Half inching hotel room amenities

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 take any stuff that I will use that isn’t charged for.

It’s not complimentary, you’ve paid for it.

The room price has priced in consumables. If you took the pillow, that would not be priced in, but the teabags are. As for Tea Pigs, great tea, shame about the plastic content.

I stayed there once but there was no tea or coffee in the room.

Probably all nicked by the previous occupant.

I make no comment.

Tea bags, biscuits yes. Bathrobes, towels, slippers no.

What were the biscuits like? I judge a hotel on these.  Rich tea, or heaven forbid no biscuits 👎Posh chocolate chip shortbread👍

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.  

No, but leave the other soap and the stuff you don’t use.

I am going to make a radical suggestion Kryton – use soap and you might not spend as many nights alone in hotels 🙂

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.

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 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.

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 😁

This place is full of dishonest people, with few morals and it would appear some cunning.

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.

Morally wrong in my opinion. It’s an unnecessary (admittedly low but over the course of a year would mount up) cost for the small and independent business owner to absorb in an already tough market. 

Thanks for the tip though.

Premier Inn for me tomorrow night, wish me luck!

This is how professional scrubbers do it:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gj74d7y5do

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 **** 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.

My wife is a nurse and used to take any mini soaps/shampoo/shower gel from hotels for patients who couldn’t afford their own.

It’s a consumable ,you have paid for it and you are going to use it anyway.

Stop with all this middle class angst.

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.