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Do you take little shampoos from hotels?

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Latchy wrote: »
    I would throw the plasma tv out the window to except I'm not a rock star and besides , that's so 1970's .

    :rolleyes:

    There were no plasma TVs in the 70s silly.


  • #33
    didntgotoplan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭didntgotoplan


    Actually this one hotel in Manchester had full shampoo and shower gel bottles stuck upside down to the wall that it would probably last like 40/50 showers. Me and my sister thought it be funny to let it look like they were used up by being upside down for room service the next day, so we kept doing it for the entire length of our stay...until they stopped putting them on the wall and we took them!

    Generally I find the shampoo to be horrible so I normally don't take it but I did get complimentary robes and slippers in a hotel once and took them as they were so nice!


  • #34
    southsiderosie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭southsiderosie


    Taking toiletries is one of the best parts of staying in a nice hotel! I can't afford Aveda products on my own. :(


  • #35
    FionnK86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭FionnK86


    I think hotels expect some small things to be taken, a friend of mine stayed at the West Inn the other night and robbed a bath robe, and loads of small bits...hasn't heard back from them...my mother used to say not to do it because they have your credit card details or address but ive never heard of anyone getting charged for it...


  • #36
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭El Inho


    slipper and robes are a big step up though?

    sure enough they buy in bulk, but still...bit much no?

    I was going to rob a pillow before starting college this year....they are damn nice pillows.


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  • #37
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    :rolleyes:

    There were no plasma TVs in the 70s silly.
    LSD trips can make anything look like anything ...man :cool:


  • #38
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Absolutely everything goes, the hotel expects this.

    Towels, Shampoos and Shower Gels, little miniature toothpastes.

    Paintings, Lamps, The pillows etc, the price of your hotel stay is reflected in this.


  • #39
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    Take the slippers and robes and make sure you check out the next day while wearing them.


  • #40
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    El Spearo wrote: »
    slipper and robes are a big step up though?

    sure enough they buy in bulk, but still...bit much no?

    I was going to rob a pillow before starting college this year....they are damn nice pillows.

    the ones i took were for sale behind the reception for €20, bollox to that.


  • #41
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    El Spearo wrote: »
    slipper and robes are a big step up though?

    sure enough they buy in bulk, but still...bit much no?

    I was going to rob a pillow before starting college this year....they are damn nice pillows.

    Ask for an extra pillow, slippers and robe during your stay. Leave the originals and fleece the extras. If they have fancy toiletries, ask for extras. Take them too. The key to this, is doing it at different stages. The concierge usually work 7/3, 3/11 and then the night shift. Ask each shift for something different.

    Whack the breakfast buffet out of it in the morning and you have practically covered your stay, financially.

    I tend to leave a tenner in one and two euro coins for the cleaning staff and tap my nose when walking by them before checking out.


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Latchy wrote: »
    LSD trips can make anything look like anything ...man :cool:

    I read that as LCD trips :pac:


  • #43
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    El Spearo wrote: »
    I am a pleb.
    We know. You get excited about free shampoo.:p:D


  • #44
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,823 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I don't bother with the shampoo/conditioner; they're too small and fiddly plus I have to use L'Oreal Elvive Colour Protect 'cos I'm worth it :p

    The mattresses in Maldron Hotels are so damn comfortable I once fleetingly wondered if there was any way of nicking one..

    I take all the tea/coffee sachets, though..they're usually Bewleys and lovely. Little biscuits too.

    The boyfriend once took a handful of sausages from the buffet and shoved them in a wad of tissue for a nibble later..............and I've just realised how wrong that sounds :confused:


  • #45
    razorgil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭razorgil


    the buggers in hotel kilkenny leave a list, like a menu, in the room, so any stuff you take they bill you for them, .....slippers, robes etc.


  • #46
    IrishEyes19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭IrishEyes19


    A lot of hotels charge theft of towels, robes, ect onto the credit card you swiped on entry. Some might not. But a few I worked in during student days did. Mini Shampoos and so on, not a big deal though. As one poster said. cost nothing to buy.


  • #47
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    Latchy wrote: »
    I would throw the plasma tv out the window to except I'm not a rock star and besides , that's so 1970's .

    Louis Fitzgerald opened a hotel down in Clondalkin in 2009. My buddy got a job there as a barman. The rooms were nicely kitted out. Anyway, only upon a few weeks and a load of howiyas used to stay there for a night of debauchery on Fridays and Saturdays.

    Anyway, the elevator to the first floor opens up just to the right of the reception desk. The duty manager is there waiting for it to open to do a floor walk. It opens up and there are two clowns carrying a flat screen plasma from their room, trying to go down to the car parking area. Caught rapid.

    Some people would try and rob anything.


  • #48
    NuckingFacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    I stayed in the Morrison(if that's the U2 one??) a few weeks ago. Room was utterly naff and worn out(Fix it Bono, you tight sod:D)but, there was a Guggi "Bowl" in the room(worth a fair few quid) and a painting on the wall by some artist the missus got all excited about but who meant nothing to me(but then I'm a bit thick on that front amongst others) - it was an original(apparently) and worth many many eurons. I briefly considered whipping it and snaffling the Guggi but didn't fancy having the price of them slapped on the Visa card so gave it a miss. Also, the Guggi yoke was crap. They did have nice little bottles of shampoo though. The Shelbournes the nicest on that front, IMO, BTW. FTW. E.G RIW PUP IDA.


  • #49
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    IrishEyes19 wrote: »
    A lot of hotels charge theft of towels, robes, ect onto the credit card you swiped on entry. Some might not. But a few I worked in during student days did. Mini Shampoos and so on, not a big deal though. As one poster said. cost nothing to buy.

