Best PENS in Luxury Hotel Rooms
Sep 1, 2014, 11:09 am
#47
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Best Cutlery has to go to the four seasons (ours from the one in hampshire ) childrens cutlery with pink flowers and bears on. I loved them so much i took a set home and use the mini fork daily! if I was technical and could work anything computer wise i would upload a photo!
Sep 1, 2014, 11:11 am
#48
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Best Cutlery has to go to the four seasons (ours from the one in hampshire ) childrens cutlery with pink flowers and bears on. I loved them so much i took a set home and use the mini fork daily! if I was technical and could work anything computer wise i would upload a photo!
Dec 19, 2015, 12:37 pm
#50
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Dec 20, 2015, 6:25 am
#51
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Jul 6, 2022, 9:23 pm
#52
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I am not ordinarily larcenous but I confess some luxe hotel stays find me making off with their pens. This PENchant for pens (sorry, not sorry) is deeply inculcated and not amenable to therapy. The lovely apple green jobbies are from Le Bristol in France — I didn’t actually make off with all of them. Once I confessed my adoration, staff began giving them to me. I swear!
Aug 25, 2023, 6:19 am
#53
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Free goodies at top hotels - the pen problem
Hotels give you a variety of free amenities when you stay and most are renewed everyday. Pop the unused shampoo in your case and the following morning it’s replaced. But not with pens!
The pen or pencil is a useful amenity but they are rarely replaced; one, or one set, per visit is the limit. This really annoys me. The only hotel I have stayed in that did replace pens or pencils was the Capella in Bangkok and the Rixos in Astana, the latter being more than ten years ago so that information is not up to date.
What exacerbates annoyance is that many hotels will replace the pens by the note pad next to the telephones that, although no one ever uses them, are dotted all over the place, mainly in each floor’s life area but also in nooks and crannies all over the property. If you want an extra pen you need to go on a safari to pick one up!
The pen or pencil is a useful amenity but they are rarely replaced; one, or one set, per visit is the limit. This really annoys me. The only hotel I have stayed in that did replace pens or pencils was the Capella in Bangkok and the Rixos in Astana, the latter being more than ten years ago so that information is not up to date.
What exacerbates annoyance is that many hotels will replace the pens by the note pad next to the telephones that, although no one ever uses them, are dotted all over the place, mainly in each floor’s life area but also in nooks and crannies all over the property. If you want an extra pen you need to go on a safari to pick one up!
Aug 25, 2023, 11:25 am
#55
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Oh, I guzzle pens. Many of the very best venues are not so sensitive about replacement. Often, if guests make known to staff (waiters, front desk, concierges) that one suffers this particular fetish, showers of pens may result. I do note a new proclivity in some venues for, oh dear, pencils. Le Bristol in Paris was outstanding in their enabling of and grace in my pen fixation.
Noting your handle, Greenpen, you may be interested further in Le Bristol’s take on this:
Noting your handle, Greenpen, you may be interested further in Le Bristol’s take on this:
Last edited by KatW; Aug 25, 2023 at 11:35 am
Aug 26, 2023, 4:00 am
#56
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Presumably pens are not replaced because it’s reasonably unlikely you’ll use all the ink on a single stay. If you do, I am sure they would be willing to bring up a replacement if asked.
Last edited by EuropeanPete; Aug 26, 2023 at 4:14 am
Aug 26, 2023, 4:01 am
#57
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Oh, I like the green ones! Le Bristol is on my 'to visit' list anyway, so one more thing to look forward to!
A long long time ago, when I first started travelling on business right after university (where I had used a lot of pens), I went through a phase of taking the in-room pen home with me at the end of my stay. It was always just one pen but I ended up having a lot of (cheap) pens. Courtyards, Marriotts, Hiltons, the odd Sheraton one that seemed so posh at the time! I then donated** most of them when I moved abroad for a while. These days, I use the hotel pen during my stay and if I really really like it I ask for a new one from hotel reception. Or if it's a holiday/trip that is really special to me and I want souvenir that I'll use every day.
I'm not a big fan of pencils. I used mechanical pencils a lot when I was living in Japan but not much since then.
** UK Charity: https://www.pensforkids.co.uk
A long long time ago, when I first started travelling on business right after university (where I had used a lot of pens), I went through a phase of taking the in-room pen home with me at the end of my stay. It was always just one pen but I ended up having a lot of (cheap) pens. Courtyards, Marriotts, Hiltons, the odd Sheraton one that seemed so posh at the time! I then donated** most of them when I moved abroad for a while. These days, I use the hotel pen during my stay and if I really really like it I ask for a new one from hotel reception. Or if it's a holiday/trip that is really special to me and I want souvenir that I'll use every day.
I'm not a big fan of pencils. I used mechanical pencils a lot when I was living in Japan but not much since then.
** UK Charity: https://www.pensforkids.co.uk
Aug 26, 2023, 4:13 am
#58
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I love the new FS pens. They have three different versions -- one for rooms, one for suites and the nicest for specialty suites. I have several of the specialty suite ones, a very luxurious rollerball. They are happy to provide more when asked!
Aug 26, 2023, 5:18 am
#59
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: UK
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The pen or pencil is a useful amenity but they are rarely replaced; one, or one set, per visit is the limit. This really annoys me. The only hotel I have stayed in that did replace pens or pencils was the Capella in Bangkok and the Rixos in Astana, the latter being more than ten years ago so that information is not up to date.