tonado Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Just lotions ---------------------------------------------------http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/traveltips/...ties/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShaQuaNew Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Just lotions ---------------------------------------------------http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/traveltips/...ties/index.html As far as the amenities like soap, hair shampoo, and lotions are concerned, it's not stealing: The truth is that even the most parsimonious innkeepers want you to take their grooming products and paper goods home, the thinking being that every time you use an item that bears the hotel's name you'll remember what a wonderful time you had there and plan another visit (and not just to take more stuff). However, I believe the people who "steal" things like towels, bathrobes, ashtrays, and other items of this nature, should be made to pay, and even prosecuted in the more extreme cases I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pommey Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 got a great 54" plasma from the super 6 last night agree with Tony, we have paid for the cute little shampoo, lotion, toothpaste and coffee pouches, fool to leave them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikepellicore Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 In China, we have usually paid an extra night for deposit. they check the room before returning the deposit. You can return things rather than pay for them, but the price is usually to high to make you want to keep the items. I haven't seen much in a Chinese hotel room that I would ever want to take. Mike & Yizhen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 I agree with ShaQuaNew. I always got a kick in Romania. As soon as you closed the door to leave, the maid was in your room checking it out to make sure you didn't steal anything. By the time you got to the checkout desk, they will have called the front desk, the only time you got such speedy service. The rooms had nothing you would want to take. The towels were threadbare. The ashtrays and bathrobes were stolen from somewhere else, usually with a logo of a New York hotel, each one different. A colleague had trouble with the bathrobe staying of the hanger, so he folded it up and put it on the top shelf. The front desk got a stolen robe alert before he could checkout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonado Posted June 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 I took an attraction guide (magazine) in a Nanning hotel and they want to charge me during checkout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S. Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Tony, that does not sound like something that should be charged for. I think you should raise a bit of trouble about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonado Posted June 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Tony, that does not sound like something that should be charged for. I think you should raise a bit of trouble about that. Also, my plastic key (the electronic one) was bend and they want to charge me 20 rmb. I argued and they dropped that charge. And I gave them back the attraction guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkidding Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Everywhere I go ...the items are glued down or nailed to the wall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tony n Terrific Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 As an advetising gimmick a few years back some motels would have on the ashtray that would say I stole this from ABC Motel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy W Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Everywhere I go ...the items are glued down or nailed to the wall... I've been there, too http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/upside-down-creative-art-hotel-room.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Those tiny soaps, hair shampoo, lotions, toothpaste are disposable items, and should be thrown away by the hotels and not to be used by the next guest. Bath towels are re-usable and should not be taken away from the hotels. Many Chinese hotels have beverages in their refrigerators. If guests drink those, then they will be charged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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