liked my husband much better than me but most people do because he is a charming bastard.

She had a luggage trolley stolen from a mainline railway station to transport some of the bigger items she found in skips. One night she knocked on our door and had a hushed discussion with Mr Limited. He said: "okay then" and they left together.

She'd found a huge metal filing cabinet dumped at the end of the street. It was about 5ft so a bit taller than her and she needed a strong young man like my husband to manoeuvre it onto the stolen trolley and wheel it back to her lair.

She died about five years later and it took two men from council with very strong stomachs three days to clear her house. We saw the filing cabinet go.

Agree with @Dummycrusher and @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll .

I'd take any opened consumables that would be binned so not wasted. I've got enough toiletries received as gifts languishing in cupboards that I feel to guilty to through away. I don't need to add to that. I don't agree with taking unopened things for the sake of it either.

I take most of my own stuff with me. Travel slippers, toiletries, instant hot choc for my daughter, travel sewing kit. I only drink the tea/eat biscuits.

I think hotels should reduce their rates and charge extra for consumables which can then be added at booking or purchased at reception. This will discourage people taking things they haven't used. Also think about the plastic waste it generates. Or maybe hotels should have the solid shampoo bars, but are individual wash sized but not individually wrapped. I digress.

This. I'm incredibly fussy about my hairdryer so I always take my own, and my straighteners, wherever I travel. I look like Crystal Tipps (blast from the past kid's programme) if I use anything other than mine!