Hotel housekeeping should keep a supply of sanitary products.

[HappyDaze23]

I’m at a nice hotel (4*) on a work trip. Mix of mostly corporate and a few holiday clients. Got up for a wee in the night and was surprised to find I’d started my period a few days early and of course I hadn’t packed my moon cup. As I don’t use tampons I’m out of the habit of carrying spares.

I checked the hotel room info: ‘housekeeping are here to provide for your every comfort’. If you need a shaving or dental kit etc and a few things were listed. So I called them. First I had to repeatedly explain what I was looking for to the chap at reception- sanitary products, ladies sanitary products, tampax/tampons and then suggested that he asked a female colleague as they would explain. The poor guy then called back to explain they don’t typically have any but they did have some left over from a wedding guest basket that I could have. He brought them up and of course I really appreciated him doing that but AIBU to think that if they can produce a shaving kit (for a man, I think we can reasonably assume) then really they should consider having tampons/towels available for when a female guest has an emergency?

I've travelled a lot and have commonly come across Dental kits, sewing kits, shaving kits, shoe cleaning, hair combs, make up removing stuff, condoms, but never once any sanpro thinking about it. Many bottles of wine, bowls of fruit, cakes and chocolates but, nope, clearly whilst these things are all room essentials a women can never experience a freak period🙄
if hotels are chucking all this 'just in case' stuff in there there is just no excuse.

For those utterly perfect people who are always prepared, do not be too complacent, especially if you are in your 40's, and your body suddenly decides to have a very very heavy period two weeks after your last one and end up using all the pads I had with me in a day because of flooding. It was only by luck that i had any pads, as I usually use period underwear, so would not normally think to take a full packs of pads when I had only just finished my last period and I was only away for a night!

Did the toilets not have a machine with any in?

FFS it's a hotel, not a survival experience! Totally reasonable to expect sanpro to be available (even if for a charge) OP.

Yup been there very recently. Thank you, peri menopause