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?

Would that be Camp coffee?

I used to love Camp Coffee! It was the chicory essence.

The Savoy have a price list in the room for everything including £10k for a bed

Savoir mattresses are supposed to be fabulous - and cost a fortune.

I always assumed that the little bottles would be binned so I would take them home. Wouldn't dream of removing anything else.

I think rule of thumb is if you had chosen to use it while there, would they still have it to re-use? Shampoo sachet or soap no. But even if you’d used the mug, it could/should be washed and available to the next guest. Ditto bathrobes etc.

I think the larger bottles of shampoo etc often used now are to mitigate against packaging/ plastic production and waste, rather than to stop stealing.

My Grandma used to have it, along with long life milk in a bottle with a metal cap. 🤢

They usually sell mugs and staff if you ask. I have bought Melia mugs with cute eyes in the past, and was gifted a new child's bathrobe when asked if I could buy it in one of Austrian Kinderhotels. Would have never imagined just taking them.

Because it's against the spirit of the thing - they are provided for your use while you're in the hotel. They are not intended for you to use once you've left.

For example, sachets of coffee, tea, sugar etc are provided because otherwise you'd have to buy your own normal-sized jars of coffee, tea and sugar and bring ithem into the hotel. Once you're back home, you should use your own coffee etc, not the hotel's.

Things that are left for you to consume e.g. toiletries - I assume are built into the cost of stay and therefore fine

Anything else, like glasses(?!) absolutely not

What? You have got to be kidding. At most I take those mini toiletries that you are expected to use (great for when you have house guests). Anything else is stealing.

Definitely theft and shocking you wouldn't think so.

I've taken the odd little bottle of shampoo and the individually wrapped sugar cubes. Without fail I drink all the tea! I wouldn't think to take or to be bothered to lug anything else.

When I travelled with work alot I used to take any left over small toiletries to donate to a women's refuge.

Came on to mention Ross 😁
Bulbs yes, lamps no 😁

Consumables of an amount you might reasonably have used during your stay (e.g a small amount of tea bags, shampoo, body wash) would be fine because you have already paid for them. Mug? Towel? Batteries?! Absolutely not.

Why would you want hotel toiletries 😂

Because they're travel sized and useful for....travelling.

Not read the whole thread, I might pick up the pen especially if I forgot to bring one and a bar of soap or tissues and occasionally the plastic laundry bag. That’s it. Everything else is stealing and I regularly stay in hotels from low budget to glam 5 star. Oh and if I am in a airbnb or Vrbo I take nothing ever.

They have cameras...

I think Premier Inn's helpfully tell you where you can buy their mattresses....

In the 1980's, we were on holiday in Majorca. I was about 12. My Dad loved the painting in the hotel corridor, it was some guy on a horse, Don Quijote, I think. Anyway, on our last day, he took it off the wall and packed it in his case! There was a huge mark left on the wall where it had been (remember everyone smoked inside). When we got home, he had a run of bad luck with his business, and he fixated that the painting was bringing him the bad luck. So, he gifted it to his Bank Manager, and for YEARS that painting hung on the wall in his Bank Manager's office.

That's stealing.

I don’t understand pinching things. Surely a cup or glass wouldn’t go with the rest of your crockery at home? Unless you are collecting a whole stolen set bit by bit?

I tend to take my own toiletries as I know what I like so we don’t take anything apart from the coffee that we use whilst staying in the suite.

Clicked yanbu by accident but yeh, this reminds me of Ross from Friends 😂

I'd hesitate to take down the curtains and stuff them in my bag, I think.

An old boyfriend used to take the big towels home. He justified it by saying the hotel was cheeky for charging so much per night and therefore it was fair game.