Originally Posted by
Monoboy
i'm fine with the pivot but omg make the font bigger on the pump bottles, need to wear readers in shower? old dude/first world probs.
At least they changed the neon green on murky green bottles of 39 North toiletries to white letters, so at least they are now legible.
Originally Posted by
margarita girl
I've been doing this for years. Always seemed wasteful to open a new bar of soap at every property, so I will open one at first hotel and take it with me to other hotels and finally take it home where I finish using it!
And if I let housekeeping in the room, I hide the wrapper so it doesn't get thrown out!
I do the same thing! Except sometimes the effort gets foiled when the housekeeper replace the partially used soap with a brand new one. (D-OH!)
Originally Posted by
Colorado123
Does anyone expect a Spanish-speaking housekeeper in the USA without legal papers in some major city to actually pour the right product into the dispenser? Let alone internationally when the bottles/dispensers are in English even when the country of the hotel isn't an English-speaking country. It's just like the Bonvoy terms, which are incredibly USA-centric for a chain that is very international. I was offered an 8 euro Elite Welcome Gift choice (the alternative was 1,000 points). 8 euros? That didn't even buy a bottle of water.
Besides the assumption that every housekeeper in the US only speak Spanish
, if you care to note, each toiletry type has different marking on the bottle to differentiate the content. For example, BeeKind products has a bee at different location on the container for shampoo/condition/body wash.
Offering a US$10/
€8 welcome amenity versus points is the brand standard for Marriott/Renaissance hotels. They are being international by calculating the equivalent amount in the local currency.