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

[TakeOrLeaveIt]

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?

This just reminds me of Ross.

😂😂😂

Yes. I’ve seen that too.

I once stayed a hotel with such an amazing pillow that I really wanted one. I asked at reception where they got them so I could buy one. They told me that the pillows were really popular and they would have housekeeping deliver a new one to my room and bill it to my room.

I would never have dreamt of stealing one! But given how prepared they were, I guess quite a few people do.

As others have said - one use consumables are fair game but if another guest could use it, you leave it.

That's a good idea, I never would have thought of doing this, I never bother taking anything, I just know the soap would languish in a drawer & the tiny shampoo would be put in a cabinet never to be seen again

However if I ever stayed somewhere ultra fancy & there was a price list with those beautiful, thick towelling robes on it I would be very tempted to buy a couple!

Years ago we were overseas for BiL’s wedding. While we were in reception with our luggage waiting for the transfer to the airport someone came trotting over from the reception to ask about the missing decorative (with the hotel name) china shampoo bottle. MiL had stolen it. BiL made a big thing about her being a thief. She was mortified 😂
Another time while we watched a young couple have to open their suitcases while they were waiting for their airport shuttle and hand back the towels they’d stolen

Shampoo, shower gel, complimentary biscuits - yes of course. You'd use them anyway. Though I wouldn't imagine (unless you're in a 5* hotel) that the quality of bathroom products would be very high.

Mugs, glasses, towels, bathrobes etc - oh come on, you know that's theft. Do you honestly want to be considered to be a common thief?

Why would you take mugs and glasses? It's a hotel. They can be washed and reused by other guests. It's just straightforward theft.

Maybe I'm too far in the other direction, though. I'm too much of a goody two-shoes to even take shampoo home from a hotel. I'd legit feel guilty using it when I got home 😅

My favorite hotel has the best coffee cups. There is a little sign that if yiu want them take them and they will bill your room 10 a cup. That's the only time I have ever taken cups because I paid for them.

I ran a large guest house for many years. Apart from a small bottle of coffee, nothing was ever taken. Even the little bottles of toiletries, which were fair game, were usually left behind. We once had a runner who didn't pay his bill, but almost all our guests were honest and lovely.

I've known people nick towels and bathrobes with the hotel logo on it! They are quite proud of it too :-).

Yes of course it is stealing. Stick to the toiletries and tea bags, they are provided for your use, covered in your bill.

Bwahahahahahah!!!!

This is the reason why low-cost hotels screw everything down these days. They are fed up with classless people with sticky fingers.

I'd say if you wouldn't take it from a friend's house, you shouldn't take it from a hotel.

What? I can't believe anyone has to ask this. I've been staying in a few lovely hotels lately and there is a little card with the cost of everything if you want to buy it (I guess subtly saying what you'll be charged if they are missing) ie silk robes, soap dispensers etc so they obviously need to have this for the thieves.

Mugs and glasses. Wtf is wrong with you. Must be a wind up surely.

Mugs and glasses are stealing. Obviously.

I don't steal from hotels, but hotels rip customers off all the time especially if there's a big event on, so I can't really get angry at people who do.

The small packs of complimentary shampoo sometimes. Anything else, NOPE! Straight up thieving and if you have done it then I hope you are ashamed of yourself.

I'm amazed you actually needed to ask this question.

Quite. I don’t know why people bother to do this. If you can afford to stay in a hotel, you’re not struggling to afford shampoo are you?

I do it. I take the little shampoo, conditioner, body wash, moisturiser. Yes, I can afford my own. However, I then put them in a dedicated box at work where everyone deposits them and once a month the box is taken to a homeless women’s shelter.

When I wash my hair/shower at a hotel I use my own travel products in my own travel bag as I know they suit my hair etc. I don’t feel at all badly about taking the little shampoo/conditioner/body wash/moisturiser given what I have paid for the room, and donating these to women in a bad situation.

I also take the little sugar packets. Don’t have sugar in coffee/tea, but find they are convenient for rare use of popping in cooking if need a bit of sugar, so delve into my hotel stash on such occasion, or if a guest comes who does have sugar in their tea/coffee😁. I don’t feel bad about that either.

I always take the toiletries home for my daughter, she loves them.

Anything else, as everyone has said, is theft.

Anything that gets routinely replaced, yes. Anything else, definitely stealing.

I was staying in an air BnB in Suffolk recently and the owner was really upset because the previous “guest” had taken two lovely bedside lamps.

Mugs, glasses, good grief no, and you were tempted by the nicer bits?

What would those be, robes, ornaments, towels cusions, out and out stealing in my mind to take those.

However single use toiletries (shower caps great for the soles of your shoes when packing) and fancy tea/coffee I do take and thats fine and have been given extra to take home by staff who noticed I used a certain tea a lot, but I have also purchased new robes (who on earth wants used towels/robes) and a certain hotel brand leaves items for guests to take ie a small bear. I stayed in said brand not so long ago and no bear but a rubber duck, I asked at reception if I could take it, oh course you can and thank you for asking was the reply, also fancy coffee bags were given as gifts.

I remember one hotel who were sick of people pinching the fancy small bedside clock, so they started selling them, its something that would never enter my head.

I just have visions of Homer Simpson in the episode with “Mandy”.
“Free shower curtain………” 😂😂😂

I always take the hotel single use toiletries home - I donate them to our local homeless shelter. The clients there love them.

Opened single use products that would have to be binned would be ok. Anything else would absolutely be theft. Horrible :(