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Is it morally acceptable to take the unused tea and coffee sachets etc from your hotel room ?
I have commandeered a pouch full of tea pigs bags ( they are a revelation for me) and coffee bags ( never seen those before) from my room.
I have left the chamomile tea though in my defence 😁
if you are ever staying up in Amesbury ( handy for Stonehenge etc) then I can recommend the George Hotel. A fine fusion of contemporary with olde world architecture. I don’t think there is a level surface in the whole room , but that just adds to the charm of the place.
B&B was £30 cheaper than the local Travelodge too which was a bonus
I stayed there once but there was no tea or coffee in the room.
Yes, acceptable in my view. You paid for the room, and they wouldn't be arsed if you consumed the lot during the stay.
I'd say it's expected.
I make no comment.
Wasn't this all covered in a Friends episode.
You're not allowed to take the lamp but you are allowed to take the bulbs out of the lamps, from what I remember.
When I cleared all Julies stuff from the flat I found 8 of those mini sewing kits you get in posh hotels and 12 of the miniature packs of soap
Since the industry took a massive hit during the pandemic, I've morally avoided doing this on the basis is will save some local hotels a small amount of money which may help to allow them to continue to run, pay their staff Christmas bonuses also. Bear in mind its end user monies that keeps people employed.
If I'm expected to drink the coffee and tea and eat the biscuits, and likewise use the soap to wash with...Does it matter then if I do that somewhere other than the hotel room?
Nevermind tea bags did they shape the towels into a freaky swan sculpture?
That's the real test of hotel quality
Does it matter then if I do that somewhere other than the hotel room?
No, but leave the other soap and the stuff you don't use. Clearing out a room on that basis of won't you won't use during your stay is just greedy IMO. Or maybe take it and donate it to a charity for the homeless and hungry.
YMMV.
[i]No, but leave the other soap and the stuff you don’t use.[/i]
I am going to make a radical suggestion Kryton - use soap and you might not spend as many nights alone in hotels 🙂
Confession, I always nick the face cloths if there are any, I’ll then take one with me when I’m out on the bike when it’s warmer to give my sweaty head a wipe down.
don’t tell the rozzers!
We were in a hotel last week where you got complimentary water, pop and crisps. We were there two days, so the pop and crisps went in our bags and we took that home for our daughter.
I steal the tea spoons too if they're nice.
We have a very eclectic tea spoon collection which evokes lovely memories depending on which one you pick 😁
Yup, at one point I had a substantial crate of hotel soaps, moisturizers, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, mini toothpastes. etc as I was spending 3-6 months of the year regularly working away from home.
Perfect for bike packing and leaving for houseguests because it both makes us look posh and it's nice fore them/us not to have to share a pube encrusted bar of soap.
In the end I took a couple of big boxes down to a charity center for refugees/homeless as I must have had over a thousand items!
Clearing out a room on that basis of won’t you won’t use during your stay is just greedy IMO. Or maybe take it and donate it to a charity for the homeless and hungry.
Inspite of the above I'd object to this. If I go to the co-op and buy a loaf of bread it'll take me days to eat it all inspite of the fact i bought it up front. Should I give 3/4 of the loaf to the food bank? Is it greedy to hoard bread like that? Why is a pot of shampoo that lasts about as long as a loaf of bread any different?
My bigger objection is the shear amount of single use plastic it generates. Most chain hotels seem to have moved onto dispensers of something vaguely posh in the shower/by the sink. Except Premier Inn, theirs has the smell and consistency of that horrible pink liquid soap from 90's public toilets.
Premier Inn for me tomorrow night, wish me luck!
I've just been staying at the Holiday Grim for work, the 2 biscoff, 4 bags of Twinings and 2 sachets of gold roast came with me every day as the Gloucester office seems to subsist on Tetley and boggo Nescafe. And their proper coffee is shit.
Tea always comes with, it's good for travel since it stays fresh and you can tell what it is, we have a tub that goes everywhere. Similarly toiletries went to the food bank but I tend not to take those now.
Morally wrong for me. If you don’t need it, don’t take/use it. Just think of the packaging, one less bit of plastic/paper floating round.
What about the ones that replace the barely half used stuff every day?
I don't know why you'd do it tbh, the tea is generally nasty and the coffee instant. Don't mention the milk
The only thing vaguely useful is the small gel bottles, great for shampoo on a bike trip or washing up liquid
I did take a tiny toothpaste once and just refilled when empty but nowadays I have a tiny pot with a screw lid that is easy to fill
I often do the opposite. I'll perhaps go to a room with a beer or three to slurp in the evening. What unopened bottles or cans that don't get drunk, get left. Hotel staff have a shitty enough job as it is. If they can have a free beer on me after work, then good on them!
So should I have drank to bottle of wine in the last hotel we stayed in? and no it was not in the mini bar
I don’t know why you’d do it tbh, the tea is generally nasty and the coffee instant.
Because I'm not a precious snob?
If its better than the stuff I'd otherwise be stuck with then I'm fine with that. It might not be the best but it's what I'm happy with.
Also, it's a business park Holiday Inn, not ****ing Raffles. If you're that bothered and bring your own fancy stuff I suggest you don't look at the kettle.
I generally don't unless I have reason to (eg, I'm going camping next week), but I'd have no moral compunction about doing so. It's literally provided for your use, I don't see as there's a timer attached. You've paid north of a hundred quid to lie in a bed for eight hours, they should be providing a woman, not having the professionally outraged of STW begrudging you a couple of sachets of coffee.*
Non-dairy creamer can get in the sea though. "Tastes just like real milk!" Know what else tastes just like real milk? Real milk. (And no it %^&*ing doesn't.)