    Hostels will, hotels will only charge you for damage to their property or serious theft. Shampoos, robes and slippers are generally let slide.

    Its expected, tbh.


  • #50
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,554 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I've started taking minituare versions of everyday things. Shampoo bottles from hotels. Funsize coca cola cans and mars bars etc. It's all part of an elaborate prank I'm planning on pulling on my housemate whereby he's going to wake up one morning and think he is a giant.


  • #51
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    razorgil wrote: »
    the buggers in hotel kilkenny leave a list, like a menu, in the room, so any stuff you take they bill you for them, .....slippers, robes etc.

    The Riverside Court?

    I stayed there the new years before last with the missus. We got back to the residents bar at 2am and I told the saffer barman to charge our groups first round of drinks onto my room tab, along with myself and the missus' drink for the remainder.

    Dude didnt understand me correctly (not his fault, Dublin accent is hard to understand - never mind at 2am in the morning after a feed of pints). So he charged everything to me. The rest had checked out so I was left holding a 350 odd euro bar bill. Had to pay it and try and sort it out with the rest later - we will get you back, sure you will.

    Serious L on my behalf.

    Really nice hotel and city though. Have to go back.


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  • #52
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    WayneMolloy wrote: »
    It opens up and there are two clowns carrying a flat screen plasma from their room, trying to go down to the car parking area. Caught rapid.

    Some people would try and rob anything.
    I have heard of two guys walking into a pub in Manchester and in front of the customers (but out of sight of the staff ) take a tv off the wall and out the back door with it ...the customers didn't bat an eyelid but it was the 1980s ...


  • #53
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,818 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Yes Ive seen the list of 'sale prices' for all items in the hotel room. They welcome you to take any item and will charge you are the list price for it. Its a reasonable idea tbh. Re taking shampoo, surely there is no issue with this. The mini bottle is there for your use. Its pretty scummy to be taking anything else though. I heard a hotel manager on ray darcy show say how they spent a fortune on batteries for tv remotes as many many people take them with them. Thats just sad really.


  • #54
    IM0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    no Im not a magpie


  • #55
    danslevent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    castletownman wrote: »
    I've started taking minituare versions of everyday things. Shampoo bottles from hotels. Funsize coca cola cans and mars bars etc. It's all part of an elaborate prank I'm planning on pulling on my housemate whereby he's going to wake up one morning and think he is a giant.

    You stole that from Scrubs!! Shame on you! I shpotted ya


  • #56
    Scruffles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    fussyonion wrote: »
    I don't bother with the shampoo/conditioner; they're too small and fiddly plus I have to use L'Oreal Elvive Colour Protect 'cos I'm worth it :p

    The mattresses in Maldron Hotels are so damn comfortable I once fleetingly wondered if there was any way of nicking one..

    I take all the tea/coffee sachets, though..they're usually Bewleys and lovely. Little biscuits too.

    The boyfriend once took a handful of sausages from the buffet and shoved them in a wad of tissue for a nibble later..............and I've just realised how wrong that sounds :confused:
    perhaps rolling up and lowering the mattress on a rope or just throwing it out the window to a willing acomplice woud be of service?
    assuming its not loads of floors high itd make a handy trampoline to,no need to go through reception when leaving.

    re. sausages.
    assuming the tissue wasnt a snotrag; why is that wrong exactly? its far better people use the animal products sacrificed for them than to just leave them there and waste-its more of a shame to think an animal woud have been sacrificed for f-all if someone just wasted everything.


  • #57
    solas111
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭solas111


    It’s a question of what you think is right or wrong? In my book, taking the shampoo is stealing so I don’t take it.

    Maybe you could put yourself in the shoes of the hotel owner who may be struggling to keep the place open. How would you then feel about people who take stuff from the rooms?


  • #58
    Bushbleacher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭Bushbleacher


    As someone who has worked as a room attendant in a large hotel chain in the past I can say that stealing soaps, towels, slippers, bathrobes, cups or glasses will not be noticed. Staff just don't care/are too busy to notice/report something so trivial. There are always tonnes of replacements for these things available anyway so it won't cause staff any problems either.


  • #59
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    Latchy wrote: »
    I have heard of two guys walking into a pub in Manchester and in front of the customers (but out of sight of the staff ) take a tv off the wall and out the back door with it ...the customers didn't bat an eyelid but it was the 1980s ...

    Id well believe it - that would have been during the 'Madchester' era.

    Great city, Manchester. Dreary as f*ck, just like Dublin - but the natives are cool people.

    And a cute girl with that mancunian accent :eek:


  • #60
    WayneMolloy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 713 ✭✭✭WayneMolloy


    Bushbleacher wrote: »
    As someone who has worked as a room attendant in a large hotel chain in the past I can say that stealing soaps, towels, slippers, bathrobes, cups or glasses will not be noticed. Staff just don't care/are too busy to notice/report something so trivial. There are always tonnes of replacements for these things available anyway so it won't cause staff any problems either.

    Accommodation assistant is one of the hardest jobs, bar none. Especially when the temperature rises a notch or two in the summer. Done it for three months - they earn their cash.

    I always leave them a tip. Most strenuous job in a hotel.


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  • #61
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,251 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    Used to stay in Ibis at the redcow quiet a bit a few years back and they did an all you can eat breakfast, A lot of builders, sparks etc were staying there too. At breakfast you'd see lads having a massive fry and then go up for more and load it into their lunch boxes. I know technically not stealing but taking the piss a bit :)

    I also know someone who left a hotel with a new double quilt, 4 new pillows, a universal remote and 3 energy saving bulbs, and because he paid in cash they never came after him either.


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