At the Disney hotels at Tokyo Disney Resort, guests are encouraged to take the following and can request more before leaving the hotel. Pictures from a Japanese site.
I always wondered about the people who would take batteries from the hotel TV remotes to the point that now most hotels I’ve been to now have the remotes that require you to unscrew the thing to get to the battery compartment.
Not only don’t I take toiletries or anything else from hotels, I bring my OWN because the stuff they supply is horrible.
Now that might be because I generally stay in 2-3* hotels, but even so, I truly doubt the posh ones give you seriously decent shampoos/soaps/conditioners/coffees/teas anyway. If they did, and if I ever stayed in one, I MIGHT be tempted to nick their stuff.
Everything old is new again, I guess.
I remember travelling with my parents when I was a child in the late-1960s and early-1970s. We often stayed in Holiday Inns, and all you got was a bar of soap. Two, if you were lucky. (And the toilet seat had a band on it that said it had been “sanitized for your protection”). The Holiday Inn supplied towels, and a clean room and bedding, and that was about it. If you wanted shampoo, conditioner, or anything else in the way of personal care products, you brought your own.
There were no in-room coffeemakers, either. I remember, on a few road trips, Mom bringing along a coffeemaker, Coffee-Mate, some sugar, and a couple of mugs, so Mom and Dad didn’t have to visit the coffee shop or use room service first thing in the morning.
Can you roll the corpse for valuables?
I agree it is wasteful. Last thing I want is additional clutter at home. I welcome the use of bulk dispensers at hotels. Now if they can just serve more fruit with continental breakfast and ditch the styrofoam coffee cups I’d be even happier.
Toiletries? Meh. I go for the more durable stuff. I have lifted pots and pans, towels, bed linen, and occasionally the bedside lamp. The coffeemaker has been useful back home too. Since hotel costs are outrageous, I am just trying to even the score here. Besides there is no category of crime called ‘hotel lifting’, which obviously means people are allowed to do it.
Once, on checkout, the manager complimented me on my choice of luggage. “It’s sturdy and good-looking,” he said. Apparently he did not realize I was carting away the mini-fridge. But that was a close one. :eek:
Just don’t get caught.
If it’s opened, I might take it with me, depending on whether I need it later. If it’s unopened, I always leave it there for the next guest.
I became addicted to a very, very expensive hair conditioner this way.