I stay in a lot of hotels for work, always take my own toiletries, but take all the complimentary stuff everyday, then donate it all to homeless charities at the end of the year.
That's a nice idea.
(* - for the hard of thinking, that was a joke)
I stayed there once but there was no tea or coffee in the room.
it’s been refurbished recently apparently.
I did have a deluxe double room to be fair , so couldn’t comment on other rooms.
What were the biscuits like? I judge a hotel on these. Rich tea, or heaven forbid no biscuits 👎Posh chocolate chip shortbread👍
Merideth and Drew Marvellous Chocolate chip no less . And bloody marvellous they were too 😁
This is timely!!
I am currently staying in a hotel where they seem to be ripping me off left right and centre. I looked up online if the slippers are fair game and it seems they are single use, so I am taking them with me.
Most hotels have switched to refillable soap/shower gel which has to be a good thing.
If I see the trolley of mini shower gels unattended in the corridor I will fill my bag with as many as I think is reasonable and take them home to use at the council run gym I go to which has no soap dispensers in the showers.
Ok I admit to acquiring a metal spoon, after they upgraded me to business class on BA, but it was a nice spoon, and a cross between a tea and a desert spoon, so an ideal size for many things.
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But were I to be the average STWer, I'd have taken the knife and fork, and probably the crockery too.
Possibly even the lifejacket from under the seat.
Where do we draw the line at complementary breakfast?
Snaffling out a banana has got to be the standard but what about a chocolate croissant, making yourself a cheese and ham toast sandwich or a handful of milk sticks in case you bivvy this evening?
All acceptable, more so if you don't do early breakfasts.
Where do we draw the line at complementary breakfast?
Snaffling out a banana has got to be the standard but what about a chocolate croissant, making yourself a cheese and ham toast sandwich or a handful of milk sticks in case you bivvy this evening?
Hotel usually means work trip for me. If there's a buffet then I'll try and put together a packed lunch. Cheese and ham sandwich, muffin, banana, croissant. Doing my bit to prevent food waste 🙂
I don't bother with any of the hotel toiletries though. Too much single use plastic. In fact my travel shower gel is an old hotel freebie picked up years ago that I top up at home
Snaffling out a banana has got to be the standard
My initial reaction was "if you've paid for it" but, thinking about it, they charge eight quid for a slice of toast and a brew so likely don't care about the odd drive-by fruiting.
I'll probably get flamed for this but here goes anyway. About 40 years ago I worked as a self employed relief chef doing short term jobs all over the UK and sometimes beyond. One of the companies that have worked for was trust house forte who were appallingly slow at paying bills. That was the reason that over the years I helped myself to assorted bed linen , dressing gowns , trouser press , chefs whites and even managed to acquire a couple of complete dinner services from them . I saw it as fair compensation for their slow payment at the time . I never took tea bags or toiletries. Make of that what you will. Awaits flaming.
I once asked in a hotel if they would do me a packed lunch ( an advertised service) I was told just to make one up myself from the breakfast buffet and I wasn't charged
IMO taking the toiletries is wrong in general but clearly Mrs TJ did not share my view
Thols2... That's embarrassing...you know me then? 😉
I used to work away a lot and stay in some nice hotels. One of my work colleagues would often steal towels. Not just one or two, but pretty much an entire suitcase full 🤣 On a regular basis. Gawd knows why he needed so many 🤷♀️
Ok to take everything. They will just bill your card after you leave if you take anything they are unhappy with.
Some hotels even encourage you to take the robes these days. Missed sales opportunity for those that don’t.
I don’t know why you’d do it tbh, the tea is generally nasty and the coffee instant.
I have a mental picture of you looking like the Niles character from Frasier. 😁
How about taking the toilet rolls?
Why stop at the teabags and coffee sachets, when you can have the containers they sit in too. As well as the kettle, the towels, and everything else not nailed down.
https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/25/wales-grinning-couple-ransack-entire-hotel-room-and-leg-it-19394863/
Non-dairy creamer can get in the sea though. “Tastes just like real milk!” Know what else tastes just like real milk? Real milk. (And no it %^&*ing doesn’t.)
Disgusting stuff! 😖 I’d rather have both tea and coffee black than use anything like that; UHT milk is equally as bad.
Also, consumables are what they’re used for, to be consumed; where, exactly, does it say that they have to be consumed in the hotel room?
Run a holiday cottage and provide a 'welcome pack' - nice coffee, biscuits, milk of their choice, flowers but also a little tray of different teas, instant coffee sachets, hot chocolates, sugars etc. Surprisingly only once in 3 seasons has it been cleared out. Mostly the good stuff goes but occasionally the nice coffee is left. Always surprised non coffee drinkers don't take it as a gift for someone, it's £7.50 a pack RRP. But mostly the cheaper stuff is dipped into but mostly left.
A thought for the sweepers who say it doesn't matter where you use it, it was left for you to use. I'd argue, they gave you the volumes they did to give you choice. It would be great for two tea only drinkers to have a enough tea for their stay. Same for coffee etc. When you go to a hotel and there is not enough say coffee for your stay you could blame the hotel, but I'd say the sweepers are too who'd Nick it all if they left more.
Forgot to say, if you are eating breakfast at the same hotel and it's a buffet job and you deliberately sneak a few extra croissant for lunch I think most of us do it sneakily - we know it's basically theft. Very few would be brazen enough to take a couple of flasks along and pinch all the orange juice. But....it was put out for you to use so surely its yours all bought and paid for. In that scenario I think most of us have enough self awareness to realise it's all put out so you have a choice of what you want and taking more than that is theft. I'm not sure why that would change because you are in the room - apart from people's morals slip a bit when out of sight.