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dk9

It's not really due to environmental reasons. What happened is these big refillable bottles that will replace small toiletries are more cost effective for hotels. However, the problem has always been that guests thought of these as a less premium offering (thus you would only find them in HIX etc). Now that public perception is changing and the environment is a concern for guests, IHG grabbed the opportunity to save some cost.

Super Mario

Virtue signaling smoke and mirrors through a hot PR trend that is really just a cost-cutting measure.

But to say I won't stay at a chain because of it? Too extreme.

mapleg

I understand you may not like them, but how are they troublesome?

alanslegal

Spot on, however a hotel/resort can package/present the toiletries to make it look/feel not less premium. The newly opened Waldorf Astoria Maldives, where rooms start at $1,500 per night, for example utilise large dispenser bottles but obviously with higher end brand content - it felt very premium. On the other end of the spectrum, I can understand how a plastic dispenser stuck on the wall will feel cheap no matter what product is inside.

writerguyfl

Do you have any proof to back up that claim? To me, eliminating tiny plastic bottles and using refillable ones certainly sounds like a positive in terms of the environment.

The fact that something is good for the environment doesn't mean it can't also be good for the bottom line. Why can't this action be both?

OUTraveling

I wonder what will happen when someone picks the locking mechanism with a broken toothpick and introduces their own special eau de toilette. Heck here is a universal soap key available on Amazon >


Perhaps a funny April Fools prank would be to open the containers and add some hair dye to the shampoo or mayonnaise to the lotion.

Chang11

Or some caustic chemical that could harm to somebody in very vulnerable time (etc the UK chemical splashers). I don't care if there is some pseudo environmental reason for switching. I want my toiletries in personal sealed containers and will choose my Hotel loyalty based on this.

mikew99

My only evidence is a good dose of cynicism, along with the reality that corporations do what they believe makes them the most money, regardless of whether or not it's good for the environment.

If IHG instead chose to switch to single-use recyclable containers (that cost IHG more money), then I might think differently about it.

davie355

Do we have evidence there's any actual risk of tampering with refillable bottles? Or is it just fearmongering?

Many hotels have had refillable bottles for years. Has there been even 1 case of someone getting hurt?

Exiled in Express

I have been fine with this at aloft and I encountered it at a HIX in California earlier this month. Shampoo ran out on me but otherwise I can deal with it. It would be nice if this was announced alongside other green moves, perhaps reducing the amount of single use material in the HIX breakfast. Country Inn can do plates and silverware in a similar setup and budget.

dw

ricktoronto

As evidenced by the zero stories ever of this happening in less posh hotels (or any, let's be honest) some of which have provided dispensers for decades. So your thesis is someone pays $500 a night for a hotel room so they can vandalize the soap in a room that would take two seconds to trace back to them? Yesterday no hair dye. Today, hair dye, and here's the credit card and ID of the person who was in the room. Well, Clouseau, crime solved.

I can't figure out how seasoned travellers are unable to wash and shampoo without hotel amenities. I carry such items in luggage. Rarely do I bother with the little ones other than I have saved a few shave cream in tubes from CX shower rooms because they are small enough to pass the carry-on limit and are handy if you don't have a can of shave cream. I have one sewing kit from a Radisson Blu also.

Let's applaud for one moment at least, less plastic crap clogging the world.

Gringuito

OUTraveling

I guess I am cynical.

We live in a world where people lick ice cream, teachers ejaculate on cookies, people refill airport soap dispenser with there own semen.

May I ask how you would know if is semen was in the coditioner or perhaps if a few packets of mayo was loaded in the lotion bottle?