mcrt

A couple of years ago I stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel in Pattaya Thailand. In the guest information there was a price sheet for everything in the room including the clock radio, the TV and the mattress. Just tell them to add it to your bill. I'm still kicking myself for not having picked up the kimono style robe.

welded

Well, no one is saying that the mini bar is cheap, in fact it might be a better idea to use the mini fridge as just that, a mini fridge for refreshments bought elsewhere

But it is not theft to charge crazy high prices for tiny bottles of hard liquor and if you come back loaded and ransack the mini bar then don't look at someone else to blame when you check out.

caligirl

I once knew someone that took robes off the maids cart in the halls of Bellagio. She avoided being charged that way.

SMART51

Some items in your room hotels put them there for you to take as a souvenir and also as advertisment i.e (pens.ashtrays,papers) They have the hotel name and information on it.
Towels,linen and bathrobes are a no no
As for replacing item in the minibar good luck trying to find those mini bottles of alcohol and soft drinks in the market,everyyear those bottles get smaller and smaller

allen074

ill bet that had you told your father that you would ask the front desk about buying one and billing it to the room he would have been fine with it...

interesting ad on a dvd i rented... said "you wouldnt steal this from a store, why is it ok to copy it?"

flyerwife

Oh, and taking those towels is stealing too.

Your father probably can't wait for you to join him on his next business trip.

alanh

For me it breaks down to consumables vs. non-consumables. Stuff you might use up while there is okay, even if you're taking stuff that you don't actually use while staying there. I have a friend (originally from Russia) who takes this to extremes -- he puts soaps, etc., in his bag every day so the maid will replace them, and even takes the spare roll of toilet paper. (We're trying to break him of that.)

Stuff the hotel will reuse for anther guest -- towels, robes, matresses, TVs -- are off limits.

frequentfoulup

Last time I picked up a mattress from the room I had to check it. Wouldn't fit in the overhead bin.

goingsomewhere

I've never taken anything from a hotel room other than soap the hotel gives you. It's not like it's going to be left behind for the next guest to use.

Taking other items, towels, pillows, and who knows what else, IMHO, is a, "No, no. It's stealing."

Perhaps, some out there suffer kleptomania or something...

Serial Traveler

I really liked the lightweight cotton floor length robes at the Park Hyatt Tokyo so I called guest services and had one put on my bill which they promptly delivered (brand new) and proceeded to wrap for me to take home.

Most places have a price list and if you want something enough to buy it you always have the option to ask about making a purchase.

My hotel earlier this month in mainland China had a published price list for everything that wasn't nailed down (including the microwave and the minibar frig itself).

SchmeckFlyer

Thanks for the tip; will be sure to inquire next time I find a hotel robe I would actually want. I wanted to buy the bathrobe at the Amigo, at best have it be charged to my father's bill and then return the money, but he would still here none of it because he does not think the company should be footing the bill or that such things should be charged to the accounts to begin with. Principle I guess. That was the crux of the brief debate with my father... after it was quickly established that one could not take the bathrobe like one could take toilettries or the odd handtowel, we then briefly discussed charging it to the room. Just so people who are not reading my OP completely get the idea that I always intended to take the robe, and run out into the Grotte Markt with stolen hotel property.



Well, I guess I am just an evil person and I will rot in hell for all eternity for stealing a few towels, and my father must be ashamed of me.

dh01

If you really wanted to buy the robe, you could have bought it a check out by paying for it with a credit card, if your father didn't want it on the bill.
Come on, who are you trying to kid, yourself first of all??

AJLondon

I'm amazed at the holier-than-thou attitude shown by some of the posters in this thread. If you want to talk about "morality" then where do you draw the line??

Browsing different forums in FT it seems a lot of the posters enjoy signing up for promos that they are not targeted for. Is that stealing from the hotel/airline in question? Or what about the photoshop activites to get a comp? (Regular BA forum readers will know what I mean ) Or what about the Priority Club forum where until last night all the (targetted) promo codes were displayed in a sticky. Yes in a sticky, for one and all to sign up on. So where do you draw the line then??


SchmeckFlyer certainly does not deserve the personal insults that some posters is this thread seem to be dispensing with ease and IMHO they are quite uncalled for.

oiRRio

I agree with Doppy. To me it's stealing no matter how one tries to justify it.

mapsgl

Stealing is stealing. It is indeed that simple. You pay for the use of the hotel room and items during your stay.

That being said I am indeed "guilty" of stealing towels on two occasions. In my 25 years of traveling.

One I would like to attribute to youth. The other was attributed to greed and selfishness. Not proud of it now. But it's the truth...