Originally Posted by SPN Lifer (Post # 499)

One can bring home more as a souvenir for the family, if checking a bag, from the bulk dispensers. As long as one has brought an empty container. (!)

Originally Posted by cmd320 (Post # 500)

The caveat to that is checking a bag. But, you could get a pretty decent supply doing that. If only they had hand sanitizer in bulk right now I’d top up my travel size dispensers.

Originally Posted by SPN Lifer (Post # 503)

Consumables are included in the rate

Many guests bring home pens, notepads, coffee bags, popcorn, teabags, and single-use toiletry bottles. Some even bring home toilet paper and tissues.

If someone chooses to forego use of hair conditioner, there is nothing wrong with taking home a reasonable amount (that could have been taken used by a spouse or child during that stay).

However, if too many guests begin draining an excessive amount, this could provide an economic incentive to return to single-use toiletry bottles.

Originally Posted by storewanderer (Post # 505)

This would be a positive. It would backfire the cost cutting move.

Also not a lot of ways to meter how much a given guest is using.

But a wasteful guest could also ask for "lots of extras" of the single use bottles. Would a hotel deny excessive requests? How do you define excessive shampoo use for a young hairy family of 4 who uses the pool (meaning, multiple showers each in a day) vs. a single bald business traveler who does not use the pool and only takes one shower in a day.

Originally Posted by SPN Lifer (Post # 506)

Probably more effective than complaining to Marriott corporate HQ.

In the meanwhile, Titanium Elite members might need to purchase only minimal shampoo at stores.

Especially if they typically use only a "pea" or a "bean" of shampoo upon each use.

Originally Posted by SPN Lifer (Post # 520)

If one forgets to bring more substantial containers, zip-lock plastic bags will suffice to bring home reasonable quantities of shower gel, shampoo, and conditioner to make up for the multiple bathing sessions foregone due to full schedules.

If Marriott did not want us to bring home greater amounts of consumables, they would not have provided them.

Bonv°y!

Originally Posted by RobOnLI (Post # 524)

I remember a thread a few years ago talking about Marriott removing the single use plastic toiletry bottles from their hotel chains. I can't find it through search on the forums but Google tells me they were supposed to have all of them removed by/in 2020.

I just stayed at 5 different hotels throughout the middle of the US (Fairfield, SpringHill, Marriott, TownePlace). Three of the properties were brand new, one was old (FS Marriott, of course) and one was maybe 2-4 years old. Not a single one of these properties has the "large" bottles of shampoo/conditioner/body wash in the shower; they all have single, individual use plastic toiletry bottles.

What gives?

-RM