To think it’s okay to take certain things from a hotel?

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I’m curious to know what people think about taking items from hotels. For example, I know things like toiletries (shampoos, soaps) are often seen as fair game, but what about things like mugs and glasses? I’ve stayed at a few places recently, and I was tempted by some of the nicer bits. Obviously, I didn’t take anything major, but it’s got me thinking - where’s the line? Is it stealing or part of the hotel experience?

AIBU to think it’s harmless to take certain things? Or shouldn’t all stay behind?

What do you think?

Nah, they rip people off because they're greedy bastards who take advantage of big events to charge customers way over the odds.

If you feel that way, why patronize them?

It's the same as the people who complain about airlines. Feel free to start a highly visible, highly trafficked, safety-intensive service business with massive overhead costs, and run it as a non-profit, providing super-low room rates and fares to the general public.

Absolute rubbish. It’s not an ‘emergency’ is you run out of conditioner in the shower or have a guest round who wants decaf coffee!! It is scuzzy to take things from hotel rooms just because they are worth a few pence. And no one who can afford to stay in a hotel room is that close to the poverty line. Utter crap.

Again, it's absolutely fine to take things that have been accounted for in the room rate. Fgs why do you think they bother to put them there??

It's not like a supermarket where they need to sell them to make their money back!

In Tesco, it’s £3 for 80 Tetley tea bags, so less than 4p each. Taking 6 teabags from a hotel room = 24p or so. It’s either utter stinginess OR resentment at having to pay whatever price you paid for your room. Either way, it’s pathetic.

There's a difference between trying to make a profit and price gouging.

It is stealing and life is hard enough for people trying to run a business without people thieving from them. Would you be okay with guests stealing your cups or glasses from you?!

You can take anything intended to be consumed / allocated in a quantity to be used by you during your stay. Soap, disposable shower cap, disposable sewing kit, bottle of water, biscuits, sachets of tea. You do not take things that are for all guests like pictures, robes, towel, pillows, glasses, radios, irons, hair dryers, ornaments, trouser presses, fans, phones, shower curtains, bath robes, soap dispensers which are in pumps and clearly meant to be refilled and used by others after you.

Do people really need telling this? Really?

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I’d forgotten about this company! I used to love their stores way back when.

Also some people may have forgotten to take their toiletries with them. I didn’t take my shower gel as finished it off at home after my previous hotel stay as only had 3 showers left worth in bottle. Forgot to put a new bottle in toiletries bag

When I stay in a hotel I turn up with a large van and completely strip the room.
I had my eye on a grand piano in a hotel I recently stayed in, but unfortunately I couldn't fit it in the van as it was already stuffed full.
Maybe next time.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned how useful shower caps are for covering bread dough while it's rising 😀 but I haven't had one in a hotel room for ages.

They are not really environmentally friendly being intended to be single use. I always have a proper shower cap in my wash bag anyway.

Actually there were times I had to stay at hotels (e.g. weddings) when I was having to go to a food bank and received money towards my rent because despite working, I couldn’t afford to live. Welcome to the real world.
Bet that stick feels painful stuck up there.

I drink LOADS of tea when have been working late in hotel rooms. Does it matter whether I drink 6 cups or drink 4 cups and take the two remaining bags when I leave?

Wouls it matter if used the remaining two for my flask for the motorway?? Or is it naked t bags which make it theft 😂

Of course this isn't theft... Unless they're wrapped they won't be used for next guest....

My parents were on a cruise... One of their fellow passengers purposely brought a spare case to steal nice towels /quilts /pillows etc

I take things like shampoo and body lotion because it's free/included in the cost and I'll use it. I might also take those slippers they sometimes provide, as I'm not sure they're intended to be reused. I wouldn't take anything just for the sake of it (shower cap, sewing kit etc) and certainly nothing that's actually the hotel's property like mugs, glasses and towels.

That is called stealing.

It's not ok. DD says hotels expect you to take the toiletries and possibly the slippers. I have never taken such things, however. DD's DP got charged for the dressing gown he thought he was allowed to take away and it was embarrassing at work because it was charged to a work account. He has never taken so much as a sachet of shampoo since, afaik.

It's because of people who would steal anything and everything from hotel rooms that they have annoying clothes hangers rather than normal ones, or lamps with completely different plug fittings, so the room has fewer normal sockets for anything you brought with you that you might need to plug in.

Please, stop stealing stuff from hotel rooms.

Had surgery on both eyes (two on each eye) for an eye condition and one of the things stipulated was not to get operated eye wet for the first few days. Wearing a shower cap at jaunty angles was the solution and had to move it to expose hair to wash.

Think a hotel shower cap lasted 3 showers.

Yet you could afford to stay at a hotel for a wedding? And no doubt, travel to get there, a new outfit and a gift? I’ve had times in my life when I was broke and if I’d been invited to a wedding I would have declined because I couldn’t have afforded any of these things.

Possibly room paid for?

You would decline going to your own family members wedding? I lived in a flat too- should I have lived on the streets instead? I’m leaving this thread cos it’s full of too many stuck-up aholes that judge people for taking a teabag home.

What do you think?

What I think is that it's very odd to start a thread like this and never come back to it.